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The continued spread of H1N1 influenza virus this spring is cause to pay heed to upper-respiratory maladies such as congestion, runny nose and cough, says David Kimberlin, MD, a preeminent influenza specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

IVAX Diagnostics Inc, a fully integrated global in vitro diagnostics company, announced that its subsidiary, Diamedix Corp, has entered into a three-year OEM agreement with SCIMEDX Corp to market and sell SCIMEDX’s products, on a worldwide basis, under the Diamedix brand.

Once considered a hospital anomaly, community-acquired infections with drug-resistant strains of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus now turn up regularly among children hospitalized in the intensive-care unit, according to research from the Johns Hopkins Childrens Center.

bioMerieux has announced the launch of the first FDA cleared chromID VRE, a simple and cost-effective solution in the struggle against vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE).