Virology and Mycology

Biography

Shantanu Prakash is PhD in field of virology and infectious diseases. He is basically involved with research, academics and in academics, research and patient management. He has more than 25 publications, four patents and thousands of sequences submitted on NCBI of different viruses and bacteria and has been involved in many intramural and extramural projects. He has experience in the field of designing molecular diagnostics assay for infectious diseases, molecular characterization & whole genome sequencing of different viruses. Right now he is involved extensively on epidemiology & surveillance of AES in northern India with focus of newer emerging and reemerging pathogens. The present study is based on several years of experience in serological and molecular techniques.

Abstract

Abstract : Role of real time PCR in diagnosis of Japanese encephalitis virus in acute encephalitis cases