Asha Mathur, Indian virologist (Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh State 13 June 1938 –

Authored over 170 research papers

With British Gardner developed new techniques for rapid diagnosis of viruses

First to demonstrate the transplacental transmission of Japanese encephalitis virus in human and in mouse model

Showed its persistence, latency and reactivation and association of production of previously unrecognized chemotactic factor with neutrophilia and early antiviral host defense

With U.C. Chaturvedi, A. Chandra, S.K. Das, H.O. Tandon & U.K. Singh. Transplacental infection with Japanese encephalitis virus. J. Infect. Dis. 141:712-5, 1980

With K.L. Arora & U.C. Chaturvedi. Transplacental Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) infection in mice during consecutive pregnancies. J. Gen. Virol. 59:213-7, 1982

First to develop immunofluorescence technique for rapid diagnosis of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) infection in patients

With S.K. Tak & P. Kothari. “Foot length” – a newer approach in neonatal anthropometry. J. Trop. Pediatrics 30(6):333-6, 1984