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A New Approach to Overcome Low Detection Limits. Over millions of years, tick-borne pathogens have adapted to the host in a way that ensures their survival. They evolved and developed strategies to evade and down-regulate the immune response and hide in tissues to avoid being attacked by immune cells, antibodies, complement, and other immune reactive elements. The evolution of those stealth pathogens introduced many challenges to laboratories trying to diagnose infections with tick-borne pathoge...

Clongen Labs received a formal registration from the Department of Health and Human Services as a Blood and other related product processing facility. Since the inception of the company’s Germantown, MD location, we have been operating in compliance with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and by FDA guidelines. All licenses and certifications are listed with a copy of each license under “About Us” on both sites....

Clongen Laboratories added two more tests to the Tick Testing Menu: Francisella tularensis and Colorado Tick Fever Virus (ColtiVirus). We now offer the most comprehensive menu for Tick Testing. Our turnaround time (1-3 days) is intended to alleviate the anxiety a tick bite victim has. We process ticks daily and often release results on the same day or the next morning. We hope you can avoid tick bites this year, as the tick population is estimated to be larger than in previous years due to...

We are pleased to announce that Clongen Laboratories received a Clinical Laboratory License from the State of Rhode Island Department of Health on 4/4/2013. We look forward to serving the residents of Rhode Island and assisting them with Laboratory testing. For questions, please get in touch with Shukria Gizabi at 877-CLONGEN (256-6436)...

Clongen Labs received an out-of-state Clinical Laboratory License from the Pennsylvania Department of Health on 4/10/2013. We look forward to working with Health Care Professionals and patients from Pennsylvania....

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Link to Press Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Clongen Laboratories, LLC is moving to a new location on August 10, 2013. “We are expanding our business. We ultimately decided to move to accommodate the quickly increasing demand for our clinical diagnostics and contract research services,” said Dr. Ahmed Kilani, President of Clongen Laboratories, LLC. The new facility is at 211 Perry Parkway, Suite 6, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Found at the heart of the biotechnol...

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GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Clongen Laboratories, LLC invites visitors to explore its new website and expanded test list. The new website is designed to be user-friendly, allowing customers to easily access the lists of clinical diagnostic services and contract research services provided. Clongen announced eight new test offerings in August 2014 to detect and identify emerging pathogens implicated in severe to fatal cases resulting from tick and other arthropod bi...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Clongen Laboratories, LLC We are pleased to announce the addition of a veterinary diagnostic services division at Clongen Laboratories. Dr. Erica Fratz has spent several months developing the veterinary testing menu, which offers over 100 new assays to identify animal diseases. “As the human population continues to grow, so do the interactions among humans, domesticated animals, and wild animals. Wild animal populations are the p...