Today, most dairies utilize the California Mastitis Test (CMT) in an on-farm culture program or send samples to the lab for analysis. CMT can be complex and considerable training is needed to ensure staff can accurately conduct and determine a negative or positive result. Lab analysis is accurate, but typically takes 10-14 days for results to return.
Acumen Detection reagents win on both counts — offering a simple, easy-to-learn, on-farm testing process, indication of positivity or negativity if specific DNA markers are present, rather than CMTs general indicators of infection.