BRH test making pcr test obsolete?14 Mar 2021 09:24
The current gold standard for estimation of viral load continues to be laboratory-based PCR tests. However, these detect viral RNA levels and not necessarily the presence of infectious virions, which means that many patients test positive, long after they are no longer infectious. Paraytec has thus adopted an additional comparator test developed by the University of Sheffield, to verify the presence of intact virus particles. This involves ultracentrifugation and high-resolution fluorescence microscopy to independently verify the presence of virions in clinical samples.
Could we be the new gold standard in testing.
Are we forgetting to mention that this test could make PCR testing obsolete!