High throughput COVID PCR testing

[AZpath]

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I am looking at high throughput COVID PCR testing for my lab. Volume 75-200 test per day.
Anyone have a recommendation on which system to purchase?
My considerations
- It would be especially nice if the manufacture is beyond rationing supplies
- HPV testing also
- Cost per test
- ease of use
- refurbished equipment on the market ( optional )

Thanks

 

[bauber]

We just brought up the Cepheid system. Seems to be getting high marks from the available literature comparing tests. Don't think it does HPV, but it does do a bunch of other infectious diseases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32350048

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32332061

 

[Napoleon1801]

Cepheid, Genmark, and Accula all seem to be reasonable choices. Avoid Abbott.

 

[Med Director New England]

I am looking at high throughput COVID PCR testing for my lab. Volume 75-200 test per day.
Anyone have a recommendation on which system to purchase?
My considerations
- It would be especially nice if the manufacture is beyond rationing supplies
- HPV testing also
- Cost per test
- ease of use
- refurbished equipment on the market ( optional )

Thanks

recommend Roche - great company, great instruments with good / knowledgeable support. will also meet your HPV need.

 

[cmz]

What about Hologic Panther? It is a little bulky and seems to have a far superior HPV kit than Roche's. I think the Panther can run 300 tests every 8 hrs.

 

[Allegri]

Just curious, What is the ballpark cost of these ?

 

[AZpath]

Roche Cobas 300k for a new machine I estimate. I can find a used 6800 for 180K.
There are use Cobas 4800 around that will do HPV but I has no COVID testing. Perhap it does insitu for HPV and not PCR

That Panther units are nice beasts. I imagine that they are just as costly.

 

[cmz]

Just curious, What is the ballpark cost of these ?

Hologic Panther = $215K plus reagent cost
Abbott m2000 system = $170K plus reagents

 

[WEBB PINKERTON]

You want to make sure you get a platform that has an HPV test that has been approved for primary cervical cancer screening. Roche does. If HPV screening becomes first line screen you want to make sure you have the right platform.