West Nile assay
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Chiron and Gen-Probe expect to file with FDA in early 2005 for their jointly developed West Nile virus blood donation screening assay for the Procleix Tigris automated nucleic acid testing system. The firms announced launch of an IND trial for the assay Sept. 1. The system will be tested in epidemic areas in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida and Oklahoma to "improve the efficiency of high volume testing," they say (1"The Gray Sheet" Aug. 4, 2003, p. 21)...