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Fighting the coronavirus pandemic drives you. We are in this fight together.

We are committed to helping drive your efforts to eliminate coronavirus by delivering purposefully built laboratory solutions that may play a key role in helping people return to work, school and the new normal around the world.

We are grateful to the friends and family of Beckman Coulter associates around the world who are on the front-lines during the fight against COVID-19. We thank and celebrate our healthcare heroes.

Resources to help in navigating the SARS-Cov-2 virus crisis

The SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 disease have turned our lives upside down. Watch these videos and access related resources which have been developed to help in understanding, and managing, the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic.
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Additional Resources

Serological tests can play a critical role in the fight against COVID-19 by helping healthcare professionals to identify individuals who have overcome an infection in the past and have developed an immune response. 1
Stephen M. Hahn, M.D.
Commissioner of Food and Drugs
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Serology test can help individuals who have been exposed to COVID-19

Infographic Testing for the coronavirus

The news is full of information about a variety of tests. Some tests diagnose COVID-19; others identify novel coronavirus antibodies in the blood and serum. Here is a quick look at what test to use when and their benefits.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Diagnostic and serology tests are complementary as one is used in infectious patients—mostly those with symptoms (diagnostic)—and one is used to determine immune response (antibody, or serology). The readily available serology tests are lateral flow assays. In general, lateral flow assays are qualitative, single-test assays. Our test is a high-throughput immunoassay laboratory test that can be integrated in an automated workflow, regardless of the size of the laboratory.
Serology tests like the Access SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay can detect if an individual has previously been exposed to the virus—even if they had no symptoms—and if the individual has potentially developed an immune response by creating antibodies to the virus.
The Access SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay is designed as a qualitative immunoassay.
The Access SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay may be run on Access 2, DxI 600, DxI 800, DxC 880i, DxC 860i, DxC 680i, DxC 660i and DxC 600i analyzers.
The purpose of the Access SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay is to determine if a patient was exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and has potentially developed an immune response to SARS-CoV-2. The recommended method to diagnose a COVID-19 infection is a molecular diagnostic PCR test based on the detection of the virus RNA, like the one developed by another Danaher company, Cepheid. Antibody assays play a critical role in:
  • - identifying individuals who previously had COVID-19
  • - tests are acceptable to be used in the manufacture of COVID-19 convalescent plasma
Focusing on a menu that matters, Beckman Coulter also offers emergency use authorized assays for IL-6, SARS-CoV-2 IgM and SARS-CoV-2 IgG II
The principle of the assay is to immobilize the virus antigens using magnetic particles to capture IgG antibodies in patient samples and reveal them using labeled anti-IgG antibodies.
A serum or plasma specimen may be used.
No, the Access SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay is a random-access assay. No batching and no special maintenance is necessary.
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1https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-serological-tests

2Ling Ni, Fang Ye, Meng-Li Cheng, Yu Feng, Yong-Qiang Deng, Hui Zhao, Peng Wei, Jiwan Ge, Mengting Gou, Xiaoli Li, Lin Sun, Tianshu Cao, Pengzhi Wang, Chao Zhou, Rongrong Zhang, Peng Liang, Han Guo, Xinquan Wang, Cheng-Feng Qin, Fang Chen, Chen Dong. “Detection of SARS-CoV-2-specific humoral and cellular immunity in COVID-19 convalescent individuals” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.04.023


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