Maternal Screening is available to all women in the state through the Iowa Maternal Prenatal Screening Program.
More than 9,000 Iowa children were tested for exposure to lead this year.
Many of the food-borne and water-borne pathogens that were in the news last year were part of Hygienic Laboratory testing. Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora parasites, Salmonella, E.coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes were some of the headliners during fiscal year 2015.
It now is quicker and more efficient to analyze bacterial isola tes because of the work this year by the Microbiology team and its partners.
The Iowa Newborn Screening Program added to its screening panel the first condition to directly use a DNA target as the marker for the disorder, and it is also the first condition for which a cure is available.
Approximately 50 different assays are currently performed in the Serology section.
What illnesses are circulating in Iowa? The Molecular Diagnostics and Virology section tracks – with its public health partners – the incidence and location of many infectious diseases and viruses, including viral respiratory diseases, sexually transmitted diseases and arbovirus.