H1N1 Testing at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah

Molecular Pathology at Intermountain Medical Center utilizes an FDA emergency cleared H1N1 (2009) Influenza Virus kit to detect Swine flu. Testing began Wednesday, September 30th, 2009, and the number of requests has only increased as the community and clinicians alike learn of its availability. Extracting the RNA virus takes approximately two hours followed by an additional two and a half hours to perform the actual analysis. Another half hour to one hour is necessary for technologists to review and interpret that data prior to releasing results.

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Science & Technology

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• Salt Lake City
• Utah
• H1N1 and Swine
• flu
• influenza
• 2009
• FDA
• emergency
• use
• Intermountain Medical Center
• Molecular Pathology
• Central Laboratory
• rapid testing
• reverse transcriptase
• RT
• RNA.

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As of December 2010, IMC offers a more rapid H1N1 PCR test in the Integraded Cycler. Extraction takes approximately 30 minutes followed by a runtime of 88 minutes. Reportable results are FluA and H1N1.

This test a and FDA-approved platform designed by Focus Diagnostics.