DIAGNOSTICS TECHNOLOGY ON ANIMAL DISEASES

Pengenalan

Laboratory diagnostics for veterinary pathogens have traditionally relied on methods detecting pathogen by culture or antibodies, using a variety of techniques such as neutralisation, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, agar gel immunodiffusion and complement fixation.

Recently, veterinary diagnosticians have incorporate new molecular techniques such as the polymerase chain reaction and Western blot, and improved older techniques through the use of recombinant antigens and monoclonal antibodies. Although conventional diagnostic assays are still used routinely, new molecular techniques have broadened the scope of veterinary diagnostics and provide powerful new tools that enable the rapid and specific diagnosis of animal diseases.

The ultimate aim of the research program is to establish diagnostics methods with quality control through effective isolation and rapid characterization of pathogens through utilization of molecular tools in complement with rapid conventional methods for fast and reliable detection of pathogens in infected animals for improvement of diagnosis of animal diseases.

Keywords: laboratory diagnostic, veterinary pathogen, molecular tools