
Trax Management Services Inc. announced today the introduction of the PhoenixDx 2019-nCoV to North America, a COVID-19 test kit that recently received an Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA. The PhoenixDx is a real-time Qualitative RT-PCR used to detect the COVID-19 virus in patients, achieving test results in 120 minutes or less. Sometimes called “molecular photocopying,” the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a fast and inexpensive technique used to “amplify” or “copy” small segments of DNA.