"Eliminate the uncertainty of traditional testing. DairyGuard® offers superior pathogen detection directly from milk, ensuring high-quality product and maximizing your yield."
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Globally, 10% of milk production is lost annually to spoilage and mastitis, impacting the sector's economic viability.
DairyGuard® offers a revolutionary 8-hour pathogen detection solution that surpasses slow traditional methods. This rapid, accurate technology empowers stakeholders — from producers to processors — to make informed decisions, mitigate risks, and improve overall dairy sustainability and profitability.
Why DairyGuard®?
Why DairyGuard®?
To ensure the highest standards of milk quality, producers are required to maintain low Somatic Cell Counts (SCC), indicating herd health, and low Total Plate Counts (TPC), indicating hygiene. High SCC indicates a potential infection but does not identify the specific bacteria. Similarly, fluctuating TPC—driven by various factors—makes it difficult to pinpoint the source of contamination. Current testing lacks specific pathogen identification, limiting actionable insights and often requiring follow-up testing, typically through sample culturing.
DairyGuard® is a molecular diagnostic solution, performing DNA analysis of a single milk sample to provide a comprehensive and accurate assessment, identifying a wide range of bacteria including those causing mastitis, contamination and spoilage. DairyGuard® provides several key advantages over traditional testing methods.
Rapid Results: Rapid turnaround enables timely decision-making and intervention.
Accurate & Reliable: Precise identification of specific pathogens and contaminants.
Comprehensive Analysis: Identifies a wide range of bacteria from a single sample.
Early Detection: Detects emerging issues before they escalate.
Cost-effective: Reduces cost associated with milk quality problems and unnecessary treatments.
DairyGuard's® advanced molecular testing offers a faster, more reliable solution for mastitis pathogen identification than traditional culture. Delivering accurate results in under 8 hours with high sensitivity and specificity (compared to culture's multi-day turnaround and 30-40% inconclusive results), DairyGuard® enables quicker, more informed treatment decisions.
Unlike other molecular products, which require multiple reactions and costly primer sets to identify a limited number of pathogens, DairyGuard® amplifies all microbes in a single reaction using universal primers and then identifies them on a microarray, offering comprehensive detection at a significantly lower cost than the equivalent multiple reactions needed for on other molecular platforms.
The DairyGuard® Advantage
The DairyGuard® Advantage
“I find a very high correlation between the results obtained via DairyGuard® and our more traditional culture methods…
…promising both for quality control, accuracy and surveillance of pooled samples such as pens and tanks…
…we will get quicker and more actionable results than sending samples to a referral laboratory.
-Staff Veterinarian
Valley Veterinarians Inc.
DairyGuard® empowers producers to make informed decisions, optimize their operations, and ensure the long-term sustainability of their business.
Improved Herd Health: Early detection and treatment of mastitis and other infections.
Enhanced Milk Quality: Consistent production of high-quality milk.
Optimized Milking Operations: Identification and mitigation of equipment-related issues.
Cost-Effective Solutions: Reduced economic losses and increased profitability.
Case Study: Addressing Mycoplasma False Negatives in Milk Quality Testing
Case Study: Addressing Mycoplasma False Negatives in Milk Quality Testing
A study comparing the performance of the DairyGuard® molecular assay to traditional bacterial culture for detecting Mycoplasma species in milk samples revealed that while culture can be limited by the fastidious and slow-growing nature of Mycoplasma, leading to potential false negatives, DairyGuard® demonstrated high sensitivity (90.8%) and specificity (87.66%). The high negative predictive value (97.12%) of DairyGuard® suggests its reliability in ruling out Mycoplasma infections.
This indicates that DairyGuard® offers a more accurate and rapid diagnostic approach for Mycoplasma intramammary infections in dairy cows, potentially improving disease control, reducing economic losses, and optimizing antibiotic use by overcoming the limitations associated with traditional culture methods and providing timely, reliable results.
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