Anaplasma marginale RT-PCR
Anaplasma marginale RT-PCR looks for the DNA of Anaplasma marginale, a tick-borne bacterium that lives in red blood cells, in a blood sample. It can help your vet confirm anaplasmosis, a cause of anaemia in cows and buffaloes.
- Sample
- Whole blood (EDTA)
- Quantity
- As advised
- Report
- Confirmed when you book
- Collection
- Free in Bhopal
What this test checks
- Anaplasma marginale DNA in whole blood (EDTA) from a cow or buffalo
- Low-level infection in carrier animals that a blood smear may not show
When your vet may advise it
- Fever, pale or yellow eyes and weakness in an adult cow or buffalo
- Anaemia without red urine in a herd with ticks or biting flies
- A blood smear is unclear or negative but your vet still suspects anaplasmosis
- Finding carrier animals in a herd where anaplasmosis keeps returning
About this test
Anaplasmosis is caused by Anaplasma marginale, a bacterium that lives inside red blood cells. It is spread by ticks, biting flies and blood carried on shared needles or tools. The body destroys the infected red cells, which leads to anaemia, meaning too few red blood cells. Signs include fever, pale or yellow eyes, weakness, weight loss and a drop in milk, but usually not red urine. Adult animals are often hit harder than young ones. Animals that recover can stay carriers for life. PCR can find small amounts of its DNA that a smear may miss. A registered veterinarian interprets the result with the signs and other blood tests.
How to prepare
Your vet collects blood into an EDTA tube, using a clean needle for each animal. Tell the vet about any recent medicines. The lab confirms the method, sample needs and reporting time when you book.
Questions about Anaplasma marginale RT-PCR
How is anaplasmosis different from babesiosis in cattle?
Can an Anaplasma carrier look healthy?
Before you book this test
Why this notice: so you know, before you book, how a test is done, what its limits are and who is responsible.
- Where it is tested. Some tests are done wholly or partly by an independent partner laboratory. The lab tells you before booking if this test is sent out, and the report names the laboratory that did it.
- What a result can and cannot tell you. No test is right every time. A normal result does not rule out every disease, and an abnormal result does not prove one. A registered veterinarian should read the report with the animal’s signs and history before any treatment is started, changed or stopped.
- The sample. A sample that is clotted, too small, wrongly labelled, leaking or too old may be rejected or reported with a note, and the lab may ask for a fresh one.
- Reporting time. Confirmed when you book. Times are estimates, not guarantees, and the lab confirms the time when you book.
- Emergencies. A booking or a pending report must not delay urgent care. If an animal has collapsed, struggles to breathe, has fits or bleeds heavily, call a veterinarian at once.
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