Infectious diseases affect millions of people every year. Particularly virulent and multi-drug resistant agents are increasingly responsible for infections with ever-expanding complexities. The design, manufacture and validation of assays for these pathogenic agents requires the successful purification of high-quality nucleic acid. This is essential to any molecular research and testing workflow. The nucleic acid purification process can be a bottleneck because sufficient nucleic acid from biological samples is required to meet a sensitivity threshold for assays which are designed to help identify, map or make informed decisions on latent and active infections.

The Sera-Xtracta Virus/Pathogen kit is for research use only (RUO).

Optimize isolation workflows to reduce bottlenecks

To address this bottleneck, our robust extraction chemistry ensures that the total nucleic acid is selectively bound to the superparamagnetic beads, while impurities are efficiently removed during the quick wash steps. The resulting high quality total nucleic acid is then eluted from the bead using a suitable elution buffer of choice. The rapid Sera-Xtracta workflow gives pure, high-quality nucleic acid suitable for sensitive molecular testing.

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The Sera-Xtracta Virus/Pathogen Kit is supported by Cytiva’s expertise in Sera-Mag bead technology. The formulation can be customized and modified to meet your specific requirements. Contact: [email protected] or speak to your modality specialist.

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