Dr. Balka Gyula
Ph.D.
Building E/2., 1st floor right
Introduction
I received my veterinary degree in 2003 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the then Szent István University. After that, under the supervision of Prof. Miklós Rusvai, I worked as a PhD student from September 2004, then as a clinical veterinarian from 2007, then as an assistant professor, and currently as an associate professor at the Department of Pathology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, where from the beginning I actively participated in diagnostic work, teaching, and in research. Currently, I give pathology, plenary and histopathology exercises as well as lectures in Hungarian and English for third- and fourth-year students.
Main research areas:
- Diagnosis of PRRS, examination and modeling of lung changes that develop during infection, or the role of the maternal/fetal placenta in the transplacental spread of the virus and the characterization of the changes that develop there
- Investigation of the prevalence of atypical swine plague virus, swine parainfluenza virus 1, swine circovirus type 3 and individual parvoviruses in Hungary, the dynamics of infections within the herd and the characterization of the lesions developed in the affected animals
- So-called application of third-generation (Nanopore) sequencing methods in the molecular diagnostics of viral diseases in pigs
- Development of a rapid diagnostic system based on the principle of surface plasmon resonance for the detection of certain viral diseases in pigs
- Antituberculosis drugs targeted with new methods, or the development of vaccines, the histopathological background of their testing in animal models
- Examination of the changes that develop during COVID-19 in a hamster model, as well as drug development against COVID-19
Progress:
Graduation: Czuczor Gergely Bencés High School, Győr, 1998
Higher education:
SZIE ÁOTK – Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, 2003, 30/2003
SZIE ÁOTK – Advanced Wildlife Management Training, 2003
Scientific progress:
SZIE ÁOTK – PhD, 2009, 5/2009
SZIE ÁOTK – Habilitation, 1/2016
Továbbképzések:
ÁTE – Sertés-egészségügyi szakállatorvos (2017)
Professional organization membership
| Committee name | Time | Rank |
| Hungarian Swine Health Society | 2018– | member of the conference organizing committee |
| European Society for Pig Health (EAPHM) | 2016– | member |
| American Association of Swine Health Veterinarians (AASV) | 2016– | member |
Number of thesis/TDK students to date: 8
| PhD-student name | Year of graduation |
| Szilasi Anna | Year of successful protection: 2021 |
| Dénes Lilla | protection expected: 2022 |
| Igriczi Barbara | protection expected: 2024 |
| Horváth Dávid Géza | protection expected: 2024 |
Publication list (Top10) in chronological order
MTMT:
| 1. | Denes, L ; Horvath, DG* ; Duran, O ; Ratkhjen, PH ; Kraft, C ; Acs, B ; Szasz, AM ; Rumenapf, T ; Papp, M ; Ladinig, A ; Balka, G In Situ Hybridization of PRRSV-1 Combined with Digital Image Analysis in Lung Tissues of Pigs Challenged with PRRSV-1 VETERINARY SCIENCES 8 : 10 Paper: 235 , 11 p. (2021) |
| 2. | Denes, L ; Ruedas-Torres, I ; Szilasi, A ; Balka, G Detection and localization of atypical porcine pestivirus in the testicles of naturally infected, congenital tremor affected piglets TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES Paper: DOI10.1111/tbed.14355 (2021) |
| 3. | Horváti, Kata ; Fodor, Kinga ; Pályi, Bernadett ; Henczkó, Judit ; Balka, Gyula ; Gyulai, Gergő ; Kiss, Éva ; Biri-Kovács, Beáta ; Senoner, Zsuzsanna ; Bősze, Szilvia Novel Assay Platform to Evaluate Intracellular Killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: In Vitro and In Vivo Validation FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY 12 (2021) |
| 4. | Kreutzmann, H ; Duerlinger, S ; Knecht, C ; Koch, M ; Cabana, M ; Torrent, G ; Balasch, M ; Taylor, LP ; Balka, G ; Gerner, W et al. Efficacy of a Modified Live Virus Vaccine against Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus 1 (PRRSV-1) Administered to 1-Day-Old Piglets in Front of Heterologous PRRSV-1 Challenge PATHOGENS 10 : 10 p. 1342 (2021) |
| 5. | Dénes, Lilla ; Cságola, Attila ; Schönhardt, Kitti ; Halas, Máté ; Solymosi, Norbert ; Balka, Gyula First report of porcine parainfluenza virus 1 (species Porcine respirovirus 1) in Europe TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES 00 Paper: tbed.13869 (2020) |
| 6. | Szilasi, Anna ; Denes, Lilla ; Jakab, Csaba ; Erdelyi, Ildiko ; Resende, Talita ; Vannucci, Fabio ; Csomor, Judit ; Mandoki, Mira ; Balka, Gyula In situ hybridization of feline leukemia virus in a primary neural B-cell lymphoma JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION 32 : 3 pp. 454-457. , 4 p. (2020) |
| 7. | Horváti, Kata ; Pályi, Bernadett ; Henczkó, Judit ; Balka, Gyula ; Szabó, Eleonóra ; Farkas, Viktor ; Biri-Kovács, Beáta ; Szeder, Bálint ; Fodor, Kinga A Convenient Synthetic Method to Improve Immunogenicity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Related T-Cell Epitope Peptides VACCINES (BASEL) 7 : 3 p. 101 (2019) |
| 8. | Novosel, Dinko ; Tuboly, Tamas ; Balka, Gyula ; Szeredi, Levente ; Lojkic, Ivana ; Jungic, Andreja ; Acinger-Rogic, Zaklin ; Ait-Ali, Tahar ; Csagola, Attila Evidence of CPV2c introgression into Croatia and novel insights into phylogeny and cell tropism SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 9 : 1 Paper: 16909 (2019) |
| 9. | Balka, G ; Podgorska, K ; Brar, MS ; Balint, A ; Cadar, D ; Celer, V ; Denes, L ; Dirbakova, Z ; Jedryczko, A ; Marton, L et al. Genetic diversity of PRRSV 1 in Central Eastern Europe in 1994-2014: origin and evolution of the virus in the region SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 8 Paper: 7811 (2018) |
| 10. | Dénes, Lilla ; Biksi, Imre ; Albert, Mihály ; Szeredi, Levente ; G Knapp, Dániel ; Szilasi, Anna ; Bálint, Ádám ; Balka, Gyula Detection and phylogenetic characterization of atypical porcine pestivirus strains in Hungary TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES 65 : 6 pp. 2039-2042. , 4 p. (2018) |