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The team has received funding from the National Institute for Health Research to develop a test that could complement existing antibody tests. They also aim to use similar biological signatures to develop a test and monitor for long COVID.
While most people recover from COVID-19 in a matter of days or weeks, around one in ten people go on to develop symptoms that can last for several months. This can be the case irrespective of the severity of their COVID-19 – even individuals who were asymptomatic can experience so-called ‘long COVID’.
Diagnosing long COVID can be a challenge, however. A patient with asymptomatic or mild disease may not have taken a PCR test at the time of infection – the gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19 – and so has never had a confirmed diagnosis. Even antibody tests – which look for immune cells produced in response to infection – are estimated to miss around 30% of cases, particularly among those who have had only mild disease and
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New project receives NIHR funding to develop personalized rehabilitation program for long Covid patients
A new research project, led by a team from St George s, University of London and Kingston University as well as Cardiff University, has received major funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to develop personalized rehabilitation programmes to help patients live well with long Covid.
Led by Professor Fiona Jones, from the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at St George s, University of London and Kingston University, the project will work in partnership with individuals living with long Covid to design and evaluate a package of self-management support personalized to their needs.
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