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Fact sheets

Patient and healthcare provider fact sheets for mpox testing

Active infection testing

Mpox Testing Statements

  • This product has not been FDA cleared or approved, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA under an EUA for use by the authorized laboratories;
  • This product has been authorized only for the detection of nucleic acid from mpox virus or other non-variola orthopoxviruses, not for any other viruses or pathogens; and
  • The emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or diagnosis of infection with the mpox virus, including in vitro diagnostics that detect and/or diagnose infection with non-variola Orthopoxvirus, under Section 564(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(b)(1), unless the declaration is terminated or authorization is revoked sooner.