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DRDO's Covid-19 antibody detection kit: All you need to know
NEW DELHI: The Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has developed a Covid-19 antibody detection kit called 'Dipcovan'.
Here's all you need to know about Dipcovan:
Here's all you need to know about Dipcovan:
- The kit offers a significantly faster turn-around-time as it requires just 75 minutes to conduct the test without any cross-reactivity with other diseases.
- The Dipcovan kit can detect both spike as well as nucleocapsid (S&N) proteins of SARS-CoV-2 virus with a high sensitivity of 97 % and specificity of 99%.
- The kit has a shelf life of 18 months.
- It has been developed in association with Vanguard Diagnostics Pvt Ltd.
- Vanguard Diagnostics will commercially launch the product during the first week of June.
- Readily available stock at the time of launch will be 100 kits (approximately 10,000 tests) with a production capacity of 500 kits/month after the launch.
- The kit is expected to be available at about Rs 75 per test.
- The Dipcovan kit was developed indigenously by the DRDO's scientists, followed by extensive validation on more than 1,000 patient samples at various
Covid designated hospitals in Delhi. - Three batches of the product were validated during the last one year.
- The antibody detection kit is approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in April 2021.
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