AOAC SPADA February 2015 Meeting Book

February 3, 2015 Fitness for Purpose Statements: C. burnetii Fitness for Purpose: Detection of C. burnetii by PCR in liquid samples. Field deployable PCR assay would be desirable. FITNESS FOR PURPOSE - VEE WORKING GROUP Identification of VEEV, and possibly EEEV and WEEV, RNA by assays in liquid samples. The limit of detection must be less than 100 genome copies per reaction. The preferential method would be a field-deployable assay.

SEB Fitness for Purpose: Detection of sub nanogram level SEA-SEC in liquid samples, preferably using field deployable assay in less than four hours.