Containment Animal Wing

Receiving Shed:

This is an enclosed housing facility to keep newly procured animals in quarantine for 28 days. During this period the animals are acclimatized to the new environment and side by side they are also examined for health status and any pre-existing infectious disease. There are a total of 12 rooms for large animals, small animals, and laboratory animals along with store and office. Presently 100 two-week old chicks and 30 one-week old ducklings are being housed here.

Holding Shed:

Animals from receiving shed are shifted to the holding shed after the completion of quarantine period until commencement of experimental trials. It comprises of 16 animal rooms with stores and office room. Presently, there are 30 growers/layers and 20 rabbits housed in holding shed.

Containment facility:

The Animal wing portion of the containment laboratory is a biosafety level 3+ containment facility with graded negative pressure columns from -5 mm to -20 mm Water Column. Four sets of showers are provided at the entry of the animal wing containment area. Inside, the animal wing comprises of four large animals rooms, three small animal rooms, and three rooms designated for laboratory animals. The animal rooms are supplied with filtered air through Air Handling Units (AHU) and air is exhausted through HEPA filters.

A separate isolator room with three isolators (Class III cabinets) has been designated for testing the birds/laboratory animals with highly infectious agents or recombinant organisms. The entry to each animal room is from a common corridor which is designated as clean corridor. The central portion of the animal wing is the post mortem (PM) area which has one way opening from all the animal rooms into the dirty corridor, which leads to the open PM area. The movement of cages from PM area to the clean corridor area is through two large dunk tanks. There are two feed/ fodder storage rooms one each for large animal and small animal rooms. A Pass-Through Cabinet is the barrier between the laboratory wing and the animal wing. Besides this the containment shed also holds an office room, a store and a small canteen.

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  Animals

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  Cages

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  Holding Shed

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  Receiving Shed