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Livestock health management

  • US 20070178525A1
  • Filed: 01/27/2006
  • Published: 08/02/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of prophylactic screening of a population of livestock containing subclinical persistently infected animals comprising the steps of:

  • receiving samples obtained from identified individual animals to be screened;

    providing aliquots of the samples;

    combining aliquots of the samples to form pooled samples;

    testing the pooled samples for presence of a pathogen;

    identifying the pooled samples that are pathogen positive, thereby identifying a subset of putative positive samples;

    testing aliquots from the putative positive samples to produce a set of pathogen positive samples, identifying the individual animals that provided the pathogen positive samples, thereby identifying subclinical pathogen positive individual animals within the population of livestock, and reporting the test results about twelve to about twenty-four hours after the samples after receiving the samples.

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