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Hologic Gets FDA Nod for HIV-1 Viral Load Monitoring Test

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Hologic’s HIV-1 viral load monitoring test, the Aptima HIV-1 Quant. This assay is a nucleic acid amplification test that detects RNA from HIV in plasma specimens. It runs on Hologic’s automated Panther system that uses a dual target approach against highly conserved regions in the HIV genome in order to cover all HIV-1 groups and subtypes. Published studies have compared the performance of the Aptima HIV-1 Quant assay with other HIV viral load monitoring tests on the market, and have demonstrated that Hologic’s assay provides repeatable, reliable results for consistent quantitation of viral load.

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