Fact Sheet for Health Care Providers: Interpreting Trioplex Real-Time RT-PCR Assay (Trioplex rRT-PCR) Results

U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 03/17/2016This four-page document provides information about the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s issuing of an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to authorize the use of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Trioplex Real-Time RT-PCR Assay (Trioplex rRT-PCR) for the in vitro qualitative detection of Zika virus. With specified instruments, this assay tests for Zika virus, dengue virus, and chikungunya virus RNA in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 24, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news