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. Monil Singhai
Joint Director and Section In-Charge
MBBS MD Microbiology
Email ID- nicdzoonosis@yahoo.com

*Other officers in the Division

 
Dr. Alka Singh
MBBS (LHMC)
Medical Officer
Email ID- nicdzoonosis@yahoo.com

*Other staff in the Division

Ms. Neeru Kakkar
Assistant Research Officer
M.Sc. (Bio. Chemistry)

Sh. R.K Pandey
M.Sc
Assistant Research Officer

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

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

Sh. Sumit Shukla
Technician
B.Sc (Biochemistry)

Ms. Saraswati Paeik
Lab Assistant
12th Pass

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

Ms. Rani
7th Pass
Lab Attendant

Sh. Naveen Kumar  
Animal Attendant.   
10th Pass

 
Ms. Maya
Animal Attendant

Sh. Man Singh Meena         
MTS  
8th Pass

Ms. Monica   
MTS  
10th Pass

National Referral Laboratories/Units under Division:

Branch Details:                                                                                      

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

Full Mailing Address: Plague Surveillance Unit, NCDC, 2^nd Floor, Hosakerehalli BMTC BUS Stand Building, Hosakerehalli, BSK 3^rd Stage, Bangalore -560085

Officers/Officials  in the Branch:

Mandate of the Division:

Centre for Arboviral And Zoonotic Diseases comprises of 9 National Reference Laboratory dealing with Zoonotic diseases of public health importance including outbreak prone and emerging infectious diseases. The role of the 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 the 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

1. Jayaprakasam M, Chatterjee N,  Chanda MM, Shahabuddin SM , Singhai M,Tiwari S, Panda S. Human anthrax in India in recent times: A systematic review & risk mapping. One Health.Volume 16, June 2023, 100564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2023.100564
2. Goyal R, Singhai M, Mahmood T, Saxena V. Association between the physical activity and metabolic syndrome in residents of a foot-hill area in India. Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2022 Mar 23;16(4):102471. doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2022.102471

3. Agrawal SJ, Goyal R, Singhai M. Breakthrough Infections and Omicron Variant: Dealing with the Dilemma. Indian J Med Biochem 2021; 25 (3):0-0.

4. Singhai, M.; Sood, V.; Singh, G.; Siddiqui, C.; Nale, T.; Jha, P.; Yadav, P.; Jaiswal, R.; Bala, M.; Singh, S.K.; Tiwari, S. Rabies Outbreak in the Urban Area of Delhi: An Investigation Report and One Health Perspective for Outbreak Management. Infect. Dis. Rep. 2022, 14, 1033-1040.

5. Singhai M, Sood V, Yadav P, Kumar KK, Jaiswal R, Madabhushi S, Dhull P, Bala M, Singh SK, Tiwari S. Intravitam Diagnosis of Rabies in Patients with Acute Encephalitis: A Study of Two Cases. Infect Dis Rep. 2022 Nov 29;14(6):967-970. doi: 10.3390/idr14060095. PMID: 36547241; PMCID: PMC9778139.

6. 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.

7. Singhai M, Jaiswal R, Siddiqui C, Tiwari S, Gupta N, Bala M, Singh SK. Rabies can be a disease of puppyhood. J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Jun;11(6):3339-3341. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1605_21. Epub 2022 Jun 30. PMID: 36119256; PMCID: PMC9480633.

8. Arora, R., Goel, R., Singhai, M., Gupta, N., & Saxena, S. (2021). Rabies Antigen Detection in Postmortem Cornea. Cornea, 40(5), e10-e11.
9. 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.

10. 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.

11.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

12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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).
16. 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.
17. 17. Mittal, V., Chhabra, M., & Venkatesh, S. (2015). Ebola virus-an Indian perspective. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 82(3), 207-209.
18. 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.
19. Shrivastava, A., et al (2015). Outbreaks of unexplained neurologic illness—Muzaffarpur, India, 2013–2014. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 64(3), 49.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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)

1. National Guidelines for Rabies Post exposure prophylaxis 2019.
2. National Guidelines for Rabies Post exposure prophylaxis 2015.
3. National Guidelines : Diagnosis, Case Management, Prevention & control of leptospirosis.

Technical reports/Communicable Disease alerts: (Hyperlinks given)

1. Glanders
2. Kyasanur forest Disease: A Public Health Concern
3. Meliodosis
4. Scrub Typhus
5. Zika Virus Disease

Manuals: 2 (Hyperlinks given)

1.      Manual on Zoonotic Diseases of Public Health Importance

2.      Rabies General Aspects Laboratory Techniques 2022

Operational Research

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

Relevant photograph of the Division:

TRAINING ON PPE, SPILL MANAGEMENT & TRIPLE LAYER PACKING, 2019

PHOTOGRAPH OF CAZD (FORMERLY ZOONOSIS DIVISION) OFFICIERS AND OFFICIALS, NCDC, DELHI, 2017

 LABORATORY EXPERT GROUP MEETING FOR PROGRAMMES UNDER, DIVISION OF ZOONOTIC DISEASE PROGRAMMES, 2021

 HANDS ON TRAINING ON DIAGNOSTIC RICKETTSIOLOGY, 2020

 BIOSAFTETY AND BIOSECURITY WORKSHOP UNDER HISICON-2021, ORGANISED BY CAZD

OFFICIER AND OFFICIALS OF ZOONOSIS DIVISION FORMED IN 1963 (PRESENTLY KNOWN AS CENTRE FOR ARBOVIRAL AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES)  

26^th PLAUGE INTERSTATE MEETING CONDUCTED BY NCDC DELHI AND BANGLORE.

ONE DAY WORKSHOP FOR UNDERSTANDING ARBOVIRAL AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES CONDUCTED BY CAZD IN COLLABORATION WITH RAMJAS COLLEGE ON THE OCCASION OF “NATIONAL  SCIENCE DAY”, 2023

A CME ON ANIMAL BITE AND RABIES ORGANIZED AT LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE & SMT. S.K. HOSPITAL, 2023