Courses offered: 

U.G. Courses
1. Milk Hygiene and Public Health
2. Meat Hygiene and Public Health
3. Zoonoses and Human Health
4. Environmental Hygiene

P.G. Courses
1. Seminar
2. Special Problem
3. Epidemiological Methods
4. Zoonoses and their Control
5. Occupational Health
6. Food borne Infections and Intoxications
7. Methods in Sanitary Evaluation of Foods
8. Trends in Environmental Hygiene
9. M.V.Sc. Thesis Research
10. Microbiology of Meat and Meat Products
11. Vet. Public Health Organization & Community Health
12. Ph.D. Thesis Research

Research Projects in Operation: 

1. Development of rapid and sensitive immunological and molecular diagnostic test for detection of Salmonella in foods of animal origin. (DBT)

2. Development of DNA based molecular techniques for identification of meats of different animal species. (DBT)

Salient Achievements:

Research

      (1) Environmental Hygiene

• The pond and canal waters were found to de highly polluted.
• Study revealed that slaughter house environment was responsible for carcass containation.
• Survey conducted in and around pantnagar revealed extensive use of pesticides such as chlorpyrifos, endosulphan, deltamethrin, lindane and monocrotofos by farmers.
• Pesticide (chlorpyrifos & endosulphan) residues were found in varying concentrations in milk, meat, feed/fodder, fish and egg samples.
• Residues of tetracycline were found in foods of animal origin.

     (2) Colibacillosis

• Calf-diarrhoea is enterotoxin induced.
• Calf origin enterotoxin is of heat-stable (ST) type.
• ST-type toxin partially characterized.

     (3) Food Hygiene

• Milk culture filtrate obtained from Lactobacillus acidopillus strains exhibited antibacterial activity against various enteric as well as non-enteric organisms.
• On the basis of SPC, 37.72% samples of milk, and 73.33% of cream collected form Pantanagar was found to be poor quality.84% of barfi samples were evaluated as unsatisfactory.
• Enterobacteria isolated from meat, milk and its products showed high drug resistance and persistence of R-factor.
• For differentiation of meat of various species of animals serological and electophoretic techniques were compared, disc electrophoretic method was found better.

    (4) Salmonellosis

• Enterotoxins/cytotoxins produced by Salmonellae have been partially characterized
• Cytotoxic activity on cell monolayer has been demonstrated.
• Mechanism of Salmonella enterotoxigenicity varies markedly forms that of E.coli. infection. It disrupts intestinal architecture.
• Agar overlay technique found suitable for Salmonella toxin study.
• DNA based molecular technique for detection of salmonella has been standardized.

   (5) Yersiniosis

• Yesinia enterocolitica is serology important in the epidemiology of yersiniosis.
• Screening for virulence needs to be carried with the help of multiple tests.
• Enterotoxin (ST-type) of Yersinia enterocolitica was partially characterized.

   (6) Brucellosis

• Prevalence showed increasing trends towards the last 3 decades.
• Organize farms were found to be more affected than rural areas.
• Rose Bengal Test and ELISA found efficient for screening of serum samples.
• Female animals showed  higher prevalence.
• Brucella cell membrane proteins are being exploited for vaccine development.