The University of Arizona’s Professor Don Lightner is on the brink of launching a solution for detecting bacteria which causes Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS) in stocks, allowing infected populations to be separated from healthy ones.
Lightner and assistant staff scientist Linda Nunan created a rapid diagnostic test capable of detecting the genetic differences between the pathogenic and non-pathogenic versions of the common marine bacterium, Vibrio parahaemolyuticus, which causes the disease.
This method will enable specific detection of affected shrimp, currently only identified through the use of histology, which is time consuming and expensive.
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