_________________________________________________________ Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences http://www.jebas.org KEYWORDS Biotechnology Immunoassay Equine Infectious disease ABSTRACT Rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases and appropriate treatment with in time are important steps that promote optimal clinical outcomes and general public health. Today there is large number of new technologies such as nanotechnology, biosensors, and microarray techniques, are being developed and used as diagnostic tools for equine infectious diseases. Nucleic acid based techniques such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) have become conventional tools in veterinary research and plays an important role in specific typing determinations as well as for rapid screening of ample numbers of samples at the time of equine disease outbreaks. Other biotechnological techniques are populous to be used in the coming times as they can enhance diagnostic efficacy in less time and cost as compared to conventional techniques. This review focuses on biotechnological tools available for equine diseases diagnosis and its applications hold great promise for improving the speed and accuracy of diagnostics for equine infectious diseases. Minakshi Prasad 1,* , Basanti Brar 1 , Ikbal 1 , Koushlesh Ranjan 2 , Upendra Lalmbe 1 , J. Manimegalai 1 , Bhavya Vashisht 1 , Sandip Kumar Khurana 4 and Gaya Prasad 3 1 Department of Animal Biotechnology, LLR University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India, 125004 2 Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, India, 250110 3 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, 250110 4 NRCE, Hisar, Haryana, India, 125001 Received – November 05, 2016; Revision – November 20, 2016; Accepted – December 04, 2016 Available Online – December 04, 2016 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18006/2016.4(Spl-4-EHIDZ).S161.S181 BIOTECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF EQUINE INFECTIOUS DISEASES E-mail: minakshi.abt@gmail.com (Minakshi Prasad) Peer review under responsibility of Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences. * Corresponding author Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences, December - 2016; Volume – 4(Spl-4-EHIDZ) Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences http://www.jebas.org ISSN No. 2320 – 8694 Production and Hosting by Horizon Publisher India [HPI] (http://www.horizonpublisherindia.in/). All rights reserved. All the article published by Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Based on a work at www.jebas.org.