By Rosalie Marion Bliss
Special to Poultry Times
BELTSVILLE, Md. — U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinary medical officer Jean Guard has developed a cost-effective diagnostic tool and dataset for identifying various strains of salmonella.
The tool, called Intergenic Sequence Ribotyping, or ISR, is helping improve poultry production and human health internationally, because it helps control salmonella in the field and in consumer poultry products.
Guard is with the USDA Agricultural Research Service Egg Safety and Quality Research Unit at the Richard B. Russell Research Center in Athens, Ga.
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