press release. “A simultaneous viral load measurement with diagnosis will allow health care providers to guide treatment choices for patients to begin therapy immediately.
The dual claim will also benefit our clinical laboratory customers, who continuously seek to consolidate their testing as much as possible onto one automated platform.”The test runs on an automated system known as Panther.
More than 2,250 Panther systems have been installed in clinical diagnostic laboratories around the world.Beginning treatment soon after diagnosis is key to maintaining the health of people living with HIV and helping them to get their viral load to an undetectable level so that the virus cannot be transmitted to others.