Quarantine Headquarters, World's First Lumpy Skin Genetic Differential Diagnosis Technology Commercialized

South Korea's Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency has developed a world-first diagnostic technology for lumpiskin, a new livestock disease. This technology, developed in collaboration with Median Diagnostics, can differentiate between vaccine viruses and vaccine-derived recombinant mutant viruses that cause disease in cattle. It can provide results within 8 hours, compared to the week required for whole genome sequencing. The technology was used during the lumpiskin epidemic last year and will be introduced as a commercial product by the Quarantine Agency next year.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Yun-gu = The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency announced on the 25th that it has developed the world's first lumpiskin genetic differentiation diagnostic technology after the new livestock disease lumpiskin was first introduced to Korea in October of last year. The lumpiskin genetic differentiation diagnostic technology jointly developed by the Quarantine Agency and Median Diagnostics is a technology that can differentiate between vaccine viruses and vaccine-derived recombinant mutant viruses that cause diseases. Using this technology, cattle with vaccine viruses can be kept alive and only cattle infected with pathogenic viruses can be selectively culled. The existing whole genome sequencing method took at least a week to identify genes, making it impossible to apply to quarantine sites that require urgent response. However, using the genetic differentiation diagnostic technology developed by the Quarantine Agency, results can be confirmed ...