Infection of livestock and poultry in farm: market research for a new rapid, cheap diagnostic test

Alisonnicoll

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I'm posting on behalf of a team at the Cambridge University Business School, as we have potential a point-of-care diagnostic product that would significantly reduce duration and cost required for the diagnosis of bacterial infection in the gastrointestinal tract, such as Campylobacter, in mammals and poultry. Importantly, the test can be conducted on-site and by farmers, reducing the need for veterinary involvement.

The technology has the potential to reduce diagnosis time to 20 minutes to an hour.

In order to determine how useful this would be to the agricultural industry, I was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions:
- How much of a problem is a bacterial infection for the agricultural industry? For example, how much does it cost you as a farmer or how does it affect your productivity.
- How is the problem diagnosed and tackled at present? How long does this currently take, and how much does this cost you?
- Would a test such as this that would let you diagnose infections rapidly and on-site be of benefit to you?

Any responses would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much!!!
 

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