Takara Bio: Classical swine fever and African swine fever testing: reduced to 2 hours
-The time required is “one-third” of the conventional one-
National Institute of Animal Health, Animal Health Research Division
Takara Bio, a major reagent manufacturer
We have developed a new method that simplifies the genetic testing of classical swine fever and African swine fever and reduces the time required to two hours, which is one-third of the conventional time.
Classical swine fever and African swine fever testing:
Both diseases, which were previously judged separately, can be detected at the same time, and the test accuracy is equal to or better than the conventional method.
Use it for quick judgment and early epidemic prevention measures.
Simultaneous identification of multiple target genes:
The new method does not require the work of extracting DNA from the sample, greatly simplifying the process.
Multiple target genes can be identified at the same time.
It is said that this technology is the first in the world to use this technology for testing classical swine fever and African swine fever.
Takara Bio released:
November 1st Takara Bio has released reagents for new methods.
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries:
Revised the guidelines for the prevention of epidemics of specific livestock infectious diseases on October 1.
A new method can be used to determine classical swine fever and African swine fever.
Japan Agricultural News
https://www.agrinews.co.jp/news/index/35781
NIAH:Development of a new genetic test method that enables simultaneous diagnosis of classical swine fever and African swine fever
-Contributes to the early epidemic prevention measures by easy and rapid detection-
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)
Takara Bio Inc.have jointly developed a real-time PCR method that can easily and simultaneously detect the genes of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) and African swine fever virus (ASFV) without purifying the viral nucleic acid from the sample.
This test method
enables us to detect and differentiate both classical swine fever (CSF) and African swine fever (ASF) within two hours, which generally requires 6 hours for each test.Hence,
this test method is expected to be useful for rapid detection of both CSF and ASF to allow early implementation of preventive measures against the diseases.
https://www.naro.go.jp/english/laboratory/niah/press/csfasf/index.html