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RSS FeedsLung lavage as new test method improves tuberculosis diagnosis in rhinoceros
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12 december 2018 16:24:18

 
Lung lavage as new test method improves tuberculosis diagnosis in rhinoceros
(PHYSorg.com Biology)
 


Diseases and tuberculosis in particular can pose considerable challenges for wildlife. In order to avoid epidemics within populations or to treat individual animals belonging to highly endangered species, fast and reliable tests are paramount. However present tuberculosis testing in rhinos relies on skin tests developed in the 1960s and designed for cattle bearing high risk of false diagnosis in rhinos. To improve diagnostic standards an international team of scientists lead by institutes in Berlin and Jena, Germany, performed repeated lung lavage as a new approach for tuberculosis diagnosis in rhinoceros. Subsequent genetic tests reliably identified mycobacteria in the animals` respiratory fluids - with minimal stress and risk for the rhinos. The study has been published in the journal PLOS ONE.


 
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