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Latest Updates on COVID-19 Testing - Kits, Products, Services, Instrumentation - 22 Sept 2020
This week's updates: Test wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 to establish COVID-19 prevalence in the community; simple test-card designed for on-the spot testing; strong positives show up in 3 minutes with test set for airports and a new CE-marked kit delivers quantitative measurement of antibodies for spike protein.
Plus, in next week's newsletter we are doing a special focus on kits for the upcoming winter flu + COVID-19 season. Discover what's available to allow your laboratory to run efficiently through these testing times.
New IDEXX RT-qPCR Test to Aid COVID-19 Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Efforts
Testing untreated wastewater can show prevalence of COVID-19 in communities and the new IDEXX Water SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test is a ready-to-use kit, validated in wastewater, that eliminates routine tasks and accelerates testing efforts.
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Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test Card Suitable for On-the-Spot Testing
Lepu Medical's simple rapid antigen test card for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 has received CE-marking. The test provides a result in 15 minutes, takes swab specimens from the nasopharynx and oropharyngeal, and darkens in colour with an increase in viral load.
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Rapid 3-Minute COVID-19 Antigen Test Planned for Airports
QIAGEN has announced it will have its Access Anti-SARS-CoV-2 test available in US and EU markets once authorization is obtained. The test detects the nucleocapsid protein of the virus and can give result of a strong positive in 3 minutes.
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Quantiative Test Measures Antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein
Roche has achieved CE-marking for its Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S antibody test that delivers a quantitative measurement of antibodies produced for the spike protein of the virus. The test can be used to evaluate the efficacy of vaccines and plasma donations.
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Date Published: 22nd September 2020
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