Centrex Receives Los Alamos National Laboratory Response.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers TULSA, Okla.--(BW HealthWire)--Jan. 9, 2002 Centrex, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :CNEX) today announced that it is in discussions with Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National to expand collaborations to develop and prototype the Centrex multi-channel biopathogen device. Centrex owns the exclusive U.S. license to develop, manufacture, and market a system for detecting microbial microbial pertaining to or emanating from a microbe. microbial digestion the breakdown of organic material, especially feedstuffs, by microbial organisms. contamination due to E. coli E. coli: see Escherichia coli. E. coli in full Escherichia coli Species of bacterium that inhabits the stomach and intestines. E. coli can be transmitted by water, milk, food, or flies and other insects. bacteria, developed at Los Alamos by Dr. Alonso Castro. The detection system is adaptable and can be easily tailored to detect a variety of bacterial or viral organisms in real time. The recent Centrex development proposal to Los Alamos is for the further development of the system so that its applications are expanded to detect an assortment of potentially lethal biowarfare or bioterrorism agents. Once a Funds-In Agreement has been executed between Centrex and Los Alamos, work can begin on the prototype. The organisms being considered for detection by the device include the bacteria that causes anthrax anthrax (ăn`thrăks), acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis , typhoid typhoid or typhoid fever Acute infectious disease resembling typhus (and distinguished from it only in the 19th century). Salmonella typhi, usually ingested in food or water, multiplies in the intestinal wall and then enters the bloodstream, causing , cholera, plague, and smallpox virus smallpox virus n. See variola virus. , in addition to several other potential biowarfare organisms. The proposed device is a simultaneous multi-channel detection system that is compact, fully automated and capable of monitoring the presence of biological agents in air and water. Centrex, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation, is a development-stage company organized in 1998 to identify and commercialize proprietary systems for the detection of biological contaminants in food, air and water. For more information, visit the Centrex website at www.centrexcorporation.com or call Heather Kean at 800/477-1805. This press release contains some forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Forward-looking statements in this document should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect our business. Those uncertainties are discussed in the Company's SEC filings. |
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