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Rapid avian flu pretest takes hours, not days.(Clinical Rounds)
A rapid test to detect human infection with avian influenza provides preliminary results in just 4 hours instead of the standard 2-3 days, according to officials with the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The test is being made available to the World Health Organization and individual countries in addition to its distribution throughout the United States.
The test, developed by the CDC and rushed through the FDA approval process, is intended to detect H5 viral strains from respiratory secretions in patients suspected of being infected.
Further testing is then required to identify specific subtypes such as the H5N1 subtype, which so far has been responsible for 166 human infections and 88 deaths worldwide.
"This provides a presumptive positive result, not a definitive result," Dr. Steve Gutman of the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Rapid avian flu pretest takes hours, not days.(Clinical Rounds)