About
Professional SummaryDr. Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan is currently working as Senior Scientist at Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Veterinary Virology from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India. He is more than 10 years research experience in the field of Veterinary Microbiology including Animal Cell Culture Techniques and various Serological Diagnostic Techniques for Diagnosis of Infectious Viral Diseases, Molecular Virology, Immunology, Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering/ Recombinant Vaccines/ Designing / Recombinant Antigen production and Testing. As a faculty member of Veterinary Virology, IVRI at Deemed University, he has been extensively involving in Post Graduate Teaching since 2003 and involved as a Member of Advisory Committee for three Ph.D. and three M.V.Sc., scholars and guided Two M.V.Sc., student as Chairman. He is having more than five years in experience of teaching and training at the Post Graduate Level in the Veterinary Virology subject. He has successfully completed 15 research projects, three as Principal Investigator and ten as Collaborator. At present he is handling four research projects [two projects as principal Investigator and two projects as Co-PI (collaborator)]. So far, he has published more than 60 research articles in reputed international and national journal with more than 10 review articles in the areas of research field. He is life member of Indian Virological Society (IVS), Indian Association of Microbiologists, Immunologists and Specialists in Infectious Diseases, Indian Society for Veterinary Immunology and Biotechnology (ISVIB), Tamil Nadu Veterinary Council, Indian Veterinary Council, and Annual membership-2009 in Indian veterinary Journal. He is also acting as a Sectional Editor (Veterinary Virology) in Indian Journal of Virology-INJV is co-published by Springer since 2010 and globally distributed. He is also serving as reviewer in some of the reputed National and international Journals such as Journal of Virological Methods, Tropical Animal Health and Production, Journal of Biotechnology, Virological Sinica, Veterinary Immnology and Immunobiology, and so on.
Education
Academic Background-
Ph.D. Deemed University, India Veterinary Virology | Completed: 2006
Publications (135)
Selected Scholarly Contributions
A Simple Modified Method for Long-Term Glycerol-Based Cryopreservation of
Leptospira
Spp. in Liquid Nitrogen
2026
Effectiveness of the PPR Sungri-96 Vaccine in Sheep and Goats in India: A Nationwide Post-Vaccination Seromonitoring Study Towards PPR Elimination
2026
Assessment of Population Immunity Against Peste des Petits Ruminants in Goats and Sheep in India After the Second Annual Mass Vaccination Implemented Under the National PPR Eradication Programme
2026
Cross-sectional study on seroprevalence and surveillance of peste des petits ruminants virus in small ruminants of the union territory of Puducherry, India
2026
Molecular insights from 2023 and 2024 outbreaks reveal exclusive circulation of peste des petits ruminants virus lineage IV in India
2025
Geospatial distribution of Leptospira‐specific antibodies in febrile illness cases from Dakshina Kannada, India (2022–2023)
2025
Detection of anti-leptospiral antibodies in the serum of animals using recombinant Leptospira GroEL-based latex agglutination test
2025
Post-Vaccination Sero-Monitoring of Peste des Petits Ruminants in Sheep and Goats in Karnataka: Progress towards PPR Eradication in India
2024
Emerging and Changing Patterns in Prevalence of Anti-leptospiral Antibodies Against Different Serogroups in Livestock in Andaman-Islands Ecosystem
2024
Epidemiological analysis of leptospirosis, dengue, and Co-infection rates among febrile illness cases in Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka
2024
Dynamic evolution of peste des petits ruminants virus in sheep and goat hosts across India reveals the swift surge of F gene
2024
Assessment of Vaccination Impact in PPR-Control Program Implemented in Southern States of India: A System Dynamics Model Approach
2024
Evaluating the Antimicrobial and Anti-Hemolytic Activity of Synthesized Pseudopeptide against Leptospiral Species: In Silico and In Vitro Approach
2023
Developments in Rabies Vaccines: The Path Traversed from Pasteur to the Modern Era of Immunization
2023
A Lateral Flow Assay for the Detection of Leptospira lipL32 Gene Using CRISPR Technology
2023
Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of leptospirosis in bovine dairy farms in Telangana state, India
2023
Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii, Leptospira spp., and Coxiella burnetii-associated antibodies in dairy cattle with reproductive disorders.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2022
Assessment of post-vaccination immune response to peste des petits ruminants virus in small ruminants in the central and western regions of India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2022
Temporal and Spatial Epidemiological Analysis of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Outbreaks from the Past 25 Years in Sheep and Goats and Its Control in India
2021
Comparative evaluation of the immunodominant proteins of Brucella abortus for the diagnosis of cattle brucellosis
2021
Avidin-Biotin recombinant antigen capture ELISA for the detection of peste des petits ruminants virus in the clinical specimens of sheep and goats
2021
Avidin-Biotin recombinant nucleoprotein competitive ELISA for the detection of peste des petits ruminants virus antibodies in sheep and goats
2021
Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii antibodies in dairy cattle associated with abortions and reproductive disorders.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2021
Evaluation of the diagnostic potential of recombinant leptospiral OMP A‐like protein (Loa22) and transmembrane (OmpL37) protein in latex agglutination test for serodiagnosis of leptospirosis in animals.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2021
Prevalence of anti-leptospiral antibodies and frequency distribution of Leptospira serovars in small ruminants in enzootic South Peninsular India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2021
Seroprevalence study of peste des petits ruminants in sheep and goats in the northern region of India
2020
Expression of Recombinant Leptospiral Surface Lipoprotein-Lsa27 in E. coli and Its Evaluation for Serodiagnosis of Bovine Leptospirosis by Latex Agglutination Test
2020
Towards eradication of peste des petits ruminants: post-vaccination evaluation in sheep and goats in Southern Peninsular India
2020
Changing trend in the prevalence and emergence of Leptospira serogroup-specific antibodies in livestock in Gujarat, India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2020
Seroprevalence of peste des petits ruminants in sheep and goats in Eastern India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2020
Evaluation of effectiveness of Mass Vaccination Campaign against
Peste des petits ruminants
in Chhattisgarh state, India
2019
Cross-sectional seroprevalence study of peste des petits ruminants in goats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
2019
Scorecard method for assessing the severity of peste des petits ruminants in sheep and goats
2019
Sequence analysis of haemagglutinin gene of camelpox viruses shows deletion leading to frameshift: Circulation of diverse clusters among camelpox viruses
2018
Serosurvey for assessing PPR vaccination status in rural system of Chhattisgarh state of India
2018
Development of an enzyme immunoassay using recombinant invariant surface glycoprotein (rISG) 75 for serodiagnosis of bovine trypanosomosis.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2015
Development and comparative evaluation of loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for simple visual detection of orf virus in sheep and goats.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2015
Diagnosis and control of peste des petits ruminants: a comprehensive review.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2014
Pseudo-peptides as novel antileptospiral agents: Synthesis and spectral characterization.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2014
Prevalence of Peste-des-petits-ruminant virus antibodies in cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goats in India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2014
Evaluation of stability of live attenuated camelpox vaccine stabilized with different stabilizers and reconstituted with various diluents.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2014
Protective immune response of live attenuated thermo-adapted peste des petits ruminants vaccine in goats.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2014
Detection of subclinical peste des petits ruminants virus infection in experimental cattle.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2014
Prevalence of peste des petits ruminants in goats in North-East India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2014
Multiplex PCR for simultaneous detection and differentiation of sheeppox, goatpox and orf viruses from clinical samples of sheep and goats.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2014
PCR based diagnosis of trypanosomiasis exploring invariant surface glycoprotein (ISG) 75 gene.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2013
2013
Real time PCR: A rapid tool for potency estimation of live attenuated camelpox and buffalopox vaccines.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Comparative sequence analysis of poxvirus A32 gene encoded ATPase protein and carboxyl terminal heterogeneity of Indian orf viruses.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Seroprevalence of Peste des petits ruminants in cattle and buffaloes from Southern Peninsular India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
A rapid and sensitive one step-SYBR green based semi quantitative real time RT-PCR for the Detection of peste des petits ruminants virus in the clinical samples.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Peste des petits ruminants virus detected in tissues from an Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) belongs to Asian lineage IV.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
. Effect of immunosuppression on pathogenesis of Peste des Petits ruminants (Ppr) virus infection in goats.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Expressed Truncated N-Terminal Variable Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) of Trypanosoma Evansi in E. coli Exhibits Immuno-Reactivity.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
TaqMan Hydrolysis Probe Based Real Time Pcr for Detection and Quantitation of Camelpox Virus in Skin Scabs.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Rapid Detection and Quantification of Orf Virus From Infected Scab Materials of Sheep and Goats.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Development of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Specific and Rapid Detection of Camelpox Virus in Clinical Samples.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Study on Passive Immunity: Time of Vaccination in Kids Born to Goats Vaccinated Against Peste Des Petits Ruminants.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Cytokines Expression Profile And Kinetics of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus Antigen and Antibody in Infected and Vaccinated Goats.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Prevalence of Peste des petits ruminants among sheep and goats in India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction: another tool to evaluate viable virus content in live attenuated orf vaccine.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
2012
Differentiation of sheeppox and goatpox viruses by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Emergence and Reemergence of Vaccinia-Like Viruses: Global Scenario and Perspectives.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Molecular typing of Brucella species isolates from livestock and human.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2012
Sero-epidemiological study of peste des petits ruminants in sheep and goats in India between 2003 and 2009.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
Camelpox: Epidemiology, diagnosis and control measures.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
Zoonotic cases of camelpox infection in India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of an Indian isolate of orf virus from sheep.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
Production and characterization of Monoclonal antibodies to bluetongue virus.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
Genomic analyses of toll-like receptor 4 and 7 exons of Bos indicus from temperate Sub-Himalayan region of India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
Evaluation of efficacy of stabilizers on the thermostability of live attenuated thermo-adapted Peste des petits ruminants vaccines.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
Comparative efficacy of live replicating sheeppox vaccine strains in Ovines.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
TaqMan real-time PCR assay based on DNA polymerase gene for rapid detection of Orf infection.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2011
Detection of bluetongue virus group-specific antigen using monoclonal antibody based sandwich ELISA.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the structural genes of virulent isolates and vaccine strains of Peste des petits ruminants virus from India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Application of semi-quantitative m gene-based hydrolysis probe (TaqMan) real-time RT-PCR assay for the detection of Peste des petitis ruminants virus in the clinical samples for investigation into clinical prevalence of disease.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Emerging and re-emerging zoonotic buffalopox infection: A severe outbreak in Kolhapur (Maharashtra), India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Pox outbreaks in sheep and goats at makhdoom (Uttar Pradesh), India: Evidence of sheeppox virus infection in goats.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Goat pox virus isolated from an outbreak at Akola, Maharashtra (India) phylogenetically related to Chinese strain.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Isolation and identification of virulent peste des petits ruminants viruses from PPR outbreaks in India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Partial genetic characterization of viruses isolated from pox-like infection in cattle and buffaloes: Evidence of buffalo pox virus circulation in Indian cows.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Recombinant protein-based viral disease diagnostics in veterinary medicine.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Comparative efficacy of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccines.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
2010
2010
Long term immune response of goats to a Vero cell adapted live attenuated homologous PPR vaccine.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2010
Possible control and eradication of peste des petits ruminants from India: Technical aspects.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Expression of P32 protein of goatpox virus in Pichia pastoris and its potential use as a diagnostic antigen in ELISA.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Isolation and characterization of Indian isolates of camel pox virus.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Zoonotic infections of buffalopox in India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Bluetongue vaccines: The past, present and future.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
A polymerase chain reaction strategy for the diagnosis of camelpox.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Comparative efficacy of conventional and taqman polymerase chain reaction assays in the detection of capripoxviruses from clinical samples.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Role of heavy water in biological sciences with an emphasis on thermostabilization of vaccines.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Expression of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus Nucleocapsid Protein in Prokaryotic System and its Potential Use as a Diagnostic Antigen or Immunogen.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Sequence analysis of morbillivirus CD150 receptor-Signaling Lymphocyte Activation Molecule (SLAM) of different animal species.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Quantitative PCR: A quality control assay for estimation of viable virus content in live attenuated goat pox vaccine.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2009
Sequence analysis of C18L gene of buffalopox virus: PCR strategy for specific detection and differentiation of buffalopox from orthopoxviruses.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2008
Comparative sequence analyses of B5R gene of Indian Camelpox virus isolates with other orthopoxviruses.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2008
Potential effect of Acacia arabica on Peste des petits ruminants virus replication.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2008
Status of sheep sera to bluetongue, peste des petits ruminants and sheep pox in a few Northern states of India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2008
In vitro antiviral activity of plant extracts on goatpox virus replication.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2008
Rapid quality control of a live attenuated Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccine by monoclonal antibody based sandwich ELISA.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2008
Cell Culture Adapted Sheeppox Virus as a Challenge Virus for Potency Testing of Sheeppox Vaccine.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2008
Buffalopox: An emerging and re-emerging zoonosis.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2007
In vitro antiviral activity of Eugenia jambolana plant extract on buffalopox virus: Conventional and QPCR methods.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2007
Pichia pastoris: A notable heterologous expression system for the production of foreign proteins-vaccines.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2007
Development of an indirect ELISA for the detection of antibodies against peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in small ruminants.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2007
B5r gene based sequence analysis of Indian buffalopox virus isolates in relation to other orthopoxviruses.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2007
A natural mixed outbreak of Peste des petits ruminants and Orf on a goat farm at Shahjahanpur, India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2007
Expression of 3AB protein of foot and mouth disease virus in Pichia pastoris.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2007
Production and characterization of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against haemagglutinin protein of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccine virus of Indian origin.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2007
Development and characterization of a stable vero cell line constitutively expressing Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) hemagglutinin protein and its potential use as antigen in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for serosurveillance of PPRV.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
One-step multiplex RT-PCR assay for the detection of peste des petits ruminants virus in clinical samples.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
Biotechnology in the production of recombinant vaccine or antigen for animal health.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
Comparative polypeptide profiling: Isolation, propagation and purification of Indian isolates of buffalopox virus.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
An outbreak of buffalopox in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) dairy herds at Aurangabad, India.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
Role of viral cytokines (virokines) in viral infections-mini review.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
Economically important non-oncogenic immunosuppressive viral diseases of chicken-current status.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
Comparative sequence analysis of envelope protein genes of Indian buffalopox virus isolates.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
Sequence analysis of the nucleoprotein gene of Asian lineage peste des petits ruminants vaccine virus.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
Development of dot-ELISA for diagnosis of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in small ruminants.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2006
Protective immune response against foot-and-mouth disease virus challenge in guinea pigs vaccinated with recombinant P1 polyprotein expressed in Pichia pastoris.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2005
Past and present vaccine development strategies for the control of foot-and-mouth disease.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2004
The hydropericardium syndrome in poultry: A current scenario.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2004
Development of a N gene-based PCR-ELISA for detection of Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in clinical samples.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2004
Comparative Evaluation of Serological Techniques for Detecton of Fowl Adenovirus in Chicken.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2003
Protective Immune Response of the Capsid Precursor Polypeptide (P1) of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Type ‘O’ Produced in Pichia Pastoris.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2003
Expression of the Capsid Precursor Polypeptide (P1) of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Vaccine Strains in Pichia Pastoris.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2003
Differentiation of Classical and very Virulent Strains/Isolates of Infectious Bursal Disease Virus by Reverse Transcription - Polymerase Chain Reaction.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2003
Characterization of fowl adenovirus serotype-4 associated with hydropericardium syndrome in chicken.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2002
Development of Sandwich Elisa for the Detection of Fowl Adenovirus 4 Associated with Hydropericardium Syndrome in Experimentally Infected Chicken.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2001
Comparative Evaluation of Serological Tests for Detection of Fowl Adenoviral Group I Antibodies in Experimentally Infected Chickens.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
2000
Detection of Fowl Adenovirus Group I Antigens in Chicken by DOT-ELISA.
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
1999