We’ve been seeing turnaround of a couple of days really, from the time a suspect patient might come to a doctor’s attention to they can get that initial state LRN laboratory results,” McQuiston said.ĬDC sequencing of the sample from the confirmed case in Massachusetts went “really quickly,” and within 48 hours, researchers were able to see that it closely matched that of a case in Portugal. “From the time that CDC gets a specimen, we could do our monkeypox confirmatory PCR tests likely the same day.
Labs within the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network can test for an orthopox virus, and then confirmation of monkeypox specifically is done at the agency through PCR tests, which take “a couple of hours” to run, she said. McQuiston said the CDC expects to receive samples from the four suspected cases “today or tomorrow” for further analysis.
