Laboratories are the practitioner’s link to a wide variety of professional and laboratory services that are essential for accurate diagnosis and facilitate cost-effective treatment and control of diseases of livestock and companion animals. Animals and/or their products must also be screened for the carriage of infectious agents that affect humans (zoonoses) e.g. salmonellosis and those that affect the international trade in animals and their products.

The following topics are covered in this DVD:

• Specimen collection
• Media preparation
• Incubation systems
• Preliminary identification methods
• Antimicrobial susceptibility testing Bacterial counts.

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