Anyone have experience with Nidovirus (Serpentovirus) & Fishhead Diagnostics?

[Malum Argenteum]

Thank you for the info and suggestions, if I were to do a boid panel, would I have to swab my BP 3 times for Nido? What about the other two viruses?

If you do the boid panel, you'd swab the snake once, and send in the swab (the whole panel is read from one swab -- they replicate the genetic material on the swab, and then look for the relevant segments of each of those three viruses).

If you're talking about swabbing three times to get three consecutive negative tests, then at a later date (not sure how long to recommend; depends somewhat on symptom progression at least), you'd do the same thing (one swab, send it in). Then at a later date, you'd do it a third time.

Do keep in mind that since you only have one snake (so the contagion issue isn't relevant), knowing if it is a virus will help you to make a decision regarding a long term plan, but nothing more. The only thing to be done if it is nido is supportive care, and without a collection to protect you could make the decision to support or cull based on your own values and feelings.