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Ghaziabad	254
Gurugram	261
Noida	236

Centre for Arboviral and Zoonotic diseases

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Full Mailing Address:

Centre for Arboviral and Zoonotic Diseases (CAZD),

National Centre for Disease Control,

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Telephone: 011-20832481

Head of the Division:

Dr. Manju Bala

Additional Director & Head, CAZD, NCDC, Delhi

MD(Microbiology), PhD

Email ID- nicdzoonosis@yahoo.com

Dr. Monil Singhai

Joint Director and Section In-Charge

MBBS MD Microbiology

Email ID- nicdzoonosis@yahoo.com

*Other Staff in the Division

Ms. Neeru Kakkar

Assistant Research Officer

M.Sc. (Bio. Chemistry)

Ms. Yosman

Assistant Research Officer

M.Sc. (Micro)

Ms. Niti Akoj

Assistant Research Officer

M.Sc. (Micro)

Dr. Rekha Jaiswal
Assistant Research Officer
M.Sc. , Phd

Sh. Girrraj Singh

Research Assistant

M.Sc., M. Phil PGD.MPH PGD One Health

Sh. Charanjeet Singh

Research Assistant

B.Sc. (GEN)

Ms. Sharda Singh

Research Assistant

M.Sc. (Zoo.) B. Ed

Sh. Chandan Singh

Research Assistant

B.Sc. (Biology)

Sh. K. S. Pandey

Research Assistant

M.Sc. (Zoo)

Sh. Vinay Singh

Technician

M.Sc. (Micro)

Ms. Jyoti

Technician

M.Sc. (Micro)

Ms. Preeti Khatri

Technician

M.Sc. (Biotech)

Ms. Neha Aggarwal

Technician

M.Sc. (Zoology)

Ms. Priyanka Yadav

Technician

M.Sc. (Micro)

Sh. Man Mohan Singh Mehra

Technician

10th Pass

Ms. Saraswati Paeik

Lab Assistant

12th Pass

Sh. Suman Kumar Mondal

Lab Assistant

B.Sc. (Gen)

Sh. Balraj Singh

Lab Assistant

12th Pass

Sh. Parveen Kumar

Lab Assistant

10th Pass

Sh. Vinod Kumar

Insect Collector

12th Pass+1year computer

Sh. Deepak Kumar

Insect Collector

12th Pass with Science

Sh. Suresh Kumar

Insect Collector

8th Pass

Sh. Rakesh

Insect Collector

9th Pass

Ms. Babita Singhal

Insect Collector
B.Com

Sh. Madan Lal

Insect Collector

12th Pass

Sh. Devender Singh

Lab Attendant

10th Pas

Sh. Samar Nath

Lab Attendant

10th Pass

Sh. Naveen Kumar

Animal Attendant.

10th Pass

Sh. Man Singh Meena

MTS

8th Pass

Ms. Monica

MTS

10th Pass

Details of Laboratories/Units under Division:

Sr. No	Lab/Unit name:	Name of Officer in Charge of Lab/Unit:
	Plague/Anthrax Laboratory	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Leishmania/Toxoplasma/Cysticercosis/ Hydatid Laboratory	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Arbovirus Laboratory (Dengue/Chikungunya/Japanese Encephalitis)	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Leptospira/Brucella Laboratory	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Rickettsia Laboratory /Borrellia Laboratory	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Rabies Laboratory	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Molecular Laboratory	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Tissue Culture Laboratory	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Quality control and Quality assurance	Dr. Monil Singhai
	Central Plague Surveillance Unit	Dr. Monil Singhai

Branch Details:

Name of the Branch: National Centre for Disease Control, Bengaluru Branch (Plague Surveillance Unit)

Full Mailing Address: Plague Surveillance Unit, NCDC, NTI Campus, 8, Bellary Road (Besides Cauvery Theatre), Bengaluru-560003

Officers/Officials in the Branch:

S.no	Name	Designation	Official Phone	Official Email
	Dr. Subhangi Kulsange	Deputy Director and Officer In-charge	080-23446723	nicd_psu@rediffmail.com
	Sh Anok Melvin Marshall	Research Assistant	080-23446723	nicd_psu@rediffmail.com
	Smt. Srilatha.K.P	Research Assistant	080-23446723	nicd_psu@rediffmail.com
	Smt. M. Malini	Lab Assistant	080-23446723	nicd_psu@rediffmail.com
	Sh Shiva Kumar S. Titti	Lab Assistant	080-23446723	nicd_psu@rediffmail.com
	Sh. Joshua Jeevanand	Lower Division Clerk	080-23446723	nicd_psu@rediffmail.com

Mandate of the Division:

Centre for Arboviral And Zoonotic Diseases comprises of 9 laboratories of national importance dealing with Zoonotic diseases of public health importance including outbreak prone and emerging infectious diseases. The role of division is primarily to provide laboratory evidence by conducting special and reference level tests which are not available at most of the institutes or medical colleges in India. Currently the work is being carried out on following Zoonotic diseases: Rabies, Kala-azar, Arboviral infections (Dengue, JE, Chikungunya, Zika virus & CCHF) Toxoplasmosis, Brucellosis, Leptospirosis, Rickettsiosis, Hydatidosis, Neurocysticercosis, Plague and Anthrax etc

CAZD is also involved in Plague surveillance and preparedness assisted with Plague surveillance unit, NCDC Bengaluru Branch.

Publications:

Research Papers

Singhai, M., Shah, Y. D., Gupta, N., Bala, M., Kulsange, S., Kataria, J., & Singh, S. K. (2021). Chronicle down memory lane: India's sixty years of plague experience. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology.

Arora, R., Goel, R., Singhai, M., Gupta, N., & Saxena, S. (2021). Rabies Antigen Detection in Postmortem Cornea. Cornea, 40(5), e10-e11.

Singhai, M., Dhariwal, A. C., Gupta, N., Goswami, S., & Singh, S. K. (2020). An Observational Study of JE Cases Detected in National Centre for Disease Control from January 2017 to December 2019. Journal of Communicable Diseases (E-ISSN: 2581-351X & P-ISSN: 0019-5138), 52(4), 12-16.

Gupta, N., Singhai, M., Garg, S., Shah, D., Sood, V., & Singh, S. K. (2020). The missing pieces in the jigsaw and need for cohesive research amidst coronavirus infectious disease 2019 global response. medical journal armed forces india, 76(2), 132-135.
Jaiswal¹, R., Chhabra, M., Singh, P., Gupta, N., Singhai, M., Dhariwal, A. C., & Tripathi, P. (2018). Molecular Epidemiology and Sequence Analysis of Rabies Virus Isolates from North and North East India. Journal of Communicable Diseases, 50(4), 4
Singh, G., Chhabra, M., Singh, P., Gupta, N. K., Singhai, M., Dhariwal, A. C., & Ram, S. (2018). Molecular Study of Glycoprotein (G) Gene Region of Rabies Virus from Spotted Deer, Delhi, India. Journal of Communicable Diseases, 50(3), 3.
Singh, G., Jaiswal, R., Chhabra, M., Sood, Y., Gupta, N., Singhai, M., Tiwari, S., Dhariwal, A.C., Sharma, R. and Ram10, S. (2017). Evaluation of Direct Rapid Immunohistochemistry Test (DRIT) for Postmortem Diagnosis of Rabies. Journal of Communicable Diseases, 49(3), 3.
Rawat, V., Kumar, A., Kumar, M., Singhai, M., Rawat, C. M. S., & Jha, S. K. (2016). Viral Hepatitis A and E Outbreaks in Kumaon Region of Uttarakhand. National Academy Science Letters, 39(1), 17-19.
Singhai, M., Rawat, V., Singh, P., & Goyal, R. (2016). Fatal case report of concomitant hepatitis E and Salmonella paratyphi A infection in a sub-Himalayan patient. Annals of Tropical Medicine & Public Health, 9(1).
Malik, Y. P. S., Kumar, N., Rawat, V., Sharma, K., Kumar, A., Singhai, M., & Kumar, M. (2015). Detection and distribution pattern of prevalent genotypes of hepatitis-C virus among chronic hepatitis patients from Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India. Indian journal of medical microbiology, 33, 161.
11. Mittal, V., Chhabra, M., & Venkatesh, S. (2015). Ebola virus-an Indian perspective. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 82(3), 207-209.
Sharma, P., Mittal, V., Chhabra, M., Singh, P., Bhattacharya, D., & Venkatesh, S. (2014). Dominance shift of DENV-1 towards reemergence and co-dominant circulation of DENV-2 & DENV-3 during post-monsoon period of 2012 in Delhi, India. Journal of Virology and Retrovirology, 1(1), 104.
Shrivastava, A., et al (2015). Outbreaks of unexplained neurologic illness—Muzaffarpur, India, 2013–2014. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 64(3), 49.
Sharma, P., Mittal, V., Chhabra, M., Kumari, R., Singh, P., & Venkatesh, S. (2016). Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary analysis of dengue virus type 2, circulating in Delhi, India. Virusdisease, 27(4), 400-404.
Singh, P., Chhabra, M., Sharma, P., Jaiswal, R., Singh, G., Mittal, V., Rai, A. and Venkatesh, S. (2016). Molecular epidemiology of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in India. Epidemiology & Infection, 144(16), 3422-3425.
Singh, P., Sharma, P., Kumar, S., Chhabra, M., Rizvi, M.A., Mittal, V., Bhattacharya, D., Venkatesh, S. and Rai, A. (2016). Continued persistence of ECSA genotype with replacement of K211E in E1 gene of Chikungunya virus in Delhi from 2010 to 2014. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease, 6(7), 564-566.
Thakur, R., Kumar, Y., Singh, V., Gupta, N., Vaish, V. B., & Gupta, S. (2016). Serogroup distribution, antibiogram patterns & prevalence of ESBL production in Escherichia coli. The Indian journal of medical research, 143(4), 521.
Kumar, Y., Gupta, N., Vaish, V. B., & Gupta, S. (2016). Distribution trends & antibiogram pattern of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport in India. The Indian journal of medical research, 144(1), 82.

Guidelines: (Hyperlinks given)

Technical reports/Communicable Disease alerts: (Hyperlinks given)

Manuals: 2 (Hyperlinks given)

1. Manual on Zoonotic Diseases of Public Health Importance

Operational Research:

To study the epidemiological profile of Kala-azar patients in Delhi
Serological studies in Toxoplasmosis in different Delhi Hospitals.
Comparative analysis of various serological tests in diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis.
Surveillance of Plague in different parts of the country.
Molecular characterisation of strains of Leishmania.
Standardization of appropriate diagnostic methods for sero-diagnosis and sero- epidemiology of leptospirosis.
Surveillance of arboviral infections in man and animals.
Study of prevalence of Rabies in peridomestic and wild rodents.
Standardization of Rapid Fluorescent Focus Inhibition Test (RFFIT) for rabies antibody titer.
Serological studies in clinically suspected cases of hydatid disease.
Sero-epidemiological studies for rickettsial diseases (scrub typhus & Indian tick typhus)