Remember that the RT-PCR test is just one part of how to diagnose and treat a patient with suspected COVID-19. It is important to look at the rest of the patient’s laboratory results and their images.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda continues to spread rapidly in the affected areas. The World Health Organisation has declared the outbreak a Public ...

A recent cross-sectional pilot study published in the Indian Journal of Leprosy in February 2026 reveals a powerful new molecular screening tool for early leprosy detection. Boasting an ...

Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has served as the cornerstone of SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis since the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The technique’s capacity to amplify ...

Since the emergence of COVID-19 in late 2019, the gold standard in testing for the disease has been a nuclear-derived technique: real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction, or real-time ...