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Comment posted by: R. Kutscher, Germany

To effectively recognise mycotoxicosis, herds have to be carefully inspected for symptoms. Symptoms are often very general and can greatly vary according to the mycotoxins present, making proper diagnosis difficult. Careful recognition of symptoms and blood analyses in combination with adequate feed analyses, provide the most accurate diagnosis of mycotoxicosis. Fumonisin mycotoxicosis leads to a very specific increase in sphiganine : sphingosine ratio. However, as sphinganine and sphingosine analyses are quite complex this ratio is seldom used as a biomarker in field situations.