BIOFIRE PNEUMONIA PLUS PANEL (O.S)

Overview

The Pneumonia pathogen panel test is a highly-specialized qualitative assay capable of rapidly detecting DNA/RNA of different kinds of bacteria (18) & viruses(7) and antimicrobial resistance gene for relevant bacteria responsible for causing Pneumonia directly from the respiratory specimens. It has a good sensitivity of 96.2% and specificity of 98.3%. It is FDA approved multiplex film array that works in a closed system by isolating, amplifying and detecting nucleic acid target genes.