Ready-to-run microchips for detection and identification of avian pathogens

Viral pathogens cause devastating economic losses in the poultry industry thriving worldwide. This growth of poultry can also facilitate the enhanced transmission of infectious viral pathogens among other birds, and humans. Therefore, an early, accurate, and rapid diagnosis of infectious viral disease in poultry has paramount importance for reducing economic losses and decreasing the risk of zoonotic disease emergence in humans. The management of viral diseases would have a direct impact on improving the health and welfare of poultry, and poultry farmers.

The ready-to-run microchips with lyophilized reagents developed & optimized by Lumex Instruments for real-time PCR analyzer AriaDNA offer simple, rapid and accurate determination of pathogens, matching cost-effectiveness and throughput requirements of the industry. The microchips just need addition of the test sample RNA into the individual reactors of the microchip thus significantly minimizing human error. To impart high reliability into the detection & identification, a set of positive and negative controls for each pathogen of the test kit panel, and internal control (IC) to monitor internal inhibition of the sample are included in the microchips.