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    Fall 2019

    In this issue:

    • Delaware Public Health Laboratory Biosafety Update
    • May 2019 Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Meeting
    • Rapid HIV 1/2 Testing In Delaware
    • DPHL Drinking Water Section is EPA Certified…
    • The Role of Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health
    • Employee News

    Follow the links below to past issues of the Delaware Public Health Laboratory’s newsletter!

    Spring 2019

    In this issue:

    • Delaware Food Outbreaks 2018
    • Playing in the Sandbox with Agents of Bioterrorism
    • Molecular Virology bids Goodbye to Viral Culture
    • Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network (ARLN) Update
    • Employee News

    Fall 2018

    In this issue:

    • LPAC Spring 2018 Update
    • Biosafety Peer Network
    • Bioterrorism Update
    • Environmental Control Technicians Move to DPHL
    • Tuberculosis Exposure at a Delaware Long Term Care Facility 2017-2018
    • Employee News

    Spring 2018

    In this issue:

    • Newborn Screening Era at DPHL Comes to an End
    • Epidemiology and Laboratory Tabletop Exercise
    • Bioterrorism Update
    • Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network (ARLN) Update
    • Employee News

    Fall 2017 Volume 40

    In this issue:

    • 2016-2017 Influenza Season
    • Which Came First, the Mosquito or the Arbovirus?
    • Carbapenemase Producing Organism Testing Update for August 2017
    • New Analytical Testing Added in the Drinking Water Laboratory
    • Employee News

    Spring 2017 Volume 40

    In this issue:

    • Next Generation DNA Testing
    • Bioterrorism Update
    • Antimicrobial Resistance
    • Antimicrobial Resistance map
    • National Quality Indicators in Newborn screening
    • Employee News

    Spring 2016 Volume 40

    In this issue:

    • Zika Testing
    • Spring LPAC
    • ICPMS
    • Duck Odyssey
    • Governor’s 5K
    • Employee News

    Winter 2016 Volume 40

    In this issue:

    • LPAC Spring 2015 Meeting
    • LPAC Fall 2015 Meeting
    • Delaware Identifies 14th VRSA in U.S.
    • Employee News

    Winter 2015 Volume 39

    In this issue:

    • Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee Meeting 
    • Molecular Diagnosis of Influenza Infection and Live Attenuated Vaccines
    • Hurricane Exercise
    • Preparedness Suites: A Retrospective
    • Employee News

    Summer 2014 Volume 38

    In this issue:

    • Give Us A Reason To Celebrate And We Will!
    • Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee Meeting

    Winter 2013-2014 Volume 38

    • DPHL Demonstrates Excellence in Collaborative Food Testing Methodology
    • Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee Fall 2013 Meeting
    • Emerging Infectious Disease Update: Influenza A/H7N9 (Eurasian Lineage) and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
    • Employee News

    Summer/Fall 2013

    In this issue:

    • Lab week
    • Lab in a Bag
    • ELC-Foodbourne Disease Surveillance Update
    • healthiest Lab Award
    • Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee Meeting
    • Employee News

    Winter 2012-13

    In this issue:

    • Newborn Screening 50th Anniversary
    • New DPH Medical Director
    • Preparedness Update
    • LIMS Electronic Data Messaging

    Fall 2012

    In this issue:

    • DPHL Receives Award
    • Laboratory Preparedness Update
    • STDs in School Based Health C125
    • There was a fox . . . .
    • West Nile Virus in DE

    Spring 2012

    In this issue:

    • Laboratory Preparedness Update
    • Influenza Summary Report
    • Delaware Public Health Laboratory Week

    Winter 2011-2012

    In this issue:

    • New and Improved Trichomonas Testing
    • Operation Loose Package
    • SCID Testing Update
    • Purple Drinking Water
    • Sentinel Laboratory Workshop

    Fall 2011

    In this issue:

    • LPAC meeting
    • New HIV Testing Algorithm
    • LIMS Update
    • Influenza Update 2011-2012

    Summer 2011

    In this issue:

    • Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee
    • Evaluation of Gen-Probe’s APTIMA Method for the Detection of HIV-1 at DPHL
    • DPHL Celebrates National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
    • Intern Report, Employee News

    Winter/Spring 2011

    In this issue:

    • Governor Markell Announces New Drinking Water Initiatives
    • Drinking Water Laboratory Certification as it Relates to Public Health
    • Newborn Screening in Delaware – 2011 View
    • DPH Laboratory Open House, Intern Report, Employee News

    Fall 2010

    In this issue:

    • Molecular Diagnosis of Influenza: Highs and Lows
    • Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID)
    • Environmental Leadership Academy & Laboratory Accreditation
    • Biological Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee
    • Employee News

    Summer 2010

    In this issue:

    • Filter Concentration and Detection of BT Agents
    • Gen-Probe Molecular Test for Early Detection of HIV
    • DPHL Hosts Visitor from Guam
    • Bioterrorism Update
    • Employee News and Intern Update

    Spring 2010

    In this issue:

    • Tuberculosis-Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing at DPHL
    • Bioterrorism Update
    • LPAC Update
    • Detection of Norovirus in Food Matrices
    • National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
    • Employee News

    Winter 2010

    In this issue:

    • Navigating the Changing Tides of Professional Certification
    • Delaware’s Public health Laboratory Implementing Second Tier Testing for Cystic Fibrosis
    • 2010 Training Opportunities
    • New Molecular Testing for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Microbiology Section
    • We Do It for the Babies!
    • Employee News

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