Idaho Technology To Highlight Diagnostic FilmArray® Respiratory Panel At 28th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium
Salt Lake City (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Idaho Technology, Inc., a privately held clinical diagnostics company dedicated to providing the world's fastest, highest-quality instruments for pathogen identification and DNA analysis, today announced several posters will be presented highlighting its FilmArray® Respiratory Panel (FilmArray RP), a user-friendly Multiplex pathogen detection system, at the 28th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium and Annual Meeting of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, held April 22 - 25, 2012, in Daytona Beach, FL.
In addition, the Company will showcase its FilmArray diagnostic platform at booth #233, where Idaho Technology representatives will be available to discuss FilmArray benefits and potential clinical applications.
Posters to be presented featuring FilmArray:
Session I – Monday, April 23, 2012
GENETIC ANALYSIS OF A CLUSTER OF PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS TYPE 4 CASES
P. Bryant1, N.E. Babady2, D.M. Lamson1, J. Stiles2, A.B. Dean1, K. St. George1, and Y. Tang2
1Laboratory of Viral Diseases, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York and 2Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Session II – Tuesday, April 24, 2012
COMPARISON OF THE FILMARRAY RESPIRATORY PANEL AND LABORATORY-DEVELOPED
REAL TIME PCR ASSAYS FOR RESPIRATORY VIRUS DETECTION
J. Kuypers1,2, C. Renaud1, J. Crowley2, and K.R. Jerome1,2
1Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA and
2Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
AN ANALYTICAL COMPARISON OF FOUR COMMERCIAL RESPIRATORY VIRUS PANELS
E.B. Popowitch1, S.S. O'Neill1, and M.B. Miller1,2
1University of North Carolina Health Care System, Chapel Hill, NC and 2University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
COMPARISION OF THREE COMMERCIAL REAL-TIME PCR SYSTEMS FOR THE DETECTION OF RESPIRATORY VIRUSES
K.A. Stellrecht, S.A. Butt, V.P. Maceira, T. LaPorta, and M.E. McCallen
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY 12208
EVALUATION OF THE IDAHO FILMARRAY RESPIRATORY PANEL ON NP SWAB, RESPIRATORY WASH (BAL/BRONCH WASH, AND NP WASH/ASPIRATE), AND THROAT SWAB SPECIMENS
L. Scicchitano, F. Tomashefski, and P. Bourbeau
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville PA 17822
Session III – Wednesday, April 25, 2012
DETECTION OF VIRAL DIARRHEAL PATHOGENS BY THE FILMARRAY GI POUCH
B. Harrel, R. Crisp, J. Gardner, C. Li, M. Vaughn, R. Wallace, and M. Rogatcheva
Idaho Technology Inc, Salt Lake City, UT
About FilmArray RP
FilmArray RP is Idaho Technology's first clinical diagnostic test designed to run on the Company's novel FilmArray system, which represents a significant advancement in user-friendliness and multiplex infectious disease testing capability for hospital clinical labs. FilmArray RP rapidly detects nucleic acids in nasopharyngeal swabs obtained from individuals suspected of respiratory tract infections. Requiring only two minutes of hands-on time, FilmArray RP has about a 1-hour turnaround time, and simultaneously tests for the following panel of respiratory pathogens: Adenovirus, Coronavirus HKU1, Coronavirus NL63, Human Metapneumovirus, Influenza A, Influenza A subtype H1, Influenza A subtype H3, Influenza A subtype H1 2009, Influenza B, Parainfluenza virus 1, Parainfluenza virus 2, Parainfluenza virus 3, Parainfluenza virus 4, Rhinovirus/Enterovirus, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus. FilmArray RP is available for use by hospital and clinical laboratory professionals in the United States and Europe, and has received FDA-clearance for a panel of the above 15 targets and CE IVD registration for a panel of 21 targets. An expanded respiratory panel, which will include five additional bacterial and viral targets, is currently under review by the FDA. Idaho Technology is continuing to develop a broader test menu for its FilmArray system, including a blood culture ID panel, gastrointestinal panel, and an STD panel.
About Idaho Technology, Inc.
Idaho Technology, Inc. is a privately held clinical diagnostics company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 1990, the Company currently holds over 70 patents related to polymerase chain reaction (PCR), including rapid PCR cycling. The Company has used its extensive patent portfolio to successfully market nearly 200 products to the clinical, research and military markets. The Company manufactures and distributes its proprietary diagnostic respiratory panel, FilmArray RP, which operates on its user-friendly FilmArray system, to hospital-based clinical laboratories in the U.S. and E.U. The Company also collaborates with various U.S. governmental agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense and the Food and Drug Administration. Among others, researchers, medical technicians, law enforcement officers, and soldiers in the field use company devices to detect or study disease-causing organisms. For further information, please visit www.idahotech.com.
SOURCE: Idaho Technology Inc.
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