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Officials from Enfer Diagnostics of Ireland and AnDiaTec announced their partnership to launch, accurate, cost-effective diagnostics to improve the health and well-being of animals across the globe. The announcement comes at the opening of the AVID symposium June 19th, 2007 (Working Group for Veterinary Infection Diagnostics) in Stendal, Germany. This partnership represents a collaboration between international research teams and world-class animal diagnostics experts to deliver the most advanced tests and the most rigorous protocols that global animal disease eradication demands, said Enfer Diagnostics President Cliff Cain. Among the first tests to receive worldwide distribution is the patent-pending BoVir developed by AnDiaTec for the detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV). A state-of-the-art assay with a proprietary lysis buffer, BoVir identifies and differentiates both persistent infection and transient infection, the two types of BVDV infection. Its effectiveness is further validated by European governmental reference labs for its ability to detect all 68 referenced strains of BVDV, including atypical European and American strains, such as HOBI and the H138 strains.

In the beginning of 2007 AnDiaTec acquired the licence for real time PCR-methods from F. Hofmann-La Roche Ltd. The licence refers to all real time PCR-kits for veterinary diagnostics.

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