Lack of Guidelines for Group A Strep MDx Tests May Influence Adoption; IDSA Update Forthcoming

Oct 02, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Molecular diagnostics, particularly nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), are fast becoming the gold-standard for a number of pathogens, and clusters of commercial tests are aggregating around infective agents that are relatively easy to detect or have high incidence rates.

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