SPADA

Fitness for Purpose (proposal)

Real‐time PCR assay that unambiguously

identifies

Brucella suis

(all biovars?) from

canis

and other currently‐described species and

biovars of Brucella with single genomic copy

sensitivity (fg) in 4 hours or less The assay must

not generate false positives in a background that

contains closely‐related genera such as

Agrobacterium, Rhizobium and Ochrobactrum.

QUESTIONS or COMMENTS?