Research Projects

Bacteriology and Aquatic Animal Diseases Projects Link to PDF document

  • Detection and Strain Typing of Coxiella burnetii using Molecular Beacons in a Real-Time PCR
  • Surveillance of marine mammals for Brucella
  • Mycoplasma molecular diagnostics
  • Rapid diagnostic tools for the detection of bacterial aquatic animal pathogens of importance to New Zealand Biofouling as a sentinel for pathogen incursion
  • Diagnostic capability for aquatic Herpesvirus and Aquabirnaviruses
  • Diagnostic capability for Iridoviruses

Immunology Projects Link to PDF document

  • Arbovirus surveillance
  • Klebsiella Serology
  • Q-fever serology improvement
  • FMD serology
  • PCR for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and other vesicular diseases

Virology Projects Link to PDF document (107 KB)

  • PCR for IBR
  • PCR for CSF
  • Pestivirus genotyping
  • PCV-2 characterisation
  • PCR for influenza A and APMV-1
  • Surveillance of migratory birds for influenza A/AMPV-1
  • Surveillance of wild ducks for influenza A/AMPV-1

Page last updated: 25 August 2008