Ho Chi Minh City: Inauguration of the first academic virus training room

On January 9, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health in conjunction with French experts of Joseph Fourier University Grenoble inaugurated the training room for doctors and virus technicians studying at the Ear-Nose-Throat Hospital.

French experts are diagnosing by PCR at the training room for viruses, ENT.(Photo: H.Cat)

Every day, Tai-Nose-Throat BV has more than 1,000 patients who come to check with a variety of virus-related diseases such as Herpes Simplex virus - HSV, virus that causes Human Palliorma Virus (HPV) ), Ebstein Bar virus - EBV .

Therefore, this is one of the centers with many virus-related specimens, meeting the needs of training and research in the field of virology.

The purpose of the virus training department is to expand the development of diagnostic techniques and procedures for viral infections. Thereby, accurately diagnose the origin of the virus and identify the type of virus that causes the disease.

At the same time, Joseph University and HumaCoop organization donated the virus training department to learn a PCR-Polymerase Chain Reaction (polymerase chain reaction, understood by many times a gene duplication technique).

With this device, 16 samples can be tested at the same time. Depending on the type of virus, the time to produce results is at least 20 minutes and at most 40 minutes.

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