METHOD FOR DETERMINING PATHOLOGICAL TISSUE DAMAGE AND DIAGNOSING INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN FISH

摘要

The present invention relates to methods for determining pathological tissue damage in fish. Also the present invention relates to methods for diagnosing infectious disease in fish. In particular, the present invention is based on the surprising finding that mixing fish serum with an aqueous protein precipitation solution according to the present invention will result in a protein precipitation reaction if the fish is suffering from pathological tissue damage. Moreover it was surprisingly observed that the degree of turbidity of the precipitate in the mix of sample and aqueous protein precipitation solution was dependent on the state of infectious disease in fish.