The document discusses the IDEXX Poultry Academy, which offers continuing education courses on poultry diagnostics and flock health management. It provides three levels of courses - Discover, Explore and Assess - aimed at different professionals from laboratory technicians to business managers. The courses cover topics like sample collection techniques, ELISA testing procedures, interpreting diagnostic results, understanding disease risks and economics of poultry production. The goal is to help avian health professionals make confident decisions for better flock health and prevent economic losses through diagnostic monitoring and surveillance.

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Your guide to continuing professional
education in poultry diagnostics for
better flock health management
Laboratories, clinics and veterinarians around the world depend on IDEXX diagnostic
tests and technologies to make confident decisions about flock health management.
The IDEXX Poultry Academy offers courses, workshops, conferences and symposia
throughout the year to provide regional, national and international avian professionals,
technicians, students, producers and industry-related business administrators with
timely and critical information regarding flock health management.
The IDEXX Poultry Academy also provides avian professionals with the resources
needed to test with confidence while also securing their specific licensure and
continuing-education requirements.
For more information about the IDEXX Poultry Academy, please contact
Dr. Mrinal Sharma, at Mrinal-Sharma@idexx.com or +91 99 16 326569
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Level 1 provides learning opportunities for laboratory technicians,
veterinarians, postgraduate students and university research professionals.
IDEXX Poultry Academy
Level 1 Discover
Level 2 provides learning opportunities for government
personnel, senior field veterinarians, farm/production managers
and avian industry consultants.
Level 2 Explore
Level 3 courses are developed for CEO’s business managers, and
financial decision-makers within the avian health industry.
Level 3 Assess
TITLE Information
101 IDEXX ELISA Technique
102 Proper Sample Collection and
Sample Management
103 Troubleshooting ELISA
104 xChekPlus™ Basics: Flock
Health Management Software
105 Review of a Kit Insert and
Certificate of Analysis (COA)
106 Hands-on Sample Analysis
In this Discover course, participants are introduced to the basic
ELISA technique and its utility. This module examines IDEXX
proprietary technologies that make this technique more accurate,
repeatable and much easier to use.
This module exposes participants to the basics of blood collection,
serum separation, storage and transport of samples, how to discern
good samples from bad samples and typical examples of sample
collection for antigen detection of different diseases.
Discover common human and material errors encountered when
conducting ELISA testing as well as possible causes of common
descrepancies and remedial actions. Focus is on preventing
such errors by having a robust standard operating procedure for
conducting the test.
Participants will be introduced to the xChekPlus™ software. A
theoretical overview of the software capabilities is presented and
attendees are given an oportunity to read a plate and archive data
using xChekPlus.
Participants will review a typical kit insert and a certificate of
analysis. The focus is on identifying important information and
understanding what guidelines are most critical and how this
information is useful.
Participants will run an actual ELISA for a particular disease.
Description of the correct pipette handling skills and other measures
to ensure a perfect technique will be examined.
TITLE Information
201 Mechanics of the Avian
Immune Response
202 Poultry disease scenario in
Southeast Asia, Vaccination
Programmes and Seromonitoring
Schedules
203 Interpretation of ELISA Results
204 Building Domestic Baselines
205 Diseases of Economic Impact:
Importance of AI Antibody Monitoring
206 Seromonitoring for Newcastle
Disease Using ELISA
207 Molecular Diagnosis: Real-time PCR
TITLE Information
301 Input Cost Analysis: Bird,
Housing, Vaccination
302 Pullet Cost Calculating
303 Expected ROI on Standard
Production Perameters
304 Economic Impact of Potential
Disease Health Risks
305 Preventing Potential Losses by
Surveillance and Monitoring
Participants in Explore will be taken through the basic
understanding of the avian immune system and how it responds to
different disease challenges. They will also be given an overview
on the basics of IDEXX ELISA technology, xChekPlus™, how best to
utilize the kit insert and a practical ELISA demonstration.
Participants will explore the latest disease scenario in India and
its neighbouring countries. The vaccination programmes being
followed for broilers, breeders and layers will be examined.
Participants will understand the basis behind timing of serum
sampling for seromonitoring and will learn how to develop a
seromonitoring schedule alongside an existing vaccination
programme. Special cases on IBV and reovirus vaccination and
monitoring schedules will be reviewed.
This module explores components of the xChekPlus report and its
significance to the existing disease or immunological condition .
Typical examples demonstrating good/poor vaccine response,
disease outbreak, etc. will be reviewed.
This module explores the critical role that baselines play in the
surveillance and monitoring of disease exposure, the response to
vaccination and the economic impact. Building baselines using
xChekPlus software will be demonstrated.
Learn about the most economically important diseases in the
Indian poultry industry. The role of diagnostic seromonitoring for
disease prevention will be discussed with a special reference to
avian influenza, low-and high-pathogenic strains.
The benefits of seromonitoring versus HI testing for Newcastle
Disease will be examined in this module.
Attendees will learn about the advantages of real-time PCR
technology, and will participate in an IDEXX MG/MS PCR Test
demonstration.
Participants in Assess are already aware of the input costs of their
operations, but this module examines which parameter of profit
is most affected. The focus of this discussion is to emphasize
critical control points that will require routine monitoring in order to
achieve best results.
The process involved in growing breeder pullets will be mapped.
The course focus will be on the critical control points and their
cost relative to the total cost of the bird.
The focus of this module will be to emphasize the ROI achieved
from the right investment at critical control points of raising
broiler and layer parents, as well as commercial layers
and broilers.
This module will focus on the financial impact of health
risks. Risk assessment with different virulent and passive
immunosuppressive diseases will be looked at separately.
This module demonstrates how a monitoring schedule can
uncover disease threats. Participants will examine how such
preemptive information can be effectively used to introduce
changes in therapeutic and prophylactic practices in flocks to
avoid economic losses.