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The partnership, announced last week just before ECCMID kicked off, is the first major foray for both companies into the sequencing-based infectious disease diagnostics market.
The firm's planned launches include a respiratory virus panel, a gastrointestinal panel, and a fingerstick tuberculosis test, it revelaed this week at ECCMID.
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The assay received de novo authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration and CE-IVD marking last year.
The company will launch 37 CE-IVD-marked assays this year, mostly for infectious diseases, for use on the QuantStudio 5 Dx and eventually QuantStudio 7 Pro Dx platforms.
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The blood-based assay, called Actiphage, combines phage-induced lysis of infectious bacteria and molecular detection of bacterial DNA.