Port Blair, Oct 31: The Animal Science Division of ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair has developed the design patent in veterinary parasitological appliance named Parasite Egg Concentrator. The invention is unique as this egg concentrator reduces the use of plastic ware by 71.42 percent and chance of exposure of laboratory personnel. It is also useful for Sheather’s sucrose flotation, saturated salt solution, zinc sulphate floatation and formula ether concentration technique and showed 100% sensitivity and specificity. This appliance is useful for field level applications.
A team consists of Dr. Debasis Bhattacharya, Dr Zachariah George, Dr. Arun Kumar De, Dr. Perumal P., Dr. T. Sujatha, Dr. Jai Sunder and Dr. E. B. Chakurkar.
