A research team at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah, consists of Dr. Falah Hassan Shari, Dr. Rafid Abdul-Raouf Dolab, and Dr. Raghadan Hashem Mohsen, obtained a patent for producing a kit to isolate the Corona virus through urine and stool and extract its RNA.
The patent included several productions to isolate the Corona virus through urine and stool and extract its RNA. The importance of this manufactured product is summarized in the important role in containing COVID-19 through speed and accuracy, which allows the rapid implementation of control measures that limit the spread of this epidemic through case diagnosis and tracking preventive treatment, isolation (i.e. identification of people who may have been in contact with an infected patient). The causative agent of COVID-19 is the new coronavirus, which belongs to the betacoronavirus of Coronavirida.
