Biokey--professional portable qPCR analyzer had attracted great attention in AACC 2023
2023-08-08
AACC is about to rename ADLM
The association is pleased to report that when final votes were tabulated, the motion was carried. More than 500 members registered to vote on this historic decision and the name change motion passed decisively, with more than a two-thirds majority voting to approve AACC becoming the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM).
The name change makes a bold and public statement, but as mentioned above, it does not represent a change of direction for the organization. Instead, it more accurately reflects who we are today. Over the years, AACC's programs have grown to serve other specialty areas working in or adjacent to the clinical lab, and the new name was chosen to better represent this—to broaden our invitation to collaborate, not narrow it. This new name offers us a different way of talking about ourselves, but the organization's vision remains the same: better health through laboratory medicine.
Biokey as professional manufacture of molecular testing solution to support those small lab/clinic with affordable operation on site!
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Biokey attended Medic West Africa 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria
2022-09-08
We have an local excellent marketing team to attend this professional show, introducing the creative RT qPCR machine to the visitors with curious.
During Medic West Africa 2022, we welcomed so many visitors coming within the 3-day exhibition, the inspiration we got was, Medical PCR real-time fluorescent nucleic acid testing in West Africa still has many growing pains to go through before it can reach its full potential. It will take time, but I think it is inevitable that PCR testing will become a common phenomenon. In addition, the exhibition has expanded the culture of collaboration and good atmosphere, which has a lot to do with people's interest in our products.
Similarly, our PCR kits lines in aquatic products, pets, animal husbandry and other diseases also need attention, our MICgene242/244 from the human medical standard manufacturing, we not only to improve the health conditions in many places internationally, but also to improve the domestic aquatic products, pets, animal husbandry and other disease detection.
Finally, thanks again to our amazing team and Medic West Africa!
See you next time, West Africa!
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Biokey will attend World Aquaculture Society annual meeting @ Singapore 2022 Booth 518
2022-07-06
WORLD AQUACULTURE Singapore 2022 will be held in Singapore with involvement from countries throughout the Asian-Pacific region and around the world. Aquaculture is rapidly growing in the Asian-Pacific region and increasingly being integrated into the Singapore food systems; therefore 2022 is the perfect time for the world aquaculture community to focus on Singapore..
A major international trade show at WORLD AQUACULTURE Singapore 2022 is the place to learn about the latest aquaculture technologies presented by exhibitors from around the world.
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The first genotype II African swine fever virus isolated in Africa provides insight into the current Eurasian pandemic.
2022-07-06
Introduction
According to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), African swine fever virus (ASF) is the most important disease-causing pathogen affecting the domestic swine population globally1. The high mortality induced in naïve pig populations is devastating to pig farmers, especially given that there is no chemotherapy or vaccine currently available for disease control. Prevention of the disease relies on strict biosecurity measures which are frequently not effectively applied, particularly in the endemic areas. As a result, the virus and associated disease have spread into many new areas that have not previously been reported (reviewed by2,3,4). Historically, the disease was first described in East Africa in the 1920s5. The first occurrence outside Africa, of a virus classified in p72 genotype I, was reported in 1958 and again in 1961 from Lisbon Portugal, with subsequent spread to other regions of Europe and Latin America (reviewed by6,7). In 2007, an ASF virus (ASFV) within p72 genotype II8 was again exported through a human agency outside sub-Saharan Africa into Georgia. However, the precise geographical origin has not been identified, since genotype II is present in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Southern Tanzania8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 as represented in Fig. 1.
Figure 1
A map showing the geographical distribution of the two genotypes that have escaped outside Africa into other continents. While genotype I has dominated the western, genotype II is more prevalent in the eastern part of Africa. This map was constructed using QGIS software version 2.18.14 freely downloaded from https://qgis.org/en/site/.
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Using a risk assessment methodology, shipment of a pork product originating from southeastern Africa, or Madagascar was highlighted as a likely source of viruses that could be disseminated into other continents17.
Between mid-2007 to date, ASF genotype II viruses, derived from the Georgia introduction, have been reported throughout the Caucasus, Russia, the Baltic republics, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Belgium, and most recently China18 and South-east Asia. Despite significant efforts by FAO and others to control its spread, numbers of ASFV infected animals are increasing rapidly in domestic pigs and wild boar populations, with movements of the latter facilitating the rapid geographical spread of the virus (reviewed in2).
Constituting the sole member of the genus Asfivirus within the family Asfiviridae, ASFV is the only known DNA virus causing hemorrhagic fever transmitted by an arthropod, namely Argasid soft ticks in the genus Ornithodoros. The genome of the virus is composed of a linear double-stranded DNA molecule between 175 and 195 kbp in length and containing up to 190 open reading frames depending on the virus isolate19. Multiple approaches have been used to characterize the virus20, with genotyping of the virus by full length or partial sequencing of the genes encoding the p72, p54, p30 proteins and the Central variable region now widely applied.
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