Description
Benefits
RSV is the most common cause of severe respiratory illness in young children. The Alere BinaxNOW® RSV Card is one of the easiest tests to run on the market today and helps reduce the spread of infection.
- Actionable: Valuable information can be obtained before hospital admission to help control the spread of RSV infections
- Fast: Results available in just 15 minutes
- Easy: Requires no hands-on time
- Reliable: Provides highly accurate results and includes built-in controls
- Convenient: Can be used with either nasal wash or nasopharyngeal swab samples
- Reassuring: Parents can be given critical care instructions before leaving the pediatrician’s office
- Efficient: Can be used alongside Alere BinaxNOW® Influenza A&B Card using the same patient sample
Specifications
- Part numbers (22 tests): 430-122 (CLIA Waived), 430-022 (non-waived)
- Part numbers (42 test): 430-000(non-waived)
- Method: Lateral Flow
- Time to Result: 15 minutes
- Storage: 2 – 30°C
- Shelf Life: 24 months from the date of manufacture
- Retrospective nasal wash Sensitivity: 89% Specificity: 100%
- Prospective NP swab Sensitivity: 93% Specificity 93%
- Sample Type: Nasal wash, Nasopharyngeal swab
- Kit Size: 22/42 tests
- Kit Contents:
- 22/42 Test cards
- Transfer pipettes
- Positive control swab (Inactivated RSV)
- Negative control swab
- Product Insert and Procedural Card
*Data Ohm-Smith 2004
