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Luminex and Prodesse also sell tests to hospital laboratories that detect flu, though they do not specifically test for the swine flu.

Instead, it focuses on projects like using Google Earth to track environmental changes and monitoring Web searches to detect flu outbreaks.

All 6 centres could detect FLU-specific T cells in both donors by post-IVS multimer staining, but only 5 centres (A, C F) by ELISPOT (Fig.  3b); Centre C did not detect FLU+ T cells in either donor by ELISPOT.

The performance of this assay for detecting FLU and RSV viruses was compared to the traditional methods (culture and/or direct florescent antibody testing) using 945 nasopharyngeal swab specimens.

In this study, we evaluated FOCUS diagnostic's Flu A/B & RSV direct kit (Direct Disc assay), designed to detect influenza (FLU) and respiratory syncytial viruses (RSV) directly in clinical specimens without nucleic acid extraction.

All 5 centres detected FLU-specific T cells in each of the 3 donors by ex vivo ELISPOT and multimer staining (Fig.  2a; Table  1a).

Other studies model the relationship between excess mortality and morbidity rates [ 15, 16] or threshold excess pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality rates in order to identify and detect severe flu seasons.

But the tests have a severe limitation: They may fail more than half the time to detect swine flu infections, according to newly published studies and to experts in medical testing.

A better use of limited resources may be ensuring that global surveillance efforts are adequate to detect emerging flu viruses as early as possible and providing the means to eradicate them swiftly.

STMicro launches chip to detect bird flu [Reuters].

To detect RSV, Flu, PIV, hMPV and ADV from NPA two single polymerase chain reactions (PCR) and two multiplex PCRs were performed [7].