Chandigarh-based Venus Remedies Ltd, a research and development driven pharmaceutical manufacturing company has tied up with the Institute of Microbial Technology (Imtech), a renowned research centre of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, to jointly develop a diagnostic kit for typhoid. The kit is expected to bring down the detection time of the disease from 48 hours (from conventional Vidal test) to just few minutes.
“The kit is likely to be in market by 2013. The project has got a lot of social importance attached to it as world-over typhoid affects about 17 million people annually, causing nearly 600,000 deaths. Most of the deaths are caused due to a lack of early detection of the disease. Venus has the mandate to market this kit world over after conducting necessary trials,” said director-research at Venus Remedies Ltd Manu Chaudhary.
For the project, Venus Medicine Research Centre, the research arm of Venus Remedies, has signed an MoU with Imtech, a laboratory of CSIR and Panjab University.