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Your guide to continuing professional education in poultry diagnostics for better flock health management

Laboratories, clinics and veterinarians around the world depend on IDEXX diagnostic tests and technologies to make confident decisions about flock health management.

The IDEXX Poultry Academy offers courses, workshops, conferences and symposia throughout the year to provide regional, national and international avian professionals, technicians, students, producers and industry-related business administrators with timely and critical information regarding flock health management.

The IDEXX Poultry Academy also provides avian professionals with the resources needed to test with confidence while also securing their specific licensure and continuing-education requirements.

For more information about the IDEXX Poultry Academy, please contact Dr. Mrinal Sharma, at Mrinal-Sharma@idexx.com or +91 99 16 326569

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Level 1 provides learning opportunities for laboratory technicians, veterinarians, postgraduate students and university research professionals.

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Level 1 DiscoverLevel 2 provides learning opportunities for government personnel, senior field veterinarians, farm/production managers and avian industry consultants.

Level 2 ExploreLevel 3 courses are developed for CEO’s business managers, and financial decision-makers within the avian health industry.

Level 3 Assess

TITLE InformATIon

101 IDEXX ELISA Technique

102 Proper Sample Collection and Sample management

103 Troubleshooting ELISA

104 xChekPlus™ Basics: flock Health management Software

105 review of a Kit Insert and

Certificate of Analysis (CoA)

106 Hands-on Sample Analysis

In this Discover course, participants are introduced to the basic ELISA technique and its utility. This module examines IDEXX proprietary technologies that make this technique more accurate, repeatable and much easier to use.

This module exposes participants to the basics of blood collection, serum separation, storage and transport of samples, how to discern good samples from bad samples and typical examples of sample collection for antigen detection of different diseases.

Discover common human and material errors encountered when conducting ELISA testing as well as possible causes of common descrepancies and remedial actions. Focus is on preventing such errors by having a robust standard operating procedure for conducting the test. Participants will be introduced to the xChekPlus™ software. A theoretical overview of the software capabilities is presented and attendees are given an oportunity to read a plate and archive data using xChekPlus.

Participants will review a typical kit insert and a certificate of analysis. The focus is on identifying important information and understanding what guidelines are most critical and how this information is useful.

Participants will run an actual ELISA for a particular disease. Description of the correct pipette handling skills and other measures to ensure a perfect technique will be examined.

TITLE InformATIon

201 mechanics of the Avian Immune response

202 Poultry disease scenario in Southeast Asia, Vaccination Programmes and Seromonitoring Schedules

203 Interpretation of ELISA results

204 Building Domestic Baselines

205 Diseases of Economic Impact: Importance of AI Antibody monitoring

206 Seromonitoring for newcastle Disease Using ELISA

207 molecular Diagnosis: real-time PCr

TITLE InformATIon

301 Input Cost Analysis: Bird, Housing, Vaccination

302 Pullet Cost Calculating

303 Expected roI on Standard Production Perameters

304 Economic Impact of Potential Disease Health risks

305 Preventing Potential Losses by Surveillance and monitoring

Participants in Explore will be taken through the basic understanding of the avian immune system and how it responds to different disease challenges. They will also be given an overview on the basics of IDEXX ELISA technology, xChekPlus™, how best to utilize the kit insert and a practical ELISA demonstration.

Participants will explore the latest disease scenario in India and its neighbouring countries. The vaccination programmes being followed for broilers, breeders and layers will be examined. Participants will understand the basis behind timing of serum sampling for seromonitoring and will learn how to develop a seromonitoring schedule alongside an existing vaccination programme. Special cases on IBV and reovirus vaccination and monitoring schedules will be reviewed.

This module explores components of the xChekPlus report and its significance to the existing disease or immunological condition .Typical examples demonstrating good/poor vaccine response, disease outbreak, etc. will be reviewed.

This module explores the critical role that baselines play in the surveillance and monitoring of disease exposure, the response to vaccination and the economic impact. Building baselines using xChekPlus software will be demonstrated.

Learn about the most economically important diseases in the Indian poultry industry. The role of diagnostic seromonitoring for disease prevention will be discussed with a special reference to avian influenza, low-and high-pathogenic strains.

The benefits of seromonitoring versus HI testing for Newcastle Disease will be examined in this module.

Attendees will learn about the advantages of real-time PCR technology, and will participate in an IDEXX MG/MS PCR Test demonstration.

Participants in Assess are already aware of the input costs of their operations, but this module examines which parameter of profit is most affected. The focus of this discussion is to emphasize critical control points that will require routine monitoring in order to achieve best results.

The process involved in growing breeder pullets will be mapped. The course focus will be on the critical control points and their cost relative to the total cost of the bird.

The focus of this module will be to emphasize the ROI achieved from the right investment at critical control points of raising broiler and layer parents, as well as commercial layers and broilers.

This module will focus on the financial impact of health risks. Risk assessment with different virulent and passive immunosuppressive diseases will be looked at separately.

This module demonstrates how a monitoring schedule can uncover disease threats. Participants will examine how such preemptive information can be effectively used to introduce changes in therapeutic and prophylactic practices in flocks to avoid economic losses.