Infectious diseases

• With Flu season around the corner, Mega Lab-Health Care provides rapid, highly accurate diagnostic testing of Flu A+B, RSV, Group A Strep, and SARS-CoV-2 with same day results!
• Influenza is a major cause of hospitalization during winter season and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Worldwide, influenza leads to more than a million deaths annually. [1]
• The human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most common viruses to infect children worldwide and increasingly is recognized as an important pathogen in adults, especially the elderly. The most common clinical scenario encountered in RSV infection is an upper respiratory infection. [2]
• Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as the Group A Streptococcus (GAS), is a remarkable human pathogen that causes a diverse spectrum of disease. The majority of

Group A Streptococcus diseases are relatively mild, superficial infections of the throat

(pharyngitis, or “strep throat”) and skin (impetigo, or “skin sores”). [3] o Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus (CoV) previously unknown to mankind. It was first noted to have occurred in Wuhan, China in November 2019 and the WHO reported the first case on December 31, 2019. The outbreak was declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, and by May 30, 2022, a total of 5,899,866 positive cases were registered including 364,891 deaths. [4]

References: 

• https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-020-05670-8
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459215/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6518539/
• https://pmj.bmj.com/content/97/1144/110