MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514033422 A) filed by Delta Electronics, Inc., Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on April 4, 2025, for 'kit and method for detecting chikungunya virus and zika virus and triplex forming oligonucleotide probe.'

Inventor(s) include Wei Chang; Po-Hao Chou; Jheng-Da Song; Zee-Hong Goh; Kun-Nan Tsai; and Chiuan-Chian Chiou.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided are a kit and a method for detecting chikungunya virus, including a primer composition, which includes an outer primer pair, an inner primer pair and a circular primer pair. The outer primer pair includes a forward outer primer and a reverse outer primer, then inner primer pair includes a forward inner primer and a reverse inner primer, and the loop primer pair includes a forward loop primer and a reverse loop primer. It also provides a multiplex detection kit and method for chikungunya virus and Zika virus to achieve rapid and reliable nucleic acid detection."

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