
Within each chapter, important topics are identified and discussed in simple language so as to facilitate rapid reading and understanding of important concepts. This lecture note is divided into fifteen chapters covering major and relevant topics of the subject matter. In the development of this lecture note, materials have been gathered and adapted from different standard books.

It can also be helpful for those graduates who are in service.

This lecture note is primarily prepared for Animal Health Science and Veterinary Laboratory Technology and students pursuing their studies in various higher teaching institutions. Therefore, this lecture is developed to fill the existing gap and strengthen the teaching learning processes. Hence, some of the strategies that are used to skirt these problems are developing of lecture notes on various subjects.

There is shortage of references in higher teaching institutions especially in newly opened institutions engaged in training of various Veterinary professionals in the country.
