Cepheid Announces Termination of Contract With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Develop Rapid Point of Care Test for Avian...( SUNNYVALE Calif. Sept. 21 /- Ceph...),Health

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced the termination of its contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for development of a rapid point-of-care diagnostic to detect influenza viruses A and B, and the H5N1 "Avian Influenza" virus in human respiratory specimens.

"Based upon our growing success in the clinical market, our financial guidance for 2007 remains unchanged," said John Bishop, Cepheid's Chief Executive Officer. "Total revenues are expected to be in the range of $117 million to $123 million and our net loss, not including the effect of stock compensation expense and the amortization of acquired intangibles for 2007, is expected to remain in the range of $8 million to $11 million or $0.14 to $0.20 per share based on expected weighted average shares outstanding of 55.6 million. The Company is experiencing strong sales growth in the current quarter and continues to expect its operating results to continue to show a trend towards profitability in the second half of 2007 and currently expects to be profitable for the entire year of 2008, excluding stock compensation expense and the amortization of acquired intangibles."

About Cepheid

Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is an on-demand molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets fully-integrated systems for genetic analysis in the clinical, industrial and biothreat markets. The Company's systems enable rapid, sophisticated genetic testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. Cepheid's easy-to-use systems integrate a number of complicated and time-intensive steps, i
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