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Research Papers >> Referral
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Referral Centre for Mycobacterial Diseases |
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The Institute has been identified as a Referral Centre for Mycobacterial Diseases for the purposes of testing of immunodiagnostics and biotechnological products. The Institute is serving as a co-ordinating centre for testing of PCR based techniques and serological tests for tuberculosis, leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases. |
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(b) Mycobacterial Repository Centre |
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This Centre established in 1995 with financial support from DBT is now a permanent centre being funded by ICMR.
The Centre has networked 38 medical institutions across the country and has been fulfilling the following main objectives :
- Collection of mycobacteria (more than 4000 well characterized isolates of M.tuberculosis and other mycobacteria have been collected from different parts of the country)
- Supply of reference and well characterized strains (since inception the centre has served more than 100 scientists working on different projects)
- Characterization of mycobacterial isolates (the centre is providing referral services to different scientists)
- Epidemiological characterization of mycobacterial strains (multicentric studies on transmission of tuberculosis are being undertaken)
- Training of manpower (large number of scientists and other workers have been trained)
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(c) AIDS Surveillance Centre |
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This
Centre carries out sero-surveillance of HIV in different
population groups (blood donors, STD patients, TB patients,
foreign students, persons voluntarily coming for testing)
and leprosy patients. The Institute also serves as a State
Referral Centre for HIV testing and has been named as
a Voluntary Blood Testing Centre.
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Counselling services are provided to HIV positive individuals
as a part of VCTC.
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