CEO SUMMARY: Respiratory viruses are responsible for 75% of all visits to physicians and yet physicians struggle to identify whether an infection is viral or bacterial. Now there is a new molecular assay with FDA clearance that allows physicians to test for 12 common viral infections. It is the xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel (RVP) from […]
FDA Approves New Test For Respiratory Viruses
Using non-invasive specimens, multi-analyte assay can detect 12 viruses and viral subtypes
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XV No. 1 - January 21, 2008 Issue
- Tags: Clinical pathology, dark report, FDA Clearance, laboratories, laboratory medicine, laboratory outreach, laboratory outreach program, luminex molecular diagnostics, molecular assay, molecular diagnostic, multiplex pcr, pathologists, pcr, pcr amplification, polymerase chain reaction, the dark report, the laboratory
