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Novartis to market newly approved Procleix Tigris System in U.S. as the first fully automated system for West Nile virus blood screening

Published in FDA Law Weekly, March 22nd, 2007

Novartis announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Procleix(R) Tigris(R) System, the first fully automated nucleic acid testing system, to screen donated blood, organs and tissue for the West Nile virus.

Developed by Gen-Probe and marketed by Chiron, a Novartis business, the Procleix Tigris System provides blood centers a fully automated platform for Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT), ensuring rapid delivery of virus-screened blood to hospitals and clinics nationwide. The high-throughput Procleix Tigris System allows blood centers to process 1,000 blood samples in under 14 hours, enabling high volume individual donor testing.

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