Transport Medium for submitting samples is available, on request, from the laboratory.
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 | Please contact the AHL prior to submission
|
|
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.
 AHL LabFact POMV TSRV RLO PCR (196Kb)
|
Tasmanian Aquareovirus (TSRV)
| Liver, kidney, spleen in RNAlaterTM | RNAlaterTM can be supplied by AHL.
AHL LabFact POMV TSRV RLO PCR (196Kb) |
Pilchard Orthomyxovirus (POMV)
|
Liver, kidney, spleen in RNAlater™
|
RNAlater™ can be supplied by AHL
AHL LabFact POMV TSRV RLO PCR (196Kb) |
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)
Additional tests are carried out at the laboratory but are
not covered by our current scope of accreditation.
Test
| Sample Type
| Comments
|
African Swine Fever (ASF) (A)
|
Blood (EDTA), serum, tissues e.g. spleen, lymph nodes, tonsils or kidneys
|
Exotic disease - please contact the laboratory
|
Classical Swine Fever (CSF) (A)
|
Blood (EDTA) and tissues or oro-nasal swabs
| Exotic disease - please contact the laboratory.
|
Hendra
| Blood (EDTA) or swabs
| 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
|
Flavobacterium psychrophilum
| Swab of lesion in enrichment broth
| Enrichment broth supplied by AHL with minimum of one week's notice
|
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) (A)
|
Samples as deemed appropriate by the veterinarian
| Exotic disease - please contact the laboratory
|
Johne's
| Individual faecal samples in a sterile container which are pooled at the laboratory
| Please contact the laboratory
|
Mycobacterium spp. (not Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex)
| Swab of lesion in enrichment broth
| Enrichment broth supplied by AHL with minimum of one week's notice
|
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
| Please contact the laboratory
|
Wobbly Possum Disease
| Tissues from brain, liver or spleen
| Please contact the laboratory
|