Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine,

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Research Associate

Email: arathy@vet.ksu.edu

Qualifications

2010 Ph.D., Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India

2003 M.V.Sc., Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India

2001 B.V.Sc., and A.H , Kerala Agricultural University, India

Publications

1. Antimicrobial drug resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from commercial chicken eggs in Grenada, West Indies. (2010)   D S Arathy, G Vanpee, G Belot, V Mathew, C DeAllie and R Sharma. West Indian Med J. 2011 Jan; 60(1):53-6.
2. Bacterial contamination of commercial chicken eggs in Grenada, West Indies. (2009)   D S Arathy, G Vanpee, G Belot, V Mathew, C DeAllie and R Sharma. West Indian Veterinary Journal 2009, 9 (2) 4-7.
3. Preliminary molecular characterization of a fowlpox virus isolate in Grenada (2010).  Arathy, D.S., Tripathy, D.N., Sabarinath, G.P., Bhaiyat, M.I., Chikweto, A., Matthew, V. and Sharma, R.N. Avian Diseases 54(3):1081-1085.
4. Antimicrobial resistance and phylogenetic groups of commensal Escherichia coli from healthy pigs in Grenada, Arathy Sabarinath, Keshaw Tiwari, Claude DeAlliec, Guillaume Belot, Guillaume Vanpee, Vanessa Matthew, Graeme Stratton, Ravindra Sharma and Harry Hariharan (published on line on WebmedCentral.com)
5. Doxycyclne treatment of asymptomatic dogs seropositive for Ehrlichia canis. M. Lanza-Perea; S. Kumthekar, A. Sabarinath, S. Karpathy, R. Sharma and D. Stone. West Indian Veterinary Journal (Communicated).
6. Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection in White-tailed Deer and Ticks Impacted by the Mode of Transmission. Arathy D. S. Nair, Chuanmin Cheng, Aradhana Gupta, Lloyd Willard, Deborah C. Jaworski and Roman R. Ganta (Manuscript under preparation)
7. Clonal Purification and Evaluation of Transposon Mutants of Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Inducing Host Response and Conferring Protection against Wild-type Infection Challenge. Arathy D. S. Nair, Chuanmin Cheng, Deborah Jaworski, and Roman R. Ganta. (Manuscript under preparation)
8. Targeted and Random Mutagenesis of Ehrlichia chaffeensis for the Identification of Genes Required for In vivo Infection. Cheng C, Nair ADS, Indukuri VV, Gong S, Felsheim RF, et al. (2013) PLoS Pathog 9(2): e1003171. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003171.
9. Differential gene expression analysis of in vitro duck hepatitis B virus infected primary duck hepatocyte cultures. Nair S, Arathy DS, Issac A, Sreekumar E. Virol J. 2011 Jul 23;8:363.
10. Functional characterization of the CC chemokine RANTES from Pekin duck (Anas platyrhynchos) (2010). D.S. Arathy, Sajith Nair, Soja Saghar Soman, Aneesh Issac & E.Sreekumar. Dev Comp Immunol. 2011 , 35(1):142-50.
11. Virological and Serological Surveillance of Avian Influenza Virus in the Birds of Grenada. Arathy Sabarinath, Gopalakrishnan P Sabarinath, Keshaw P Tiwari, Sachin M Kumthekar, Derek Thomas, Ravindra N Sharma International Journal of Poultry Science 01/2011; 10(8):579-582.
12. Seroprevalence Of Infectious Bronchitis Virus In Birds Of Grenada. Arathy Sabarinath, Gopalakrishnan P. Sabarinath, Keshaw P. Tiwari, Sachin M. Kumthekar, Derek Thomas, Ravindra N. Sharma. International Journal of Poultry Science. 2011, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p266-268. 3p. 1
13. Genomic organization and promoter characterization of RANTES, MIP-1β like and MCP-like CC chemokines of domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos) (2009). D S Arathy and E Sreekumar .International Journal of Poultry Science 8 (12): 1123-1127, 2009).
14. Genetic characterization of 2006–2008 isolates of Chikungunya virus from Kerala, South India, by whole genome sequence analysis. (2009) E. Sreekumar, Aneesh Issac , Sajith Nair, Ramkumar Hariharan, M. B. Janki ,D. S. Arathy, R. Regu, Thomas Mathew , M. Anoop ,K. P. Niyas,M. R. Pillai. Virus Genes, Published online on 23 October 2009.
15. Immunomodulation by duck defensin, Apl_AvBD2: in vitro dendritic cell immunoreceptor (DCIR) mRNA suppression, and B- and T-lymphocyte chemotaxis. Soman SS, Nair S, Issac A, Arathy DS, Niyas KP, Anoop M, Sreekumar E. Mol Immunol. 2009 Sep;46(15):3070-5.
16. Discovery of Anas platyrhynchos avian beta-defensin 2 (Apl_AvBD2) with antibacterial and chemotactic functions.Soman SS, Arathy DS, Sreekumar E. Mol Immunol. 2009 Jun; 46(10):2029-38.
17. Synthesis and characterization of novel water soluble polyamide based on spermine and aspartic acid as a potential gene delivery vehicle (2008). B M Viola, T E Abraham, D S Arathy, E Sreekumar, M R Pillai, T J Thomas, C K S Pillai. eXPRESS Polymer Letters Vol.2, No.5 (2008) 330-338.
18. Molecular characterization and expression of Interferon-gamma of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).Sreekumar E, Janki M B, Arathy D S, Hariharan R, Premraj C A, Rasool T J. Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2007 May 3.
19. Identification and sequence characterization and analysis of expression profile of three novel CC chemokines from domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos) E Sreekumar, Avinash Premraj, D S Arathy and T J Rasool. Immunogenetics (2005) 47:364-373.
20. Practical procedures in in vitro fertilization. M S Chauhan and Arathy D S Compendium of short course on Ovum pick-up technology for in vitro production of embryos from elite farm animals organized by CAS in Veterinary Physiology, IVRI (2003).
21. Ultra sound guided ovum pick-up for IVF in buffalos. M S Chauhan and Arathy D S Compendium of summer school on Artificial breeding and Reproduction management in buffaloes organized by CIRB, Hisar (2003).