Rotavirus screen

Test code: S0130 - Ultrasensitive qualitative detection but not differentiation of many common strains of rotavirus by reverse transcription coupled real time PCR.

Utilities:

• Help confirm the disease causing agent
• Shorten the time required to confirm a clinical diagnosis of rotavirus
• Help ensure that equine facilities are free of rotaviruses
• Early prevention of spread of rotaviruses among a facility
• Minimize human exposure to rotaviruses
• Safety monitoring of biological products that derive from susceptible animals

Specimen requirements:  0.2 ml feces or rectal swab.

Contact Zoologix if advice is needed to determine an appropriate specimen type for a specific diagnostic application. For specimen types not listed here, please contact Zoologix to confirm specimen acceptability and shipping instructions.

For all specimen types, if there will be a delay in shipping, or during very warm weather, refrigerate specimens until shipped and ship with a cold pack unless more stringent shipping requirements are specified. Frozen specimens should be shipped so as to remain frozen in transit. See shipping instructions for more information.

Turnaround time: 2 business days

Methodology: Qualitative reverse transcription coupled real time polymerase chain reaction

Normal range: Nondetected