Sustainable food production capable of feeding a growing human population is a significant
global challenge, and is a priority encompassed within the United Nations Millennium …

While traditional testing methods are still widely used in veterinary diagnostic laboratories
exciting new technologies, such as biosensors and microarray techniques, are being …

Accurate disease diagnosis in animals is crucial for animal well-being but also for
preventing zoonosis transmission to humans. In particular, livestock diseases may constitute …

An international workshop, held in Wiesbaden, Germany on 15–17 May 2019 provided an
overview of existing and new methods and approaches to diagnostics in animal health and …

Isolated regions of the world are often at the forefront of emerging diseases and, to be
effective in disease prevention and control, they require basic resources for field sample …

Recent decades have witnessed an increase in the demand for pathogen detection and
other diagnostic approaches for wild animal populations as interest has grown in infectious …

4 Animal Frontiers public good provided that it is considered a worldwide issue to be treated
through international cooperation. It remains crucial to tackle production diseases as well as …

Using foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) as an example, this review describes new tools that
can be used to detect and characterise livestock diseases. In recent years, molecular tests …

The application of innovative diagnostic technologies for the detection of animal pathogens
at an early stage is essential in restricting the economic loss incurred due to emerging …

Zoonoses and animal diseases threaten human health and livestock biosecurity and
productivity. Currently, laboratory confirmation of animal disease outbreaks requires …