Product Launche: New Ultra sensitive test kits for HIV

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Product Launches: Bio-Rad Laboratories launches advanced Ultra test kits for HIV

& Hepatitis in India

Saturday, November 11, 2006 09:00 IST

Our Bureau, Bangalore

Bio-Rad India, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Bio-Rad Laboratories

USA, has announced that the launch of new Ultra test kits for HIV,

Hepatitis B and C virus in the Indian market. These kits have been

developed by Bio-Rad in association with the renowned Pasteur

Institute of France.

" Presently it takes approximately 20-25 days for detection of

antibody in HIV and approximately 45-60 days for HCV, this time

period shall be reduced to 8 - 10 days by detecting both antigen and

antibody for HIV and 4 -10 days for HCV " said Dhiren Wagle, Country

Manager for Bio-Rad India. He further added " earlier detection by

both antigen and antibody will reduce the window period and shall

help doctors at Blood bank be able to provide safer blood " .

The HIV and Hepatitis test kits shall be marketed under the brand

name of Genscreen HIV Ultra Ag-Ab, HBsAg Ultra and Monolisa HCV

Ultra Ag-Ab respectively. The new generation kit is most advanced in

its segment thanks to its antigen detection ability.

Recently Bio-Rad had also launched an advanced antigen based test

kit for early detection of Dengue virus under the brand

name 'Platelia Dengue NS1 Ag Assay '. The kit which is amongst the

best available in the market substantially cuts down the detection

period to 2 days from earlier of 6-7 days.

Bio-Rad Laboratories is a global company that has remained at the

centre of scientific discovery for more than 50 years by providing a

broad range of innovations, tools and services to the Clinical

Diagnostics and Life Science research markets.

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