On the 4th, Roche Diagnostics Korea announced that it had introduced PCR diagnostics kits for the detection of the monkeypox virus in Korea.

The three kits that were introduced to Korea this time -▲ LightMix Modular Orthopox Virus, ▲ LightMix Modular Monkeypox Virus, and ▲ LightMix Modular Orthopox Virus typing1- were developed by Roche and its subsidiary TIB Molbiol in May this year.

The first kit detects all forms of orthopoxviruses. The second kit, LightMix Modular Monkeypox Virus, targets and diagnoses all monkeypox viruses, and the third kit, LightMix Modular Orthopox Virus typing1, checks whether the subject has the monkeypox virus while detecting orthopoxviruses. All three test