Roche Blood Screening Test Helps CDC Show Zika Infections Increasing in Puerto Rico

Jun 17, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published data from Puerto Rico regarding the use of an investigational PCR-based blood-screening Zika test from Roche to demonstrate that infection rates are increasing.

During a telebriefing this morning to provide an update on screening of blood donations for Zika virus, Matthew Kuehnert, director of the agency's office of blood, organ, and other tissue safety, described the Roche Cobas test as "extremely accurate."

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