Krantisinh Nana Patil College

Veterinary Public Health And Epidemiology

Veterinary public health is a component of public health that focuses on the application of veterinary science to protect and improve the physical, mental and social well-being of humans. Veterinary public health impacts on human health by reducing exposure to hazards arising from animals, animal products, and their environment and significantly contributes to improvement of human and public health by improving agriculture and food systems, advancing biomedical and comparative medical research, preventing and addressing zoonotic diseases, enhancing environmental and ecosystem health, and helping manage 21st century public health challenges.

Department of Veterinary Public Health was established in the year 1998 in the Krantisinh Nana Patil College of Veterinary Science, Shirwal under erstwhile Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri. After subsequent transfer of the college to the Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur and with adoption of curriculum of Veterinary Council of India, the department has been renamed as Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology. Master’s degree programme was started in the year xxxx and till date xx students have completed their degree. Besides, the department has been allocated one seat for doctoral programme.

Since inception, late Dr. P.D. Deshpande headed the department and created requisite infrastructure. In the year 2008, Dr. R.P. Kolhe and Dr. Nagappa K. joined the department and contributed for its overall development. On transfer of Dr. Nagappa, Dr. C.D. Bhong joined in the year 2011. After superannuation of Dr. Deshpande, Dr. V.S. Waskar has taken over as the head since July 2018 and developmental activities have been geared up due to increase in staff strength.

From the old campus of the college, the department has been shifted on second floor of “A” block of newly constructed building. With this shifting, the department is now well-equipped with most of the essential equipment’s/ instruments.

2. Name of Laboratories in Department :

As per mandatory requirements of the Minimum Standards of Veterinary Education, the department has set up of milk hygiene, meat hygiene, epidemiology and zoonoses laboratories in addition to ancillary structures like media preparation room, inoculation room, demonstration/class room.

3. Facilities in the Department :

Milk and Meat Hygiene Laboratories: The separate milk and meat hygiene laboratories have been set up furnished with all required equipment’s/ instruments along with necessary chemicals/media/ glassware etc. to carry out under-graduate practical’s and post-graduate research.

Zoonoses and Epidemiology Laboratory: Zoonoses and epidemiological laboratory has been separately established for isolation and identification of important zoonotic agents and is equipped with separate media preparation room and inoculation room with laminar air flow work station.

Environmental Hygiene Laboratory: This laboratory has also been established for analysis of sources of contamination of water, air, soil etc. for various parameters. The department regularly receives the water samples from various sources for its potability testing.

4. List of UG Courses

For under-graduate teaching, the department is offering 3+1=4 credit course in 3^rd professional year entitled ‘Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology (VPE)’ as per the Minimum Standards of Veterinary Education with four units viz. Unit 1 (Veterinary public health and food safety), Unit 2 (Veterinary epidemiology), Unit 3 (Zoonotic diseases) and Unit 4 (Environmental hygiene).

5. List of UG Courses

For under-graduate teaching, the department is offering 3+1=4 credit course in 3^rd professional year entitled ‘Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology (VPE)’ as per the Minimum Standards of Veterinary Education with four units viz. Unit 1 (Veterinary public health and food safety), Unit 2 (Veterinary epidemiology), Unit 3 (Zoonotic diseases) and Unit 4 (Environmental hygiene).

Sr.No.	Course No.	Course Title	Credits	Semester
1	VPH - 601	Elements of Veterinary Public Health	1+1 = 2	I
2	VPH - 602	Bacterial & Rickettsial Agents of Public Health Significance	2+1 = 3	III
3	VPH - 603	Viral, Fungal and Parasitic Agents of Public Health Significance	2+1 = 3	III
4	VPH - 604	Zoonoses and Public Health	2+1 = 3	I
5	VPH - 605	Principles of Food Hygiene and Safety	2+1 = 3	II
6	VPH - 606	Food-Borne Infections and Intoxications	2+1 = 3	II
7	VPH - 607	Meat and Milk Hygiene	2+1 = 3	I
8	VPH - 608	Environmental Pollution and Safety	3+1 = 4	II
9	VPH - 609	Fish, Fish Products and Seafood Hygiene	1+1 = 2	I
10	VPH - 610	Bioterrorism and Disaster Management	1+1 = 2	III

Sr. No.	Year	Title of the thesis	Name of the student	Name of the guide
1	2011	Molecular characterization of Escherichia coli isolated from foods, water, animals and humans	Godase BN	PD Deshpande
2	2012	Molecular studies on presence of virulent and drug resistant genes in Escherichia coli isolated from beef cattle	Aradhye AG	PD Deshpande
3	2012	Studies on pathogenic Escherichia coli as a cause of childhood diarrhea	Lokhande SD	PD Deshpande
4	2013	Molecular studies on virulence and antibiotic resistant genes in Salmonella spp. Isolated from fresh chicken meat	Nagargoje AB	PD Deshpande
5	2014	Characterization of Aeromonas species isolated from fresh chicken meat	Kore PU	PD Deshpande
6	2014	Occurrence of Vibrio species in seafoods and fresh water fishes	Dhandore CV	RP Kolhe
7	2014	Isolation and characterization of Listeria monocytogenes from peridomestic birds and captive wild animals	Jagtap UV	RP Kolhe
8	2015	Detection of Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase Producing E. coli pathotypes from bovine mastitis	Nalband SM	RP Kolhe
9	2015	Molecular types and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Staphylococcus aureus from bovine mastitis	Gandhale DG	RP Kolhe
10	2016	Detection of Extraintestinal and Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in raw chicken and poultry feces	Bhave SS	RP Kolhe
11	2017	Phenotypic and molecular characterization of Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases in Escherichia coli isolated from food animals	Ranjan M	RP Kolhe
12	2018	Isolation and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus from broiler integration chain	Kshirsagar KD	CD Bhong
13	2018	Identification and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter species from poultry	Deshpande PR	CD Bhong
14	2019	Detection of colistin resistance in Escherichia coli and Salmonella species isolated from flies trapped at farm premises of food animals and poultry	Wadaskar BH	RP Kolhe

Sr. No.	Authors	Title of the article	Journal, Year Vol. and Page No
1	RP Kolhe, NN Zade, SV Shinde, AG Karpe.	Plasmid profile study of Aeromonas isolates from chevon .	Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; 2007; 77(5): 363-366.
2	SV Shinde, NN Zade, RP Kolhe, AG Karpe.	Effect of glycine on plasmid curing of Lactobacillus and Aeromonas species from poultry meat ;	Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; 2007; 77(11): 1131.
3	ZB Dubal, KN Bhilegaonkar, RP Kolhe, Simranpreet Kaur, Shriya Rawat, I Shakuntala, VM Vaidya.	Isolation and genotypic characterization of rotavirus	The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2014; 84(3): 240-244.
4	Pratibha U Kore, Rahul P Kolhe, Padmakar D Deshpande, Chandrakant D Bhong, Samir N Jadhav, Avinash B Nagargoje, Urmila V Jagtap, Chandrakant V Dhandore, Uma M Tumlam, Prashant D Pawar, Madhav W Khasnis.	Prevalence of antimicrobial resistant Aeromonas in chicken and fish washings .	African Journal of Microbiology Research, 2014; 8 (27): 2609-2615.
5	SD Lokhande, RP Kolhe, PD Deshpande, CD Bhong, AG Aradhye, DM Muglikar, BN Godse.	Detection of Escherichia coli Pathotypes in Children with Diarrhea .	Journal of VPH, 2015; 13(2): 79-83.
6	Kolhe R.P., Bhilegaonkar KN; Dubbal ZB; Simranpreet Kaur; Das, Samir; Agarwal RK.	Indirect ELISA for serosurveillance of Japanese encephalitis in pigs .	Indian Journal of Animal Research; 2015; 49(3): 343-349.
7	Dubal ZB, Bhilegaonkar KN, Barbuddhe SB, Kolhe RP, Kaur S, Rawat S, Nambiar P, Karunakaran M.	Prevalence and genotypic (G and P) determination of porcine group A rotaviruses from different regions of India.	Trop Anim Health Prod. 2013 Feb;45(2):609-15.
8	Barbuddhe SB, Doijad SP, Goesmann A, Hilker R, Poharkar KV, Rawool DB, Kurkure NV, Kalorey DR, Malik SS, Shakuntala I, Chaudhari S, Waskar V, D'Costa D, Kolhe R, Arora R, Roy A, Raorane A, Kale S, Pathak A, Negi M, Kaur S, Waghmare R, Warke S, Shoukat S, Harish B, Poojary A, Madhavaprasad C, Nagappa K, Das S, Zende R, Garg S, Bhosle S, Radriguez S, Paturkar A, Fritzenwanker M, Ghosh H, Hain T, Chakraborty T.	Presence of a widely disseminated Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b clone in India.	Emerg Microbes Infect. 2016 Jun 8;5(6):e55.
9	Gandhale D; R. Kolhe; Saba Nalband; P. Deshpande; U. Jagtap; C. Dhandore; S. Bhave; et al.	Molecular types and antimicrobial resistance profile of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from dairy cows and farm environments.	Turkish journal of veterinary and animal sciences, 2017; 41:713-724.
10	UV Jagtap, RP Kolhe, PD Deshpande, NV Kurkure, CV Dhandore, DM Muglikar, SN Jadhav, NK Nighot, SB Barbuddhe.	Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes from peridomestic birds and captive wild animals .	Current Science, 2017; 113(9): 1783-1787.
11	Sujata Bhave, Rahul Kolhe, Chandrakant Bhong, Sameer Jadhav, Saba Nalband, M Ranjan, Dattatray Gandhale, Dushyant Muglikar, Padmakar Deshpande.	Isolation of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli from Poultry Faeces and Raw Chicken .	Journal of Animal Research, 2018; 8(5): 915-923.
12	Sujata Bhave, Rahul Kolhe, Ranjan Mahadevaswamy, Chandrakant Bhong, Samir Jadhav, Saba Nalband, Dattatray Gandhale, Dushyant Muglikar.	Phylogrouping and antimicrobial resistance analysis of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from poultry species .	Turkish journal of veterinary and animal sciences, 2019; 43(1):117-126.
13	SM Nalband, RP Kolhe, PD Deshpande, SN Jadhav, DG Gandhale, DM Muglikar, SR Kolhe, SS Bhave, UV Jagtap, CV Dhandore.	Characterization of Escherichia coli isolated from bovine subclinical mastitis for virulence genes, phylogenetic groups and ESBL production .	Indian Journal of Animal Research, 2020; 54(10):1265-1271.
14	Bhavna Wadaskar, Rahul Kolhe, Vikas Waskar, Mrunalini Budhe, Krishnendu Kundu, Sandeep Chaudhari.	Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance in Escherichia coli and Salmonella Isolated from Flies Trapped at Animal and Poultry Farm Premises .	Journal of Animal Research, 2021; 11(3): 341-350.
15	Bhavna Wadaskar, Rahul Kolhe, Vikas Waskar, Mrunalini Pawade & Krishnendu Kundu	Isolation of Escherichia coli and Salmonella species in flies trapped at animal farm premises	Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies (2019), 7(6): 198-201
16	BR Kadam, RK Ambadkar, AP Somkuwar, NV Kurkure, SW Bonde, SP Chaudhari & VS Waskar	Effect of custard apple (Annona squamosa) seed extract on quality of chicken breast fillets.	Asian Journal of Diary and Food Research (2020), 39 (1) : 66-72

Sr. No.	Name of the author(s)	Title	Details of publication
1	Samir Das, Rahul Kolhe, Arockisamy Arun Prince Milton, Sandeep Ghatak.	Japanese Encephalitis Virus	In Animal-Origin Viral Zoonoses, art of the Livestock Diseases and Management book series (LDM, Springer; 2021; pp 255-289.
2	Dubal ZB; Kolhe RP and Bhilegaonkar KN.	Rotavirus infection	In Zoonoses: Viral, Rickettsial and Prion diseases; edited by SR Garg; Daya Publishing house New Delhi; 2015; pp-281-304.
3	Rahul Kolhe and SB Barbuddhe.	Escherichia coli: a global foodborne enteropathogen	In Microbial diversity and its applications; edited by SB Barbuddhe., R Ramesh and NP Singh; New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi; pp-169-192.
4	Dr. R.P. Kolhe Dr. V.S. Waskar	Rabies Epidemiology, diagnosis and prevention	Monogram on “Rabies – Epidemiology, diagnosis and prevention”	Published on World Rabies Day (28.9. 2019)
5	R.P. Kolhe V.S. Waskar K.N. Bhilegaonkar	Zoonoses	e-Compendium and e-Manual of National Zoonoses Webinar Series	Compilation of lectures and presen- tations

Sr. No.	Name of the faculty	Title of the award /distinction	Awarding agency	Remarks
1	RP Kolhe	KU Patel Memorial award and citation	Indian Food Processors Association New Delhi
2	RP Kolhe	IAVPHS Young Scientist award	Indian Association of Veterinary Public Health Specialists, Bareilly
3	Rathod A.D., Thakare, V.T., Waskar, V.S., Surywanshi, R.D Bhosale, P.P., Bhosle, A.V., Chaudhari, S.P. & Gaikwad, N.Z.	Best Poster Award (Second Position)	Organising Committee of XVI Annual Symposium of IAVPHS held at NVC, Nagpur
4	Dr. V.S. Waskar	Kartutva Gaurav Puraskar 2020	Veterinary Practitioners Welfare Association, Mumbai	Best Academician Conferred on 5.2.2020 at Khopoli

Sr. No	Title of the talk	Name of faculty member	Radio station	Date of Broadcast
1	Career in Veterinary Science	AIR Satara		30.04.2019
2	Zoonosis	AIR Satara		17.07.2019
3	Animal welfare	Dr. V.S. Waskar	AIR Satara
4	Brucellosis and human health risk	Dr. R.P. Kolhe	AIR Pune	13.1.2020
5	Zoonoses	Dr. R.P. Kolhe	AIR Pune	6.7.2020

Sr. No	Title of the talk	Name of faculty member	Radio station	Date of Broadcast
1	Animal – Human interaction	Dr. V.S. Waskar	E-TV Marathi
2	Role of animals in human life	Dr. V.S. Waskar	DD Sahyadri, Mumbai
3	Zoonotic diseases	Dr. V.S. Waskar	DD Sahyadri, Mumbai

9. Any other achievement by the faculty and student

Preparation of CD's, digital display, organization of group discussion among students to improve communication skill and knowledge.
Organization of training programmes for butchers, professionals, stake holders on food safety issues.
Continuing Veterinary Education (CVE) on zoonoses and occupational diseases for field veterinarians and farmers.
Studies on dissemination of antimicrobial resistance among the foodborne pathogens isolated from foods of animal origin.
Studies on possible correlation of spread of AMR through non-conventional sources.
Establishment of role of in captive wild animals and birds in spread of AMR.

Research priority areas

1. Antimicrobial resistance

2. Molecular epidemiology food borne pathogens

Extension activities of the department :

Field and other activities undertaken by faculty :

Participation / Celebration of World Zoonoses Day, World Rabies Day, Clean Milk Production Day, National Milk Day, One Health Day.
Participation in rallies, street plays, road shows etc. organised on various events.
National Zoonoses Webinar Series was conducted virtually during 1-6 July 2020 as a part of celebration of "World Zoonoses Day"
Lectures/ Demonstrations for creating awareness on "Zoonotic Diseases" among the students, field veterinarians, pet owners, animal handlers and other risk groups.
Participation in delivering radio talk and TV talks on related issues.
Publication / Writing of technical/popular articles in Marathi on variety of topics related to food safety, animal welfare, zoonotic diseases etc.
Consultancy is given to industry personnel for hygienic processing of animal origin foods, by-product utilization, product development and allied aspects.
Publication of research/technical articles and reading material in Marathi for the benefit of the farmers.
Awareness campaigns among school children and college students about environmental (water, air, soil) pollution, their sources, effects, prevention and control as well as importance of maintaining clean and green surrounding.

Sr. No	Year	Title of training	Name of faculty
1	2012	Laboratory diagnosis	PD Deshpande
2	2016	Clean poultry meat production	RP Kolhe

1988 to 2016	Late Dr. P.D. Deshpande M.V.Sc., Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head
08.04.2008 to till date	Dr. R.P. Kolhe M.V.Sc., Ph.D. Assistant Professor
2011 to till date	Dr. C.D. Bhong M.V.Sc. Assistant Professor
25.07.2018 to till date	Dr. V.S. Waskar M.V.Sc., Ph.D. Professor and Head

Future plans:

Establishment of Livestock Origin Food-borne Pathogen Monitoring Laboratory
Upgradation of Milk and Meat Hygiene and Quality Control Laboratory
Establishment of Repository for P
Establishment of Departmental Educational Museum

Any other information of the Department and faculty

Developed e-Learning aids for various courses in veterinary public health for under-graduate teaching.

Contributed specimens/models/charts for the University Museum.

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