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In presumption of the rising cases of amoebic meningoencephalitis successful Kerala, the Kozhikode-based Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) has volunteered to trial h2o resources for the disease-causing amoeba.
Manoj Samuel, Executive Director of CWRDM, told The Hindu on Friday that it has submitted a connection to the Additional Chief Secretary arsenic good arsenic the Director of Health Services to this effect and the effect has been positive. The CWRDM is awaiting authoritative communications successful this regard.
“We person the indispensable installation to behaviour this test, which cannot beryllium done successful each laboratory. We person the indispensable instrumentality to behaviour real-time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) trial and person qualified unit to bash the tests,” Mr. Samuel said. However, the CWRDM volition request the State to handover the protocol for the trial and contented the indispensable permissions, too imparting grooming connected the nuances.
“This is simply a assemblage wherever the expertise of the CWRDM could beryllium enactment to use,” helium said.
Preventive step
Sreejith V.N., microbiologist and idiosyncratic astatine the CWRDM, said that the trial is presently held lone astatine the State Public Health Laboratory successful Thiruvananthapuram and astir apt astatine the Mahatma Gandhi University. The scientists of the CWRDM request grooming successful either of these labs earlier they commencement investigating for the amoeba. “We are investigating h2o samples, not objective samples, and hence the attraction of amoeba, if any, volition beryllium comparatively debased and not easy distinguishable. We request to cognize which benignant of amoeba to look for and the permissible attraction of it. The State Health section needs to stock these details,” helium said. Mr. Sreejith said that the trial would travel successful useful arsenic a preventive step. “Once detected, the amoeba tin beryllium mitigated to immoderate grade done chlorination. However, definite forms of amoeba are immune to chlorination,” helium added.
