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Roche Scores FDA Approval for HIV-1 Viral Load Test

December 21, 2015

The FDA has given its blessing to Roche’s cobas HIV-1 viral load test for use on the cobas 6800 and cobas 8800 systems.

Clinicians will use the test – along with other next generation viral load tests – to manage and treat patients infected with HIV-1.

The test works by simultaneously amplifying and detecting two separate regions of the HIV-1 genome, which are not subject to selective drug pressure, says Paul Brown, head of Roche Molecular Diagnostics. — Michael Cipriano