Quest Diagnostics.Quest Diagnostics is now offering Digene Corporation's Hybrid Capture II human papillomavirus human papillomavirus (HPV), any of a family of more than 60 viruses that cause various growths, including plantar warts and genital warts, a sexually transmitted disease. Detectable warts can be or removed, usually by chemicals, freezing, or laser, but often recur. test to physicians whose patients have equivocal Pap smear results. LabCorp has announced that it will also be offering this test, under a recent agreement with Digene. Developed from DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. technology, Digene's test has been FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. approved for secondary or confirmatory cervical cancer testing but not for primary screening. |
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