A rapid method for simultaneously diagnosing four shrimp diseases using PCR‐DNA chromatography method.

The article offers information on diagnosis of shrimp diseases using polymerase chain reaction and DNA chromatography technique. Topics discussed include loss faced by shrip farmers through bacterial, fungal diseases and microspordium, common viral diseases such as infectious hypodermal, white spot disease (WSD) and haematopoietic necrosis and other methods including strand tag hybridization (STH) chromatographic printed array strip.