including influenza and Dengue virus. Even live attenuated vaccines are being extended by a new family of replicating and nonreplicating viral vectors 8. The first gap: antigen variability ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most important cause ... nucleic acid amplification and immunofluorescence assays); however, rapid antigen-detection tests offer potential advantages ...

This variability is made more pronounced when ... More information: Allan Sun et al, Strategic reuse of rapid antigen tests ...

The microbiologic confirmation of RSV infection is based on detecting the virus in a sample of wash ... that rely on the detection of viral antigens. First, immunofluorescence (IF) assays have ...