H1N1 flu test
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Ocimum Biosolutions launches research use only microarray test for the latest version of the H1N1 flu on May 4. The firm says it updated its custom OciChip chip probes, originally developed three years ago to identify avian flu, using sequence information from the latest strain of the H1N1 flu from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. FDA recently authorized emergency use of an assay developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to identify cases of H1N1 flu (1"The Gray Sheet" May 4, 2009, p. 3)