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Mobile Outbreak Investigation Unit starts functioning in Medical College

Thiruvananthapuram, June 14 (UNI) A Mobile Outbreak Investigation Unit of the Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV) has started functioning at the Trivandrum Government Medical College campus.
This outbreak investigation unit has the required facilities for the collection of samples from disease outbreak-reported areas, equipment such as bio-safety cabinets and centrifuges for processing the samples under strict bio-safety conditions at the site itself, ice-lined refrigerators and liquid nitrogen containers to transfer the processed samples under cold-chain conditions to the testing facility at IAV for detailed diagnosis.
At present, viral disease-related samples from the Medical College Hospital, RCC, SAT and Sree Chitra Hospital are brought to the Institute of Advanced Virology for diagnosis by the patients themselves.
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