On-Site Classification of Pansteatitis in Mozambique Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) using a Portable Lipid-Based Analyzer.

ABSTRACT: While no pansteatitis-related large-scale mortality events have occurred since 2008, the current status of pansteatitis (presence and pervasiveness) in the Olifants River system and other regions of South Africa remain largely unknown. In part, this is due to both a lack of known biological markers of pansteatitis and a lack of suitable non-invasive assays capable of rapidly classifying the disease. Here, we propose the application of a point-of-care (POC) device using lipid-based test strips (total cholesterol (TC) and total triglyceride (TG)), for classifying pansteatitis status in the whole blood of pre-spawning Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus). Using the TC strips, the POC device was able to non-lethally classify the tilapia as either healthy or pansteatitis-affected

SUBMITTER: Bowden JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5514565 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature