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New Technique Joins The Fight Against Footrot, Laurie Depiazzi, Mike Palmer, David Pitman
New Technique Joins The Fight Against Footrot, Laurie Depiazzi, Mike Palmer, David Pitman
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The diagnosis of footrot in sheep and goats is not an easy task. Two main techniques are used for diagnosis - inspection of diseased feet on a farm and laboratory testing of bacteria isolated from foot scrapings. The interpretation of the results obtained by these methods requires a good understanding of the various forms of footrot.
A new laboratory technique has halved the time taken to detect those strains of the bacterium, Bacteroides (Dichelobacter) nodosus, that cause each form of the disease.