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October 2016

Zika Testing for Emergency Use

Roche Diagnostics

Roche announces that the US Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the LightMix Zika rRT-PCR Test. The test is used for the detection of Zika virus in EDTA plasma or serum samples using Roche’s LightCycler 480 instrument II or cobas z 480 analyzer. The LightMix Zika rRT-PCR Test is an assay for the qualitative detection of Zika viral RNA in combination with a full process RNA control that monitors all steps from extraction to PCR result. Nucleic acid extraction is authorized to be performed with Roche’s MagNA Pure Compact Instrument (and Isolation Kit I–large volume) or, for laboratories wanting to process a higher number of samples, the MagNA Pure 96 Instrument (and DNA and Viral NA large volume kit) for high-throughput automated extraction.

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