$PSID Designed for either outdoor or indoor environments, the M-BAND will operate from - 25 to 125 ºF. The M-BAND utilizes the industry gold-standard real-time PCR with an end-point read and toxin immunoassays which are well-established in the field for optimal specificity and sensitivity. Designed with a high level of operational flexibility, M-BAND can be remotely set to detect for DNA-based pathogens alone, with or without either RNA-based organisms or toxins, or for all three types of pathogens simultaneously at remotely programmable intervals. Air collection rates of 400L/min have been achieved providing 10 mL of concentrated fluidic sample to the detection system. Sample processing time includes: 60 minutes lysis and purification and a thermal cycling rate of 1.2 min/cycle. The typical time for combined sample processing, fluidic handling, and detection is 140 minutes assuming 40 thermal cycles. Toxin analysis time is 40 minutes.