xTAG® Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel (GPP) Now Available Through Accu Reference Medical Lab

Same Day Results for 14 of the Most Common Causes of Infectious Diarrhea.

xTAG® Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel

​​​​​​Accu Reference Medical Lab adds a Luminex xTAG® Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel (GPP) to its lineup of highly sensitive, rapid response diagnostic tests.

Diarrhea disease strikes more than two billion times globally each year and is a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality worldwide (1). 80% of pathogens are not identified, which leads to improper use of antibiotics and poor patient care. In the United States alone, 99 million cases of GI infection occur annually, leading to over 250,000 hospitalizations (2) and 17,000 deaths (3), inflicting a significant toll on the healthcare system.

1 Stool Sample, 1 Test, 14 Results in less than 5 hours. More results faster, enabling a higher diagnostic yield. Improve patient outcomes, avoid needless isolation costs, and act fast to prevent outbreak situations with xTAG® GPP. 100,000+ per Annum Hospital Savings.

Diarrhea can be caused by wide range of bacterial, viral, and/or parasitic pathogens. Conventional culture based diagnosis has many issues including highly variable, insensitive, labor-intensive and 1 day turnaround time for final results. Recently, multiplex real-time PCR based diagnosis has been highlighted because of many advantages such as simultaneous detection of wide range of GI pathogens, fast turnaround time and high reproducibility combined with automatic platforms.

xTAG GPP simultaneously detects 14 common viral, bacterial, and parasitic causative pathogens from a single patient sample (4):

• Campylobacter
• Clostridium difficile toxin A/B
• Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157
• Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) LT/ST
• Salmonella
• Shigella
• Shiga-like Toxin producing E. coli (STEC) stx 1/stx 2
• Vibrio cholerae, cholera toxin gene (ctx)
• Adenovirus 40/41
• Norovirus
• Rotavirus A
• Cryptosporidium
• Entamoeba histolytica
• Giardia

By testing for greater than 90% of the causative pathogens of infectious gastroenteritis in a single test, clinicians can more quickly identify and treat the causative agent. Additionally co-infections can be more easily identified.

This panel will replace traditional stool culture (STOCU) and the Giardia and Cryptosporidium antigen (OVPSC) screen.

About Accu Reference Medical Lab

Accu Reference Medical Lab, LLC is located in Linden, NJ. Accu Reference Medical Lab operates as an independent high complexity CLIA-certified clinical laboratory providing advanced multiplex molecular diagnostic services to assist healthcare providers in the detection of infectious disease. For more information call at (800) 766-8378 or visit the company's web site at www.accureference.com

About Luminex Corporation

Luminex is committed to applying its passion for innovation toward creating breakthrough solutions to improve health and advance science. For further information on Luminex Corporation, please visit http://www.luminexcorp.com/.

References:
1) http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs330/en/index.html
2) http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanagement/gastroenterology/acute-diarrhea/
3) http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2012/p0314_gastroenteritis.html
4) Luminex xTAG GPP Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel

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Accu Reference Medical Lab is a New Jersey based, full service medical testing laboratory. Established in 2005, Accu Reference Medical Lab services health care providers in 19 states.

Accu Reference Medical Lab
1901 East Linden Ave (Suite 4)
Linden, NJ 07036
United States