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Please note that this product has been discontinued from 18th February, 2011.
CYSTI CheX
CYSTI CheX is a detection kit for neurocysticercosis, a disease prevalent in Latin America and China apart from India. The research for this product was conducted at Astra Research Centre India, Bangalore which was the tropical disease centre for Astra AB, Sweden (Now called Astra Zeneca). Product launched in April 2000. Cysti CheX is a patented product of Astra Zeneca, Dr. B.V. Ravi Kumar, the Managing Director of XCyton, is the inventor.
Unique features of CYSTI CheX:
- CYSTI-CheX is an ELISA kit for the detection of anti cysticercal antibodies in Cerebro Spinal Fluid.
- This is the only kit in the world that uses Excretory-Secretory proteins of Cysticercus cellulosae as antigens, the metabolic product of live Cysticerci maintained invitro. These are the only antigens seen by the human immune system.
- Special tool for Neurologists to distinguish between Neurotuberculosis and Neurocysticercosis
- Diagnosis of Live Cysti cerci
- 100 % specificity and 95 % sensitivity
- Identifies single parenchymal, multiple parenchymal and single ventricular cysts
- No cross reactivity with Mycobacterial antigens / other CNS viruses / or auto-antibodies produced in many tumours
- Clinical evaluations done at NIMHANS Bangalore, AFMC Pune, Army Hospital Delhi.