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CPI and Partners to Develop Printed Sensor for Rapid Test of Bovine Tuberculosis

Device will allow appropriate measures to be taken more quickly to limit the spread of the infectious disease

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is working with CompanDX Ltd, Public Health England and Sapient Sensors Limited to develop a portable testing device which would be capable of detecting bovine tuberculosis in cattle in just a matter of minutes. The device will mean that appropriate measures could be taken more quickly to limit the spread of the infectious disease, which is one of the biggest challenges facing the cattle farming industry. Currently it can take up to a week to identify b...

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