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AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Agent Detection Assays:
VEE Working Group Teleconference
Meeting Minutes
Thursday, April 7, 2015; 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EST
Attendees
Panel Members
(Present during all or part of the
meeting)
:
AOAC Staff
(Present during all or part of the meeting)
:
Eileen Ostlund, USDA (Chair)
Jeff Ballin, ECBC
Linda Beck, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Ryan Cahall, Censeo Insight
Joan Gebhardt, Naval Medical Research Center
Tom Phillips, MD Department of Agriculture
Ann Powers, CDC
Jon Rayner, SRI
Scott Weaver, U. Texas Medical Branch
Scott Coates
Christopher Dent
Krystyna McIver
Deborah McKenzie
Meeting Minutes
I.
Welcome and Introductions
·
Roll call was taken and all were introduced.
II.
SMPR Development
·
Ostlund explained that although the SMPR has been limited to Venezuelan Equine
Encephalitis the next question is which VEEs? Ostlund distributed a spreadsheet
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containing
more information on the various types of VEE. The table was reviewed and there were no
objections to including VEE-IAB, VEE-IC, and VEE-IE.
·
The group then discussed the inclusion of Mucambo. Beck stated that Mucambo may be so
unique that it would be a separate test altogether. Should Mucambo be included in this
SMPR? Cahall said that he will take this question back to the DUSA-TE team, who is funding
this project, to get clarification on if this is something DoD wants included; however the
group came to consensus that for this SMPR Mucambo would not be included.
·
Coates recommended the other strains on the table be included as part of the Exclusivity
Panel, with the expectation that this SMPr will be specific to VEE-IAB, VEE-IC, and VEE-IE.
The group agreed.
·
The group also agreed on setting the maximum time to result at four hours.
·
Returning to the table in Section 7, the group agreed to an AMIL of 50,000 genome copies
per mL. The POI remained at 0.95.
·
Environmental testing will be done from buffer.
·
For exclusivity, the question remains whether or not to include environmental panel
organisms. DNA will be pooled up to 10 at a time for environmental organisms.
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Attachment 1: VEE Spreadsheet