Gastrointestinal panel
The FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel is a 22-target panel, which includes bacteria, viruses and parasites that cause infectious diarrhea and is the most comprehensive gastrointestinal test to be cleared by the FDA. It contains several pathogens receiving FDA clearance for the first time. The FilmArray GI Panel is performed directly from stool in Cary Blair transport media, takes only two minutes to set up, and produces results in about an hour. The panel brings about a major improvement in the diagnosis of infectious diarrhea, delivering accurate and timely results. The breadth of pathogens on the GI Panel will aid clinicians with treatment decisions in cases of gastrointestinal infectious disease. The FilmArray GI Panel offers clinical laboratories a user-friendly alternative to the time-consuming, labour intensive and technically complex testing methods used today while improving accuracy, timeliness and diagnostic yield. Despite advances in food safety, sanitation and medical treatment, infectious gastroenteritis remains a significant problem in industrialized countries among all age groups. In the United States, between 200 and 375 million episodes of diarrheal illness are estimated to occur each year, resulting in 73 million physician visits, 1.8 million hospitalizations, 3,100 deaths and $6 billion in medical care and lost productivity. Early diagnosis facilitates timely and appropriate therapeutic interventions that can alleviate symptoms and prevent secondary infections.
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