Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD): Be prepared thanks to our kits

Posted On: 08/04/2025

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After several cases detected in Sardinia and Lombardy in June, Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) has reached a worrying milestone. On June 29, 2025, the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty (MASA) confirmed the first case in France, in the Savoie department. Already well established in North Africa, notably in Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya, LSD outbreaks are increasing rapidly in Europe, leading to the launch of vaccination campaigns and making surveillance and rapid differential diagnosis more essential than ever.

A viral disease with a major impact on health and the economy

Bovine Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) is a viral disease affecting cattle. The disease is caused by a poxvirus of the Capripoxvirus type. It manifests itself through the appearance of skin nodules on various parts of the body, fever, a drop in milk production and a deterioration in the general condition of the animals. Highly contagious and vectored by biting insects, it represents a major risk for the cattle industry, with significant economic consequences in the event of an epidemic.

Discover our solutions

To help you diagnose this disease quickly and reliably, we offer you our ready-to-use
real-time PCR kits: Bio-T kit® Lumpy Skin Disease and Bio-T kit® Lumpy Skin Disease DIVA.

Bio-T kit® Lumpy Skin Disease

Duplex real-time PCR kit for sensitive and specific detection of all strains (wild and vaccine strains, including the Neethling strain) of the virus responsible for Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD).

✔ Evaluated by the Pirbright Institute (UK), WOAH reference laboratory for capripoxviruses including the Lumpy Skin Disease virus.

Matrices: Whole blood (on EDTA tubes), dry oral, nasal, conjunctival swabs, skin lesion swabs, skin lesion scrapings and closed nodule biopsies. Individual analyses.

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Bio-T kit® Lumpy Skin Disease DIVA

Triplex real-time PCR kit for detection and differentiation between vaccine strains (including Neethling) and wild strains of the virus responsible for Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD).

Matrices: Whole blood (on EDTA tubes), dry oral, nasal and conjunctival swabs, skin lesion swabs, skin lesion scrapings and closed nodule biopsies. Individual analyses.

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Why choose our kits?

FAST
Fast defrosting of ready-to-use, blue Master Mixes for quick distinction.
EVALUATION
Kits developed to AFNOR NF U47-600-2 specifications.
RELIABILITY
Presence of an endogenous IPC in each kit to ensure high-quality results on all matrices.
PRACTICAL
Extraction and amplification programs common to all kits in the Ruminants range for quick and easy integration into your laboratory routine.

Compatibility with different extraction methods

Bio-T Kit® Lumpy Skin Disease and Bio-T Kit® Lumpy Skin Disease DIVA are perfectly compatible with our extraction kits, BioExtract® SuperBall® or BioExtract® Column, but they can also be used with other extraction kits available on the market, giving you great flexibility according to your laboratory equipment and habits.

For more information on this disease or our kits, please contact us.

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