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| Autoimmune diseases, more than 80 of which have been identified, cause significant morbidity and disability in the United
States and are notoriously difficult to diagnose. Performing the proper tests is essential to shortening the amount of time to
diagnosis and reducing laboratory and patient care costs. The autoimmune disease profile table and testing algorithm provided here
can help physicians and laboratorians choose the most appropriate tests for specific patients. |
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| The most commonly performed procedure in the clinical immunology laboratory - the antinuclear antibody (ANA) test - is still performed primarily by IFA, although
increasingly labs have been shifting to the ELISA method to reduce expenses and improve reproducibility of results. A new and innovative ANA test that can provide
labor and cost savings along with more consistent results compared to both IFA and ELISA is the AtheNA Multi-Lyte® ANA Test System.*
Inverness Medical Professional Diagnostics is the exclusive distributor of this multiplexed, bead-based system and currently offers three other AtheNA systems to aid in the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases: the
AtheNA Multi-Lyte® ANCA Test System, the AtheNA Multi-Lyte® Rheumatoid Factor Test System and
the AtheNA Multi-Lyte® TPO/Tg Test System. Our broad autoimmune disease test menu also includes conventional ANA, IFA, and ELISA kits as well as a range of other
IFA, ELISA, and serology/agglutination
tests. |
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| *All AtheNA Multi-Lyte® serological assays have been developed and are manufactured by Zeus Scientific, Inc., and are marketed exclusively by Inverness Medical Professional Diagnostics. Each is composed of a bench-top flow analyzer and differentially dyed and distinguishable microspheres developed by the Luminex Corporation. |
| †Manufactured by Axis-Shield for Inverness Medical Professional Diagnostics. |
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