We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. This includes personalizing content and advertising. To learn more, click here. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies. Cookie Policy.

Features Partner Sites Information LinkXpress hp
Sign In
Advertise with Us
LGC Clinical Diagnostics

QIAGEN

Qiagen is a provider of sample and assay technologies for molecular diagnostics and applied testing, including comple... read more Featured Products: More products

Download Mobile App




New Panel Quickly and Accurately Identifies 16 Common Gastrointestinal Pathogens

By LabMedica International staff writers
Posted on 06 Jun 2024
Print article
Image: The QIAstat-Dx Gastrointestinal Panel 2 has received U.S. FDA clearance for use in clinical settings (Photo courtesy of QIAGEN)
Image: The QIAstat-Dx Gastrointestinal Panel 2 has received U.S. FDA clearance for use in clinical settings (Photo courtesy of QIAGEN)

Gastrointestinal (GI) infections significantly contribute to infectious disease cases globally, particularly among young children. The symptoms of GI infections, such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, are typically nonspecific and overlapping, making it challenging to identify the exact causative pathogens, which could be bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Accurate diagnosis is crucial for providing timely and effective care. Traditional methods for diagnosing GI infections often involve multiple time-consuming tests that require specialized expertise, such as stool culture and microscopy. These tests can take 1–2 days or more to yield results, and the diagnostic yield is often low. Traditional microbiological testing may need samples to be incubated for at least 24 hours and up to 10 days. In contrast, a multiplex syndromic panel test can deliver results for multiple bacterial, viral, and parasitic pathogens in about an hour. This faster and more sensitive method can significantly improve diagnostic yield, enhance patient management, and support antimicrobial stewardship efforts. An innovative molecular test now offers rapid and accurate identification of up to 16 common GI pathogens, generating results in approximately one hour using real-time PCR technology.

QIAGEN’s (Venlo, Netherlands) QIAstat-Dx Gastrointestinal Panel 2 aims to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of GI diagnosis. This panel can simultaneously detect up to 16 clinically relevant bacterial, viral, and parasitic pathogens causing most GI infections in about an hour. It utilizes QIAstat-Dx’s real-time PCR technology to quickly amplify multiple genetic targets. The software interprets signals from the reaction and provides positive or negative results for each pathogen. Additionally, QIAstat-Dx offers easy-to-view cycle threshold (Ct) values and amplification curves, providing extra insights not available with end-point PCR or other techniques.

QIAGEN has launched the QIAstat-Dx Gastrointestinal Panel 2 in the U.S., following FDA clearance for its clinical use. Acute infectious gastroenteritis is a common cause of hospitalizations and outpatient visits in the U.S., with an estimated 180 million cases annually. The U.S. launch will help healthcare providers diagnose and treat patients quickly and accurately, allowing for rapid isolation of those at risk of spreading infections and earlier identification of negative cases. This can reduce unnecessary testing and treatment costs for the U.S. healthcare system and patients. The new panel expands QIAGEN’s U.S. syndromic testing menu, complementing the QIAstat-Dx Respiratory Panel Plus, which can identify 21 pathogens causing respiratory infections from viral and bacterial sources. Both panels are available as cost-efficient, single-use cartridges that easily fit into the QIAstat-Dx Analyzer 1.0. These cartridges contain all necessary reagents, allowing for setup in less than a minute without the need for precision pipetting.

“The QIAstat-Dx Gastrointestinal Panel 2 allows medical professionals to identify which GI pathogen they are dealing with quickly,” said Fernando Beils, Senior Vice President and Head of the Molecular Diagnostics Business Area at QIAGEN. “This is QIAGEN’s answer to two major problems in treating GI infections: diagnosis of overlapping symptoms and laborious testing methods.”

Gold Member
Veterinary Hematology Analyzer
Exigo H400
Verification Panels for Assay Development & QC
Seroconversion Panels
New
Human Placenta DNA
Human Placenta DNA
New
Multichannel Pipette
CAPPSolo

Print article

Channels

Clinical Chemistry

view channel
Image: The tiny clay-based materials can be customized for a range of medical applications (Photo courtesy of Angira Roy and Sam O’Keefe)

‘Brilliantly Luminous’ Nanoscale Chemical Tool to Improve Disease Detection

Thousands of commercially available glowing molecules known as fluorophores are commonly used in medical imaging, disease detection, biomarker tagging, and chemical analysis. They are also integral in... Read more

Immunology

view channel
Image: The cancer stem cell test can accurately choose more effective treatments (Photo courtesy of University of Cincinnati)

Stem Cell Test Predicts Treatment Outcome for Patients with Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer

Epithelial ovarian cancer frequently responds to chemotherapy initially, but eventually, the tumor develops resistance to the therapy, leading to regrowth. This resistance is partially due to the activation... Read more

Microbiology

view channel
Image: The lab-in-tube assay could improve TB diagnoses in rural or resource-limited areas (Photo courtesy of Kenny Lass/Tulane University)

Handheld Device Delivers Low-Cost TB Results in Less Than One Hour

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the deadliest infectious disease globally, affecting an estimated 10 million people annually. In 2021, about 4.2 million TB cases went undiagnosed or unreported, mainly due to... Read more

Pathology

view channel
Image: The ready-to-use DUB enzyme assay kits accelerate routine DUB activity assays without compromising data quality (Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock)

Sensitive and Specific DUB Enzyme Assay Kits Require Minimal Setup Without Substrate Preparation

Ubiquitination and deubiquitination are two important physiological processes in the ubiquitin-proteasome system, responsible for protein degradation in cells. Deubiquitinating (DUB) enzymes contain around... Read more

Technology

view channel
Image: The HIV-1 self-testing chip will be capable of selectively detecting HIV in whole blood samples (Photo courtesy of Shutterstock)

Disposable Microchip Technology Could Selectively Detect HIV in Whole Blood Samples

As of the end of 2023, approximately 40 million people globally were living with HIV, and around 630,000 individuals died from AIDS-related illnesses that same year. Despite a substantial decline in deaths... Read more

Industry

view channel
Image: The collaboration aims to leverage Oxford Nanopore\'s sequencing platform and Cepheid\'s GeneXpert system to advance the field of sequencing for infectious diseases (Photo courtesy of Cepheid)

Cepheid and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Partner on Advancing Automated Sequencing-Based Solutions

Cepheid (Sunnyvale, CA, USA), a leading molecular diagnostics company, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Oxford, UK), the company behind a new generation of sequencing-based molecular analysis technologies,... Read more
Copyright © 2000-2025 Globetech Media. All rights reserved.