Description

A novel phagomagnetic separation-qPCR assay for viable Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) has been developed at Queen’s University Belfast over the past 2 years. In her webinar, Prof Grant will detail how the test works and demonstrate its potential as a milk surveillance tool or for faecal testing.  Results of bulk tank milk and individual milk testing on Northern Ireland dairy farms will be presented. and the performance of the new phage-based diagnostic test relative to milk-ELISA, the test currently employed to screen bulk tank milks or milk from individual animals for evidence of MAP infection,  will  be discussed.