Veterinary Microbiology

Veterinary Microbiology

Department of Veterinary Microbiology is imparting theoretical and practical instructions to undergraduate students as per Minimum Standards of Veterinary Education Degree Course Regulations of Veterinary Council of India. The department is also conducting postgraduate master (MVSc) and doctoral (PhD) degree program.

Mandates/ objective of the department: Department has following mandate and objectives:

  • To be premier Microbiology department in India and be the preferred choice of Student, Faculty and Farmers
  • To stimulate the academic environment for promotion of quality in Teaching-Learning and Research and encourage self-evaluation, accountability, autonomy and innovations
  • To arrange periodic assessment and accreditation of Laboratories, Academic Programmes and Projects
  • To provide Consultancy and Training programmes at an affordable prices and offering services excellence of our personnel leveraging best technology
  • To collaborate with other stakeholders of higher education for quality Evaluation, Promotion and Sustenance

Infrastructure of the department

The department has well equipped laboratory facilities to impart quality practical training to under graduate students and research of post-graduate students as under:

  • Laboratory of Bacteriology & Mycology
  • Laboratory of Virology and Biotechnology
  • Laboratory of Immunology
  • Laboratory of Cell Culture

Course offered with credit hours and course code

 

SNo

Course No

Course Title

Credit hours

BVSc &AH as per MSVE 2016

 
  1.  

VMC       

  Veterinary Microbiology

3+2=5

MVSc as per ICAR 2009

 

1.

VMC 601

Bacteriology I

3+1=4

2.

VMC 602

Bacteriology II

3+1=4

3.

VMC 603

Veterinary Mycology

1+1=2

4.

VMC 604

General Virology

2+1=3

5.

VMC 605

Systematic Animal Virology

3+1=4

6.

VMC 606

Principles of Immunology

2+1=3

7.

VMC 607

Vaccinology

2+0=2

8.

VMC 608

Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases

1+2=3

9.

VMC 609

Techniques in Microbiology & Immunology

0+3=3

10.

VMC 691

Master’s Seminar

1+0=1

11.

VMC 699

Master’s Research

20

PhD as per ICAR 2009

 

1.

VMC 701

Advances in Bacteriology

2+1=3

2.

VMC 702

Advances in Mycology

2+1=3

3.

VMC 703

Bacterial Genetics

2+1=3

4.

VMC 704

Microbial Toxins

2+1=3

5.

VMC 705

Molecular Determinants of Bacterial Pathogenesis

2+1=3

6.

VMC 706

Advances in Virology

2+1=3

7.

VMC 707

Molecular and Genetic Aspects of Viral Pathogenesis

2+1=3

8.

VMC 708

Structure function relationship of DNA and RNA Viruses

3+0=3

9.

VMC 709

Oncogenic Viruses

2+0=2

10.

VMC 710

Slow Viral Infections and Prions

2+0=2

11.

VMC 711

Molecular Immunology

2+1=3

12.

VMC 712

Advances in Cellular Immunology

2+1=3

13

VMC 713

Cytokines and Immunomodulators

2+0=2

14.

VMC 714

Advances in Vaccinology

2+0=2

15.

VMC 715

Advances in Immunodiagnostics

1+1=2

16.

VMC 716

Modern Immunotechnology

1+2=3

17.

VMC 717

Current Topics in Infection and Immunity

3+0=3

18.

VMC 718

Veterinary Microbial Biotechnology

2+1=3

19

VMC 790

Special Problem

0+2=2

20.

VMC 791

Doctoral seminar I

1+0=1

21.

VMC 792

Doctoral seminar II

1+0=1

22.

VMC 799

Doctoral research

45

Dr. Rajeev Singh
Dr. Rajeev Singh
Professor & Head
Qualification: Ph.D
Area Of Interest/Specialization: Disease Epidemiology, diagnostics and vaccine development
Email: rajeev201126@yahoo.in, rajeev.vet@svpuat.edu.in
Phone No: 9411078311
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Dr. Harshit Verma
Dr. Harshit Verma
Assistant Professor
Qualification: Ph.D
Area Of Interest/Specialization: Veterinary Microbiology, Vaccinology
Email: harshit.vet@svpuat.edu.in
Phone No: 783050168
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Dr. Shailja Katoch
Dr. Shailja Katoch
Assistant Professor
Qualification: Ph.D
Area Of Interest/Specialization: Veterinary Microbiology
Email: shailja.vet@svpuat.edu.in, dr.shailjakatoch@gmail.com
Phone No: 9418877557
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Research activities

  • The department is providing the disease diagnostic facility to the farmers of province under area of university jurisdiction on regular basis as well as extending the facility for diagnosis of clinical samples of Veterinary Clinical Complex which help in selection of appropriate antibiotic for therapy and control of disease in animals.
  • Efforts are in progress to identify the local priority in the western region of Uttar Pradesh state through the pilot research studies using milk, sera, blood, pus samples etc for presentation in seminar & symposium and publication as research paper in national journal of repute
  • Clinical samples of milk, tissue, blood, urine, faecal, uterine discharge, swabs etc. are processed for microbial isolation, identification and culture sensitivity test in the Bacteriology & Mycology Laboratory of the department and bacterial  isolates identified in process are Staphalococcus aureus, Streptococcus spp., Micrococcus spp., Proteus vulgaris, Proteus mirabilis, E. coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Erwinia toletana, Aeromonas media, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Alcaligenes faecalis, Vibrio gallicus, Aeromonas salmonicida, Erwinia rhapontici Citrobacter werkmanii, Acinetobacter baumannii, Enterococcus spp., Bacteriodes spp., Peptococcus spp., Peptostreptococcus spp., Fusobacterium spp.  &    Truepurella spp.

Extension activities

a. Training organised: Nil

b. Lecture delivered: The faculty delivers guest lecture in different farmer training programmes & Kisan Mela organized by the University

c. Other

  • Attending animal disease outbreaks under area of university jurisdiction and extending the facility for disease diagnosis.
  • Department renders consultancy services to the farmers of the state by suggesting them prevention and control measures against infectious disease(s) for economical dairy, sheep/goat, fish, poultry farming
  • The department continuously provides health coverage to various animal species of university livestock farms


Existing facilities

  • Microbiological examination (Bacteriological & Fungal) of clinical samples
  • Culture Sensitivity Testing
  • Diagnostic facilities for screening of Brucellosis
  • Serological tests: RBPT, SAT, ELISA
  • Consultancy and advisory services in case of disease outbreak in livestock and poultry farms in western Uttar Pradesh

Gallery:

Publications (Original research article, Review article in APA format)

Research Papers

  1. Verma, H., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Upadhyay, S., Bhordia, A and Singh, J. (2022). Microbiological and antibiogram study of bacterial pathogens associated with bovine mastitis in and around Meerut. Indian Drugs, 59(2): 58-63.
  2. Katoch, S., John, J.K., Garg, A. and Singh, R. (2020). Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in African Grey Parrot and its antibiogram study. Journal of Animal Research, 10(5): 849-852.
  3. Verma, H., Rawat, M., Samal, A., Upmanyu, V., Durairajan, R. and Verma, R. (2019). Standardization and development of Pasteurella multocida inactivated adjuvanted vaccines against septic pasteurellosis in pigs. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 57(1): 315-323.
  4. Katoch, S., Verma, H., Garg, A. and Singh, R. (2019). Aspergillosis in African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) in Private Aviary, Meerut. International Journal of Current Microbiology & Applied Sciences, 8(2): 1480-1483.
  5. Verma, H., Rawat, S., Sharma, N., Jaiswal, V. and Singh, R. (2018). Prevalence, Bacterial etiology and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of bovine mastitis in Meerut. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 6(1): 706-709.
  6. Verma, H., Singh, R., Rawat, S., Jaiswal, V., Maurya, P.S. and Yadav, D.K. (2017). Identification and in-vitro antibiogram of bacterial pathogens from bovine mastitis in and around Meerut. Research in Environment & Life Sciences, 10(6): 538-540.

Review papers

  1. Verma, H., Chandra, G., Jaiswal, V., Maurya, P.S. and Sahu, S. (2020). A comprehensive report on poultry intestinal microbiota. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 8(4): 192-197.
  2. Singh, R., Ranjan, K. and Verma, H. (2015). Satellite Imaging and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases. Journal of Tropical Diseases, S1-004.
  3. Ranjan, K. and Singh R. (2018). Dog nose to e-nose in disease diagnosis. Journal of Advances in Biology, 11: 2294-2306 (ISSN2347).