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ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tetracore, Inc. (Tetracore®) is pleased to announce its partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) ( USDA) to provide a stockpile of PCR kits for both African swine fever (ASF) and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). These kits were purchased for use at the National Bank for Animal Vaccines and Veterinary Countermeasures to ensure the United States is prepared for a potential high-impact foreign animal disease (FAD) outbreak. As the only USDA-licensed PCR kits for these diseases, Tetracore's VetAlert™ ASF and FMD Diagnostic Test Kits will be instrumental in minimizing the potentially devastating effects of an FAD outbreak.

The presence of ASF in the Dominican Republic represents an imminent threat to the well-being of food production in the United States. Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever can have devastating economic consequences for the livestock industry. This threat requires readily available, accurate and validated diagnostics. An immediate surge of incoming samples to animal health testing laboratories would quickly exhaust available countermeasures. To address the need for laboratory augmentation capacity in an outbreak scenario, USDA has asked Tetracore to stock its USDA-authorized test kits for FMD and ASF.

The VetAlert™ ASF and FMD Diagnostic Test Kits have been updated using contemporary viral sequences, to ensure the test remains fit for purpose. These tests have been validated in studies with multiple reference laboratories. VetAlert™ ASF and FMD Diagnostic Test Kits were developed and marketed by Tetracore scientists and are sold exclusively by Tetracore.

About Tetracore, Inc.

Tetracore is a biotechnology company specializing in the development and manufacture of diagnostic devices and assays for the detection of infectious diseases. Located in the Biotechnology Corridor in Rockville, Maryland. Tetracore was founded in 1998 by former United Nations Special Commission biological weapons inspectors and scientists at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information, visit www.tetracore.com or contact us at jkelly@tetracore.com.

®Tetracore is a registered trademark and VetAlert is a registered trademark of Tetracore, Inc.

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