APPLICATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN VETERINARY SCIENCE

Biotechnological approaches have great potential in rapid expansion of livestock through newer, cheaper and reliable means of producing effe ctive vaccines and diagnostics for animal health care management. In t his paper, the results of research work done at the National Biotechno logy Centre of this Institute, during the past one decade on the appli cation of molecular biological and hybridoma technologies for developm ent of improved diagnostics and effective vaccines against some econom ically important animal diseases such as rinderpest, bluetongue, bovin e herpes virus-1 infection, poxvirus infection, infectious bursal dise ase, clostridiosis, salmonellosis and pasteurellosis were reviewed.