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Mahendra Pal

Mahendra Pal

Editorial Board Member
Founder of Narayan Consultancy on Veterinary Public Health and Microbiology India Member since 2017

Biography

Mahendra Pal, an internationally renowned scientist and a well known distinguished academician, has 530 publications and 8 books. He guided over 67 students at DVM, MVSc, MSc and Ph.D. level in India and Ethiopia. He is credited to develop Sunflower seed agar (Pal’s medium) medium, APRM medium, PHOL stain and Narayan stain for the study of fungi. He elucidated for the first time the role of Cryptococcus neoformans in the mastitis of goat and buffalo, Fusarium solani in corneal ulcer of buffalo, Aspergillus fumigatus in rhinitis of camel and mule, Trichophyton verrucosum in dermatitis of deer, Candida tropicalis in human lung empyema, and Nocardia asteroides in keratitis of cattle. He has established for the first time the prevalence of Cryptococcus neoformans in the environment of New Zealand, Nepal, and Djibouti. He has reported the first isolation of Candida albicans from mastitic milk, and Trichophyton verrucosum in dermatitis of camel in Ethiopia. He has launched the Ph.D. programme for the first time in Veterinary Public Health at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and also at College of Veterinary Science, Anand, Gujarat, India. His biography is published in World’s WHO and WHO. He is the recipient of “Distinguished Teacher Award”, “Jawaharlal Nehru Award”, and “Life Time Achievement Award. He is the First Indian Veterinarian who worked as “JSPS Visiting Scientist” at University of Tokyo, Japan. Considering his immense contribution, He is known as “Father of Veterinary Mycology” in India. Very recently, he has launched “Narayan Consultancy” on Veterinary Public Health and Microbiology to give free technical advice to the scientists of poor resource nations.

Research Interests

Veterinary Public Health Food microbiology Diagnosis of Mycoses Ecology of fungal pathogens Epidemiology of Zoonotic Diseases

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