Background and epidemiology: The identification of the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) has led to the development of serologic and virologic tests for the disease. As of Apr. 30, 2003, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revised their surveillance case definitions for SARS to include laboratory criteria for evidence of infection (see Box [on next page] and Figure).

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High Throughput Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) Using the Automated T-cell Receptor Excision Circle (TREC) in situ Assay R. Haughton, S. Dever, K. Turner, L. Hancock, J. Taylor, Golriz Yazdanpanah, F. Lee; Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services, Richmond, VA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, RTI International, Research Triangl...

Centers of Excellence Center for Advanced Communications (CAC) Dr. Moeness Amin, Director and ECE Professor Dr. Fauzia Ahmad, Research Professor and Director, Radar Imaging Lab Dr. Robert Caverly, ECE Professor Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar, ECE Professor; Director, Antenna Research Laboratory Dr. Bijan G. Mobasseri, ECE Chair and Professor Dr. Sridhar Santhanam, ME Professor Dr. Rosalind Wynne, ECE Associ...

4. Buehler JW, Berkelman RL, Hartley DM, Peters CJ. Syndromic surveillance and bioterrorism-related epidemics. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003;9:1197–204. 5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the absence of SARS-CoV transmission worldwide: guidance for surveillance, clinical and laboratory evaluation, and reporting, version 2; January 21, 2004. [cited 2003 Jun 2]. Available from: http://www...

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A four-year undergraduate curriculum leading to a Bachelor’s degree in Computational Physics is described. The courses, texts, and seminars are researchand Web-rich, and culminate in an Advanced Computational Science Laboratory derived from graduate theses and research from NPACI centers and national laboratories. There are important places for Maple, Java, MathML, MatLab, C and Fortran in the ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to identify process indicators for the three phases of laboratory activity and their corresponding quality specifications in our setting (primary care centers, and second- and third-level hospitals that provide public healthcare services in Catalonia). METHODS Every 2 months, working group members met to present data obtained for quality indicators for the...