Bengaluru Branch

Bengaluru Branch, National Centre for Disease Control
(formerly Plague Surveillance Unit, NICD)

Broad activities of the Branch

• Study of the population stress under which rodent migration takes place from sylvatic to peripheral commensal habitats.
• Study of the shift in rodent population consequent to inter-ference in ecology in urban, semi urban and rural situations in endemic areas.
• To map out the fauna of rodent fleas in the country vis-à-vis their sustaining hosts particularly with reference to Xenopsylla cheopis and Xenopsylla astia.
• To work out the dynamics of flea infection inter-change on hosts at ecological inter phases.
• Serological investigations of rodent as well as bacteriological investigations for isolation of plague organism from rodent and vector fleas.
• Collection of epidemiological information regarding rodent epizootics and human cases with lymphoadenopathy in illness simulating plague and its investigations.
• To work out the susceptibility status of fleas to various insecticides
• Evaluation of rodenticides / fumigants for the control of rodents in different ecological situations.
• Outbreak investigations of communicable diseases, manpower development

1. Plague Surveillance Unit
2. Leptospirosis Surveillance Unit