What do diagnostic reagents include?

Diagnostic reagents from the general purpose, including in vivo diagnostic reagents and in vitro diagnostic reagents two categories.

Diagnostic reagents are prepared by immunology, microbiology, molecular biology and other principles or methods, and are used in vitro for the diagnosis, detection and epidemiological investigation of human diseases.

Immuno-diagnostic reagents in the diagnostic kit in the most varied, according to the diagnostic categories, can be divided into infectious diseases, endocrine, tumor, drug testing, blood type identification. In addition to diagnostic such as the old tuberculin, brucellosis, tinctoria toxin and other intradermal use of in vivo diagnostic reagents, most of the in vitro diagnostic products.

Expanded Information:

< p>"In vitro diagnostic reagent registration management measures (for trial implementation)" refers to in vitro diagnostic reagents managed as medical devices, including in vitro diagnostic reagents, including can be used alone or in combination with instruments, apparatus, equipment or systems, in the process of prevention, diagnosis of disease, treatment monitoring, prognosis observation, health status evaluation and hereditary disease prediction, for the human body samples (a variety of bodily fluids, cells, tissues) in vitro test reagents, etc. Reagents, kits, calibrators, and quality control products for in vitro testing of human samples (body fluids, cells, tissues, etc.).

With residents' income and health awareness progressing, the technological advances in the in vitro diagnostic industry and the rising number of diseases that can be diagnosed, the scale of China's in vitro diagnostic reagents continues to rise, reaching 33.8 billion yuan in 2016, and rapidly rising to 40 billion yuan in 2017.

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