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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 Public Health × Author: Savalia, C. V. × End date: 1999 × Start date: 1990 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.V.Sc. ×
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    STUDIES ON THE INCIDENCE OF ASPERGILLOSIS IN POULTRY AND POULTRY HANDLERS
    (AAU, Anand, 1990) Savalia, C. V.; Pal, Mahendra
    The present stady was coiadacted to record the incidence of palmonary aspergillosis in the White Iieghom chicken, and in the poaltry handlers. In addition, environmental distribution of aspergilli was studied in feed, litter , soil and air of different pens on the All India Co-ordinated Research Project (AICRP) Poultry Farm under Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand and Patel Poultry Parm, Navli, District Kheda, Gujarat. Pour hundred fifty specimens of the trachea, lungs and abdominal or thoracic air sacs of 150 White leghorn chicken: were investigated for the gross lesions, histopathologtoal examination and cultural isolation . None of the birds showed gross pathological lesions of the disease on autopsy. The histopathologioal examination also could not reveal the presence of the fungi in the tissues . However, 23.98 per cent (108 out of 450) specimens of the trachea, lungs and air sacs yielded aspergilli on the cultural isolation. This included 9.33 per cent of A.niger 7.55 per cent of A.fumigatus, 5.11 per cent of A.flavus, 1.33 per cent of A.terreus and 0.22 per cent each of A.vyolaceous. A.stelletus and A.chevalieri. Growths were identified on the basis of ths colonial and microscopic morphology.