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. 2000 Apr 20;16:1–74. doi: 10.1016/S1386-6532(00)00063-9
Sunday (April 25, 1993) Workshop-Discussions
Session I-‘What Should be the Boundaries/Limitations of Testing in the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory’
Joseph L. Waner, Oklahoma Children’s Memorial Hospital, Oklahoma City OK
James C. Overall, Jr., University of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City UT
Thomas F. Smith, Mayo Clinic, Rochester NM
Session II-‘Kit Evaluations: How to Design an Appropriate Study’
Max Chernesky, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;
James Mansour, Becton Dickinson Co., Cockeysville MD
Julius Schachter, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco CA



Day 1 (April 26, 1993) Session I-Clinical Aspects of Viral Diseases
‘Introduction’, Gerald Lancz, University of South Florida
‘Acute Viral Respiratory Infections’
Maurice A. Mufson, Marshall University, Huntington WV
‘Nosocomial Viral Infections’
Ronald Turner, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston SC
‘Significance and Diagnosis of JC/BK Viruses’
Eugene O. Mijor, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
‘Viral Infections in the Day Care Setting’
Larry Pickering, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Norfolk VA
‘Multiple Viral Infections in the Immunocompromised Host:Recognition and Interpretation’ Marie Landry, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut and VA CT Healthcare System, West Haven CT



Day 2 (April 27, 1993) Session II — Diagnosis of Viral Infections
‘PCR in Enterovirus Diagnosis’
Harley Rotbart, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver CO
‘Human Papillomaviruses: To Type or Not’
Keerti Shah, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore MD
‘The Value of and Problems with IgM Detection’
John Stewart, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta GA
‘Defining Viral Serology for the 1990s and Beyond’
Donald Mayo, State Health Laboratory, Hartford CT
Panel Discussion: Regulatory Issues Affecting the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory



Day 3 (April 28, 1993) Session III – Prevention of and Therapy for Viral Infections
‘Antiviral Resistance and Susceptibility Testing: State of the Art
Curt A. Gleaves, Providence Medical Center, Portland OR
‘Lessons Learned from Smallpox Eradication’ Donald Hopkins
‘Global Eradication of Poliomyelitis’
Stanley Lemon, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC
‘Hyperimmune Globulins in the Prevention and Treatment of RSV Infections’
Val Hemming, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Center, Bethesda MD
‘Rotavirus Vaccine: How Soon a Reality?’
Albert Z. Kapikian, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD