A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_URI::$config is deprecated

Filename: core/URI.php

Line Number: 101

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Router::$uri is deprecated

Filename: core/Router.php

Line Number: 127

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$benchmark is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$hooks is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$config is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$log is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$utf8 is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$uri is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$exceptions is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$router is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$output is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$security is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$input is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$lang is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 75

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$load is deprecated

Filename: core/Controller.php

Line Number: 78

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$db is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 390

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_DB_mysqli_driver::$failover is deprecated

Filename: database/DB_driver.php

Line Number: 371

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$form_validation is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 1290

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Return type of CI_Session_files_driver::open($save_path, $name) should either be compatible with SessionHandlerInterface::open(string $path, string $name): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 132

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Return type of CI_Session_files_driver::close() should either be compatible with SessionHandlerInterface::close(): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 290

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Return type of CI_Session_files_driver::read($session_id) should either be compatible with SessionHandlerInterface::read(string $id): string|false, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 164

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Return type of CI_Session_files_driver::write($session_id, $session_data) should either be compatible with SessionHandlerInterface::write(string $id, string $data): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 233

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Return type of CI_Session_files_driver::destroy($session_id) should either be compatible with SessionHandlerInterface::destroy(string $id): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 313

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Return type of CI_Session_files_driver::gc($maxlifetime) should either be compatible with SessionHandlerInterface::gc(int $max_lifetime): int|false, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 354

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: ini_set(): Session ini settings cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 284

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: session_set_cookie_params(): Session cookie parameters cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 291

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: ini_set(): Session ini settings cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 306

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: ini_set(): Session ini settings cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 316

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: ini_set(): Session ini settings cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 317

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: ini_set(): Session ini settings cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 318

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: ini_set(): Session ini settings cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 319

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: ini_set(): Session ini settings cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 377

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: session_set_save_handler(): Session save handler cannot be changed after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 110

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: session_start(): Session cannot be started after headers have already been sent

Filename: Session/Session.php

Line Number: 143

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$session is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 1290

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$curl is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 1290

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$Reports_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 353

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$User_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 353

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$data is deprecated

Filename: controllers/Welcome.php

Line Number: 11

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property Welcome::$pagination is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 1290

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$benchmark is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$hooks is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$config is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$log is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$utf8 is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$uri is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$exceptions is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$router is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$output is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$security is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$input is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$lang is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$load is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$db is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$form_validation is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$session is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$curl is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$Reports_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$User_model is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$data is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: 8192

Message: Creation of dynamic property CI_Loader::$pagination is deprecated

Filename: core/Loader.php

Line Number: 925

Quest Diagnostics launches Three New Combined COVID-19 and Respiratory Virus Tests

Article Details

Home / Article

Quest Diagnostics launches Three New Combined COVID-19 and Respiratory Virus Tests

Published : 01 Oct 2020

Healthcare providers across the United States can now access three different test options from Quest Diagnostics to aid the diagnosis of COVID-19 and differentiate it from other seasonal respiratory infections, including influenza (flu).

Each test is designed to use a single specimen, promoting faster test ordering, reporting, and diagnosis, as compared to ordering multiple tests, for potentially improved patient care.



The tests may also help reduce demand for specimen collection devices amid supply constraints.



According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this fall and winter could be one of the most complicated times in the history of public health due to the potential spread of seasonal respiratory viruses with the SARS-COV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.



Some symptoms of COVID-19 and seasonal respiratory viruses, including flu, are similar, and diagnostic testing can help determine the virus causing this illness.



Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses, like flu, this fall and winter are more important than ever.



The new test options include the Cobas SARS-CoV-2 & Influenza A/B*, an automated high throughput multiplex real-time RT-PCR assay from Roche.



The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the test earlier this month.



The test is intended for simultaneous qualitative detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and/or influenza A or B virus RNA from individuals suspected of respiratory viral infection consistent with COVID-19 by their healthcare provider.



The test may be performed on healthcare provider-collected nasal and nasopharyngeal swab specimens and self-collected nasal swab specimens (collected in a healthcare setting with instruction by a healthcare provider).



Nasal swabs include anterior nares swabs, which involve collecting a specimen from the lower nostril.



Two additional test panels from Quest Diagnostics, the Respiratory Viral Panel (RVP) test, and the Respiratory Pathogen Panel (RPP), now include testing for SARS-CoV-2 using the company's SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test**, which was granted FDA EUA in March 2020 to aid the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2*.



With the addition of SARS-CoV-2, the RVP panel can aid the identification of up to a dozen viruses and subtypes and the RPP panel can aid the identification of 18 viral targets and two bacterial targets.



Each respiratory panel test also only requires a single nasopharyngeal specimen.



"With a perfect storm of COVID-19, influenza and seasonal respiratory viruses circulating over the Fall and Winter months, laboratory testing that can reliably identify the virus causing disease will be critical to mobilizing effective patient care and public health response," said Jay G. Wohlgemuth, M.D., Senior Vice President, and Chief Medical Officer, Quest Diagnostics.



"Our goal is to give providers multiple tools to care for patients as quickly and effectively as possible, using a minimum of specimen collection materials amid continuing supply constraints."



Patients suspected of having or confirmed to have active SARS-CoV-2 infection or COVID-19 disease may not visit Quest patient service centers, which are not equipped to collect the necessary respiratory specimens for molecular SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing.



Patients who believe they may have COVID-19, Influenza, or other respiratory virus infections are strongly encouraged to contact their healthcare provider.



*The cobas SARS-CoV-2 & Influenza A/B Test and the Quest SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test ("Tests") have not been FDA cleared or approved.



The Tests have been authorized by the FDA under a EUA for use by laboratories certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), 42 U.S.C.



263a, to perform moderate and high complexity tests.



The Roche test has been authorized only for the detection of RNA from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Influenza A virus, and Influenza B virus and not any other viruses or pathogens.



The Roche test is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorized of the emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 virus, Influenza A, and Influenza B under section 564(b)(1) of the Act, 21 U.S.C.



360bbb- 3(b)(1), unless the authorized is terminated or revoked sooner.



**The Quest SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test has been authorized only for the detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2, not for any other viruses or pathogens.



The Quest test is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for the detection and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 under Section 564(b)(1) of the Act, 21 U.S.C.



360bbb-3(b)(1), unless the authorization is terminated or revoked sooner.


Source: GlobalData.com

Recent Posts


Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine Shows 92% Efficacy in Covid-19 Trial

Bharat Biotech Gets CDSCO Nod to Conduct Phase III Covid-19 Vaccine Trials

Moderna Completes Enrolment for mRNA-1273 Trial Against Covid-19

CytoDyn Receives Positive DSMC Recommendation After Interim Analysis For Leronlimab Phase 2b/3 Covid-19 Registrational Trial

Edesa Biotech Gets FDA Approval for Phase II Trial of EB05 for Covid-19 Treatment