{"id":8197,"date":"2020-04-17T09:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:16:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:16:36","slug":"purdue-starts-limited-covid-19-testing-in-diagnostic-lab-goal-to-expand-states-capacity-in-serving-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/purdue-starts-limited-covid-19-testing-in-diagnostic-lab-goal-to-expand-states-capacity-in-serving-patients.php","title":{"rendered":"Purdue starts limited COVID-19 testing in diagnostic lab; goal to expand state\u2019s capacity in serving patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hendrix-testingLO.jpg\" alt=\"Angie Chan is the supervisor of the Molecular Diagnostic Section of the Animal Diagnostic and Disease Laboratory, which performs the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests on samples received in the lab. (John Underwood\/Purdue University photo)\" class=\"wp-image-8198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hendrix-testingLO.jpg 800w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hendrix-testingLO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hendrix-testingLO-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hendrix-testingLO-353x235.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Angie Chan is the supervisor of the Molecular Diagnostic Section of the Animal Diagnostic and Disease Laboratory, which performs the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests on samples received in the lab. (John Underwood\/Purdue University photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Purdue University is continuing to lend expertise and resources to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic through increasing Indiana\u2019s testing capacity for the virus thanks to a partnership with the Indiana State Department of Health and Indiana hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/vet\/addl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/addl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory<\/a><\/a>&nbsp;(ADDL) \u2013 located in Purdue\u2019s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/vet\/\" target=\"_blank\">College of Veterinary Medicine<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 is working with Fort Wayne-based Parkview Health to start conducting COVID-19 tests for human patients. Testing began after the lab received Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments certification to conduct human diagnostic testing, with Parkview agreeing to provide clinical oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full press release at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Purdue starts limited COVID-19 testing in diagnostic lab; goal to expand state\u2019s capacity in serving patients (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2020\/Q2\/purdue-starts-limited-covid-19-testing-in-diagnostic-lab-goal-to-expand-states-capacity-in-serving-patients.html\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue starts limited COVID-19 testing in diagnostic lab; goal to expand state\u2019s capacity in serving patients<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purdue University is continuing to lend expertise and resources to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic through increasing Indiana\u2019s testing capacity for the virus thanks to a partnership with the Indiana State Department of Health and Indiana hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1600,32,17,27],"tags":[1628,26,56],"class_list":["post-8197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19-official","category-diagnostic-laboratories","category-in-the-news","category-services","tag-covid19","tag-featured-story","tag-homepage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8201,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions\/8201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}