Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 28 -- In a significant recognition of its scientific expertise, the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB) has been selected as one of four national hubs for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) under the Metagenomic Syndromic Surveillance Programme under the National 'One Health Mission' initiative.
The programme aims to address the long-standing challenge of undiagnosed acute febrile illness, encephalitis, diarrhoeal diseases, and respiratory infections. It also integrates clinical syndromic screening with unbiased metagenomic sequencing, enabling the simultaneous detection of known, rare, and novel pathogens that traditional diagnostic pathways often miss.
The initiative will be carried out in collaborat...