Trivitron Newborn Screening Tests

Slovakian diagnostics firm Trivitron LabSystems Diagnostics launched six newborn screening tests. They include the Neomass AACC Plus kit for the quantitative determination of 15 amino acids, free carnitines, 12 acylcarnitines, argininosuccinic acid, and succinylcetone under the same extraction method and single injection/single run step on tandem mass spectrometry; the CAH Mass Second Tier test kit, which measures 17-hydroxyprogesterone, cortisol, 11-deoxycortisol, and 21-deoxycortisol in dried blood samples; and the SCID-SMA Multiplex PCR kit for the rapid and simultaneious detection of severe combined immunodeficiency sydrome and spinal muscular atrophy, basd on DNA samples from whole blood or dried blood spots after DNA extraction.

Also launched were the NS496 Plus DBS Puncher for automating laboratory sample prep and to punch dried blood spot sampples into 96-well microplates for analysis; Neonatal T4 FEIA kit for screening of congenital hypothroidism by the quantitative determination of total thyroxine from dried blood spots; and the Neonatal GALT kit for screening of classic galactosemia by the quantitative determination of galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transerase from dried blood spots.