T HIS study was designed to test the systematic studies of the effect of efficiency and practicality of ultra-ultra-violet irradiation of military barviolet irradiation as a method of racks has not heretofore been reported. reducing the spread of respiratory Such semi-isolated military cominfection in Navy barracks. In a more munities offer advantages for controlled general sense it was also hoped that a epidemiological studies which are not controlled study of this type on a large to be found in most civilian groups. The scale might give information on the population under observation can be amount of irradiation required for effec-very large, yet at the same time accurate tive control and the differential effect figures are available as to its precise exerted on various diseases of viral and strength from day to day. Also, in such bacterial origin. controlled populations all illnesses from While considerable information is the dispensary visits for minor comnow available as to the effect of ultra-plaints to more serious cases requiring violet light in reducing cross-infections hospitalization are known and classified in hospital wards, curtailing the inci-by the medical officers of the unit, and dence of epidemic respiratory diseases complete data on respiratory morbidity in schoolrooms and sterilizing the air in the study population can be recorded about the patient in operating rooms, and analyzed. Finally, the nature of _________ such semi-enclosed recruit communities

Evidence that serious disease may result from infection with streptococci other than those of Lancefield Group A is accumulating. Lancefield (1940-41) has

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Point of care molecular diagnostics benefits from a portable battery-operated device capable of performing a fast turnaround using reliable inexpensive cartridges. We describe a prototype device for performing a molecular diagnostics test for clinical and biodefense samples in 16 minutes using a prototype capable of an 8 minute PCR reaction, followed by hybridization and detection on an electrochemical microarray based on the i-STAT® system. We used human buccal swabs for hemochromatosis testing including in-device DNA extraction. Additional clinical and biodefense samples included influenza A and bacterial select agents Bacillus anthracis, Yersinia pestis and Francisella tularensis.