As the world population continues to grow, great pressure is placed on agriculture to provide an adequate supply of food. This requires not only an increase in food production but also in food safety. Food safety implies keeping the supply chain free of food borne pathogens as well as keeping food animals’ disease free. To ensure this, new technologies are required for rapid pathogen detection and identification. Availability of rapid tests, which can be used at point-of-care (POC) to monitor health status of herds without incurring significant costs associated with specialized central testing laboratories, are required. Rapid diagnosis will ensure that treatment can be initiated in time and that steps can be taken to contain outbreak of disease which otherwise can have severe socio-economic consequences.
Articles focusing on the below topics are welcomed:
- Advances in POC diagnostic assay technologies (review)
- POC diagnostic assays (molecular, immunoassays, others) for specific pathogen/disease/metabolites (original research paper, review)
- Novel methods of sample preparation at POC (original research paper, review)
- Case studies
- New technologies (microscopy, artificial intelligence, imaging, NGS, others) for pathogen/disease state/metabolites detection (original research paper, review)
Dr. Chander is employee of Varigen Biosciences, which is involved in developing enzymes for molecular diagnostic applications as well as actively involved in submitting grants for developing point-of-care assays
Dr. Meeus is employee of Elanco Animal Health, which has interest in commercializing animal health
Products.
As the world population continues to grow, great pressure is placed on agriculture to provide an adequate supply of food. This requires not only an increase in food production but also in food safety. Food safety implies keeping the supply chain free of food borne pathogens as well as keeping food animals’ disease free. To ensure this, new technologies are required for rapid pathogen detection and identification. Availability of rapid tests, which can be used at point-of-care (POC) to monitor health status of herds without incurring significant costs associated with specialized central testing laboratories, are required. Rapid diagnosis will ensure that treatment can be initiated in time and that steps can be taken to contain outbreak of disease which otherwise can have severe socio-economic consequences.
Articles focusing on the below topics are welcomed:
- Advances in POC diagnostic assay technologies (review)
- POC diagnostic assays (molecular, immunoassays, others) for specific pathogen/disease/metabolites (original research paper, review)
- Novel methods of sample preparation at POC (original research paper, review)
- Case studies
- New technologies (microscopy, artificial intelligence, imaging, NGS, others) for pathogen/disease state/metabolites detection (original research paper, review)
Dr. Chander is employee of Varigen Biosciences, which is involved in developing enzymes for molecular diagnostic applications as well as actively involved in submitting grants for developing point-of-care assays
Dr. Meeus is employee of Elanco Animal Health, which has interest in commercializing animal health
Products.