The cobas?® 4800 System is designed to deliver new standards in laboratory testing efficiency and medically relevant diagnostic information with increased testing throughput. With a throughput of up to 288 HPV tests or 384 CT and NG tests in eight hours, the cobas?® 4800 System is designed to meet the needs of a majority of clinical laboratories. The system combines state-of-the-art sample preparation with Roche's proprietary real-time PCR technology for the amplification and detection of genetic material (deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA) associated with HPV, CT or NG infections. The intuitive, easy-to-use software integrates sample preparation, amplification and detection, and results management.

"Complete automation of DNA testing for HPV and CT/NG has a lot of advantages, such as standardization, reproducibility, lack of contamination, and less hands-on time," said an early evaluator of the system, Dr. Mateos Lindemann, Laboratory Director at the Hospital Ramon y Cajal in Madrid, Spain. "Roche's automated cobas?® 4800 System is very helpful and can be easily integrated in the work flow of laboratories that must perform a high number of routine tests."

SOURCE Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.