Becton Dickinson, CerTest Biotec Covid-19 Test Gets CE Approval
March 10 2020 - 7:44AM
Dow Jones News
By Chris Wack
Becton, Dickinson & Co. and CerTest Biotec said the Viasure
SARS-CoV-2 Real Time PCR Detection Kit adapted for the BD MAX
System has been CE marked to the IVD Directive. The molecular test
for detection of Covid-19 is available to clinical laboratories in
countries recognizing the CE mark.
The companies said the CerTest-developed kit will bring rapid
Covid-19 diagnostic capabilities to many laboratories across Europe
in order to quickly identify Covid-19 patients so that proper
protocols for infection prevention can be instituted.
The test comes in a tube that snaps into the test-specific
position on the BD MAX ExK TNA extraction strip, which is supplied
by Becton Dickinson.
The companies said the BD MAX System is a fully integrated,
automated platform that performs nucleic acid extraction and
real-time PCR providing results for up to 24 samples across
multiple syndromes in less than three hours.
Becton Dickinson shares are up 3% to $238 premarket.
Write to Chris Wack at chris.wack@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 10, 2020 07:29 ET (11:29 GMT)
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