{"id":3563,"date":"2018-01-24T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/univet.hu\/about\/staff\/balka-gyula\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T04:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:32:50","slug":"balka-gyula","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/about\/staff\/balka-gyula\/","title":{"rendered":"Balka Gyula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p> <p>I received my veterinary degree in 2003 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the then Szent Istv\u00e1n University. After that, under the supervision of Prof. Mikl\u00f3s 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.<\/p> <p><strong>Main research areas:<\/strong><\/p> <ul> <li>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<\/li> <li>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<\/li> <li>So-called application of third-generation (Nanopore) sequencing methods in the molecular diagnostics of viral diseases in pigs<\/li> <li>Development of a rapid diagnostic system based on the principle of surface plasmon resonance for the detection of certain viral diseases in pigs<\/li> <li>Antituberculosis drugs targeted with new methods, or the development of vaccines, the histopathological background of their testing in animal models<\/li> <li>Examination of the changes that develop during COVID-19 in a hamster model, as well as drug development against COVID-19<\/li> <\/ul> <p><strong>Progress:<\/strong><\/p> <p>Graduation: Czuczor Gergely Benc\u00e9s High School, Gy\u0151r, 1998<\/p> <p>Higher education:<\/p> <p>SZIE \u00c1OTK \u2013 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, 2003, 30\/2003<\/p> <p>SZIE \u00c1OTK \u2013 Advanced Wildlife Management Training, 2003<\/p> <p>Scientific progress:<\/p> <p>SZIE \u00c1OTK \u2013 PhD, 2009, 5\/2009<\/p> <p>SZIE \u00c1OTK \u2013 Habilitation, 1\/2016<\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Tov\u00e1bbk\u00e9pz\u00e9sek:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00c1TE<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2013<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"none\">Sert\u00e9s-eg\u00e9szs\u00e9g\u00fcgyi szak\u00e1llatorvos (2017)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><strong>Professional organization membership<\/strong><\/p> <table data-tablestyle=\"MsoTableGrid\" data-tablelook=\"1184\" aria-rowcount=\"4\"> <tbody> <tr aria-rowindex=\"1\"> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><strong>Committee name<\/strong><\/td> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><b>Time<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><b>Rank<\/b><\/td> <\/tr> <tr aria-rowindex=\"2\"> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\">Hungarian Swine Health Society<\/td> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">2018\u2013<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\">member of the conference organizing committee<\/td> <\/tr> <tr aria-rowindex=\"3\"> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\">European Society for Pig Health (EAPHM)<\/td> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">2016\u2013<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\">member<\/td> <\/tr> <tr aria-rowindex=\"4\"> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">American Association of Swine Health Veterinarians (AASV) <\/span><\/td> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">2016\u2013<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <td style=\"text-align: center;\" data-celllook=\"0\">member<\/td> <\/tr> <\/tbody> <\/table> <p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p>Number of thesis\/TDK students to date: 8<\/p> <table data-tablestyle=\"MsoTableGrid\" data-tablelook=\"1184\" aria-rowcount=\"5\"> <tbody> <tr aria-rowindex=\"1\"> <td data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">PhD-student name<\/span><\/b><\/td> <td data-celllook=\"0\">Year of graduation<\/td> <\/tr> <tr aria-rowindex=\"2\"> <td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Szilasi Anna<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <td data-celllook=\"0\">Year of successful protection: 2021<\/td> <\/tr> <tr aria-rowindex=\"3\"> <td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">D\u00e9nes Lilla<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <td data-celllook=\"0\">protection expected: 2022<\/td> <\/tr> <tr aria-rowindex=\"4\"> <td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Igriczi Barbara<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <td data-celllook=\"0\">protection expected: 2024<\/td> <\/tr> <tr aria-rowindex=\"5\"> <td data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Horv\u00e1th D\u00e1vid G\u00e9za<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <td data-celllook=\"0\">protection expected: 2024<\/td> <\/tr> <\/tbody> <\/table> <p><strong>Publication list (Top10) in chronological order<\/strong><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"none\">MTMT:\u202f\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <table style=\"height: 511px;\" width=\"1312\"> <tbody> <tr style=\"height: 136px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 136px;\">1.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 136px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Denes, L ; Horvath, DG* ; Duran, O ; Ratkhjen, PH ; Kraft, C ; Acs, B ; Szasz, AM ; Rumenapf, T ; Papp, M ; Ladinig, A ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, G<\/span><\/b><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In Situ Hybridization of PRRSV-1 Combined with Digital Image Analysis in Lung Tissues of Pigs Challenged with PRRSV-1<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">VETERINARY SCIENCES 8 : 10 Paper: 235 , 11 p. (2021)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 136px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 136px;\">2.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 136px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Denes, L ; Ruedas-Torres, I ; Szilasi, A ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, G<\/span><\/b><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Detection and localization of atypical porcine pestivirus in the testicles of naturally infected, congenital tremor affected piglets<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES Paper: DOI10.1111\/tbed.14355 (2021)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 99px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 99px;\">3.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 99px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Horv\u00e1ti, Kata ; Fodor, Kinga ; P\u00e1lyi, Bernadett ; Henczk\u00f3, Judit ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, Gyula<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> ; Gyulai, Gerg\u0151 ; Kiss, \u00c9va ; Biri-Kov\u00e1cs, Be\u00e1ta ; Senoner, Zsuzsanna ; B\u0151sze, Szilvia<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Novel Assay Platform to Evaluate Intracellular Killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: In Vitro and In Vivo Validation<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY 12 (2021)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 24px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 24px;\">4.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 24px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kreutzmann, H ; Duerlinger, S ; Knecht, C ; Koch, M ; Cabana, M ; Torrent, G ; Balasch, M ; Taylor, LP ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, G<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> ; Gerner, W et al.<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">PATHOGENS 10 : 10 p. 1342 (2021)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 24px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 24px;\">5.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 24px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">D\u00e9nes, Lilla ; Cs\u00e1gola, Attila ; Sch\u00f6nhardt, Kitti ; Halas, M\u00e1t\u00e9 ; Solymosi, Norbert ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, Gyula<\/span><\/b><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">First report of porcine parainfluenza virus 1 (species Porcine respirovirus 1) in Europe<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES 00 Paper: tbed.13869 (2020)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 24px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 24px;\">6.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 24px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Szilasi, Anna ; Denes, Lilla ; Jakab, Csaba ; Erdelyi, Ildiko ; Resende, Talita ; Vannucci, Fabio ; Csomor, Judit ; Mandoki, Mira ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, Gyula<\/span><\/b><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In situ hybridization of feline leukemia virus in a primary neural B-cell lymphoma<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION 32 : 3 pp. 454-457. , 4 p. (2020)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 24px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 24px;\">7.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 24px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Horv\u00e1ti, Kata ; P\u00e1lyi, Bernadett ; Henczk\u00f3, Judit ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, Gyula<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> ; Szab\u00f3, Eleon\u00f3ra ; Farkas, Viktor ; Biri-Kov\u00e1cs, Be\u00e1ta ; Szeder, B\u00e1lint ; Fodor, Kinga<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A Convenient Synthetic Method to Improve Immunogenicity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Related T-Cell Epitope Peptides<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">VACCINES (BASEL) 7 : 3 p. 101 (2019)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 24px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 24px;\">8.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 24px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Novosel, Dinko ; Tuboly, Tamas ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, Gyula<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> ; Szeredi, Levente ; Lojkic, Ivana ; Jungic, Andreja ; Acinger-Rogic, Zaklin ; Ait-Ali, Tahar ; Csagola, Attila<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Evidence of CPV2c introgression into Croatia and novel insights into phylogeny and cell tropism<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 9 : 1 Paper: 16909 (2019)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 10px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 10px;\">9.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 10px;\"> <p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, G<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> ; Podgorska, K ; Brar, MS ; Balint, A ; Cadar, D ; Celer, V ; Denes, L ; Dirbakova, Z ; Jedryczko, A ; Marton, L et al.<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Genetic diversity of PRRSV 1 in Central Eastern Europe in 1994-2014: origin and evolution of the virus in the region<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 8 Paper: 7811 (2018)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <tr style=\"height: 10px;\"> <td style=\"width: 31.0333px; height: 10px;\">10.<\/td> <td style=\"width: 1264.97px; height: 10px;\"> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">D\u00e9nes, Lilla ; Biksi, Imre ; Albert, Mih\u00e1ly ; Szeredi, Levente ; G Knapp, D\u00e1niel ; Szilasi, Anna ; B\u00e1lint, \u00c1d\u00e1m ; <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balka, Gyula<\/span><\/b><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Detection and phylogenetic characterization of atypical porcine pestivirus strains in Hungary<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p> <p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES 65 : 6 pp. 2039-2042. , 4 p. (2018)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td> <\/tr> <\/tbody> <\/table> <p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction I received my veterinary degree in 2003 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the then Szent Istv\u00e1n University. 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