Ian Marsh works at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute (EMAI, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries). This is the NSW Centre for Animal and Plant Biosecurity that undertakes plant and animal research and diagnostics.
New Zealand: Bee Virus
The design of new qPCR assays for trypanosomes and the use of existing primers together with our use of high resolution melting have confirmed the presence of both Lotmaria passim and several strains of the Lake Sinai Virus group in New Zealand.
Australia and Europe: Crop Disease Management
“From leaf samples using MIC, you can determine the genetic makeup of the pathogen population, determining not only the presence of genetic mutations that might affect fungicide performance but also the frequency of the population with that mutation”.
Vietnam: Taenia spp. Detection
This study describes the development and validation of a new triplex Taq-Man probe-based qPCR for the detection and discrimination of all three Taenia human tapeworms in human stools.
