New test for bovine tuberculosis

08-06-2017 | |
Photo: Mark Pasveer
Photo: Mark Pasveer
A new test for diagnosing bovine tuberculosis (TB) could prevent costly quarantines and the mass slaughter of infected animals Sciencedaily reports that the Chemistry for Bio medical Applications team at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an assay originally developed for human TB to bovine TB. The assay can detect the disease in blood by recognising the biomarker for the disease, called lipoaribinomannan (LAM). This makes it the first direct, empirical, blood-based, cow-side te


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