Serodia is one of the easiest and quickest to use test kits for detection of antibodies to Human Immonudeficiency Viruses type 1 and/or type 2 in human serum/plasma. In average, you need only a day to know the result of the test. This test is based on the particle-agglutination assay and it can be done without the complicated steps of instruments.
I write about Serodia not because I want to explore the topic on HIV/AIDS. What motivated me to write is the realization that bio-medical sciences is developing in exponential way with the help of modern physics, modern chemistry, genetics, virology, and other connected fields of science.
In connection to Serodia, ELISA was the established test utilized to initially detect the presence of HIV in person’s blood. However, due to complicated processes involved, researchers were able to simplify the detection process and were able to produce a simple test kit that will shorten the time of testing. In this way, errors and false-results will be minimized if not completely zeroed-out. What is ELISA and what is Particle-agglutination assay?
ELISA, Enzyme-Linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay, in simplest term, is the process of measuring the concentration of a certain substance in a fluid with the aid of complicated instruments. On one hand, particle-agglutination assay is a simple one-process test, like mixing of milk and water, that can be easily done by medical personnel who is not trained to operate complicated instruments.
Comparative researches were done to test the validity of this new process, particle-agglutination assay, and somehow showed confident and positive results. This process can give the same result as ELISA but would require lesser steps to get accurate results.
Right now, pharmaceutical companies are still improving the reactivity and return analysis of this kind of tests. They are embarking on the so-called “third generation” testing kits to provide worldwide communities with efficient, accurate and reliable viral detection and characterization.
Nowadays, it is normal for us to hear new technologies introduced in the market, like mobile phones, laptops, cars, refrigerator, and other household mecha-helpers. However, we barely ask ourselves about the development in medicines, physics, chemistry or even archeology because they have no direct help to our day to day life. Even we go to the clinic we don’t even bother to ask the personnel to what kind of test they are going to do. Now, I think I have to address the issue here. The above development, the particle-agglutination is already a big step in demolishing the barriers of prevention and even cure of dreadful diseases that we meet in the whole course of our existence.
A simple housewife will say “hell I care about Serodia”, but for sex workers and promiscuous people, this kind of stuff is important for them.
It is not only important for us to know the development on things that pamper our vanity. We also need to know what’s going on with the scientific world that can provide us a little help with our health. I know existentialist, wont agree with this, but most human beings ask more for life, to survive, to exist.
Serodia is not the only case, last time I read from an article that ameobiasis can be detected now through saliva. Testing kits on Hepa and some dreadful diseases induced by notorious and killer viruses are also developing in leaping rates.
I have faith in science.
Someday all we need to do is to enter a room and when we go out a disk of result will be provided to us telling us all the diseases we have, our genetic coding, as well all the things we can do to cure, to tame, or to eradicate the diseases.
We tend to forget giving credits to the people who work behind the scene to provide us all the comforts we have now. I salute all the scientists of the world.
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