Respiratory Virus PCR Panel in Linden, NJ

If you are suffering with a respiratory illness, flu symptoms or another viral issue you may want to consider getting our respiratory virus PCR panel done for you. This panel can help to identify which virus or viruses are causing your illness so that you can take the right steps in fighting it off. This is a potentially lifesaving test for those who are immunocompromised because of medical conditions or age. Even for those who are otherwise healthy, however, this panel can help you recover more quickly than would otherwise be possible. When you come to our laboratory here in Linden, NJ we will run a full respiratory virus PCR panel that checks for a wide range of different viruses. The test is analyzed right away and the results can be passed on to you and/or your doctors so that you can come up with the right treatment plan. Confirming a viral problem, for example, can make sure your doctors don’t prescribe an inappropriate antibiotic therapy that won’t help you get better. It can also allow them to prescribe virus-specific treatment methods that are proven to be extraordinarily effective.

What we Test For

When you come to our Linden, NJ laboratory for a respiratory virus PCR panel we will look for many different viruses that can cause your symptoms. The following are some of the different viruses we test for using this panel:

• Adenovirus B/E
• Adenovirus C
• Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV)
• Human Rhinovirus (HRV)
• Influenza A
• Influenza A 2009 H1N1 *AKA Swine Flu
• Influenza A H1
• Influenza A H3
• Influenza B
• Parainfluenza Virus (PIV) 1
• Parainfluenza Virus (PIV) 2
• Parainfluenza Virus (PIV) 3
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) A
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) B

Many of these viruses will sound familiar to most people, but even if you’ve never heard of any of them it is easy to see that there are a lot of potential causes to your illness. Rather than just resting and trying to get better on your own, why not get the very specific information you need to get a custom treatment plan based on what is actually wrong? Many of our patients have used the data provided in our respiratory virus PCR panel to get the right treatment options and recovered much more quickly than expected.

Contact Us for a Test

If you have any questions about our respiratory virus PCR panel or you would like to come in to have the test done, please give us a call. Our laboratory is located in Linden, NJ and we are more than happy to get you in as quickly as possible for your test. The test itself doesn’t take very long at all and it is painless so there is nothing to worry about. You can come in, have the test completed and return home while we analyze the results right here in our lab. Once we’re finished we will let you know and send the results to you and/or your doctor right away.