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12-Nov-07, 07:59 AM
|  | Necker Cube Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: NSW | | |
Does anyone know of any labs in Australia doing Hemagglutination Inhibition titrations for OPMV antigens. This seems to be common practice in the US.
Given the fact that 2 of these tests need to be conducted to provide a useful result the cost of sending samples overseas is prohibitive. |
12-Nov-07, 08:50 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-04 Location: Somewhere near Brisbane | | | | From what I understand you can get the test done in the US or UK but not here.
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12-Nov-07, 09:45 AM
| | Necker Cube Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: NSW | | | | I knew this to be the case just over a year ago, I'm interested to see whether anything has changed. Seem rather stupid to me that there is still no effort to make this available to Australian keepers. |
12-Nov-07, 12:55 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-05 Location: Sunshine Coast, QLD | | | | We are a piddling small market compared to the US and it is still yet to be made readily available over there (it is offered only by a few labs). It will be a loooong time before those test will be run in Australia. |
13-Nov-07, 09:53 AM
| | | | Wasn't there a place in Wa that was going to start doing this?
(i think i may have read about it on another site.) |
13-Nov-07, 11:37 AM
|  | Has Happy Herps.... Sponsor | Join Date: Aug-03 Location: SYDNEY | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chimera  Does anyone know of any labs in Australia doing Hemagglutination Inhibition titrations for OPMV antigens. This seems to be common practice in the US.
Given the fact that 2 of these tests need to be conducted to provide a useful result the cost of sending samples overseas is prohibitive. | It is not the cost of sending samples overseas that is prohibitive, it is the fact that you cannot send over reptile blood samples legally.
Tim Hyndman in WA is conducting research, I am pretty sure he is doing his PHd on it, to be able to develop a test for OPMV. They do have a test they are working on atm, but it is not sensitive and specific enough for a highly conclusive test and more research is needed.
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18-Nov-07, 04:16 PM
|  | Bendy! Sponsor | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane Gender:  | | | | G'day Darren,
I'm not sure whether private keepers are able to send bloods, but when I worked at VS we sent various biological samples to the UK for testing. I am unsure of the permit requirements and legalities of it all, but I'm sure Pete could point you in the right direction. It was fairly costly from memory.
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18-Nov-07, 04:33 PM
|  | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender: | | | | would be great to see these tests become available over here. So much fear in the community surrounding the virus and a conclusive test would put alot of minds to rest.
P.S.Jonno hope you got that money ok, pm me if there were any probs
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18-Nov-07, 04:44 PM
| | Has Happy Herps.... Sponsor | Join Date: Aug-03 Location: SYDNEY | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonno from ERD G'day Darren,
I'm not sure whether private keepers are able to send bloods, but when I worked at VS we sent various biological samples to the UK for testing. I am unsure of the permit requirements and legalities of it all, but I'm sure Pete could point you in the right direction. It was fairly costly from memory. | Hey Jonno,
Yeh, I am sure it would be different for Venom Supplies compared to private keepers. As far as we are concerned you can not send blood samples overseas, I am pretty sure it has something to do with CITES as well.
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