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Altona Diagnostics Receives European Clearance for HIV Test
April 6, 2021
Hamburg, Germany-based altona Diagnostics has earned the CE mark for its AltoStar HIV reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) diagnostic.
The in vitro diagnostic is now cleared in Europe for detecting and quantifying HIV-1-specific RNA in human plasma samples and is intended for the monitoring of patients infected with the virus.
The test is run on the AltoStar Automation System AM16, a robotic pipetting workstation that automatically purifies nucleic acids and automates assay setup.