Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory Information Page

Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory

Contacts
To order tests or for more information:
Lee Borenstein, Ph.D.
(213) 250-8611 voice

Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory provides a genotypic assay using the Visible Genetics kit-based assay.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Assay Name	TRUGENE™ (Visible Genetics)
Collaborators/Distributors	Visible Genetics
Availability	Commercially available for research use only
Regulatory Status	TruGene™ HIV is available for "Investigational Use Only" under an FDA-approved IDE in CLIA certified labs. Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory is a CLIA-approved laboratory.
Proficiency Testing Programs	Content in development.
Clinical Trials	No
Financial Assistance	Approved Provider, California Department of Health, Office of AIDS HIV Resistance Testing Program.

ASSAY INFORMATION

Genotypic	Codons Interrogated		Turnaround time	Sensitivity
TRUGENE™ HIV (Visible Genetics)	RT	PI	7–14 days	1000 copies/mL
TRUGENE™ HIV (Visible Genetics)	40–247	1–99	7–14 days	1000 copies/mL

METHODOLOGY

See Visible Genetics page.

REPORT INFORMATION

Report	Drug Resistance Interpretation
The report is a modified form of the standard Visible Genetics report.	Yes	See Visible Genetics page.