Ulaanbaatar
Next generation sequencing laboratory to be established in April
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ With support from the World Health Organization, a comprehensive laboratory equipped with next generation sequencing (NGS) or viral whole-genome sequencing machines is to be established at the National Center for Communicable Diseases in April.
Within the frame of it, three specialists of virology laboratory of the center will depart for Japan tomorrow, March 25 to be involved in training on SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo, Japan.
The training has purposes to identify the spread of
new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Mongolia and to study clinical symptoms to be
shown in cases of being infected with the new variant of the virus and its
impact to vaccine efficacy.
During their study in Japan, the specialists will conduct genomic research on SARS-CoV-2 clusters in Mongolia in collaboration
with Japanese scholars. In other words, they will study what variant of
coronavirus infection is dominant in Mongolia.
