Luminex' xTAG RVP effective in swine flu surveillance
Luminex Corp,a US specialist in multiplexed solutions, says that its xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel assay has been demonstrated to be effective in surveillance of swine influenza.
Luminex has verified through testing on confirmed swine flu-positive samples that the xTAG RVP assay will correctly identify these samples as positive for influenza A and negative for the common seasonal flu strains of A H1 and H3. This is the expected outcome for novel influenza A strains which prompts follow-up testing by state or federal public health labs with assays such as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) swine flu assay.
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