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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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Subject: Veterinary Microbiology × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2000 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    “ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIAL PATHOGENS FROM RESPIRATORY TRACT OF APPARENTLY HEALTHY AS WELL AS SICK GOATS”
    (Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2011) TUSHAR KISAN AHER; Dr. Ashish Roy
    A number of factors are responsible for economic losses to the goat industry; among them the pneumonia due to various bacterial species imposes serious constraints on goat production all over the world because of high mortalities. The major health problem of small ruminants is pneumonia/pleuropneumonia, which may be caused by Mycoplasma and Pasteurella species alone or in conjunction with other microbes. Pneumonia in small ruminants constitutes a serious setback to the growth in this group of animals with resultant economic losses in many parts of the world. Thus, the present study was undertaken with a view to know preponderance of this bacterial spp. in relation to respiratory tract infections in apparently healthy and sick goats. The objectives were isolation, identification, nucleic acid based detection of virulence associated and toxigenic potentials and in vitro antibiotic sensitivity patterns of the isolates from respiratory tract infections of apparently healthy as well as sick goats
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    ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND VIRULENCE GENES IN STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE ISOLATED FROM BOVINE SUBCLINICAL MASTITIS CASES
    (Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2011) BEENU JAIN; Dr. M. K. Jhala
    Mastitis is the most important and expensive disease of dairy industry. It results in severe economic losses from reduced milk production, treatment cost, increased labor, milk withheld following treatment and premature culling (Miller et al., 1993). This disease is characterized by physical, chemical and bacteriological changes in the milk and pathological changes in the glandular tissue of the udder. The most important changes in the milk include discoloration, presence of clots and presence of large number of leukocytes. The US National Mastitis Council estimated an overall worldwide annual loss of 2 billion dollar due to mastitis (Anonymous, 2005). The annual economic losses due to mastitis in India have been estimated to be 7165 crores (Basal and Gupta, 2010). Generally mastitis occurs in two forms i.e., clinical or
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    ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION, MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION AND DETECTION OF VIRULENCE ASSOCIATED GENES OF PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA OF AVIAN ORIGIN
    (Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2013) MAYURKUMAR P. BHIMANI; Dr. Ashish Roy
    The present study was undertaken with a view of isolation and identification of P. multocida from suspected cases of fowl cholera in different avian species. A total of 312 samples were collected from suspected cases, of which 24 (7.69%) P. multocida isolates (22 from emu and 2 from chicken) were isolated using blood agar as primary culture medium. These isolates were studied for their biochemical behaviour, in vitro antibiotic sensitivity pattern, P. multocida species specific PCR (PM-PCR), molecular characterization by multiplex PCR assay for capsular typing and detection of various virulence associated genes by PCR.
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    COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INTRADERMAL TUBERCULIN TEST AND γ- INTERFERON ASSAY FOR DIAGNOSIS OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS
    (Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2012) SAGAR SHANKAR VYAVAHARE; Dr. M. K. Jhala
    A comparative study on interferon-γ (IFN-γ) assay, single intradermal tuberculin skin test (TST) and Enzyme linked immunosorbant spot (ELISPOT) for the diagnosis of Bovine tuberculosis was conducted. A total of 252 cattle stationed at a cattle farm were tested for Bovine tuberculosis by TST, IFN-γ assay and 23 of them by ELISPOT analysis. TST was carried out as per OIE Terrestrial Manual (2009) using PPD- Tuberculin. The reaction was considered to be positive if there was an increase of 4 mm or more in skin-fold thickness along with the local signs. Out of 252 cattle tested for Bovine tuberculosis, 66 (26.19%) cattle were found positive by TST. Breedwise, 13 (16.45%) animals of Kankrej (n=79), 30 (38.96%) of Gir (n=77) and 23 (23.95%) of Triple cross (n=96) breed were positive by TST. Agewise, 47 (37.90%) adults (n=124), 11 (11.22%) heifers (n=98) and 8 (26.66%) calves (n= 30) were positive by TST. Sexwise, 18 (56.25%) males (n=32) and 48 (21.81%) females
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    STATUS OF ANTI-RABIES ANTIBODIES IN DOGS AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RABIES VIRUS DETECTION TESTS
    (AAU, Anand, 2015) SAVALIYA, BHUMIKABEN FULABHAI; Dr. M. K. Jhala
    The present study was aimed to study rabies virus neutralising antibody status in dogs by ELISA (PLATELIA™ RABIES II ASSAY kit, Bio-Rad) and also comparative evaluation of various rabies virus detection tests. A total of 107 serum samples were collected from vaccinated pet dogs at TVCC, College of Veterinary science and Animal Husbandry, Anand and from Veterinary Poly Clinic, Vadodara and 53 samples from unvaccinated stray dogs at Animal Birth Control Programme (ABC) unit, Ahmedabad to detect rabies virus neutralizing antibodies. The antibody titres obtained by quantitative ELISA were converted into EU/ml as per manufacturer’s instruction by graphpad prism software. Of these, 58 (62.36%) pet dogs and one out of 53 (1.88%) stray dogs showed antibody titre above the cut-off value of 0.5 EU/ml. Vaccinated pet dogs were divided into different groups based on age, sex, breed, vaccine brand and time of vaccination after last vaccine to assess the relationship of these factors with vaccinal immune response. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed in graphpad prism software to check the effect of all these factors. Statistical analysis of ELISA titres of pet dog serum samples suggested that age, sex, breed, vaccine brands have no significant effect on the antirabies antibody titres. Fourteen non vaccinated pet dog serum samples were checked to detect the maternal antibody status against rabies and of these, only two puppies (aged 2.5 and 2 months) had a protective immune titre above the cut off value of 0.5 EU/ml.
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    OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN PROFILE ANALYSIS AND MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING OF PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA ISOLATES OF BUFFALO ORIGIN FROM GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 2015) AISWARYA, v.; Dr. Ashish Roy
    The present study was undertaken with a view to characterize Pasteurella multocida isolates of buffalo origin (including vaccine strain P52) by outer membrane protein (OMP) profiling and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). P. multocida cultures of buffalo origin (suspected/died of Haemorrhagic Septicaemia) from various regions of the state of Gujarat were stored in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Veterinary College, Anand. All the isolates belonged to P. multocida type B: 2 as determined by capsular typing conducted previously in the department. A set of eight isolates including vaccine strain, P52 were used for OMP profile analysis, while another set of eight isolates (including vaccine strain) were used in MLST. Samples PAB-78-1/13, PAB-83-6/13, PAB-86-9/13 and PAB-89-1/14 were common in both OMP and MLST analysis.