The Autobio gonococcus diagnostic kit is a biochemical assay designed for the rapid detection of gonococcus, aiding in the diagnosis of gonorrhea.
Gonorrhea is a serious sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae. At the beginning of adult infection, these bacteria can infect the genital tract, the mouth and the rectum. In women, the opening to the cervix is the first place of infection. However, the disease can be spread into the uterus and fallopian tubes, resulting in pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), and can cause infertility in as many as 10 percent of infected women and tubal (ectopic) pregnancy. Gonorrhea is spread during sexual intercourse. Infected women also can pass gonorrhea to their newborn infants during delivery, which causes eye infections in their babies and eventually leads to blindness.
Many methodologies could be used to test gonorrhea such as culturing method, immunological reactions, PCR, microscopy and biochemical enzyme method. The biochemical enzyme method, due to its advantages of no requirement for additional equipment, rapid and convenient and low price, is more and more favored by medical laboratory staff, being widely utilized in the screening of gonorrhea.
This assay is able to rapidly detect gonococcus, is not dependent upon special equipment, is highly sensitive, convenient and rapid, easy to distinguish the result and is painless to obtain specimens. It is well suited for use in hospitals of all levels, clinics and even individuals. It is especially good for assaying big volume specimens taken from physical examinations.
