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The company recently demonstrated the potential of its PCR and NGS assays to diagnose infections in patients’ prosthetic knees and hips. NOTE: You will need a paid membership with 360dx.com to view the full story

MicroGen Dx’s Texas-based lab is the only commercial laboratory in the US offering sputum testing for SARS-CoV-2. NOTE: You will need to register your email with 360dx.com to view the full story

All three tests use upper respiratory specimens such as nasal swabs, but the AIT and MicroGenDx tests can also use sputum samples. NOTE: You will need to register your email with 360dx.com to view the full story

MicroGenDx said that it has acquired next-generation sequencing laboratory RTL Genomics. MicroGenDx, which provides sequencing- and PCR-based microbial testing for clinical diagnostic applications, said the deal would help expand its capabilities in nonclinical primary research. MicroGenDx said it has built a reference database of over 50,000 microbial species based on ITS and 16S sequencing and that the addition of RTL will help it create a similar database with whole-genome sequencing.

MicroGen Diagnostics is growing its business for targeted sequencing-based orthopedic and urological infection detection on the heels of new contracts and outcomes studies…. the JBJS study showed the MicroGen test detected polymicrobial infections in a majority of cases that had shown no organism growth after standard microbial culture. Karan Goswami, first author on the JBJS study and a researcher at the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute in Philadelphia, said in an email that work marks “the largest cohort reporting the utility of NGS in isolating infective organisms in culture-negative cases.”…