The aquaculture and fish industry are facing universal threat from the diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa. It is also realized from the international experience of fish farming that aquaculture intensification is associated with the emergence of various viral diseases at the breeding sites leading to enormous economic losses. Such diseases are posing risk not only for aquaculture but also for wild fish populations. The lack of rapid, accurate, cost effective, and reliable means of fish pathogens detection & identification has been one of the limitations in fish pathogen disease management.

To improve the desired sensitivity, specificity and rapidity of the detection process, the real-time PCR has started playing its role. Moreover, Lumex Instruments ready-to-run microchip kits running on real-time PCR AriaDNA analyzer are designed for rapid, cost-effective, qualitative & quantitative detection of a panel of viral pathogens of fish. This technology has ability to run pathogen testing both in the laboratory and on fish farms. In addition, for reliable results, a set of positive & negative controls for each of the pathogen, internal control (IC) as an internal inhibition monitor that is amplified in parallel with the target RNA are also included in the microchip.