In essence, that is what such diagnostic test kits, including the one from Acumen Research Laboratories, can do. Such test kits often differ in the part of the genome they highlight as red flags.
In a similar way to conventional methods, doctors collect samples from a patient's lungs or cough mucus (such samples are called sputum), and process the sample via PCR.
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