AEGiS-Reuters: LabCorp to sell HIV drug effectiveness test

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LabCorp to sell HIV drug effectiveness test

Reuters NewMedia, Inc.; Tuesday April 28, 9:54 pm EST

BURLINGTON, N.C., April 28 (Reuters) - Laboratory Corp. of America) Holdings said Tuesday that it has an exclusive partnership with VIRCO, a Belgian-based biotechnology company, to offer blood analysis tests that will tell doctors and their HIV positive patients which drugs are likely to be effective against the individual patient's virus and which are not.

LabCorp said that as of July, it will be offering physicians and patients this tool, called Antivirogram.

According to the company, the tests measure the susceptibility of HIV to all approved anti-retroviral drugs and therefore will help guide the use of multi-drug cocktails for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

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