A market report covering tests, instrumentation, and emerging technologies for infectious diseases in the United Kingdom has been published by Research and Markets. The report by the Dublin-based firm features the test volume and sales forecasts for a broad range of diseases conducted in UK hospitals, blood banks, public health labs, and commercial labs between 2010 and 2018. In addition, the report covers 2010 test sales and market share for leading suppliers.

The report features information on manufactures such as Affymetrix, Becton Dickinson, Cepheid, Sequenom, Thermo Fisher, and Wako. Among the diseases and diagnostic tests covered are Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus. Emerging diagnostic technologies explored in the report include molecular diagnostics, monoclonal antibodies, differential light scattering, and flow cytometry.

---John Conroy