DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corgenix Medical Corporation (OTCBB: CONX), a worldwide developer and marketer of diagnostic test kits for important cardiovascular and liver biomarkers as well as innovative products for emerging pathogens and lethal viruses, today announced completion of a major phase of the collaborative effort to combat important viral diseases. The multi-year study, conducted primarily at the Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, is investigating the clinical utility of several diagnostic products developed by Corgenix and other members of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), a collaboration of academic and industry members headed by Tulane University. In this major study, scientists are using Consortium-developed recombinant antigen-based tests to evaluate patients presenting with clinical symptoms of Lassa hemorrhagic fever. Lassa fever is a dangerous, often fatal disease common to much of West Africa and is considered to be a bioterror threat throughout the world.
