- Improve Patient Care: Optimize better treatment options by reducing loss to follow up wiht shorter turn-around times between sample collection and reporting results to patients
- Increase Efficiency: Fast results enable earlier interventions with counseling and therapy
- Strengthen Communities: Quick decisions can help reduce drug resistance and lower transmission
Designed for High-Throughput Labs and Decentralized Testing in a Laboratory Setting- Simple & Organised: True 24/7 random access accommodates other urgent test requests (e.g. TB, HCV, HBV, HPV)
- Flexible: Modular system can adapt to any throughput requirement from health clinics to national reference laboratories
PerformanceThe performance of the Xpert HIV-1 VL XC test was compared to a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) comparator in a multi-site study using fresh and frozen human plasma specimens collected from known HIV-1 infected individuals. Of the 362 specimens, each from unique individuals, 206 (56.9%) were collected from male subjects. Most individuals (94.5%; 342/362) were in the age range of 22 to 59 years. Classification of specimens by HIV-1 Group M subtypes in this study population were shown to be 25.1% subtype B, 16.1% non-B subtype and 58.8% subtype unknown. There were 21 indeterminate results of which 14 were resolved after retesting. The final indeterminate rate was 1.93% (7/362). Of the 362 specimens, 328 were within the quantitation range of Xpert HIV-1 VL XC and the comparator test. The Deming regression shows high correlation between the Xpert HIV-1 VL XC test and the comparator method with a slope of 0.9625 and intercept of 0.0198. The R2 was 0.9561.
Correlation between Xpert HIV-1 Viral Load XC Relative to a Comparator Method4

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In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Device. Not available in all countries.
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Not available in all countries. Xpert HIV-1 Viral Load XC assay is only available in the European Union and the countries accepting the CE-mark registration.For other countries where product registration is on-going,
Xpert HIV-1 Viral Load assay is available.Please reach out to your Local Cepheid Representative for more information regarding the availability of the new product.