Randox’s Respiratory Multiplex Array simultaneously detects 21 viral and bacterial pathogens from the upper and lower respiratory tract.
The array provides clinicians with a comprehensive infection profile for the patient enabling rapid and accurate diagnosis without the need for secondary or confirmatory testing to inform clinical treatment decisions. Identifying the infection correctly first time will reduce the misuse of antibiotics and improve their targeted use. Time to treatment is also reduced and unnecessary hospital stays are avoided.
Most people will develop an acute respiratory tract infection (RTI) every year. Children bear the weight of RTI illness, with infants and pre-school children in developed countries experiencing a mean of 6-10 viral infections annually, and school-age children and adolescents experiencing 3-5 illnesses annually.
Often, antibiotics are prescribed, however, using antibiotics can cause resistance among respiratory pathogens in individuals and in recent years an epidemic increase in antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae has been observed, prompting the need to decrease excess or inappropriate antibiotic use.
Respiratory Multiplex Array detects:
Viral Pathogens:
Bacterial Pathogens:
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