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Transport Medium for submitting samples is available, on request, from the laboratory.- RNAlater ™
- Avian Influenza Surveillance Medium
- Newcastle Disease Surveillance Medium
Submitting Procedures
Dispatch samples as soon as possible to the Animal Health Laboratory.
Note: RNA is VERY labile. Samples must be dispatched as soon as practicable (within 24 hours).
Test | Sample type | Comments |
Anthrax (b)
(conventional PCR) | Clotted blood, tissue or environmental sample | |
| Avian Influenza / Newcastle disease (a) | Trachea, or other respiratory system, swab and cloacal swabs in virus transport medium (VTM) | VTM can be supplied by AHL |
| Equine Influenza (a) | Nasal, or other respiratory system, swab in virus transport medium (VTM) | VTM can be supplied by AHL |
| Tasmanian Rickettsia-like Organism (RLO) | Liver, kidney, spleen in RNAlater™ | RNAlater™ can be supplied by AHL. |
Tasmanian Aquareovirus (TSRV) | Liver, kidney, spleen in RNAlaterTM | RNAlaterTM can be supplied by AHL. |
Pilchard Orthomyxovirus (POMV)
| Liver, kidney, spleen in RNAlater™
| RNAlater™ can be supplied by AHL |
Ostreid Herpesvirus μ-1 (b) | Whole chilled Pacific oysters or gill and mantle in ethanol | Please contact the AHL prior to submissions |
| Abalone viral ganglioneuritis (b) | Whole chilled abalone or samples containing ganglion in ethanol | Please contact the AHL prior to submission |
| Covert infection prevalence testing (Yersinia ruckeri, Tenacibaculum maritimum, Aeromonas salmonicida) | Samples in enrichment broth | Enrichment broth supplied by AHL with minimum 1 week notice. |
| Mycoplasma direct PCR | Milk | Joint fluid or semen can also be submitted although the testing of these samples falls outside our current scope of accreditation. |
Chytrid
(B. dendrobatidis) PCR | Dry swab of skin | Please contact the AHL prior to submission
|
Please contact the AHL to request virus transport media prior to sampling or when submitting these samples.
(A) - List A notifiable diseases
(B) - List B notifiable diseases (endemic to Australia)
Test
| Sample Type
| Comments
|
African Swine Fever (ASF) (A)
| Blood, serum, tissues e.g. spleen, lymph nodes, tonsils or kidneys
| Exotic disease - please contact the laboratory
|
Classical Swine Fever (CSF) (A)
| Blood and tissues or oro-nasl swabs
| Exotic disease - please contact the laboratory.
|
Bonamia spp.
| Gill and heart tissues
| Please contact the laboratory
|
BVD PCR
| Milk, other tissues
| Please contact the laboratory
|
Chlamydia abortus
| Foetal stomach fluid, abomasal content, joint fluid or placental tissue
| |
Chlamydia psittaci (B)
| Ocular, pharyngeal, nasal or cloacal swabs
or
intestinal excrement
or
tissues from kidney, lung, pericardium, spleen and liver
| Please contact the laboratory
|
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) (A)
| Samples as deemed appropriate by the veterinarian
| Exotic disease - please contact the laboratory
|
Perkinsus spp. (A)
| Gill and mantle tissue or pedal muscle containing gross lesions, if present.
| Please contact the laboratory
|
Leptospira sp.
| Foetal stomach fluid, abomasal content, joint fluid, urine or placental tissue
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