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|Articles|March 5, 2021
FDA Issues EUA for Respiratory Infection Testing, SARS-CoV-2
Author(s)John Parkinson
The Luminex test will be able to detect influenza and COVID-19.
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Luminex announced yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a new expanded version of its NxTAG Respiratory Pathogen Panel (RPP) that includes the SARS-CoV-2 virus for high-throughput respiratory testing.
The test is a combination of the company’s original NxTAG RPP, an in-vitro diagnostic for syndromic respiratory infection testing, and SARS-CoV-2.
NxTAG RPP detects common respiratory pathogens for syndromic testing. Following the addition of the SARS-CoV-2 virus target, the panel now includes 19 viral and 2 bacterial targets, combining the most common respiratory pathogens in one panel to help facilitate the rapid identification of various individual and co-occurring infectious pathogens.
“Clinical laboratories using the assay will be able to scale-up their testing for both COVID-19 and the flu with one high-capacity diagnostic platform that can provide much-needed information for appropriate patient treatment,” Chairman, President, and CEO of LuminexNachum "Homi" Shamir, said. “This is especially important given that the symptoms for the flu, COVID-19, and other respiratory illnesses can be very similar, but their treatment may be very different.
This test is expected to detect new variants of the coronavirus. An in-silico analysis of molecular probes used in the assay compared to SARS-CoV-2 sequences available in the GISAID database determined that key sequences still match and should yield a positive result.
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Luminex is based in Austin, Texas and the company is involved in clinical diagnostics, pharmaceutical drug discovery, biomedical research, genomic and proteomic research, biodefense research, and food safety.
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