Cobas Liat Point-of-Care Testing

The Cobas Liat system brings PCR-quality molecular testing to the point of care, delivering lab-accurate results in minutes rather than the hours or days a send-out reference lab requires. For urgent care clinics, physician offices, emergency departments, and pharmacies, that speed changes how quickly a clinician can confirm a diagnosis and start the right treatment while the patient is still in the room.

Built around Roche's Liat (Lab-in-a-Tube) technology, the platform automates the entire molecular workflow inside a single sealed tube. A staff member adds the patient sample, loads the tube, and scans the barcode — the analyzer handles nucleic acid extraction, amplification, and detection with no manual pipetting or reagent prep. That closed design keeps contamination risk low and makes the system CLIA-waived for its common respiratory assays, so it can run in settings without dedicated laboratory personnel.

Clinicians most often turn to Cobas Liat for rapid detection of influenza A/B, RSV, SARS-CoV-2, and Group A Streptococcus. Because results arrive in roughly 20 minutes with sensitivity comparable to central-lab PCR, providers can distinguish viral from bacterial infection with confidence, support appropriate antibiotic and antiviral stewardship, and reduce unnecessary follow-up visits.

This collection gathers the consumables and accessories that keep a Cobas Liat program running dependably — the test tubes, supplies, and components your team relies on between patients. Buyers evaluating a purchase typically weigh throughput per hour, the menu of available assays, ease of staff training, and per-test consumable cost against the value of faster clinical decisions.

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