Welcome to Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries University

Dr. LEENA, G.

College name : Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore

Department : Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology

Designation and address:
Associate Professor and Head
Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology
Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore

Qualifications
M.V.Sc., Ph. D, PGDOH and PGDFQ

Contact
Office:
Mobile: 09591000339
Email: drleenagowda@gmail.com

Fields(s) of specialization

Zoonoses and Environmental Hygiene

Current Projects

Project Title	Role in the Project	Fund Outlay	Funding Agency
Outreach Programme on Zoonotic Diseases”: XI & XII Five Year Plan, ICAR. And OPZD (2017-2020)	Principal Investigator	73.08lakhs+ 73.04 lakhs+ 27 Lakhs (173.12 lakhs)	ICAR, New Delhi

Completed Projects

Project Title	Role in the Project	Fund Outlay	Funding Agency
Detection of bacteria of public health significance from milk and milk products (Project No. DR/SRP/VSc/12-13/375 dated 22.06.2012)	Principal Investigator	Rs. 25,000	KVAFSU, Bidar
Effect of Prebiotic supplementation in commercial broilers” Project “ for 2009-10 (Project No. DR/SRP/PSc-1/09-10)	Co-Principal Investigator	Rs. 20,000	KVAFSU, Bidar
Sero-prevalence of Brucellosis in Bovine in Karnataka state (Project No. DR/SRP/VSc-10/11-12/1775 dated 8.07.2011 with Budget-)	Principal Investigator	Rs. 30,000	KVAFSU, Bidar
Detection of milk adulteration in Bangalore city DR/SRP/VSc-2/12-13	Principal Investigator	Rs. 25,000	KVAFSU, Bidar
“Studies on the prevalence of parasitic stages on Vegetables in Bangalore and Hassan” DR/KVAFSU/SRP Pre & Para Clin-05/2016-17	Co- Principal Investigator	Rs. 20,000	KVAFSU, Bidar
Studies on prevalence of food borne Trichinellosis in Pigs and its impact on public health.	Principal Investigator	Non-financial	KVAFSU, Bidar
Studies on prevalence of Arcobacter sp. (Emerging food-borne pathogen) in foods of animal origin.	Co- Principal Investigator	Non-financial	KVAFSU, Bidar

Recent Research Publications

1	Pradeep, K., Yathiraj, S., Ramesh, P.T., Leena, G. and Narayanaswamy, H.D. 2017. Clinico-hemato biochemical and ultrasonographic alterations in Dogs with non infectious hepatic disorders associated with hypoalbuminemia. Int. J. Adv.Biol.Res., 7(3):585-589.
2	Pradeep, K., Yathiraj, S., Ramesh, P T., Leena, G and Narayanaswamy, H.D. 2017. Therapeutic evaluation of hydroxyl ethyl starch and amino acid infusion in management of hypoalbuminemia in dogs with hepatic disorders. Int. J. Adv.Biol.Res., 7(3):590-594.
3	Kavya, B.A., Veeregowda, B.M., Isloor, S., Leena, G., Kamran, C., Amitha, G.R., Triveni, K., Padmashree, S. and Rajeshwarishome, 2017. Comparative evaluation of blood based lateral flow assay for diagnosis of brucellosis in livestock species. Ind.J.Ani.Sci.,87 (9):1068-1070.
4	Serin, S.P., Ramesh, P.T., Veeregowda, B.M. and Leena, G. 2019. Isolation and characterization of Bacillus anthracis from livestock from different areas of Karnataka and their phylogenetic analysis. J. Exp. Zool. India, 22(1): 27-31.
5	Devaraja, K., Ramesh, P.T., Veeregowda, B.M., Leena, G.,Ansar Kamran, C., Satyanarayana, M.L., Mohan, H.V., Ramesha, C.B., Prashanth, A.G. and Nishanth, C. 2019. Cultural and molecular detection of Bacillus anthracisisolated from livestock in Karnataka.J. Exp. Zool. India, 22(1): 87-93.
6	Devaraja, K., Ramesh, P.T., Veeregowda, B.M., Leena, G.,Ansar Kamran, C., Satyanarayana, M.L., Mohan, H.V., Ramesha, C.B., Prashanth, A.G. and Nishanth, C. 2019. Development of latex agglutination test for the diagnosis of anthrax in livestock. J. Exp. Zool. India, 22(1): 119-123.

Honours and Awards

S.No.	Type	Award	Details
1	Professional Society Award	IAVP-DrBalwant Singh Memorial Young Scientist Second Best Oral Presentation Award, 2017	IAVP-DrBalwant Singh Memorial Young Scientist Second Best Oral Presentation Award, 2017 to SyedaSumaiya, Suguna Rao, Satyanarayana, M.L., Byregowda, S.M., Chandranaik, Shankar, B.P.and Leena, G., 2017. Systemic infection in contagious ecthyma in sheep and Goats. Published in International seminar on “Emerging horizons in diagnosis of animal and poultry diseases: towards sustainable production in Asian countries” during 9-11th November 2017 at Veterinary College, Bengaluru.
2		Best Poster presentation award	Sujith S. Nath, Veeregowda, B.M., Isloor, S., Rathnamma, D., Tajunnisa, M.,Santosh, A.K., Leena, G. and Ramesh, P.T. (2017). Ante-mortem vis-a-vis Post-mortem diagnosis of Rabies in dogs.19th National Conference of Association for Prevention and Control of Rabies in India-APCRICON, 2017 on ‘Towards elimination of human rabies by 2030’ from 8-9 July, 2017 held at Goa Medical College, Bambolim, Goa”.
3		Best Paper in Oral Presentations category	Best oral presentation award in KVA-2016 Technical Symposium organized by Karnataka Veterinary Association, Bengaluru during 22-23 May 2016 at Bengaluru. Title: “Viral Zoonoses: an Overview with special reference to India”. 2016 Leena G and Veeregowda B.M.
4		Best Poster presentation	Best Poster presentation Cloning and Expression of p29 (TM-1) Gene, a Major Surface Antigen of Mycoplasma gallisepticum. 10th Indian Veterinary Congress and 17th Annual Conference of Indian Association Advancement of Veterinary Research (IAAVR) Jabalpur, M.P. 11-12th March 2010

Other Achievement

Registration for Patents made :
Government of India Patent Registerd on 25th April 2016 with Patent No. R20164009520 App. No. 201641010345 “Recombinant Brucellalumazine synthase antigen based ELISA”