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Curetis Unyvero System, Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Cartridge

Jun 07, 2018

Curetis has announced the US commercial launch of its molecular diagnostic Unyvero System and the Unyvero LRT Application Cartridge, a test cartridge to detect lower respiratory tract infections. The cartridge, which was cleared together with the system by the US Food and Drug Administration earlier this year, covers more than 90 percent of infection cases of hospitalized pneumonia patients, detecting pathogens and genetic resistance markers directly from aspirate samples in less than five hours.  

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