OVC research with Prof. Sarah Wootton and University of Guelph colleagues recently was featured on the Office of Research website.
An effective, non-invasive and inexpensive method for diagnosing the nasal tumour-causing virus in sheep and goats has been developed at the University of Guelph.
The virus, known as enzootic nasal tumor virus (ENTV -1), has been the target of Prof. Sarah Wootton and her University of Guelph colleagues.
They studied a flock of 80 horned Dorset sheep with a history of Enzootic nasal adenocarcinoma in Ontario throughout 2014. Wootton developed a diagnostic technique, known as reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR), to detect pre-symptom ENTV with what she calls “perfect sensitivity and specificity.”
Read the entire article by Kyra Lightburn.