COVID tests on wastewater, air and surfaces with 24h results

Dedicated laboratory for SARS-COV2 testing with results within 24 hours

The Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Labiagro, a company of the ISQ group, has been working on the detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, air and surfaces.

In this way, it is possible to create an alert system, capable of communicating with the interested entities that, verifying an increase in the amount of virus in a community, can act in the prevention of a new wave.

The detection of the virus is done by molecular biology techniques, being possible not only to detect the presence of this agent but, additionally, to quantify its presence. Given this possibility of the methodology, it is possible to create an alert system, capable of communicating with the interested entities that, verifying an increase in the amount of virus in a community, can act in the prevention of a new wave of the virus.

In addition to these two possibilities, detection and quantification, it is possible to identify the variants of the virus that circulate in a given community.

Labiagro’s Molecular Biology Laboratory has been working on the detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, as well as on researching this virus in other matrices of an equally important nature, such as air samples or surfaces.

With the new molecular biology laboratory, Labiagro presents integrated solutions and is able to provide services to competent authorities, health entities and industry from various sectors of activity (agrifood and others).

The laboratory has a wide range of technological equipment capable of detecting the etiological agent SARS-CoV-2 using molecular biology techniques – PCR, and the result, if requested, can be given within 24 hours.