Bengaluru Branch, National Centre for Disease Control (formerly Plague Surveillance Unit, NICD)
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Mailing address
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National Centre For Disease Control Plague Surveillance Unit, NTI Campus, 8, Bellary Road, Bangalore-560003. Tel No : 080-23346723 Fax :080-23446723 e-mail : nicd_psu@rediffmail.com
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Name, Designation and Contact Details of the Officer-in-charge of the Branch
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Dr Vikas Janardhan Gode(PH),
Assistant Director (Additional Charge in addition
to Rajahmundry branch)
Tel No. (O)080-23446723 Tel No. (R)080-23643544 Mobile. 09443698944 Fax :080-23446723 e-mail : drbalanicd@gmail.com
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Other officers in the Branch |
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Sh Sohan Lal, MSc, Deputy Director |
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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
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Units within the Branch: |
- Plague Surveillance Unit
- Leptospirosis Surveillance Unit
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Plague Endemic States In India |
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Karnataka |
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Tamil Nadu |
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Andhra Pradesh |
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Gujarat |
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Himachal Pradesh |
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Uttrakhand |
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Maharashtra |
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