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Quidel's Solana Group A Strep Test Fares Well in Prospective Evaluation

Jul 12, 2016
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Madeleine Johnson
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A Group A Strep test to rapidly detect pathogen DNA causing "strep throat" performs well compared to gold-standard testing, according to a recently published study.

Laboratorians at the Marshfield Labs, the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Laboratory Alliance of Central New York, and the University of Utah and Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City compared the Solana Group A Strep test from Quidel to bacterial culture.

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