SeraCare Life Sciences Accurun 341 Nucleic Acid Positive controls for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

SeraCare Life Sciences has introduced a series of controls designed to work with highly sensitive nucleic acid assays for detection of chlamydia and gonorrhea. Accurun 341 Nucleic Acid Positive controls for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (CT/NG) are designed to monitor and validate molecular diagnostic test performance. The controls are prepared with elementary bodies derived from cultured Chlamydia trachomatis and cultured colony-forming units of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. This whole organism design closely simulates an actual patient sample, challenging every stage of the assay from sample extraction through amplification and detection.

Through collaboration with instrument and reagent manufacturers, SeraCare optimised the controls specifically for current assay platforms. These high-quality standards challenge all test kit reagents, analysers and test procedures, setting these controls apart.

Medical laboratory scientists simply add the Accurun 341 CT/NG Controls to the test run, just as they would an unknown patient sample, no need for reconstitution or dilutions that could possibly introduce contamination or variation into the assay.