Since May 2022, more than 30 countries have announced confirmed cases of monkeypox, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Spain and Brazil, none of which is the origin of the monkeypox virus.
Because of this monkeypox outbreak, Hunan Runmei has received more and more requests from around the world for PCR testing products to detect the virus.
Runmei Gene is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to "gene test product development and traction of big health big data service platform" initiated by a team of doctors with backgrounds of studying and working at famous universities and research institutes at home and abroad.
Hunan Runmei Gene offers RealStar® Orthopox Virus PCR Kit 1.0, a reagent detection system based on real-time PCR technology for the detection of orthopoxvirus species-specific DNA, including DNA from Central and West African monkeypox virus strains .
At present, Hunan Runmei Gene's products are sold all over the world, and this PCR detection kit is being provided to major public health institutions around the world.
"With the current transmission rate of monkeypox virus, we expect that the demand for monkeypox virus PCR detection kits around the world will increase significantly. Therefore, our company is currently expanding its production capacity to meet the increasing demand of public health facilities and laboratories, and provide a sufficient number of PCR detection kits to detect monkeypox virus DNA.", Said Dr. Gong, general manager of Hunan Runmei gene company.
All RealStar® PCR kits produced by Hunan Runmei Gene consist of master reagents, positive controls and internal controls. They are manufactured according to GMP guidelines and can be used in a variety of different models of real-time PCR instruments.
Hunan Runmei Gene has developed molecular diagnostic test systems during previous global health crises and is making them available soon. During the several years of African Swine Flu (H1N1), MERS-CoV, Zaire Ebola, Zika, and Covid19 outbreaks, Hunan Runmei's PCR test has been the earliest available and most widely used test in the world one of the methods.
