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    <title>Canadian Approval for Xpert MRSA Test and GeneXpertSystem</title>
    <description>The license enables access to the Canadian HAI Market; market expenditures for MRSA surveillance are expected to reach $80 million by 2012.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:39:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>New GeneXpert Simultaneous, Rapid Detection of  Staphylococcus aureus  and MRSA</title>
    <description>The tests are designed to enable simultaneous rapid detection of two leading causes of hospital and CA infections -- directly from blood cultures and soft tissue infection samples.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:41:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Broadlane Sign Group Purchasing Contract for Cepheid&#39;s Molecular Diagnostic Tests</title>
    <description>Broadlane customers can take advantage of Cepheid&#39;s molecular diagnostic instruments, reagents and services for its GeneXpert System and Xpert line of tests, including Xpert MRSA.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:20:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>European Launch of XpertMRSA Test for GeneXpert System for 24/7 Patient Management</title>
    <description>The Xpert MRSA test is designed to rapidly detect MRSA in patients for surveillance programs to aid in the reduction of hospital acquired infections (HAI).</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:56:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Enterovirus Assay Submitted for FDA Clearance</title>
    <description>Cepheid&#39;s Enterovirus assay has been submitted for FDA clearance. </description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Three Biothreat Agents on One Assay</title>
    <description>Cepheid have introduced a real time PCR assay that can detect three biothreat agents automatically from the same unknown sample, the 3-Agent Biothreat assay for the Cepheid GeneXpert System, identifies Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), Yersinia pestis (Bubonic Plague), and Francisella tularensis (Rabbit Fever).  </description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Group B Streptococcus Test Submitted to FDA</title>
    <description>The Xpert GBS test for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) for use on the GeneXpert System has been submitted to the ...</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>SmartBeads Standardise In-House Developed Assays</title>
    <description>At the recent ASM meeting in Atlanta, Cepheid launched their new Customer Specified Reagents (CSR) program. This program expands Cepheid&#39;s ...</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2005 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>MRSA Test Gets FDA Approval</title>
    <description>Cepheid have announced that its collaborative partner, Infectio Diagnostic Inc.(IDI), has received clearance from the US FDA to market its ...</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>US Postal Service Success in Anthrax Testing</title>
    <description> Cepheid have announced that a representative of the United States Postal Service, in an interview with Global Security Newswire, ...</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Cepheid Ships Field-Ready DNA Test Kits for Four Bio-Threat Agents </title>
    <description>Cepheid today announced it delivered to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) field-ready DNA test kits ...</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2002 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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