Ready-to-run microchips for identification of cattle pathogens

Identification of pathogens that cause infectious diseases of cattle is essential for correct diagnosis and treatment of infections. Currently used methods are laborious, time consuming, low sensitivity assays that involve manual operations and thus do not achieve accuracy and high throughput requirements of the cattle industry.

The ready-to-run microchips with lyophilized reagents are optimized for use with real-time PCR analyzer AriaDNA offer simple, rapid and accurate determination of pathogens, matching cost effectiveness and throughput requirements of the industry. These ready-to-run microchips just need a dispensing of the test sample DNA into the individual reactors of the microchip thus significantly minimizing human error.

To impart high reliability into the detection, positive and negative control for each of the pathogen of the test kit panel, an internal control (IC) to monitor internal inhibition of the sample is also included in the microchips.