Department of Veterinary Microbiology

  • Department of Veterinary Microbiology

Department of Veterinary Microbiology

About

This department had been established with inception of the college in 1930. The postgraduate programme was started in the year 1962. The department offers courses in veterinary bacteriology, veterinary virology, veterinary immunology and veterinary mycology for the award of B. V. Sc. & A.H., M. V. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees. Apart from teaching and curricular research, the department completed extramural research projects.

The Department offers diagnostic services to the field veterinarians, zoo veterinarians and the farmers. The mission of this department is to promote development through quality education, research, consultancy and extension services. Outreach activities range from diagnostic services, professional consultancy on the control of animal diseases of microbial origin. The department has also extended diagnostic services to Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park and conducts collaborative research on infectious diseases of captive wild animals.

Mandate

  • To educate undergraduate and post graduate students.
  • To carry out research in the field of bacteriology, virology, immunology and mycology in order to prevent and combat the existing dreadful and contagious diseases.
  • To aware livestock and pet owners regarding infectious diseases through television broadcast, radio talk, and popular article.

Facilities

Equipment

  • Thermocycler
  • Vertical Gel Electrophoresis
  • Horizontal Gel Electrophoresis
  • ELISA reader
  • Immunoblot apparatus
  • CO2 Incubator
  • Refrigerated centrifuge
  • Laminar flow cabinet
  • Research microscope (trinocular) with CCTV

Diagnostic services

  • Isolation of bacteria and fungi
  • Antibiotic sensitivity test
  • Immunodiagnosis (By ELISA, Haemagglutination, Haemagglutination Inhibition test, Agar Gel Precipitation Test)
  • Molecular diagnosis (by PCR and RT-PCR)

Academic Activities

U.G. Courses (As per VCI Old)

SI. No.

 Course No. Course Title Credit Hrs.
1 2nd Professional Year Veterinary Microbiology

UNIT-1: General & Systematic Veterinary Bacteriology
UNIT-2: Veterinary Mycology
UNIT-3: Microbial Biotechnology
UNIT-4: Veterinary Immunology and Serology
UNIT-5: General and Systematic Veterinary Virology

 3+2

MVSc. Courses (As per ICAR)

SI. No.

 Course No. Course Title Credit Hrs.
1 VMC 601 Bacteriology-I

3+1
2 VMC 602 Bacteriology-II

3+1
3 VMC 603 Veterinary Mycology

1+1
4 VMC 604 General Virology

2+1
5 VMC 605 Systematic Animal Virology

3+1
6 VMC 606 Principles of Immunology

2+1
7 VMC 607 Vaccinology

2+0
8 VMC 608 Diagnostics of infectious diseases

1+2
9 VMC 609 Techniques in microbiology and immunology

0+3
10 VMC 691 Master’s Seminar

1+0
11 VMC 699 Master’s Research

20
Total

18+11=29

Ph.D. Courses (As per ICAR)

SI. No.

 Course No. Course Title Credit Hrs.

1

VMC 701

 Advances in Bacteriology

2+1

2

VMC 702

 Advances in Mycology

2+1

3

VMC 703

 Bacterial Genetics

2+1

4

VMC 704

 Microbial Toxins

2+1

5

VMC 705

 Molecular Determinants of Bacterial Pathogenesis

2+1

6

VMC 706

 Advances in Virology

2+1

7

VMC 707

 Molecular and Genetic aspects of Viral Pathogenesis

2+1

8

VMC 708

 Structure function relationship of DNA and RNA virus

3+0

9

VMC 709

 Oncogenic viruses

2+0

10

VMC 710

 Slow viral infections and prions

2+0

11

VMC 711

 Molecular immunology

2+1

12

VMC 712

 Advances in cellular immunology

2+1

13

VMC 713

 Cytokines and immunomodulators

2+0

14

VMC 714

 Advances in vaccinology

2+0

15

VMC 715

 Advances in immunodiagnostics

1+1

16

VMC 716

 Modern immunotechnology

1+2

17

VMC 717

 Current topics in infection and immunity

3+0

18

VMC 718

 Veterinary microbial biotechnology

2+1

19

VMC 790

 Special problems

0+2

20

VMC 791

 Doctoral Seminar I

1+0

21

VMC 792

 Doctoral Seminar II

1+0

 

 

Research Activities

Completed Research Projects:

Sl. No.

 Name of the Research Project Funding Agency Period
1. All India Coordinated Research Projects for Epidemiological Studies on Foot and Mouth Disease”.. ICAR, New Delhi 1980 – 1984
2. Studies on Immunobiology and pathology of aflatoxin in animals and men in Bihar including its tribal areas. ICAR, New Delhi 1997 -1999
3. Studies on aflatoxin in milk and milk products in different agro-climatic areas of Bihar. ICAR, New Delhi 2001 – 2004
4. Animal health information System through Disease Monitoring and Surveillance (NATP) ICAR, New Delhi 2001 – 2004
5. Comparative evaluation of different agents in controlling immunosuppressive effects of infectious Bursal Disease virus in chickens ICAR, New Delhi 2000 – 2003
Detection of Rotavirus in diarrheic calves in and around Patna. BAU, Sabour 2013-2015

Ongoing Research Projects:

S. No.

 Title of research project Start of Year Funding agency PI/Co-PIs
1. All India Coordinated Research Project for Epidemiological Studies on Foot and Mouth Disease Ongoing ICAR, New Delhi PI: Dr. Manoj Kumar

 

Faculty Members

S. No

Name

Mobile No.

Email ID

More
1. Dr. Manoj Kumar 09835419031 drmanojmicro@rediffmail.com More
2. Dr. S. K. Gupta 7091974583 skgupta15@rediffmail.com,
vetsantosh@gmail.com		 More
3. Dr. Pankaj Kumar 9693651565, 8084679866 pankajimmunol@gmail.com More
4. Dr. Sudha Kumari 9771265765 sudhamicrobvc@gmail.com More
5. Dr. Savita Kumari 9905874147 drsavitakumari@gmail.com More
6. Dr. Awadhesh Prajapati 8979725940 avi75prajapati@gmail.com More

Supporting Staff

S. No

Name

Designation

Mobile No.
1.         Kumari Ragini Upper Division Clerk 8340389159
Ashok Kumar Rajak Laboratory Assistant 9470021219
Subedar Prasad Darwan 9931994163

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Contact Details

Dr. Manoj Kumar

Professor
Department of Veterinary Microbiology
Bihar Veterinary College, Patna – 14 (Bihar, India)
Contact No.: +91 943963483
Email ID.: drmanojmicro@rediffmail.com