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Clinical Laboratory Algorithm
Development and Successes
• Focuses clinical attention
to most serious look-a-likes
• Focuses lab attention to
most serious contenders
• Helps define/remind what
conditions are most
frequently confused with
possible smallpox
• Frames logic for
approaching diagnostics
• Minimizes false positives
• Use of the algorithm in
2002*
Seward et. al. CID 2004
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