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In spite of recent advances to reduce the spread and impact of Pierce’s disease spread, few advances have been made in diagnostics of the pathogen, Xylella fastidiosa. This is in part due to a perceived lack of need for better diagnostics. Commercial and government laboratories routinely determine the presence of X. fastidiosa in plant tissue using serological assays (i.e. ELISA), polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and culturing techniques. Each of these techniques is valuable, th