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New DNA test can detect Bluff oyster-killing infection

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A new DNA test has been developed to detect low levels of the Bluff oyster-killer bonamia. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) and molecular diagnostic company dnature have developed a DNA test that is more sensitive, and can detect lower levels of infection, than using a microscope. Bonamia, a microscopic disease of oysters, is not harmful to humans or animals, but kills ...

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