Vishal Chander

TL;DR: This is the first comprehensive study about the nature and ecology of CDV circulating among dog population in India and reveals a trend towards adaptation of 549H variants in non-canid hosts although no role of G/E530R/D/N substitution could be identified.

TL;DR: A recently developed isothermal amplification technique, polymerase spiral reaction (PSR), was optimized for the first time for a viral pathogen with reference recombinant plasmid standards from different CPV-2 antigenic variants and found to be highly specific, as it did not react with other putative canine pathogens.

TL;DR: Detailed genomic characterization revealed involvement of Delta mutant (Pango lineage B.1.617.2) of SARS‐CoV‐2 at two different locations, and no other feline species enclosed in the zoo/park were found infected.

TL;DR: Different types of marker vaccines, with variable degrees of efficacy, along with companion diagnostic assays have been developed and may be useful in controlling and even eradicating the disease in the foreseeable future.

TL;DR: The present study based on micro-serum neutralization test reports the sero-epidemiology of BHV-1 infection in cattle and buffaloes from different parts of India, finding that Assam had highest seropositivity of 71.1% for yaks, Madhya Pradesh had 68.9% for cattle and Meghalaya was negative for the presence of antibodies to BHv-1 in cattle.