RESEARCH ARTICLES
DOT ENZYME-LINKED IMIVIUNOSORBENT ASSAY (DOT-ELISA) AND PASSIVE HAEMAGGLUTINATION I; OR THE DETECTION OF DUCK PLAGUE VIRAL ANTIBODIES
S. Malmarugan, S. Sulochana
Duck viral enteritis, more commonly known as Duck plague (DP) is an acute, contagious herpes virus infection of ducks, geese and swans and has emerged as a disease of considerable economic importance. The first official report of duck plague in India was by Mukei ji et ul.. (1963) from West Bengal. In Kerala, the disease outbreak was first reported by Punnoose and Abdulla in 1976. Since then, outbreaks have been quite i-eqular with incurrence of heavy losses to the farming community induck reat-ing areas. In addition to the routine methods of diagnosis of DP such as clinical symptoms, postmortem examination, virus isolation and identification and histopathology, serological tests namely agar gel precipitation test (AGPT); counter immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP), immunofluorscence (Tantaswardi et ul.
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