“…TEM has proven its value in this lab environment, where new diseases ornew disease manifestations of recognized disease pathogens are frequently encountered. It has proven to be particularly useful in the recognition or diagnosis of diseases for which there are no other available commercial diagnostic reagents or tests (i.e., viral isolation, fluorescent antibody test, serology, antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, polymerase chain reaction, and so on) (Charlton and Bickford, 1995;Conrad et al, 1993;Cooper et al, 1995;Daft et al, 1996;Droual et al, 1995;Marsh et al, 1996;Patton et al, 1996;Walker et al, 1995;Woods et al, 1993Woods et al, , 1994Woods et al, , 1996Woods et al, , 1997.…”