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The EUA allows the test to be used at all CDC-qualified labs in the US on patients who meet CDC criteria for testing for the coronavirus.

The agency plans to make test kits available to state and international partners in the next two weeks. It also provided updated information about the virus.

Apatagen is developing the aptamer-based test to diagnose human carriers of pork tapeworm and prevent neurocysticercosis, which causes adult-onset epilepsy.

The study, sponsored by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focused on men who have sex with men and members of their social networks.

The company's Liaison XL Zika assay previously received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA in 2017.