A5046592933- Burkholderia infections and melioidosis
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU
- Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
- Infections and bacterial resistance
- Amoebic Infections and Treatments
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
- Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Surgical site infection prevention
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
2016-2025
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
2016-2025
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology
2010-2023
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre
2022
M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences
2022
Institute of Virology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2015-2021
Melaka Manipal Medical College
2016-2020
Manipal Hospital
2019
Kasturba Medical College Hospital
2011-2018
Marymount University
2010
In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of the issues quality life and stresses involved medical training as this may affect their learning academic performance. However, such studies are lacking in schools Nepal. Therefore, we carried out study to assess prevalence psychological morbidity, sources severity stress coping strategies among students our integrated problem-stimulated undergraduate curriculum.A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey was Manipal College Medical...
Melioidosis is a severe disease that can be difficult to diagnose because of its diverse clinical manifestations and lack adequate diagnostic capabilities for suspected cases. There broad interest in improving detection diagnosis this not only melioidosis-endemic regions but also outside these melioidosis may underreported poses potential bioterrorism challenge public health authorities. Therefore, workshop academic, government, private sector personnel from around the world was convened...
Objectives: The present study was undertaken to the maternal risk factors for preterm birth (PTB) and low weight (LBW) with a special emphasis on assessing proportions of genitourinary periodontal infections among Indian women their association adverse pregnancy outcomes. Methods: A hospital-based prospective comprising 790 pregnant visiting obstetrics clinic routine antenatal check-up undertaken. Once recruited, all participants underwent clinical microbiological investigations followed by...
BackgroundHealth-care-associated infections (HAIs) cause significant morbidity and mortality globally, including in low-income middle-income countries (LMICs). Networks of hospitals implementing standardised HAI surveillance can provide valuable data on burden, identify monitor prevention gaps. Hospitals many LMICs use case definitions developed for higher-resourced settings, which require human resources laboratory imaging tests that are often not available.MethodsA network 26...
The immunopathogenesis of dengue severity is convoluted. primary objective the research was to examine dynamics cytokine storm and its correlation with disease development in individuals affected by DENV infection. Additionally, study aimed discover potential biomarkers that could indicate severe infection determine most suitable timeframe for predicting these during acute stage infections. We conducted a temporal analysis daily viral load levels 60 hospitalized patients until discharge. Our...
The aim of the study was to assess antimicrobial prescribing patterns, and variation in practice, India. A point prevalence survey (PPS) conducted October December 2017 16 tertiary care hospitals across included all inpatients receiving an on day PPS collected data were analysed using a web-based application University Antwerp. In all, 1750 patients surveyed, whom 1005 total 1578 antimicrobials. Among antimicrobials prescribed, 26.87% for community-acquired infections; 19.20%...
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a zoonotic mosquito-borne that causes significant burden of disease across Asia, particularly in India, with high mortality children. JEV circulates wild ardeid birds and domestic pig reservoirs, both which generate sufficiently viraemias to infect vector mosquitoes, can then subsequently humans. The landscapes these hosts, the context anthropogenic ecotones resulting wildlife-livestock interfaces, are poorly understood thus knowledge gaps epidemiology...
Introduction: This study had two objectives: 1) to determine the clinical and microbiological profiles of patients developing intravascular catheter-related local (localized catheter colonization exit site) systemic infections their predisposing factors; 2) antibiotic sensitivity patterns organisms isolated. Methodology: case-control was conducted over 19 months involving 232 at a tertiary care hospital. Non-tunneled central venous catheters midline were types studied. Catheter tips...
To determine the frequency of underlying risk factors and socio-economic impact based on occupation in development tuberculosis.Retrospective analysis 207 clinically microbiologically diagnosed patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) admitted to Kasturba Hospital 2005 2006. Demographic details were statistically evaluated.Diabetes mellitus (DM) (30.9%) was most prevalent condition significantly more common than other like smoking (16.9%), alcoholism (12.6%), HIV (10.6%), malignancy...
Diabetic foot infections (DFIs) are major public health problems and knowledge of microbes that cause helpful to determine proper antibiotic therapy.The aim was investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in DFIs.A cross-sectional study conducted for a period 6 months at Department General Surgery, KMC hospital, Manipal University, Manipal, India. During this period, 108 patients having DFIs admitted general surgery wards were tracked from hospital data management system. These...
Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) partly explains geographical differences in COVID-19 susceptibility, severity, and mortality. VDD among African-Americans, diabetics, hypertensive, aged populations possibly explain the higher death rate, aggravated by cocooning. is pleiotropic, mediating bone metabolism, calcium homeostasis, immune functions, whereas associated with inflammatory reactions dysfunction, predisposing individuals to severe infections. modulates innate adaptive immunity via expression...
Background: The presence of granuloma, visualized in histopathology for diagnosing tuberculosis tissue samples, is not a specific finding. Moreover, histopathological examination sections needs one to two weeks final reporting. A rapid and sensitive method therefore needed detection Mycobacterium these paucibacillary samples. Methodology: PCR-assay IS6110 was evaluated 104 different samples comparison that considered gold standard. Results: PCR showed 74.1% sensitivity 96.1% specificity....
Candida spp. have emerged as successful pathogens in both invasive and mucosal infections. Varied virulence factors growing resistance to antifungal agents contributed their pathogenicity. We studied diagnostic accuracy of HiCrome Differential Agar Vitek 2 Compact system for identification comparison with species-specific PCR on 110 clinical isolates from blood stream infections (54, 49%) vulvovaginal candidiasis (56, 51%). C. albicans (61%) was the leading pathogen VVC, while tropicalis...