AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays
Q-Fever Working Group Teleconference
Meeting Minutes
Friday, March 6, 2015; 11:00 a.m. ET
Attendees
Panel Members
(Present during all or part of the
meeting)
:
AOAC Staff
(Present during all or part of the meeting)
:
James Samuel, Texas A&M (Chair)
Christina Egan, NYSDOH
Jeff Ballin, ECBC
Linda Beck, Naval Surface Warface Center
Ryan Cahall, Censeo Insight
Joan Gebhardt, NMRC
Ted Hadfield, Hadeco., LLC
Katalin Kiss, ATCC
John Lednicky, University of Florida
Kris Roth, FDA
Scott Coates
Christopher Dent
Krystyna McIver
Meeting Minutes
I.
Welcome and Introductions
All were introduced and roll call was taken at 11:00 a.m. ET. Samuel asked AOAC to ensure that
Cato and Massung are available for the next conference call.
II.
Review of February Meeting
Coates reviewed the Fitness for Purpose statement for this working group as well as the draft SMPR.
Minor editorial changes to the SMPR were made in real time.
III.
SMPR Development
Maximum time to result was discussed – is four hours appropriate? ACTION for AOAC to check
earlier SMPRs for the maximum time to result.
With regards to inclusivity panels, Samuel stated that phylogenetic diversity is the basis for the
isolates he would choose and he recommended six (6) different isolate groups. Kiss asked if the
recent Netherlands strain be covered by the six and Samuel said that it would. Samuel identified the
Inclusivity groups as follows:
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Group 1: Nine Mile (RSA493 and RSA439)
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Group 2: Henzerling
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Group 3: Idaho Goat
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Group 4: K