This book contains comprehensive and updated information on how to perform Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease diagnosis from the suspicion in the field to the characterisation of isolates. It provides guidelines to outbreak management, field investigation, necropsy techniques, sampling methods and complete laboratory diagnosis, including molecular methods.

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• Ilaria Capua, ed. Head, Virology Department, Former Director EU Director, OIE/FAO and OIE/FAO Reference Laboratory National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and for Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza Newcastle Disease. Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie Veterinary Laboratory Agencies, Legnaro, Padua (Italy).
• Dennis J. Alexander, ed. Head, Virology Department Former Director EU Director, OIE/FAO and OIE/FAO Reference Laboratory National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and for Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza Newcastle Disease. Veterinary Laboratory Agencies, Weybridge (UK).
   

  Publisher: Springer
  Publication date (print): 2009-12
  ISBN (print): 978-88-470-0825-0