August 30, 2016 SPADA Meeting Book

Environmental Detection: Additional Considerations to Clinical Diagnostics

 How to verify authentic agent?  Sufficient versus necessary  Culture?  Nucleic acid tests • How much of the genome?

 How to verify infectious risk?  Absent a clinically ill human, what is sufficient, what is necessary?  How and where to evaluate/validate  WHO considerations what is sufficient, necessary to have a public safety/health actionable assay result;  What should that action be?

Discussion?