HLA Typing Reagents
The Collaborative Transplant Study provides high quality serological and molecular HLA-typing
reagents and kits for antibody testing to study participants at self-cost. These reagents have
been available for many years and we believe that they are an important contributing factor to
the excellent correlation of immunological parameters with graft survival found in the CTS data.
The CTS website contains the current versions of kit manuals as well as updated interpretation
schemes and tables. The manuals are available in PDF-format. To display PDF image format, Adobe's
freely available Acrobat Plug-in or Acrobat Reader Software is required.
Each product can be identified by its 3-digit ordering code (product number).
The CTS-PCR-SSP reagents are CE-labelled in accordance with the requirements of the European Directive 98/79/EC on in vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical devices. The extended validity of this certificate is formally confirmed in the confirmation letter. The Quality Management System is EN ISO 13485 certified.
Molecular HLA Typing Reagents
Reagents for HLA class I and class II typing based on the PCR-SSP method:
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Tray Kits
(Click link for locus-specific kits)
Tray Kits consist of 96-well thin-walled PCR trays. A Mastermix (PCR reaction buffer without Taq polymerase) is provided. Each well contains a different lyophilized PCR primer mix. Simply add DNA, Mastermix and Taq polymerase.
Main Manual for Tray and Minitray Kits #100A MM (PDF)
MSDS for Tray and Minitray Kits #100B (PDF)
Serological Reagents for Antibody Screening
Frozen lymphocyte trays for antibody screening.
Other Products
Further Information
For more detailed information about CTS reagents please contact:
Name:Hien Tran, M.D.
Phone:+49 6221 564005
Email:hien.tran@med.uni-heidelberg.de