DiagSui Embrapa

The DiagSui is a tool developed by Embrapa Swine and Poultry, decentralized unit of agricultural research company under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil. The application provides guidance on laboratory diagnosis of major diseases of pigs, including information on the selection of animals for sample collection, sample collection, shipment to the laboratory, main used laboratory tests and interpreting laboratory results.

The audience is made up of veterinary farms and companies working with health pigs. In routine laboratory diagnosis in swine, realizes the difficulty of many veterinarians in the correct sampling and interpretation of results of laboratory tests, causing often are resources spent without obtaining the most appropriate results. Thus, the idea of ​​Embrapa appeared to offer a guiding tool that can be available anytime and anywhere.

The objective of DiagSui is available to professionals important information area that can be accessed when the vet is faced with a clinical problem in the farm and need to quickly take samples for dispatch to the laboratory. Therefore, the application can be downloaded on your phone or tablet and accessed offline.

With this tool, it is expected to increase the percentage of correct answers in the diagnostics performed, enabling faster and more effective means of disease control are used and consequently reducing the mortality of animals and production costs.

The application will be constantly updated according to the development of new diagnostic methods or new diseases that may become important, always anchored by the results of scientific research.