Huntsville biological testing company Diatherix has announced a new test for the COVID-19 infection that offers one-day results. The company has already begun accepting test samples.

“We get the specimen, we will report it out that afternoon,” Diatherix laboratory director Dr. Jeff Wisotzkey said. The company is based at Huntsville’s HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.

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“Specimens we get this morning we’ll know this afternoon for the majority of them,” Wisotzkey, said.

Huntsville Hospital CEO David Spillers said yesterday that his facility has been getting next-day results from the state health laboratory in Montgomery and using a courier to get the tests to the state laboratory as quickly as possible.

“They can use us, and they are a client already set up,” Wisotzkey, said today of the city hospital. “We are available for them to send us testing, and we have been in contact with them.”

Diatherix Eurofins is a large, international testing company, and HudsonAlpha said today that the tests will be available through other U.S. Eurofins clinical laboratories including Boston Heart Diagnostics, Viarcor and EGL Genetics.

“Specifically, Diatherix has developed the new COVID-19 Panel which includes the SARS-CoV-2 virus along with five bacterial pathogens which are known to be more prevalent and relevant to the severity of complications in both upper and lower respiratory tract infections,” the HudsonAlpha release said. “Further, to simplify collection for healthcare practitioners, Diatherix is ready to receive respiratory specimens, such as nasopharyngeal specimen collection methods and sputum specimen swabs.”

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