Used for staining sections of paraffin-embedded tissue for histological examination.
4
Universal viral transport medium
Used to transport collected nasal swab for respiratory virus screening.
5
NucliSENS EasyMAG automated system (bioMérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France)
Used for nucleic acid extraction from nasal swab and various body samples.
6
Respiratory MultiWell System (MWS) r-gene (bioMérieux)
Used for real-time RT-PCR screening of respiratory viruses.
7
Nucli-Sens EasyQ Enterovirus kit (bioMérieux)
Used for specific enterovirus genome detection by NASBA.
8
QiAamp DNA blood extraction kit (Qiagen, France)
Used for nucleic acid extraction from paraffin-embedded myocardial and lung tissue after removal of paraffin with xylene.
9
Xylene
Used for removal of paraffin from tissue sections before nucleic acid extraction.
10
Big Dye Terminators v1.1 kit (Applied Biosystems, France)
Used for direct sequencing of purified PCR products.
11
r-gene real-time PCR kits (bioMérieux)
Used for PCR screening of herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2, cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus, and human herpes virus-6 in plasma, urine, and tissue samples.
12
Cobas (Roche Diagnostics)
Used for serological tests for CMV and HIV.
13
Serion classic EIA IgG (Virion/Serion)
Used for serological tests for Mycoplasma pneumonia (IgG detection).
14
Medac IgM (Medac)
Used for serological tests for Mycoplasma pneumonia (IgM detection).
15
Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)
Used to detect any disorder of amino acid metabolism in plasma, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid specimens.
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Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
Used to assay very long chain fatty acids and rule out the possibility of peroxisomal disorders.
