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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?