DFRL celebrates 50th Lab Raising Day

The new kit could be used in microbiology department of all medical and veterinary college and institutions, diagnostic, medical and veterinary laboratory, analytical and quality control food laboratories, CFL’s of armed forces, food export inspection agencies and disease control investigation institution and peripheral units.

The kit helps simultaneous detection of foru different groups of pathogenic microorganisms. - Salmonella, Shigellla, Escherichia coli and Proteus. The convention methodology to identify these microorganisms are based on isolation in pure cultures, biochemical and serological tests.

These tests are tedious and time consuming, need three to five days to achieve the results. Moreover, these procedures are not economical.

The kit detects Salmonella genus, Shigella genus, entire E-coli group along with Proteus Vulgaris/mirabilis at the same time, employing monoclonal antibody based simple dot ELISA and a set of four biochemical tests which are reliable, simple to perform, take only three hours to produce results and relatively expensive. The new kit has been developed and tested at DFRL, with number of reference strains, isolates and clinical samples.
 DFRL also carried out a third party evaluation of the kit and has been carried out successfully at JSS Medical College, SDM college, Dharwad and Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.

In his inaugural address at the 50 th Lab Raising Day, Dr K Shekar highlighted the achievements, competition and success in the changing global scenario. He reminded the rare opportunities open to the scientific community.

On the occasion, four teams of scientists were presented various awards of the year. Dr G K Sharma and A Ramakrishna received Scientist of the Year award, while a group led by Dr P S Raju and team and Dr G Sharma and team won the Technology Group award. J H Laxmana, senior technical assistant bagged the DRDO award for DRTC cadre and A Leelamma, senior accounts officer won the DRDO award for administration and allied cadre. Director of DFRL Dr A S Bawa, Dr K Shekar, C Mahesh, C V Madhura and others were present.