Researchers in Switzerland studying 312 stool samples from pediatric patients returning from trips to the tropics report that conventional laboratory methods failed to identify most of the norovirus-positive and Giardia-positive samples identified by Luminex’s xTag gastrointestinal pathogen panel. The Luminex panel covers 15 diarrhea-causing organisms using PCR amplification. All adenovirus, rotavirus, C. diff, and Cryptosporidium samples were confirmed in external labs, but norovirus and Giarida positive samples were only idneitifes 40% and 29% of the time respectively. For more information, refer to the paper published in the journal Infection.
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Jan 2017