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Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat

Assam Agricultural University is the first institution of its kind in the whole of North-Eastern Region of India. The main goal of this institution is to produce globally competitive human resources in farm sectorand to carry out research in both conventional and frontier areas for production optimization as well as to disseminate the generated technologies as public good for benefitting the food growers/produces and traders involved in the sector while emphasizing on sustainability, equity and overall food security at household level. Genesis of AAU - The embryo of the agricultural research in the state of Assam was formed as early as 1897 with the establishment of the Upper Shillong Experimental Farm (now in Meghalaya) just after about a decade of creation of the agricultural department in 1882. However, the seeds of agricultural research in today’s Assam were sown in the dawn of the twentieth century with the establishment of two Rice Experimental Stations, one at Karimganj in Barak valley in 1913 and the other at Titabor in Brahmaputra valley in 1923. Subsequent to these research stations, a number of research stations were established to conduct research on important crops, more specifically, jute, pulses, oilseeds etc. The Assam Agricultural University was established on April 1, 1969 under The Assam Agricultural University Act, 1968’ with the mandate of imparting farm education, conduct research in agriculture and allied sciences and to effectively disseminate technologies so generated. Before establishment of the University, there were altogether 17 research schemes/projects in the state under the Department of Agriculture. By July 1973, all the research projects and 10 experimental farms were transferred by the Government of Assam to the AAU which already inherited the College of Agriculture and its farm at Barbheta, Jorhat and College of Veterinary Sciences at Khanapara, Guwahati. Subsequently, College of Community Science at Jorhat (1969), College of Fisheries at Raha (1988), Biswanath College of Agriculture at Biswanath Chariali (1988) and Lakhimpur College of Veterinary Science at Joyhing, North Lakhimpur (1988) were established. Presently, the University has three more colleges under its jurisdiction, viz., Sarat Chandra Singha College of Agriculture, Chapar, College of Horticulture, Nalbari & College of Sericulture, Titabar. Similarly, few more regional research stations at Shillongani, Diphu, Gossaigaon, Lakhimpur; and commodity research stations at Kahikuchi, Buralikson, Tinsukia, Kharua, Burnihat and Mandira were added to generate location and crop specific agricultural production packages.

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    CANINE PYODERMA : DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT
    (College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati, 2019-07) MARAK, SABETINI S.; Changkija, Bendangla
    The present study entitled “Canine pyoderma: Diagnosis and therapeutic management” was undertaken w.e.f. 1st August 2018 to 31st May 2019 with the objective to study the prevalence, identification of causative organism, hemato-biochemical alteration and to assess therapeutic efficacy in canine pyoderma. The overall prevalence of pyoderma in dogs was 14.59% with higher occurrence in Labrador breed (40%) with males (63.75%) being predominantly affected and in age group below 1 year (33.75%). Clinical signs associated with canine pyoderma were pruritis, pustules, alopecia, papule, scale and crust, patches, erythema, moth eaten appearance, dry coat, epidermal collaret, hyperpigmentation, abscess, lichnefication, edema, erosion and fissure. The causative organisms isolated from canine pyoderma were Staphylococcus species (100%) of which highest was Staphylococcus intermedius (43.75%) followed by Staphylococcus aureus (13.75%), coagulase negative Staphylococcus species (12.5%), Staphylococcus intermedius and Staphylococcus aureus (5%), Staphylococcus intermedius with Pseudomonas species (6.25%) and Staphylococcus intermedius with Klebsiella species (11.25%), Staphylococcus aureus with Pseudomonas species (5%) and Coagulase negative Staphylococcus species and Pseudomonas species (2.5%). The antibiotic sensitivity test for Staphylococcus intermedius isolates revealed highest sensitivity to linezolid (100%); Staphylococcus aureus to cephalexin and linezolid (94.73%); Coagulase negative Staphylococcus species to cephalexin and linezolid (100%); however gram negative organisms like Pseudomonas species and Klebsiella species revealed highest sensitivity to enrofloxacin (100%) but complete resistant to cephalexin and linezolid. Hematobiochemistry revealed anaemia (Low Hb and TEC), leukocytosis, neutrophilia, reduction in serum albumin, A:G ratio and zinc when compared with apparently healthy dogs. Dogs treated with cefpodoxime, ceftriaxone and tazobactum and linezolide showed faster recovery in clinical symptoms weekly than that of cephalexin and enrofloxacin but complete remission of clinical signs in all the animals was observed only in cephalexin treated group.