Hantavirus Diagnostics

PROGEN provides single-well ELISA for detection of IgG- and IgM-antibodies against Hantavirus Puumala, Dobrava and Hantaan serotypes in human serum.

• Beneficial single break-apart 8-well microtiter strip format for economical use
• High specificity and sensitivity when evaluated with human sera of Hantavirus infected patients from Asia, Scandinavia, Germany as well as Southern Europe
• Utilizes well-defined highly purified recombinant antigens from hantavirus immunodominant nucleocapsid regions
• Incubation for 45 min / 45 min at 37°C and 10 min at RT
• Rheumatoid factor IgG absorbent included
• Ready-to-use positive, negative and reference controls
• Buffer, stop solution and TMB substrate interchangeable between Puumala IgG/ IgM ELISA and Dobrava/ Hantaan IgG/ IgM ELISA
• Long shelf-life and high stability of reagents
• Automated processing possible
• Absorbance read out at 450 nm
• Reagents sufficient for 96 IgG or 96 IgM determinations or any combination up to 96 tests
• Validated against an indirect immunofluorescence reference method for the detection of antibodies against Puumala serotype, Dobrava/ Hantaan serotype and Seoul Virus.
• The IF tests consist of slides covered with Hantavirus serotype-infected VeroE6 cells and non-infected cells