Unimas researchers developing rapid rabies test kit


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 04 Jul 2019

Unimas deputy vice-chancellor Prof Dr Wan Hashim Wan Ibrahim (left) exchanging the memorandum of agreement with Education, Science and Technological Research Minister Datuk Seri Michael Manyin. - ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE / THE STAR.

KUCHING: Researchers from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) are developing a rapid rabies test kit that can be used to detect rabies infection in about two hours.

The two-year project, funded with a grant of RM500,000 from the Sarawak Research and Development Council (SRDC), would allow human rabies cases to be diagnosed quickly and within Sarawak.

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