Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for Xpert® GI Panel to Support Broad Detection of Gastrointestinal Pathogens

Cepheid announced today that it has received FDA clearance for Xpert GI Panel, a multiplex PCR test designed to provide fast ...
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FDA clears Cepheid’s Xpert GI Panel for pathogen detection

The Xpert GI Panel identifies pathogens directly from stool specimens collected in Cary-Blair transport media.
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Xpert Norovirus Test Approved for Detection, Differentiation

Cepheid announced it has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Xpert Norovirus, an in vitro diagnostic test for identification and differentiation of Noroviruses ...
Houston Chronicle

(PRN) Cepheid's Xpert(TM) EV Test for Enteroviral Meningitis Gains Adoption at Approximately 20 Leading U.S. Medical Centers

Managing One of the Largest Enterovirus Testing Populations, Children's Medical Center Dallas Among Leading Institutions to Quickly Adopt Cepheid's SUNNYVALE, Calif ...
Reuters

Cepheid's Xpert MRSA test for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus receives FDA clearance

Co announces it received clearance from the FDA to market its Xpert M.R.S.A test, which runs on the GeneXpert System, for the rapid detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. "Currently ...
Medscape

Evaluation of the Xpert MTB/RIF Test for the Diagnosis of Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Uganda

In the policy statement on the Xpert MTB/RIF test in 2011, the WHO recommended the use of the test as an initial diagnostic tool among children with suspected HIV associated TB or MDR TB based on ...
Healio

Xpert Ultra improves TB meningitis detection, does not rule out disease

In an HIV-positive population, the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay detected tuberculous meningitis with higher sensitivity than the older Xpert assay and a mycobacterial growth indicator tube culture, ...