Article Reports Results from Independent Study Demonstrating Test's 100% Sensitivity and Specificity for IgM Antibodies and 96.7% and 97.5% Sensitivity and Specificity, Respectively, for IgG ...

The current COVID-19 pandemic is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a betacoronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory distress in a significant proportion of ...

BREA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Beckman Coulter, a clinical diagnostics leader, today announced the launch of its Access SARS-CoV-2 Immunoglobulin M (IgM) assay. The new IgM antibody test ...

"Our new SARS-CoV-2 IgM assay provides information about an individual's immune status with a positive predictive value of 95.5% in a population with disease incidence as low as 3%," said Julie Sawyer ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators are moving ahead with a crackdown on scores of antibody tests for the coronavirus that have not yet been shown to work. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ...

On November 6, China debuted a new travel testing policy. Before, incoming airline passengers had to submit results for a conventional PCR test that proved the absence of Covid-19 and, upon landing, ...

Beckman Coulter, a clinical diagnostics leader, today announced the launch of its Access SARS-CoV-2 Immunoglobulin M (IgM) assay in countries accepting the CE Mark. The new IgM antibody test ...

Diagnostic or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are currently being used to diagnose patients with COVID-19. Antibody tests allow for more accurate tracking of the spread of the coronavirus.