[의학신문·일간보사=오인규 기자] Global Leader in Clinical Chemistry and Immunology ‘Roche Diagnosis’
In 1984, when Roche Diagnostics’ biochemical equipment, Cobas Mira, was released, the brand that was first used, cobas, is still used in the equipment of Roche’s Diagnostic Testing Division to show the efficiency of equipment and the medical value of reagents. have.
COBAS is an abbreviation for Comprehensive biological analyzer system, which means equipment that performs comprehensive biological analysis.
It is not only a device that can comprehensively test immunity, biochemistry, urology, hematology, etc., but also refers to healthcare intelligence that combines medical capabilities with superior technology, connects treatment with data and devices, and connects medical professionals and patients. It is a brand used in diagnostic reagents and IT systems.
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For some brands of cars, information such as the size and version of the car is expressed in numbers, and lowercase letters and three-digit numbers are added to the name of Kovas. What do these password-like letters and numbers mean?
c is the first letter of chemistry, meaning chemistry, is biochemical equipment, e is the initial letter of the Elecsys brand derived from the ECL (ElectroChemiLuminescence) technology introduced into Roche immune equipment. The initial letter is urine chemistry equipment, t stands for thombin, which stands for blood coagulation equipment, and b stands for bloodgas, which stands for blood gas equipment.
Among the three digits, the first number indicates the size of the device, the middle number indicates whether it can be connected to other devices, and the last number indicates the version of the device. Through such intuitive naming, users can easily grasp the characteristics of this equipment just by looking at the letters on the back of the Kovas equipment.
Meanwhile, representative COBAS products include ‘cobas 8000 module analyzer system’, a state-of-the-art clinical chemistry and immune test equipment, and ‘cobas 6800/8800 system’, a recent molecular diagnostic equipment.
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Roche Diagnostics’ cobas 6800 system is a combination medical device consisting of a nucleic acid extraction device and a gene amplification device. From nucleic acid extraction to PCR setting and real-time gene amplification, it is configured to be fully automated, so it can be applied to diagnostics and blood screening tests.
‘Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2’, Korea’s first precision antibody reagent for COVID-19 , e 601, e 602, e 801, large-capacity fully automatic corona 19-flu simultaneous diagnostic test ‘cobas SARS-CoV-2 & Influenza A/B’ is cobas 6800/8800 have.
The Elexis Corona 19 S antibody test is a precision immune antibody test that targets the protrusion protein (spike protein, S protein) of the Corona 19 virus. The S protein is a protrusion-shaped protein covering the surface of the corona 19 virus particle and works by binding to respiratory cells and the like when the Corona 19 virus invades the human body.