Curious how automation and prefilled reagents can sharpen your lab’s performance? In this webinar, our guest speaker Dr. Chengming Wang from Auburn University will share his experience with the IndiMag 2 from the field while INDICAL experts will walk you through real-world strategies to cut down manual steps, minimize errors, and scale efficiency in your lab.

Offered by INDICAL BIOSCIENCE and featuring renowned field experts, this webinar provides valuable takeaways for laboratories, research institutions, and regulatory bodies considering automation or actionable insight to improve molecular workflow efficiencies.

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In this webinar, Salmonella management experts from around the world share real-world experience, practical insights, and strategies in Salmonella Differentiation.

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What you will learn:

  • Discover how South Africa’s Salmonella Control Program leverages the Check & Trace Salmonella (CTS) technology to improve surveillance and decision-making
  • Understand the critical role of accurate Salmonella typing in driving effective control strategies
  • Learn how strategic testing can support expanded export opportunities, helping producers meet international trade and safety requirements
  • See how a surveillance project in the Philippines uncovered missed Salmonella serotypes, strengthening detection and control
  • Get an inside look at Check & Trace Salmonella’s latest advances, including newly validated serovars, certifications, and upcoming advancements.

This webinar is offered by INDICAL BIOSCIENCE to veterinary diagnosticians, food safety professionals, molecular biologists, and regulatory bodies working toward safer, more efficient poultry production and food chains.

Meet the Speakers

  • Dionne Rauff – Director, On Point Diagnostics, South Africa
  • Abbie Codia – Environment, Health and Safety Manager, BioAssets Corporation, Philippines
  • Antonio De Sanz – Sales Manager International Business, Check-Points B.V., The Netherlands
  • Moderated by Dr. Alison Digney, VP of Sales APEC, INDICAL BIOSCIENCE

Ce webinaire en direct est proposé par INDICAL BIOSCIENCE et s’adresse aux vétérinaires, ASV et étudiants vétérinaires. Nos experts vous parlerons de :

  1. La gestion de l’infestation par des parasites digestifs de manière raisonnée chez les animaux de compagnie
  2. Les consignes et recommandations de l’ESCCAP (European Scientific Counsel Companion Animal Parasites)
  3. Les conseils pratiques pour un diagnostic et une prévention réussis
  4. Les recommandations, les bonnes pratiques et l’aide à l’interprétation des résultats coproscopiques pour la mise en place d’un traitement adapté
  5. Une solution de diagnostic innovante pour les cliniques vétérinaires : présentation et utilisation de l’OvaCyte Pet

En bonus :

  • Un temps d’échange en direct est prévu : posez toutes vos questions aux experts pendant la session de questions-réponses.
  • Assurez-vous de rester jusqu’à la fin du webinaire pour bénéficier de notre offre exclusive réservée aux participants.
  • Pas disponible le 17 juin à 13h ? Inscrivez-vous quand même pour recevoir l’accès au replay !

Bénéficiez de l’expertise de nos intervenants :

Jacques Guillot, PhD, DipEBVS en parasitologie vétérinaire, Enseignant-chercheur en parasitologie et maladies parasitaires, Oniris VetAgroBio, Nantes

Marie-Pierre Callait-Cardinal, PhD, DipEBVS en parasitologie vétérinaire
Enseignante-chercheuse en  parasitologie et maladies parasitaires,  VetAgro Sup, Lyon


INSCRIPTION

Join Dr. Natalie Marks, DVM, CVJ, an award-winning veterinarian and educator, as she dives into revolutionary parasite diagnostics and the transformative role of AI in the field. 

This INDICAL-sponsored course covers:

  • The limitations of traditional fecal testing
  • How AI improves parasite diagnostics and parasite prevention
  • Ways AI fecal technology can boost efficiency, improve workflows, save time and money.

The course is RACE-approved and offers 0.50 CE credit hour.

Speaker:

Dr. Natalie Marks, DVM, CVJ is an internationally renowned and award-winning veterinarian, educator and the co-founder of Top Vets Talk Pets. After running the largest small animal practice in Chicago for over 10 years, Dr. Marks is dedicated to helping pet owners and veterinarians work as a team to ensure the health and happiness of our beloved furry family members.

Register here to gain access to the course.

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The latest in INDICAL’s series of education webinars covered the features and benefits of INDICAL’s IndiMag 48s instrument and prefilled cartridges and included a detailed video demonstration of the technology – from unpacking the instrument right through to completion of sample extraction.

User-friendly system

The IndiMag 48s has a compact footprint, ideal for many laboratories. Its user-friendly interface and open system mean that it comes preloaded with INDICAL extraction protocols but is flexible enough for users to develop their own protocols too. Cross-contamination can also be an issue in laboratories, which is why the IndiMag 48s comes fitted with a UV sterilization lamp, so you can be sure of complete decontamination.

Perhaps the greatest benefit of the IndiMag 48s is its compatibility with modular plastics. These come in three formats: single samples, 8 samples or 24 samples. Flexible plastics help minimize waste and help labs save on costs. For example, extracting 8 samples on a 96-well system uses multiple deep-well blocks, but on the IndiMag 48s, it’s just one 8-sample cartridge.

Publications

The IndiMag 48s and prefilled cartridges have been featured in many publications, covering diverse pathogens including African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV), myxoma virus, Mycoplasma bovis, porcine rotavirus A, and Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV). Several of these were highlighted, including:

Expert tips

INDICAL’s experts answered some frequently encountered questions.
Will increasing my sample always improve my yield of nucleic acid? No, because the extraction system is optimized for a particular sample amount.
Adding more sample will often mean less DNA, as the chemistry is saturated and becomes less efficient.

Will increasing the volume of magnetic beads improve my yield of nucleic acid? Generally, no, again because the chemistry is optimized.

How will reducing my elution buffer effect the yield of nucleic acid? Volumes
are optimized for beads and buffer and while you may be able to decrease the
volume of elution buffer, you need to ensure that all the magnetic beads are in
contact with the buffer, so a decrease in elution volume may be counterproductive.

How will heating, mechanical, enzymatic, and chemical lysis affect my yield of nucleic acid? Having all these together is generally not beneficial, but some may be combined into the extraction process, depending on the starting sample and pathogen type. Again, less is always more when considering the extraction process. If the chemistry is good enough, you don’t need to do too much and may damage the nucleic acid.

Can I treat all sample types in the same way? The short answer is ‘no’. INDICAL’s R&D group have extensive expertise in dealing with challenging sample types and optimizing the nucleic acid extraction process. If you need support with demanding extractions, don’t hesitate to get in touch for support.

Audience Q&A

 

Can the instrument be used to extract high-molecular-weight DNA for long read sequencing? The IndiMag Pathogen Kit can be used for different genomic applications with customer-specific protocols and the IndiMag 48s has been successfully used for this application.

Is there a specific way to place the single sample block into the IndiMag 48s? Yes, there are marks, an arrow and a notch that guides how to insert the
block into the instrument correctly.

Is there a performance difference between bottled and prefilled reagents? During development of the prefilled cartridges, we carried out extensive comparisons between the manual pathogen kits and prefilled cartridges using different sample types and different pathogens. We found no significant differences between the two methods.

How complicated is it to enter your own protocols to the IndiMag 48s? It is not complicated at all. The easiest way is to fill out a text file with all the parameters and upload that to the instrument via a memory stick. You can also do it directly on the instrument.

Discover the benefits of IndiMag 48s and prefilled cartridges for yourself.

Watch the full webinar – including Q&A – here:


Air sampling – using AeroCollect® technology – offers new capabilities for rapid and efficient surveillance testing without compromising animal welfare. With the AeroCollect device, there is no invasive sampling involved. You simply walk around the farm, poultry or pig house holding the device. The device samples the entire flock or herd, capturing and retaining any bacteria or viruses from the air in minutes.

AeroCollect works with just three simple steps

  1. Walk the area to be sampled for 5 mins. The AeroCollect captures airborne bacteria and viruses from dust, water and cells.
  2. Send the sample to the laboratory for qPCR testing. No sample extraction is needed; the sample is flushed directly from the chamber. INDICAL reagents and buffers are validated for this step, although other reagents are compatible.
  3. Same-day qPCR results, usually within a few hours giving vets and farmers rapid, actionable results.

Early detection is enabled with AeroCollect

You can detect an outbreak as soon as the animal starts shedding the bacteria or virus, typically 1–2 weeks before conventional screening would detect it. The table
shows the pathogens currently detected with AeroCollect technology.

Pathogens detected by AeroCollect

Poultry

Salmonella spp.

Campylobacter spp.

Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV)

Gumboro Disease (Infectious Bursal Disease; IBD)

Adenovirus

E. coli

Marek’s Disease

Avian Reovirus

Staphylococcus spp.

Turkey Rhinotracheitis (TRT) Virus

Pasteurella spp.

Chicken Astro Virus

Avian Encephalomyelitis (AE)

Mycoplasma spp.

Avian Influenza Virus (AIV)

C. perfringens

Swine

Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia (APP)

Porcine Circovirus 2 (PCV2)

African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV)

Swine Influenza Virus

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRSV)

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

E. coli (F4 and F18)

Mycoplasma hypopneumoniae

Validation data Future outlook for air sampling

The webinar presented validation data for Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp., IBV, Gumboro, APP, Swine Influenza Virus. For all pathogens:

  • AeroCollect showed very good agreement when compared with the gold-standard method (boot swab analysis) and near-perfect agreement when compared to true results.
  • AeroCollect technology can detect an emerging infection 2–4 days earlier than boot swabs.
  • AeroCollect enables closer monitoring of (for example) Salmonella outbreaks in flocks, potentially saving effort and costs that may be incurred from contaminated slaughter lines, or worse, product recalls.

Future outlook for air sampling

Field studies are still ongoing in:

  • Monitoring applications for PRRSV, M. hypopneumoniae, APP and SIV
  • Monitoring and detection of PRRSV in infection studies
  • Monitoring and detection of ASFV

INDICAL and AeroCollect are also working towards defining the best-practice framework for implementation on poultry farms.

The AeroCollect device has many more potential applications in animals, including in cattle, racehorses and game birds and several new studies are planned. Utility in human applications may also follow in the future.

Watch the full webinar – including Q&A – herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNlyP3ogI8oTo learn more about the AeroCollect device or request a quote, visit:
https://shop.indical.com/en/instruments-and-plastics/aerocollect/

The outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Dominican Republic now covers the majority of provinces, as confirmed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Identification of this notifiable disease generally results in the suspension of exports of pigs and pig products, causing huge losses to a country’s swine industry. This outbreak – the first in 40 years in the Americas – has already seen the culling of over 50,000 pigs.

Concerned about potential spread to the US territory of Puerto Rico, some ~200 miles away, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), part of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have established a protection zone and are conducting surveillance to quickly detect introductions of disease. APHIS is also actively supporting the Dominican Republic with detection, surveillance, quarantine, depopulation, and disposal.

Interested in learning more about ASF strategy and readiness from key opinion leaders? Take a look at our latest webinar where you meet our two experts – Professor Grzegorz Woźniakowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University) and Ahmed Elnagar (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut; FLI) and get their insights into ASF outbreak strategy and readiness, together with the latest in innovative diagnostics.


As of August 2021, African Swine Fever (ASF) was present in more than 50 countries, causing huge economic losses to the swine industry. In 2013, the virus was first observed in Baltic countries and Poland and not only in domestic pigs, but also in the wild boar population.

In Poland, outbreaks have increased and spread from east to west since 2014, with the main drivers being non-compliance with biosecurity rules and continuous infection in wild boar.

Successful methods to combat ASF

  • Electric fences
  • So-called “white zones” – where the population of wild boar should be zero
  • Chemical repellents
  • Hunting (licensed)
  • Increased awareness through campaigns to farmers, vets, etc.

Controlling ASFV in Europe

ASF will be present in Poland – and throughout Europe – for many more years, so measures are required to reduce economic loss. A comprehensive EU-wide strategy includes regionalization and compartmentalization of outbreaks, enabling best-possible disease control, while minimizing any negative impact of ASF on pig production and export. Early diagnosis and surveillance are the key factors against ASF spread.

Watch the full webinar here