Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

TAMIL NADU VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY
CENTRE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH STUDIES
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LABORATORY

Date of start : 01.04.1993.

History

The Central University Laboratory was started in the year 1993. This laboratory is unique in the whole country wherein under one roof all disciplines of animal health are available to the farming community, animal product exporter and governmental agencies.

The lab consists of the following specialties

S.No.	Name	Designation	Specialization
1.	Dr. Parimal Roy	Professor and Head	Veterinary Microbiology
2.	Dr. G. Ravikumar	Associate Professor	Veterinary Microbiology
3.	Dr. T. V. Meenambigai1	Associate Professor	Veterinary Animal Biotechnology
4.	Dr. N. Vengadabady2	Associate Professor	Veterinary Microbiology
5.	Dr. J. Selvaraj	Associate Professor	Veterinary Pathology
6.	Dr. Vajiravelu Jayakumar3	Assistant Professor (SG)	Veterinary Microbiology
7.	Dr. C. Sreekumar	Assistant Professor	Veterinary Parasitology
8.	Dr. C. Theophilus Anandkumar	Assistant Professor	Veterinary Pathology
9.	Dr. M. Anandachitra	Assistant Professor	Veterinary Immunology
10.	Dr. S. Suresh Kannan4	Assistant Professor (on study leave)	Veterinary Bacteriology
11.	Dr. M. Vidhya	Assistant Professor	Veterinary Microbiology

To establish centralized diagnostic facilities under one umbrella
To co-ordinate disease investigation and laboratory examinations and to implement
control measures
To obtain recognition as a reference laboratory in south India
To produce and supply diagnostic reagents to the field centers
To offer expert guidance on various livestock and poultry diseases to farmers and
helping them in diagnosis and control of diseases.
To study the changes in disease patterns due to ecological shift

BRIEF Technical Programme
“To serve as a regional diagnostic laboratory for animal diseases in the state of Tamil Nadu and to conduct research on fundamental and applied aspects of animal diseases and to demonstrate, how the new knowledge would improve the health and productivity of the animals ”.

The charges for various services provided by this unit as follows:

BACETRIOLOGY

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Microscopical examination of smears	10.00
2.	Cultural examination of materials	50.00
3.	Antibiotic sensitivity test	100.00
4.	Isolation of bacteria and confirmation	200.00

BIOCHEMICAL TESTS

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Liver function test (15 tests)	100.00
2.	Liver function test (Single)	20.00
3.	Blood urea nitrogen	50.00
4.	Serum cholesterol	50.00
5.	Alkaline phosphatase	50.00

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Biological test involving guinea, pigs, rabbits, hamsters, poultry	250.00
2.	Biological test involving sheep, goat, pigs	1000.00
3.	Biological test involving calves	1500.00

DISEASE INVESTIGATION – OUTSTATION

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Poultry farmers	100.00
2.	Livestock farmers other than poultry	500.00
3.	Commercial organization: hatcheries, Race course, Kennel clubs, poultry farmers having 10,000 birds & above	1000.00

HAEMATOLOGY

S.No.	Kind of examination	RateRs.
1.	Haematologcial examination (Complete )	100.00
2.	Haematology	10.00

HEALTH CERTIFICATE

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Health certificate for every certificate up to 50 MT of materials exported	2000.00
2.	For every additional quantity of 50 MT of portions thereof	1000.00
3.	Counter signature of sterilization certificate	500.00

HISTOPATHOLOGY

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Tissue processing, paraffin embedding, Histopathology staining and report (per tissue block)	100.00

LEPTOSPIROSIS

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	PCR for Leptospira Diagnosis (per samples)	400.00
2.	Microscopic agglutination test (MAT)	250.00
3.	Dark field microscopy (DFM)	25.00

MARINE PRODUCTS BACTERIAL SCREENING

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate
1.	Total plate count	200.00
2.	Detection of
	1.Solmonella	200.00
	2. Listeria	200.00
	3. Vibrio Chlorae	200.00
	4. Vibrio vulnificus	200.00
	5. Vibrio	200.00
	6. Staphylococcus aureus	200.00
	7. Escherichia coli @ 40° C	200.00
	8. Sulphite reducing aerobe’s	200.00
	9. Escherichia coli	200.00
	10. Clostridium	200.00

NECROPSY

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Poultry	20.00
2.	Small animal dogs, cats etc.,	100.00
3.	Large animals excluding race horses	500.00
4.	Race horses	1000.00
5.	Wild animals	500.00

NUTRITION AND TOXICOLOGY ANALYSIS

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Proximate analysis	500.00
2.	Each item	50.00
3.	Aflatoxin estimation (by TLC)	200.00
4.	Mycotoxin (24 hours)	500.00

PARASITOLOGY TESTS

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Blood smear examination	10.00
2.	Dung / Faeces examination	10.00
3.	Nasal washings	10.00
4.	Identification of worms and other parasites	25.00
5.	Examination of faecal samples	10.00
6.	Examination of scrapings	10.00

POULTRY INDUSTRY

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Salmonella for certificate up to 2500 birds (Rs.10 for every 100 birds in addition)	500.00
2.	Hatchery sanitation certificate	1000.00

SEROLOGY

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Serological test (Plate agglutination / tube agglutination)	50.00
2.	Electrophoresis of serum	200.00
3.	Counter immuno electrophoresis	50.00
4.	Flourescent antibody technique (FAT)	300.00
5.	Tuberculin test (per test)	50.00
6.	Johnin Disease (per test)	50.00
7.	Package of test for TB, JD and Brucellosis (per sample)	240.00

USE OF INSTRUMENTS

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Macro/Microphotography (36 exposure) (excluding film) charges	180.00
2.	Photomicrography (per roll)	100.00
3.	Agarose / polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (per run)	200.00
4.	ELISA reader (per reading)	100.00
5	Polaroid photography (per copy)	200.00
6.	PCR-Thermal cycler (per run)	250.00
7.	Column chromatography (per run)	250.00
8.	Ultra centrifuge (per run)	250.00
9.	Use of cell culture facility (maintaining cells, sub culturing, cytotoxic experiments) (per week)	500.00

URINE ANALYSIS

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Urine analysis complete ( 7 tests )	50.00
2.	Urine analysis complete ( Single)	10.00

VIRUS ISOLATION

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Virus isolation in Egg/ TC and confirmation	1000.00

VACCINES

S.No.	Kind of examination	Rate Rs.
1.	Auto vaccine preparation	500.00

FORMAT FOR A SERVICE

1. Name and address of the owner / farm :
2. Kind of farm :
3. Kind of specimen :
4. Test requested :
5. Fees paid by cash / cheque :
6. Any other details :

For further details, contact:

The Professor and Head
Central University Laboratory
Centre for Animal Health Studies
Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
Madhavaram Milk Colony,
Chennai – 600 051.

TELE : 044 –25551581
FAX : 044-25551577
EMAIL: culcahs@redifmail.com

Faculty

Dr. Parimal Roy, Professor and Head; parimalroy1@rediffmail.com
Dr. G. Ravikumar, Associate Professor; capsidvet@rediffmail.com
Dr. J. Selvaraj, Associate Professor; vetselvaraj@rediffmail.com
Dr. C. Sreekumar, Assistant Professor; sreesnake@gmail.com
Dr. C. Theophilus Anandkumar, Assistant Professor; Theophy123@rediffmail.com
Dr. S. Suresh Kannan, Assistant Professor; sureshveeru@gmail.com
Dr. M. Ananda Chitra, Assistant Professor; aanandhis@yahoo.com
Dr. M. Vidhya, Assistant Professor; vidhya_nainar@yahoo.com