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Please note that the HPA's dedicated Evaluations Unit known as the Microbiological Diagnostics Assessment Service no longer exists. The Health Protection Agency has reconfigured the way it delivers evaluations of diagnostic kits, equipment, and healthcare products relevant to microbiology and all microbiological evaluation services will be delivered through reference or diagnostic laboratories. This website will continue to be available but without updates (after 2009), to provide a record of past evaluation reports.

Please contact the Business Development Manager at HPA Centre for Infections for new enquiries relating to evaluation of microbiological products. For enquiries about past work or general evaluation enquiries please contact midas@hpa.org.uk (this directs to past members of the unit who remain employed at the HPA in other roles).

Evaluation Reports: most recently published
Roche HBsAg II
Automated nucleic acid extraction systems: buyers guide
CMV IgG microplate assays
CMV IgG automated assays
Anti-infective urinary catheters: study protocol ; cost model (external links)
Clostridium difficile toxin detection kits (external link)
VIKIA HIV1/2 rapid test device (BioMerieux)
Three rubella IgG enzyme immunoassays
Four Chlamydia trachomatis NAATs

Peer-reviewed publications

Improvement in the performance of HIV screening assays
Transfusion Medicine 2008, 18 (4): 228 - 240


Page Last Updated: 21 Oct 2009

 

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