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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2014
Texas Tech University System, Lubbock, TX (US);
United States Department of Agriculture, College Station, TX (US);
Guy Loneragan, Lubbock, TX (US);
Thomas Edrington, College Station, TX (US);
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, Lubbock, TX (US);
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a method of observing and evaluating bacterial infections within the lymph nodes of animals presented for harvest comprising: inoculating at one or more sites of an animal a known amount of a pathogen, wherein the one or more inoculation sites comprise lymph node drainage areas, and at one or more time points obtaining one or more lymph node biopsies to determine the extent of the pathogen in the lymph nodes.