New A.I.D.S. test material developed
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo Japanese scientists say they have developed a material which can help detect the A.I.D.S. virus in blood samples. “I think it is the first material of its kind in the world to be applied to the diagnosis of the A.I.D.S. virus,” said a leading Japanese virologist, Professor Naoki Yamamoto. Prof. Yamamoto said that he and other scientists working at Yamaguchi University in southern Japan have been testing the material’s ability to
filter the A.I.D.S. virus from blood since last April and have produced successful results. Most tests for the disease, which destroys the body’s ability to fight infection, are conventional test tube procedures that signal the presence of the virus by detecting A.I.D.S. antibodies in the blood. Prof. Yamamoto said the material, a tube made from a cellulose membrane, could only be used to diagnose A.I.D.S. sufferers and not cure them.
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Press, 8 April 1987, Page 32
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