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International Workshop on ‘Surveillance and Diagnosis of GlandersInternational Workshop on ‘Surveillance and Diagnosis of Glanders’
8th -17th February, 2016, ICAR-NRCE, Hisar
International Workshop on ‘Surveillance and Diagnosis of Glanders’ was organized at ICAR-National
Research Centre on Equines, Hisar from 8-17 February 2016. The workshop was organized as per
approved objectives of OIE Twinning laboratories project on glanders in association with Friedrich
Loeffler Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Bacterial Infections and
Zoonoses, Jena, Germany (Parent laboratory).
Seven international participants from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran
and eight national participants from different regions of India –Jammu &Kashmir, Uttrakhand, Uttar
Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab participated in the workshop.
Aim of the workshop was to provide hands on training in the area of serological diagnosis of glanders
like complement fixation test and indirect ELISA and to build network among glanders endemic
countries for surveillance of glanders.
Experts from parent laboratory (Germany) Prof. Heinrich Neubauer, Dr Mandy Elscner and Dr Falk
Melzer and from candidate laboratory (NRCE, Hisar) Dr. B.N. Tripathi, Dr S.K. Khurana, Dr. H. Singha
and Dr. Praveen Malik has delivered series of lectures and provided hands on training to the participants.
Dr. Inderjeet Singh, Director, CIRB, Hisar inaugurated the workshop and emphasized the need of
systemic surveillance of glanders.
During the inaugural session Dr. B.N. Tripathi, Director, NRCE gave an overview of the research and
activities of the institute followed by a presentation on global scenario of Glanders by Prof Heinrich
Neubauer. A training manual and video documentary on glanders was released during the workshop.