Section 3: Tests to which animal may be Submitted

(1) The Veterinary Officer may examine and submit an animal or animals reported or suspected or believed to be infective or in dose proximity or contact with such animal or animals to one or more of the following tests.-

(i) Tuberculin test in the case of tuberculosis;

(ii) Avian tuberculin or Johne's test in the case of Johne's disease;

(iii) Mallein test in the case of glanders or farcy;

(iv) Agglutination test in the case of Brucellosis;

(v) Pulloram (Agglutination) Test in case of Bacillary white Diarrhoea (Pullorum disease),

(2) In the case of a contagious or infectious disease other than any disease referred to in sub-rule (1), the Veterinary Officer may keep the animal under observation or collect blood or any other material from the animal suspected to be suffering from the contagious or infectious disease, for the purpose of confirmation by laboratory diagnosis.

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