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Powassan Virus Testing, IgG/IgM with Confirmation by Coppe Laboratories

Coppe Laboratories March 9, 2022

Confirmation of Powassan Virus (POWV) can be determined through Coppe Laboratories’ IgG/IgM Powassan Virus Testing. It is the only commercially available Powassan Virus test on the market today. While the CDC and a few state laboratories provide Powassan IgM testing, Coppe Laboratories’ IgG/IgM testing is available to healthcare providers looking for answers when suspected past tick involvement causes neurologic disability and sometimes permanent cognitive impairment.

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Tagged: chronic neurologic disability, commercially available Powassan Virus test, Confirmation of Powassan Virus, Deer Tick Virus, neuroinvasive disease, neurologic disability, permanent cognitive impairment, Powassan Virus Testing

Approved Waiver No Longer Required For New York Physicians

Coppe Laboratories July 6, 2021

In December of 2020, Coppe Laboratories was granted a license by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) to offer Powassan Virus (POWV) and West Nile Virus (WNV) antibody testing as well as Immunohistochemistry (IHC) for HHV-6.

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Tagged: HHV-6 IHC, HHV-6 IHC testing, Immunohistochemistry, Powassan virus, POWV, West Nile Virus, WNV

TRAc-6: Testing for HHV-6 in Infertility

Coppe Laboratories April 6, 2018

For the last four years, Coppe Laboratories’ mission has been to ensure all patients have access to clinically-relevant diagnostic testing that allows patients and physicians to make the most informed treatment decisions. Groundbreaking research and development is what has made Coppe Laboratories a leading provider of diagnostic tests with diverse applications.

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Coppe Laboratories Offers Testing for Viral Infections Recently Implicated in Women’s Health Complications

Coppe Laboratories February 6, 2018

Waukesha, Wisconsin — Recent studies highlighted in The Scientist, News Medical and DoctorsLounge have implicated an understudied and underappreciated family of viruses as playing a potential role in women’s health complications. During the 2015 outbreak of Zika virus infections in Brazil, it was discovered that Zika virus infection during pregnancy places the fetus at risk of developing neurologic birth defects. This new study suggests that Zika may not be the only virus capable of causing abnormalities in babies born to…

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Coppe Labs Reports Powassan Virus in Deer Ticks Across the State of Wisconsin

Coppe Laboratories June 1, 2017

A new research study conducted by Coppe Laboratories indicates ticks are carrying both Lyme and Powassan simultaneously.

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Tagged: Lyme Disease, Powassan virus, Ticks

Coppe Labs Offers the Only Commercially Available Test for Powassan Virus

Coppe Laboratories May 31, 2017

Concern over Powassan virus is rapidly expanding across many U.S states, and for good reason: Powassan virus is carried by the same ticks that transmit the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

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Tagged: Disease, Lyme, Lyme Disease, Lyme symptoms, Powassan, Powassan virus, Symptoms of Lyme disease, Tick borne, Ticks

The serious risks of Powassan Virus

Coppe Laboratories March 15, 2017

Here is yet another article that discusses the serious risks of Powassan Virus, Beyond Lyme: New Tick-Borne Diseases On The Rise In U.S. Coppe Laboratories performs both direct (PCR) and indirect (serology) testing for POWV. A blood test is all that is required. Test results are available within 14 days. Learn more Getting the best treatment possible often depends upon determining the type of infection and reporting those results in a timely fashion. Better testing leads to better treatment choices…

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Tagged: Powassan virus

Ticks transmit more than just Lyme disease

Coppe Laboratories February 20, 2017

Ticks transmit more than just Lyme disease. This was evidenced again by a recent news story depicting the difficult journey of recovery for former North Carolina senator Kay Hagan after she contracted Powassan encephalitis from a tick bite. Serious neurologic complications of Powassan Virus infection include headache, confusion, memory loss, disorientation and sometimes even death. Coppe Laboratories is the only commercial reference lab in the US that provides testing for Powassan virus (POWV). Tick studies suggest that POWV is on…

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Study Shows Tick Expansion in US

Coppe Laboratories October 19, 2016

In an article published in the Journal of Entomology, authors looked at the incidence of blacklegged ticks across counties in the US and compared the number in 2015 with those previously reported in 1998. According to the authors, there is a 44.7% increase in the number of counties with ticks in 2015 over the number reported in 1998. The majority of the changes occurred in the Northeastern and North Central United States. This study is important because it shows the…

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Tagged: black, Ixodes ticks

Powassan Guide Available

Coppe Laboratories August 15, 2016

The Powassan Guide is a monograph published by Coppe Laboratories that provides information on another tick-borne pathogen, the Powassan virus. This virus belongs to the same virus family as Zika and West Nile, but unlike those, it is transmitted by a tick and not a mosquito. Recent news articles have alerted the public to the increased incidence of the Powassan virus. Because symptoms related to infection with this virus are similar to a number of tick-borne diseases, including Lyme, it…

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Tagged: Powassan Guide, Zika