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Article: Trichinosis test in trials.
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- Science News
- Article date:
- January 10, 1987
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Trichinosis test in trials
Field trials are being conducted on an assay for trichinosis inpork, which may someday be used to screen for the approximately 90,000 hogs slaughtered each year in the United States that carry the parasite. The test kit--developed by Idetek, Inc., of San Bruno, Calif., and based on work done at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md.--uses an antigen-antibody reaction.
Zoologist H. Ray Gamble of the Beltsville lab says the test canbe performed without complicated laboratory equipment and is 95 percent accurate. Blood samples from the ...