You can purchase many different rabbit polyclonal antibodies to Leptospira
sp. from NVSL, Ames, IA.  I make a cocktail of 6 different serovars for my
work here in the Vet Diagnostic Lab.  Their website is:
www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/nvsl/

Jan Shivers
U of MN Vet Diag Lab

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moumita Kundu" 
To: ; "Nita Searcy" ;

Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Shortages


> Hi ,
>
> Can you give me information regarding antibody which works for Leptospira
> used for animal Diagnostics.
>
> Thank you
> Moumita
> ADDL Purdue Univ
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: 
> To: "Nita Searcy" ;
> 
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 2:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Shortages
>
>
> > The latest survey by ASCP was done fall 2002. Since they do the survey
> every
> > other year, it will probably be repeated in fall 2004. The link to the
> 2002
> > survey (published fall 2003) is below.
> >
> > http://www.ascp.org/bor/center/center_research.asp
> >
> > At the time of the last survey, there was a 8.7% vacancy of HT, and
10.0%
> > for HTL. This is all labs (hospital, private, etc.) in all parts of US.
> The
> > report breaks it down to types of labs, size of facility, region of
> country,
> > etc.
> >
> > HT and HTL had the highest vacancy rates of all lab techs. (Nursing
> vacancy
> > is about 10%, so we are about equivalent to the nursing shortage. But
you
> > never hear about our shortage, do you?)
> >
> > Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS
> > William Beaumont Hospital
> > Royal Oak, MI 48073
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Nita Searcy" 
> > To: 
> > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:53 AM
> > Subject: [Histonet] Shortages
> >
> >
> > > Does anyone know the percentage of histology vacancies at the present
> > > time?
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