Single-tube highly sensitive detection of four arboviruses in plasma and serum donations.
Assay Characteristics
Platform - Procleix Panther system
Assay chemistry
Qualitative, transcription-mediated amplification (TMA)
Indication
Testing individual plasma and serum specimens to screen organ and tissue donors, including cadaveric (non-heart beating) donors
Collection tube
Plasma collected in K2EDTA, K3EDTA, or gel separation tubes (BD Vacutainer PPT or Greiner Bio-One VACUETTE K2EDTA gel tubes)
Pool sizes
IDT-NAT or pools up to 16
Assay kit size
1000 or 5000 tests
Detected virus
Chikungunya virus, Dengue virus, West Nile virus, and Zika virus