The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Public Health Laboratories initiated the Laboratory Efficiencies Initiative in 2011 to help address issues related to public health laboratory (PHL) capacity to perform critically needed tests and services. One approach to improving capacity and efficiency is sharing PHL services with other states or jurisdictions. Cross-juri...

A complex of more than ten laboratory tasks was developed complementary to lectures and seminars for teaching of principles of solar cells and their applications. The laboratory covers topics of basic characteristics, materials and types of solar cells as well as of characterization methods and applications in solar energy conversion and can be extended to research aspects. Students with differ...

The accuracy of antimicrobial susceptibility tests is a crucial step for the clinical management of patients with serious infections. They must be reliable and precise because they will guide antimicrobial therapy. Our main objective was to compare the results of susceptibility testing performed by the SENTRY coordinator laboratory with those reported by the participating Latin American medical...

Teresa C. T. Peret, Guy Boivin, Yan Li, Michel Couillard, Charles Humphrey, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus, Dean D. Erdman, and Larry J. Anderson Respiratory Virus Section, Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch, and Infectious Disease Pathology Activity, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia;...

There is no doubt that the laboratory is the backbone for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). Only through testing in the laboratory can the physician confirm suspicion of TB despite any previous clinical and x-ray findings. Recent visits to several laboratories in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia showed that some need considerable improvement. Unless there are standardized procedures to diagnose TB...

Amy Kronenberg, Sc.D., Co-Chair, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mary Schubauer-Berigan, Ph.D., Co-Chair, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Martin Colman, M.D., The University of Texas Medical Branch Sarah Darby, Ph.D., University of Oxford Ethel Gilbert, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute Geoffrey Howe, Ph.D., Columbia University Irene Jones, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore N...

(1) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory, Dept. 3354, 1000 E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, United States of America (2) Present address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCID/DVRD/Special Pathogens Branch, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Building 15-SB, Mailstop G14, Atlanta, GA 30333, Uni...

Seven hundred twenty-three isolates of Moraxella catarrhalis obtained from outpatients with a variety of infections in 30 medical centers in the United States between 1 November 1994 and 30 April 1995 were characterized in a central laboratory. The overall rate of beta-lactamase production was 95.3%. When the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards MIC interpretive breakpoints for ...

The Real Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) for the North Atlantic is an ocean forecast system based on the HYbrid coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). HYCOM is the result of a collaborative effort between the University of Miami, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), as part of a multi-institutional HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling ...

BACKGROUND Prompt identification and treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in patients with psoriasis is critical to reducing the risk of joint damage, disability, and comorbidities. OBJECTIVE We sought to estimate PsA prevalence in patients with plaque psoriasis in 34 dermatology centers in 7 European and North American countries. METHODS Consecutive patients were evaluated by dermatologi...