Worm Ova Recognition and Management (WORM) Lab

肠道蠕虫感染是放牧牲畜和人类的重大负担，并导致动物/人类健康产品的大量支出。粪便虫卵计数是评估家畜和人类寄生虫感染严重程度的既定方法。现有的诊断蠕虫感染的方法被广泛认为是过时的，不准确的和费力的。Arrow Labs的破坏性诊断提供了一个新的检测标准，将有助于解决动物和人类系统中的这些挑战，提高农业的经济回报，保护动物福利，Arrow Labs的新工艺将通过该项目进一步开发，将为商业服务提供商带来新产品并简化现有服务。此外，目前还没有一个端到端的自动化样品处理和结果交付系统：这将增加吞吐量，降低单位成本，通过消除人为错误提高可靠性，并与自动化决策支持相关联。该项目形成了工业研究的最后阶段，将为机器分析提供自动化粪便样品制备，并使产品商业化开始。

Gut worm infections are a significant burden on grazing livestock and humans and result in considerable expenditure on animal/ human health products. The Faecal egg count is the established method for estimating the severity of parasitic worm infection in livestock and humans. Existing methods for diagnosing the presence of worm infections are widely considered to be dated, inaccurate and laborious.Arrow Labs disruptive diagnostic delivers a new standard of detection and will help to address these challenges in animal and human systems for improved economic returns from farming, protection of animal welfare, and reduction of disease burdens in people.Arrow Labs novel processes that will be developed further by this project will lead to new products and streamline existing services for commercial service providers. Moreover, an end-to-end system that automates sample processing and result delivery does not currently exist: this will increase throughput, decrease unit costs, increase reliability by removing human error, and link to automated decision support.This project forms the final phase of industrial research that will deliver automated faecal sample preparation for machine analysis and enable the commencement of product commercialisation.