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Developing a Test to Detect PED Virus Antibodies
2013-09-30 19:25:00| National Hog Farmer
By John Johnson, DVM, Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory The first diagnosis of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus in the United States was confirmed in Iowa in mid-May 2013 by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) at Ames. The two tests to diagnose active infections (disease) that became immediately available were polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and immunohistochemistry (IHC). The next step was to develop a diagnostic test that could detect antibodies to PED virus to determine if pigs were previously infected with this virus. read more
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