Manual on the diagnosis of rinderpest /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rome :
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
1996.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | FAO animal health manual.
no. 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The Presumptive diagnosis
- Epizootiological background
- The Causative virus
- Natural host range
- Transmission
- Clinical signs
- Buffalo and cattle infections
- Goat and sheep infections
- Domestic pig infections
- Clinical pathology
- Haematological changes
- Biochemical changes
- Post-mortem findings
- Buffalo and cattle deaths
- Goat and sheep deaths
- Pig deaths
- Pt. 2. Diagnostic specimens
- Collection of specimens
- Donor selection
- Biopsies
- Post-mortem specimens
- Recommended procedure
- Shipment of specimens
- National movements
- International movements
- Receipt of specimens
- Pt. 3. Confirmatory diagnosis.
- Antigen detection
- Agar-gel immunodiffusion (agid)
- Counterimmunoelectrophoresis (ciep)
- Passive haemagglutination (pha)
- Immunofluorescence (if)
- Immunoperoxidse staining (ips)
- Immunocapture elisa
- Electron microscopy (em)
- Polymerase chain reaction (pcr)
- Antibody detection
- Development of antibodies
- Diagnostic role of antibody detection
- Virus neutralization
- Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa).
- Virus isolation and identification
- Isolation in cell cultures
- Virus identification
- Isolation in buffaloes and cattle
- Histopathology and immunohistology
- Histopathology
- Immunohistology
- Differential diagnosis
- Peste des petits ruminants (ppr)
- Bovine virus diarrhoea (bvd)
- Mucosal disease
- Malignant catarrhal fever (mcf)
- Bluetongue
- Foot-and-mouth disease (fmd)
- Pt. 4. Appendixes
- Preparation of hyperimmune anti-rinderpest serum in rabbits
- Stock solutions
- Fifty percent effective dose (ed50): spearman-karber method
- Formulae for calculating tm and oligonucleotide.