Dr. Dhanavelu Muthuchelvan

Senior Scientist
Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Veterinary Virology from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India

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Biography

Dr D Muthuchelvan is working as a senior scientist at Indian Veterinary Research Institute Campus Mukteswar. He is currently heading the peste-des-petits ruminants (PPR)research group. His research interest includes vaccines and diagnostics of PPR and Canine distemper virus.

Area of Interest:

Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Virology
Diagnostics
Vaccines
Small Ruminants

Selected Publications

  1. Yousuf, R.W., A. Sen, B. Mondal, S.K. Biswas, K. Chand, K.K. Rajak and D. Muthuchelvan, 2015. Development of a single-plate combined indirect ELISA (CI-ELISA) for the detection of antibodies against peste-des-petits-ruminants and bluetongue viruses in goats, Small Ruminant Res., 124: 137-139.
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  2. Santhamani, R., G. Venkatesan, S.K. Minhas, S.B. Shivachandra, D. Muthuchelvan, A.B. Pandey and M.A. Ramakrishnan, 2015. Detection and characterization of atypical capripoxviruses among small ruminants in India. Virus Genes. 10.1007/s11262-015-1206-9.
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  3. Raut, S.D., K.K. Rajak, R. Kumar, A.R. Gurav and M. Manu et al., 2015. Detection of classical swine fever virus antigen and nucleic acid on blood of experimentally infected piglets, Adv. Anim. Vet. Sci., 3: 1-6.
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  4. Parida S., M. Muniraju, M. Mahapatra, D. Muthuchelvan, H. Buczkowski and A.C. Banyard, 2015. Peste des petits ruminants. Vet. Microbiol., 181: 90-106.
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  5. Muthuchelvan, D., K.K. Rajak, M.A. Ramakrishnan, D. Choudhary and S. Bhadouriya et al., 2015. Peste-des-petits-ruminants: An Indian perspective. Adv. Anim. Vet. Sci., 3: 422-429.
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  6. Mohandas, S.S., D. Muthuchelvan, A.B. Pandey, S.K. Biswas and K. Chand et al., 2015. Development of reverse transcription loop mediated isothermal amplification assay for rapid detection of bluetongue viruses. J. Virol. Methods, 222: 103-105.
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  7. Kumar, R., K.K. Rajak, T. Chandra, D. Muthuchelvan, A. Saxena, D. Chaudhary and A.B. Pandey, 2015. Sequence-based comparative study of classical swine fever virus genogroup 2.2 isolate with pestivirus reference strains, Vet. World, 8: 1059-1062.
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  8. Dashprakash, M., G. Venkatesan, M.A. Ramakrishnan, D. Muthuchelvan, M. Sankar, A.B. Pandey and B. Mondal, 2015. Genetic diversity of fusion gene (ORF 117), an analogue of vaccinia virus A27L gene of capripox virus isolates. Virus Genes, 50: 325-328.
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  9. Chand, K., S.K. Biswas, A.B. Pandey, D. Muthuchelvan and B. Mondal, 2015. Bluetongue in India: A review, Adv. Anim. Vet. Sci., 3: 605-612.
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  10. Muthuchelvan, D., A. De, B. Debnath, D. Choudhary and G. Venkatesan et al., 2014. Molecular characterization of peste-des-petits ruminants virus (PPRV) isolated from an outbreak in the Indo-Bangladesh border of Tripura state of North-East India, Vet. Microbiol., 174: 591-595.
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  11. Kumar, R., K.K. Rajak, T. Chandra, A. Thapliyal and D. Muthuchelvan et al., 2014. Whole-genome sequence of a classical swine fever virus isolated from the Uttarakhand state of India. Genome Announcements, Vol. 2. 10.1128/genomeA.00371-14.
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  12. Dadas, R.C., D. Muthuchelvan, A.B. Pandey, K.K. Rajak, S.B. Sudhakar, S.B. Shivchandra and G. Venkatesan, 2012. Development of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for rapid detection of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) genome from clinical samples, Indian J. Comp. Microbiol. Immunol. Infect. Dis., 33: 7-13.
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  13. Nandi, S., D. Muthuchelvan, A. Ahuja, S. Bisht, V. Chander, A.B. Pandey and R.K. Singh, 2011. Prevalence of classical swine fever virus in India: A 6-Year Study (2004-2010), Transboundary emerg. dis., 58: 461-463.
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  14. Muthuchelvan, D., A. Sanyal, V. Balamurugan, P. Dhar and S.K. Bandyopadhyay, 2006. Sequence analysis of the nucleoprotein gene of Asian lineage peste des petits ruminants vaccine virus. Vet. Res. Commun., 30: 957-963.
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  15. Muthuchelvan, D., A. Sanyal, J. Sarkar, B.P. Sreenivasa and S.K. Bandyopadhyay, 2006. Comparative nucleotide sequence analysis of the phosphoprotein gene of peste des petits ruminants vaccine virus of Indian origin. Res. Vet. Sci., 81: 158-164.
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  16. Muthuchelvan, D., A. Sanyal, B.P. Sreenivasa, P. Saravanan, P. Dhar, R.P. Singh and S.K. Bandyopadhyay, 2006. Analysis of the matrix protein gene sequence of the Asian lineage of peste-des-petits ruminants vaccine virus, Vet. Microbiol., 113: 83-87.
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  17. Muthuchelvan, D., A. Sanyal, R.P. Singh, D. Hemadri, A. Sen, B.P. Sreenivasa and S.K. Bandyopadhyay, 2005. Comparative sequence analysis of the large polymerase protein (L) gene of peste-des-petits ruminants (PPR) vaccine virus of Indian origin, Arch. virology, 150: 2467-2481.
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  18. Saravanan, P., R.P. Singh, V. Balamurugan, P. Dhar and B.P. Sreenivasa et al., 2004. Development of a N gene based PCR-ELISA for detection of peste des petits ruminants virus in clinical samples, Acta. virol., 48: 249-255.
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  19. Muthuchelvan, D., R. Venkataramanan, D. Hemadri, A. Sanyal and C. Tosh, 2001. Sequence analysis of recent Indian isolates of foot-and-mouth disease virus serotypes O, A and Asia 1 from clinical materials, Acta. virologica, 45: 159-167.
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