Immunologic

This practical manual and reference book for §Veterinary and Medical students, teachers and §researchers deals with diagnosis of §infectious diseases. Agglutination, §Precipitation,Immunoelectrophoresis, §Haemagglutination, Complement Fixation, ELISA, §Western Blotting, Lymphocyte Assays, §Immunofluorescence, Flow Cytometry, Nucleic Acid §isolation, PCR, RT-PCR, Real time PCR, gene cloning §and sequencing, Avian Influenza, Rabies, §Brucellosis, Plague, Anthrax, Leptospirosis, §Burkholderia, Orientia and Parasitic infections, §Differentiation of Infected and Vaccinated Animals §in FMD and Bacteriophages are covered. Authors §include Dr HV Batra, a consultant to WHO & FAO who §has developed many diagnostic kits, Prof R Sharma, §who heads a Reference Laboratory on FMD and has §developed a DIVA kit, Dr M Rawat, who has cloned the §lysin gene of a bacteriophage, Prof H M Saxena, an §Immunologist, who has introduced novel modifications §to enhance the sensitivity of Agglutination Test, §Prof C K Singh, trained at Institut Pasteur, Paris §and an expert in Rabies diagnosis, Prof Ramneek, a §Virologist trained at New Zealand and Dr Debjani, a §Cytometry specialist.