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RE: Questions about screening

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Posted by: toshamc at Tue Mar 7 14:19:14 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by toshamc ]  
   

I may be wrong - but my understanding is:



1. IBD can only be detected in those that exhibit the symptoms of the disease - in pythons they become sick and die quick enough that testing would be unnecessary.



2. There are too many false negaties of Crypto test for it to be reliable.
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Tosha



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