Hepatitis A Virus IgM Rapid Test - India CDSCO Medical Device Registration

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The reagent is used to detect the hepatitis A virus IgM Antibody in serum/plasma/whole blood qualitatively. Hepatitis A virus (Feces) is a kind of RNA virus, which belongs to the family of Picornavirus. HAV showed a spherical particles shape with 27 nm in diameter, icosahedral symmetry consisted of 32 shell particles, containing linear single-strand RNA. Hepatitis A is a kind of intestinal infectious disease caused by hepatitis A virus (Feces) with a worldwide distribution. Children and adolescents are most likely to be infected, and the peak incidence is in winter and spring. Hepatitis A is the most common type of acute viral hepatitis, mainly spread by fecal-oral route. The incubation period of hepatitis A virus is 15 to 45 days, HAV-IgM antibody can be detected in serum a short time later after infected, continue to rise very rapidly, peaking in about 2 weeks, decreasing gradually, disappear in 8 weeks. While HAV-IgG antibody appear later than IgM and will persistent for a long time. Detection of HAV- IgM antibody can diagnose HAV infection in early stage for its simple, fast, and high specificity. Both the immunological detection and virus nucleic acid detection can be used as the basis for laboratory diagnosis of hepatitis A virus