The continued spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) across Europe represents a major threat to animal health and food security. The recent expansion of high‑risk zones in Spain, following the confirmation of more than 160 new cases in Catalonia, highlights the critical importance of surveillance and diagnostics to prevent the virus from spreading to domestic herds and to protect the swine industry.
In this context, laboratories involved in ASF surveillance and diagnostics face increasing demands for speed, reliability, and analytical reproducibility. Sample preparation is a key step in this process. Meat tissues are inherently complex and difficult to homogenize, which can lead to variability, reduced nucleic acid extraction efficiency, and compromised PCR reliability.
To address these challenges, the Precellys Evolution Touch, combined with 7 mL lysing kits, provides a high‑performance, standardized solution for porcine tissue homogenization. This combination enables rapid, uniform, and reproducible sample disruption, ensuring efficient viral DNA extraction and samples that are perfectly prepared for PCR analysis.
By securing this critical step, the Precellys system helps improve data quality and supports ongoing ASF surveillance, control, and prevention efforts.
The full Application Note, detailing the sample preparation protocol and the performance achieved using the Precellys Evolution Touch and 7 mL lysing kits for ASF analysis, is available on the Bertin Technologies Application Center.
