The faculty members at the University of Basrah, Prof. Dr. Ihsan Idan Abdul Karim Al-Simri, Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, Prof. Dr. Falah Hassan Sherri, Prof. Dr. Murtaza Muhammad Saleh Al-Musafir, Prof. Dr. Dawood Chlobe Hillel Al-Bahadli, Prof. Dr. Nizam Muhammad Jamal Al-Din, Assistant Professor Dr. Wijdan Nizar Ibrahim Al-Musawi, Lecturer Dr. Dania Mudar Shaker Al-Tarihi, Prof. Dr. Nael Hussein Ali, Assistant Professor Dr. Nibras Salim Jawad Al-Ammar and Assistant Professor Dr. Hanadi Abdul Qader Jassim Got a patent for the Development and design of novel Iraqi & international transport medium (BASRAYATH VTM) for transport and preserve of corona virus (covid-19) and other viruses samples from the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control.
The patent included the preparation of a new global Iraqi carrier medium under the name of BASRAYATHA VTM. It is used to store samples taken from a patient infected with Covid-19 and other viruses for the purpose of transferring and diagnosing them using internationally approved molecular methods.
The medium can be used to preserve and transport viruses with DNA, RNA, and the medium contains in its composition nutritious broth and bovine serum albumin, in addition to containing a group of salts in special concentrations commensurate with the need of the Corona virus and the infected cell for life and survival.
THE NEW VECTOR MEDIUM BASRAYATHA VTM CAN BE USED AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO OTHER WELL-KNOWN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AS IT MAINTAINS THE VITALITY OF THE INFECTED CELL, THE CORONA VIRUS AND OTHER VIRUSES AND PROVIDES THE APPROPRIATE CHEMICAL COMPONENTS FOR THEIR SURVIVAL, AND THE BASRAYATHA VTM MEDIUM IS A QUALITATIVE GLOBAL ADDITION TO THE VIRAL CARRIER MEDIA. The new medium is also not suitable for the living and development of germs and fungi as it contains antibiotics against bacteria and against new fungi. Use in this type of media.
The new medium BASRAYATHA VTM is characterized by its violet color resulting from the addition of violet crystal pigment, which is considered as a chemical guide to change the acidity, as it maintains the violet color in the studied acid functions of the new medium and loses the color of its violet pigment and turns into yellow or colorless in the event of a decrease in the acid function of the medium. The new medium is also used to transport viruses with RNA.