Department of Microbiology

1. Uday C Ghoshal,Ujjala Ghoshal ,Akash Mathur, RK Singh,Alok Nath MD, Atul Garg MD, Dharamveer Singh, Sanjay Singh,Jasmeet Singh,Ankita Pandey,Hemant Verma B.Sc.Virendra Kumar Misra,Sushmita Rai M.Sc,Shruthi Vasanth and Radha Krishan Dhiman,The spectrum of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with Corona Virus Disease-19: Predictors, relationship with disease severity, and outcome. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology 2020

2. Yashpal Singh Malik,* Naveen Kumar, Shubhankar Sircar, Rahul Kaushik, Sudipta Bhat, Kuldeep Dhama,* Parakriti Gupta, Kapil Goyal, Mini P. Singh, Ujjala Ghoshal, Mohamed E. El Zowalaty, VinodhKumar O. R. Mohd Iqbal Yatoo, Ruchi Tiwari, Mamta Pathak,4 Shailesh Kumar Patel, Ranjit Sah, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Balasubramanian Ganesh, Prashant Kumar, and Raj Kumar Singh. Coronavirus Disease Pandemic (COVID-19): Challenges and a Global Perspective. Pathogens.2020 Jul; 9(7): 519.

3. Geetansh Sharma; Sonali K. Kalra; Nidhi Tejan; Ujjala Ghoshal, Nanoparticles based therapeutic efficacy against Acanthamoeba: Updates and future prospectExperimental Parasitology ( IF 1.690 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 , DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2020.108008

4. Devi MT, Saha S, Tripathi AM, Dhinsa K, Kalra SK, Ghoshal U. Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Efficacy of Herbal Extracts Added to Root Canal Sealers of Different Bases: An In Vitro Study. International Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. 2019 Sep;12(5):398.

5. Kalra SK, Sharma P, Shyam K, Tejan N, Ghoshal U. Acanthamoeba and its pathogenic role in granulomatous amebic encephalitis. Experimental parasitology. 2020 Jan 1;208:107788

6. Shukla R, Ghoshal U, Ranjan P, Ghoshal UC. Expression of toll-like receptors, pro-, and anti-inflammatory cytokines in relation to gut microbiota in irritable bowel syndrome: the evidence for its micro-organic basis. Journal of Neurogastroenterology and motility. 2018 Oct;24(4):628.

7. *Prakash S, *Ranjan P, Ghoshal U, Agrawal S. KIR-like activating natural killer cell receptors and their association with complicated malaria in north India. Acta Trop. 2017; 178 :55-60

8. Ghoshal U, Jain V, Dey A, Ranjan P. Evaluation of enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for stool antigen detection for the diagnosis of cryptosporidiosis among HIV negative immunocompromised patients in a tertiary care hospital of northern India. J Infect Public Health. 2017. pii: S1876-0341(17)30150-8.

9. Khanduja S,Ghoshal U, Ghoshal UC. “Phylogenetic analysis of genetically distinct Enterocytozoon bieneusi infecting renal transplant recipients.” Acta Parasitol 2017; 62: 63-68.

10. Ghoshal UC, Shukla R, Ghoshal U. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and Irritable bowel syndrome: A bridge between functional organic dichotomy. Gut Liver. 2017 Mar 15;11(2):196-208.

11. Ghoshal UC, Ghoshal U. Small Intestinal bacterial overgrowthAnd Other Intestinal Disorders. Gastroenterol clinic North America. 2017; 46:103-120

12. Kapoor R, Ghoshal U, Mandal SKand Dhole TN.Prevalence and co-infection of cosavirus in pediatric patients with acute gastroenteritis from north india. IJPSR. 2016; 7:1000-1008

13. Dey A, Ghoshal U, Agarwal V, Ghoshal UC “Association of Toll like receptor 4 (Thr399Ile and Asp299Gly) and Toll like receptor 2 196-174 deletion polymorphisms with cryptosporidiosis” Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, 2016, 4, 85-96

14. Dey A, Ghoshal U, Agarwal V, Ghoshal UC. Genotyping of Cryptosporidium Species and Their Clinical Manifestations in Patients with Renal Transplantation and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. J Pathog. 2016;2016:2623602. doi: 10.1155/2016/2623602.

15. Ghoshal U, Shukla R, Pant Priyannk, Ghoshal UC. Frequency, diagnostic performance of coproantigen detection and genotyping of the Giardia among patients referred to a multi-level teaching hospital in Northern India. Pathog Glob Health. 2016; 17:1-5

16. GhoshalU,Shukla R, Srivastava D, Ghoshal UC “Irritable bowel syndrome, particularly constipation-predominant, have more Methanobrevibacter smithii, which is associated with higher methane production”. Gut Liver. 2016 Jul 27. doi: 10.5009/gnl15588

17. Khanduja S, Ghoshal U, Agarwal V, Pant P, Ghoshal UC. Identification and genotyping of Enterocytozoon bieneusi among human immunodeficiency virus infected patients. Journal of infection and public health. 2017 Jan 1;10(1):31-40.

18. Dey A, Ghoshal U, Agarwal V, Ghoshal UC "Genotyping ofCryptosporidium species and Their clinical manifestations in patients with renal transplantation and human immunodeficiency virusinfection" J Pathog.2016:2623602. doi: 10.1155/2016/2623602

19. Ghoshal UC, Shrivastav D, Misra A, Ghoshal U. A proof of concept study showing antibiotic to be more effective in irritable bowel syndrome with than without small intestinal bacterial overgrowth: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial", Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2016 Mar;28(3):281-9

20. Shukla R, Ghoshal U, Dhole TN, Ghoshal UC “Fecal microbiota in patients with irritable bowel syndrome compared with healthy controls using real-time polymerase chain reaction: an evidence of dysbiosis” Dig Dis Sci 2015;60:2953-62.

21. Ghoshal UC, Srivastava D, Ghoshal U, Misra A. Breath tests in the diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in patients with irritable bowel syndrome in comparison with quantitative upper gut aspirate culture. Eur J GastroenterolHepatol. 2014;26:753-60.

22. Srivastava D, Ghoshal U, Mittal RD, Ghoshal UC. Associations between IL-1RA polymorphisms and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth among patients with irritable bowel syndrome from India. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2014;26:1408-16.

23. Ghoshal UC, Srivastava D, Verma A, Ghoshal U.Tropical Sprue in 2014: The New Face of an Old Disease.CurrGastroenterol Rep. 2014;16:391.

24. Jaiswal V, Ghoshal U, Mittal B, Dhole TN, Ghoshal UC. Association between allelic variation due to short tandem repeats in tRNA gene of Entamoebahistolytica and clinical phenotypes of Amoebiasis. Acta Trop. 2014; 133:1-7.

25. Ghoshal U, Tripathi S, Kumar S, Mittal B, Chourasia D, Kumari N, Krishnani N, Ghoshal UC. Genetic polymorphism of cytochrome P450. (CYP) 1A1, CYP1A2, and CYP2E1 genes modulate susceptibility to gas tric cancer in patients with Helicobacter pylori infection.Gastric Cancer. 2014; 17:226-34.

26. Jaiswal V, Ghoshal U, Baijal SS, Mittal B, Dhole T, Ghoshal UC.Evaluation of antigen detection and polymerase chain reaction fordiagnosis of amoebic liver abscess in patients on anti-amoebictreatment. BMC Res Notes. 2012: 7;5:416.

27. Dubey A, Elhence P, Ghoshal U, Verma A. Seroprevalence of malaria in blood donors and multi-transfused patients in Northern India”. Asian Journal of Transfusion Sciences 2012;6: 174-178.

28. Ghoshal UC, Shukla R, Ghoshal U, Gwee KA, Ng SC, Quigley EM. The gut microbiota and irritable bowel syndrome: friend or foe? Int J Inflam. 2012;2012:1-13.

29. Bharti S, Jaiswal V, Ghoshal U,Ghoshal UC, Baijal SS, Roy R, Khetrapal CL.Metabolomic profiling of amoebic and pyogenic liver abscesses: an in vitro NMR study. Metabolomics. 2012:8; 540-555.

30. Anna Benjamin Pulimood, Deepak Narayan Amarapurkar, Ujjala Ghoshal, Mathew Phillip, Cannanore Ganesh Pai, DuvvurNageshwar Reddy, BirenderNagi, Balakrishna Siddhartha Ramakrishna. Differentiation of Crohn’s disease from intestinal tuberculosis in India in 2010. World J Gastroenterol 2011;17:433-443.

31. Tripathi S, Ghoshal U,Ghoshal UC, Mittal B, Krishnani N, Agarwal A, Singh K. Gastric carcinogenesis: Possible role of polymorphisms of GSTM1, GSTT1 and GSTP1 genes. Scand J Gastroenterol 2008; 43: 431-9.

32. Ghoshal UC, Tiwari S, Dhingra S, Pandey R, Ghoshal U, Singh H, Gupta VK, Nagpal AK, Naik S, Ayyagari A. Frequency of pylori and CagA Antibody in Patients with Gastric Neoplasms and Controls: The Indian Enigma. Dig Dis Sci 2008; 53: 1215-22.

33. Uday C Ghoshal, Tripathi S, Ghoshal U. The Indian enigma of frequent H. pylori infection but infrequent gastric cancer: Is the magic key in Indian diet, host’s genetic makeup or friendly bug? Am J Gastroenterol 2007;102:2113-4.

34. Bala L, Ghoshal UC, Ghoshal U, Tripathi P, Misra A, Nagana Gowda GA, Khetrapal CL. Malabsorption syndrome with and without small intestinal bacterial overgrowth: a study on upper-gut aspirate using 1H NMR spectroscopy. MagnReson Med. 2006;56:738-44.

35. Kishore J, Ghoshal U, Ghoshal UC, Krishnani N, Kumar S, Singh M, Ayyagari A. Infection with Cytomegalovirus in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: Prevalence, clinical significance and outcome. J Med Microbiol 2004; 53: 1155-1160.

36. Ghoshal U, Prasad KN, Singh M, Tiwari DP, Ayyagari A. A comparative evaluation of phenotypic and molecular methods for the detectionof oxacillin resistance in 1coagulase negative staphylocococcus. J Infection Chemother 2004; 10: 86-9.

37. Ghoshal U, Ghoshal UC, Ayyagari A. Spectrum and antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria contaminating upper gut in patients with malabsorption syndrome in the tropics. BMC Gastroenterology 2003; 3: 9.

38. Ghoshal UC, Ghoshal U, Ayyagari A, Ranjan P, N Krishnani, A Misra, R Aggarwal, S Naik, SR Naik. Tropical sprue is associated with contamination of small bowel with aerobic bacteria and reversible prolongation of orocaecal transit time. J GastroenterolHepatol 2003; 18: 540-7.

39. Ghoshal UC, Ghoshal U, Kumar A, Jain A, Aggarwal R, Misra A, Ayyagari A, Naik SR. Strongyloidesstercoralis infestation associated with septicemia due to intestinal transmural migration of bacteria. J GastroenterolHeptol 2002; 17: 1331-33.

40. Ghoshal UC, Guha D, Bandyopadhyay S, Pal C, Chakraborty S, Ghoshal U, Ghosh TK, Pal BB, Banerjee PK. Gastric adenocarcinoma in a patient re-infected with H. pylori after regression of MALT lymphoma with successful anti-H. pylori therapy and gastric resection. BMC Gastroenterology 2002; 2:1-6.

41. Ghoshal UC, Saha J, Ghoshal U, Ray BK, Santra A, Naik S, GuhaMazumder DN. Pigmented nail and Strongyloidesstercoralis infestation causing clinical worsening in a patient treated for immunoproliferative small intestinal disease: Two unusual observations. J Diarrhoeal Dis Research 1999; 17: 43-5.

42. Ghoshal UC, Ghoshal U, Misra A, Choudhuri G. Partially responsive celiac disease resulting from small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and lactose intolerance. BMC Gastroenterology 2004; 4: 10. 43. Ujjala Ghoshal& Shruthi Vasanth & Nidhi Tejan. A guide to laboratory diagnosis of Corona Virus Disease-19 for the gastroenterologists. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2020 Sep 2

44. Ghoshal UC, Ghoshal U, Dhiman RK. Gastrointestinal and hepatic involvement in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection: A review. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology. 2020 Jun 11.

45. Saha S, Dhinsa G, Ghoshal U, Hussain AN, Nag S, Garg A. Influence of plant extracts mixed with endodontic sealers on the growth of oral pathogens in root canal: An in vitro study. Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry. 2019 Jan 1;37(1):39.

46. Ujjala Ghoshal, Vidhi Jain, Nidhi Tejan, Sonali Khanduja Kalra,Prabhat Ranjan, Richa Sinha, Dinesh Gangwar, Uday C. Ghoshal. A Road Less Travelled: Clinical Comparison of HIV SeropositiveandSeronegative Patients with Cystoisosporiasis – An 11 YearExperiencefrom a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern India. Indian Journal ofMedical Microbiology2018;36

47. Ujjala Ghoshal, Nidhi Tejan. Rationale of using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) panels for etiological diagnosis of infective diarrhea in the tropics. Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2018. Sep 2018, 37 (5):381-384.

48. Ghoshal U, Ranjan P, Dey A, Ghoshal UC. Intestinal cryptosporidiosis in renal transplant recipients: Prevalence, species detection andcomparative evaluationof SSU rRNA and Cryptosporidium oocyst wallprotein genes. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2018 ;36:247-250.

49. Ghoshal UC, Baba CS, Ghoshal U, Alexander G, Misra A, SaraswatVA, Choudhuri G. Low-grade small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is common in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis on quantitative jejunal aspirate culture. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2017 Sep;36(5):390399.

50. Sharma V, Ghoshal U, Baijjal SS, Sharma R, Choudhuri G. Frequency of Biliary Infection and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern in Patients with Extra-Hepatic Biliary Obstruction Undergoing Non-SurgicalInterventions with Reused Accessories. J Liver Res Disord Ther.2016;2:00030.

51. Kundu R, Tripathi AM, Jaiswal JN, Ghoshal U, Palit M, Khanduja S. Effect of fixed space maintainers and removable appliances on oral microflora in children: An in vivo study. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent. 2016;34:3-9

52. Ghoshal U, Dey A, Ranjan P, Khanduja S, Agarwal V, Ghoshal UC. Identification of opportunistic enteric parasites among immune-competent patients with diarrhea from northern India and genetic characterization of Cryptosporidium and Microsporidia parasites. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2016;34:60-6

53. Ghoshal U, Khanduja S, Agarwal V, Prasad K N, Dhole T N, Ghoshal UC. Comparative evaluation of staining techniques and PCR for diagnosis of intestinal Microsporidiosis in Immunocompromised patients. Trop Parasitol. 2015;5:101-105.

54. Ghoshal U, Khanduja S, Pant P, Prasad K N, Dhole T N, Sharma R K, Ghoshal U C. Intestinal Microsporidiosis in renal transplant recipients: Prevalence, Predictors of occurrence, Genetic characterization.Indian J Med Microbiol. 2015;33:357-63.

55. Patel SS, Bhawna, Ghoshal U, Venkatesan A, Sengupta C. Spectrum of Infection in Patients with inflammatory bowel disease. International Journal Of Scientific Research. 2015; 4: 2277 – 2279

56. Ghoshal U, Kumar S, Jaiaswal V, Tripathi S, Mittal B, Ghoshal UC.Association of Tyr 113 His and exon 4 His 139 Arg polymorphism with gastric cancer in India. Indian J gastroentrol 2013; 32:246-252

57. Kashyap A, Singh MP, Madhu and Ghoshal U. Occurrence of Gastrointestinal Opportunistic Parasites in Immunocompromised Patients in Northern India. Journal of Biology 2013;77-80

58. Ghoshal U, Khanduja S, Chaudhury N, Gangwar D, Ghoshal UC. A series on intestinal strongyloidiasis in immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts. Tropical Gastroenterology 2012;33:135–141

59. S Rai, S Jain, P Kashi Nath, U Ghoshal, TN Dhole. Indian J Med Microbiol. Rationale of azithromycin prescribing practices for enteric fever in India. 2012; 30:30-3.

60. Tripathi S, Ghoshal U, Mittal B, Chourasia D, Kumar S.Ghoshal UC. Associations between gastric mucosal GST activity, GST gene polymorphisms, and Helicobacter pylori infection in gastric cancer Indian Journal of Gastroenterology. Indian J Gastroenterol 2011; 30:257–263

61. Ghoshal UC, Goel A, Ghoshal U, Jain M, Misra A, Choudhari G. Chronic diarrhea and malabsorption due to hypogammaglobulinemia: a report on twelve patients. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2011; 30(4):170-4.

62. Saha S, Samadi F, Jaiswal JN, Ghoshal U. Antimicrobial activity of different endodontic sealers: an in vitro evaluation. J Indian SocPedodPrev Dent. 2010;28:251-7

63. Goyal A, Prasad KN, Prasad A, Gupta S, Ghoshal U, Ayyagari A. Extended spectrum Betalactamases In Escherichia coli and Klebsiellapneumoniae and associated risk factors. Indian J Med Res 2009; 129:695-700

64. Goyal A, Prasad A, Ghoshal U, Prasad KN. Comparison of disc diffusion, disk potentiation and double disk synergy methods for detection of extended spectrum beta-lactamases in Enterobacteriaceae. Ind J Med Res 2008;128: 209-11

65. Ghoshal U, Kumar S, Jaiswal V, Tripathi S, Mittal B, Ghoshal UC. Association of Tyr 113 His and exon 4 His 139 Arg polymorphism with gastric cancer in India. Indian J Gastroentrol 2013; 32:246-252.

66. Ghoshal UC, Ghoshal U, Singh H, Tiwari S. Anti Saccharomy cescerevisae antibody is not useful to differentiate between Croh,n disease and Intestinal tuberculosis in India. J Postgraduate Med 2007:57;166-169

67. Ghoshal UC, Ghoshal U, Das K, Misra A. Utility of hydrogen breath tests in diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in malabsorption syndrome and its relationship with oro-cecal transit time. Indian J Gastroenterol 2006; 15: 6-10.

68. Ghoshal UC, Alexander G, Ghoshal U, Tripathi S, Krishnani N. Strongyloides stercoralis infestation in a patient with severe ulcerative colitis. Indian J Med Sci 2006; 60:106-110

69. Ghoshal U, Garg A, Tiwari DP, Ayyagari A. Emerging vancomycin resistance in Nothern India . Indian Journal Of Pathology &Microbiology 2006; 4: 620-622

70. Bala L, Tripathi P, Ghoshal U, Ghoshal UC, Roy R, Khetrapal CL. Malabsorption syndrome: Studies on diagnosis and pathogenesis using 1H NMR metabonomics approach. Indian Journal of chemical Society 2006; 83: 1195-1203

71. Tiwari S, Ghoshal U, Ghoshal UC, Dhingra S, Pandey R, Singh M, Ayyagari A, Naik S. Helicobacter pylori-induced apoptosis in the pathogenesis of gastric carcinoma. Indian J Gastroenterol 2005; 24: 193-196.

72. Ghoshal U, Kishore J, Kumar B, Ayyagari A. Serodiagnosis of smear and culture negative neurotuberculosis with enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for anti-A 60 immunoglobulins. Indian J Pathol Microbiol 2003; 46: 530-34

73. Manocha H, Ghoshal U, Singh SK, Kishore J, Ayyagari A. Frequency of leptospirosis in patients of with acute febrile illness in Uttar Pradesh. J Assoc Physician India 2004;52:623-625.

74. Ghoshal UC, Ghosh TK, Ghoshal U, Shujaatullah F, Banerjee PK, GuhaMazumder DN. In-house rapid urease test and commercial kit: Which is better? Indian J Gastroenterol 1999; 18: 183.

75. Ghoshal UC, Ghosh TK, Chatterjee U, Mukherjee S, Das P, Ghoshal U, Santra A, Banerjee P, De BK, GuhaMazumder DN. , Role of Helicobacter pylori in peptic ulcer in patients with hepatic cirrhosis. Indian J Gastroenterol 1999; 18: 90.

76. Malik A, Singhal S, Mukherjee U. Evaluation of ELISA based antibody test against H. pylori in cases of non-ulcer dyspepsia. Indian J Med Microbiol 1999; 17: 137-139.

77. Ghoshal U, Dey A, Ranjan P, Khanduja S, Agarwal V, Ghoshal UC. Identification of opportunistic enteric parasites among immune-competent patients with diarrhea from northern India and genetic characterization of Cryptosporidium and Microsporidia parasites. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, (2016) 34(1): 60-66

Rai S, Ghoshal U, Ghoshal U C. A Case of Polyparasitsm in a patient with Ulcerative Colitis. Published in Jeevenu times: An official publication of IAMM Delhi chapter 2010;9

Gupta P, Sen M, Khare V, Ghoshal U, Ghoshal UC. Intestinal myiasis by sarcophaga larvae coexisting with giardiasis - A case & report. Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development;2010:1:79-81

1. Armin Ahmed, Arvind Kumar Baronia, Afzal Azim, Rungmei S K Marak, Reema Yadav, Preeti Sharma, Mohan Gujjar, Banani Poddar and Ratendar Kumar Singh. External Validation of Risk Prediction Scores for Invasive Candidiasis in a Medical/ Surgical Itensive Care Unit: An Observational Study. India Journal of Critical Care Med. 2017; 21 (8): 514-520.

2. Afzal Azim, Armin Ahmed, Arvind Kumar Baronia, Rungmei S K Marak and Syed Nabeel Muzaffar. Intra-abdominal candidiasis. European Medical Journal. 2017; 5 (1): 83-92.

3. Shivaprakash MR, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Raees Paul, Prashant Sood, Harshimran Kaur, Malini R Capoor, Anupma J Kindo, Anita Arora, Raman Sardana, Shukla Das, Rungmei S K Marak, Deepinder Chhina, Atul Patel, Immaculata Xess, Bansidhar Tarai, Pankaj Singh and Anup Ghosh. Candida auris candidemia in Indian ICUs: Analysis of risk factors. Journal of Antimicrobial and Chemotherapy. February 2017; 72; 6 (1):1794-1801.

4. Arvind Kumar Baronia, Afzal Azim, Armin Ahmed, Mohan Gujjar, Rungmei S K Marak, Reema Yadav, Preeti Sharma. Invasive candidiasis in severe acute pancreatitis: Experience from a tertiary Care teaching hospital. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine. January 2017.

5. Saurin R Shah, Amit Keshri, Simple Patadia, Rungmei S K Marak and Sanjay Bihari. Invasive Aspergillosis of anterior skull base in the Immunocompetent Host: Outcomes with a Combined Treatment Modality- An Institutional Experience. Journal of Neurological Surgery, Part B: Skull Base. July 2016; 78 (01): 089-095.

6. Afzal Azim, Armin Ahmed and Rungmei S K Marak. Invasive Candidiasis. New England Journal of Medicine. NEJM 2016; 374 (8): 793-794.

7. Rishi Bolia, Anshu Srivastava, Rungmei S K Marak, Ujjal Poddar. Role of Procalcitonin and C - reactive protein As Biomarkers of Infection IN Children with Liver Disease. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition.2016; 63 (4): 406-411.

8. Arvind Kumar Baronia, Afzal Azim, Armin Ahmed, Rungmei S K Marak and Mohan Gujjar. Invasive Candidiasis in Critically ill; need for region specific guidelines. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine. July 2015. Indian J Crit Care Med. 2015 June; 19 (6):333-9.

9. BH Tan, A Chakrabarti, RY Li, AK Patel, S P Watcharananan, Z Liu, A Chindamporn, A L Tan, P-L Sun, U-I Wu, Y-C Chen. (Y-C Xu, H Wang, Z-Y Sun, L-L Wang, J Lu, Q Yang, Q-Q Zhang, H-F Shao, K Liao, P C Y Woo, Rungmei S K Marak, AJ Kindo, C.-L. Wu, M-W Ho, P-L Lu, L.-S Wang, P Riengchan). Incidence and Species Distribution of Candidaemia in Asia: A Laboratory-Based Surveillance Study (Asia Fungal Working Group (AFWG). Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2015 Oct; 21 (10): 946-953.

10. Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Prashant Sood, Shivaprakash MR, Sharon Chen, Harshimran Kaur, Malini R Capoor, Deepinder Chhina, Ratna Rao, Vandana Kalwaje Eshwara, Immaculata Xess, Anupma J Kindo, Umabala Pamidi, Jayanthi Savio, Atul Patel, Ujjwayini Ray, Sangeetha Mohan, Rangnathan Iyer, Jagdish Chander, Anita Arora, Raman Sardana, Indranil Roy, Boppe Appalraju, Ajanta Sharma, Anjali Shetty, Neelam Khanna, Rungmei S K Marak, Sanjay Biswas, Shukla Das, Belgode H Harish, Sangeeta Joshi and Deepal Medirattaai. Incidence, Characteristics and outcome of ICU-acquired candidemia in India. Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med. 2015 Feb; 41(2):285-95.

11. Ahmed A, Azim A, Baronia AK, Rungmei S K Marak, Gurjar M. Invasive candidiasis in non neutropenic critically ill - need for region-specific management guidelines. Indian J Crit Care Med. 2015 June; 19 (6):333-9.

12. Armin Ahmed, Afzal Azim, Arvind Kumar Baronia, K. Rungmei S. K. Marak, Mohan Gurjar. Risk prediction for invasive candidiasis. Indian J Crit Care Med. 2014 Oct; 18(10):682-88.

13. Shivaprakash MR, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, R Ahmed, Malini Capoor, A Kindo, Rungmei S K Marak, Atul Patel, Raman Sardana, A Arora and S Biswas Candida auris, emerging yeast causing candidemia in intensive care units; a multicentric study. Mycoses Oct 2013; 56: 102-103.

14. Vijeta Maurya, Ashutosh Srivastava, Jyoti Mishra, Rajni Gaind, Rungmei S K Marak, Anil Tripathi, Mastan Singh and Vimala Venkatesh. Oropharyngeal candidiasis and Candida colonization in HIV positive patients in Northern India. Journal Dev Ctries. 2013; 7 (8): 608-613.

15. Ritu Agarwal, Jayantee Kalita, Rungmei S K Marak and Usha Kant Misra. Spectrum of fungal infection in a neurology tertiary care center in India. Neurological Sciences. 2012; 33 (6): 1305-1310.

16. Chipde SS, Ranjan P, Lal H, Singh V, Naval R, Rungmei S K Marak, Prakash A, Bhadoria D, Sharma RK, Kapoor R, Pradhan MR, Singh M, Kumar J, Ansari MS, Mandhani A, Srivastava A, Kapoor R. Isolated Renal Zygomycosis: Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Criteria with Experience of a Tertiary Care Center. Urol Int 2012; 88 (3): 282-288.

Case Report

1. Amresh Kumar Singh, Rungmei S K Marak, Anand Kumar Maurya, Manaswini Das, Vijaya Lakshmi Nag and T N Dhole. Mixed Cutaneous Infection Caused by Mycobacterium szulgai and Mycobacterium intermedium in a Healthy Adult Female: A Rare Case Report. February 2015.

2. Sumit Rai, Rungmei S K Marak, Shakti Jain and T N Dhole. Posterior fossa midline Cryptococcoma in a patient with idiopathic CD4 lymphopenia. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2012; 30 (3): 367-370.

1. Srivastav A, Saha S, Sahu C. Early and Accurate Detection of Bacterial Isolates from Dental Plaque in Subjects With Primary, Mixed and Permanent Dentition by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry ( MALDI-TOF) Technique. J Indian Soc Periodontol 2020 ; 24:104-8

2. Saha S, Meenawat A, Sahu C, Srivastav V, Yadav S, Kumar V. Identification, Description And Monitoring Of Microbial Profile Around Two Stage Dental Implants By Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time Of Flight Mass Spectrometry. (MALDI-TOF MS). J Lab Physicians 2020; 1-7. DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1714934

3. Saran S, Gurjar M, Garg A, Sahu C, Bhaskar B, Mishra P et al. Uncommon Non-Fermenting Gram Negative Bacillary Bacteremia in ICU patients. Infectious Diseases 2020. DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2020.1716991

4. Patel SS, Singh S, Sahu C, Verma H. Seroprevalence trends of Leptospirosis at a tertiary care center of North India from 2016-2019 determined by two commercial ELISA kits. J Pure Appl Microbiol 2020; 14(2):1-6

5. Singh S, Sahu C, Patel SS. Rare and Under Reported Causes of Bacteremia: Case Series from a Tertiary Health Care Center in Northern India. J Clin Diagn Res 2020;14(7):DR01-DR04

6. Sahu C, Pal S, Patel SS, Singh S, Gurjar M, Ghoshal U. Phenotypic synergy testing of ceftazidime–avibactam with aztreonam in a university hospital having high number of metallobetalactamase producing bacteria. Infectious Diseases 2020. DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2020.1788224

7. Sahu C, Singh S, Kumar A, Patel S S. Past and present of antibiotics against drug resistant Gram negative pathogens-a detailed overview of their action, spectrum and indications. International Journal of Medical Science and Current Research 2020;3(4): 653-663

8. Singh S, Sahu C, Patel SS, Singh A, Yaduvanshi N. A comparative in vitro sensitivity study of “Ceftriaxone-sulbactam-EDTA” and various antibiotics against Gram negative bacterial isolates from intensive care unit. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020. https://www.jccm.org/doi/IJCCM/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23573 ( accepted)

9. Kumar A, Sahu C, Negi A, Yadav V B, Prasad K N. Urinary Tract Infection by Burkholderia mallei in a case of male child: A Rare Case Report. J Harmoniz Res and Hlth Sci 2017; 4(2):93-95

10. Hussain Nayani Amrin Fatima Afzal, Kumar A, Nag S, Sahu C, Ghar M, Prasad K N.Campylobacter coli Bacteremia In A Young Girl of Chronic Budd-Chiari Syndrome: First Case Report from India. Global Journal of Medical Analysis. 2017; Vol 6 (5): 579-580

11. Negi A, Anand M, Singh A, Kumar A, Sahu C, Prasad KN. Assessment of doripenem, meropenem, and imipenem against respiratory isolates of Pseudomonas aeroginosa in a tertiary care hospital of north India. Indian J Crit Care Med 2017;21:703-6.

12. Vidhi Jain, Nayani Amrin Fatema Afzal Hussain, Tasneem Siddiqui, Chinmoy Sahu, Malay Ghar and Kashi Nath Prasad. Simultaneous isolation of Chryseobacterium gleum from bloodstream and respiratory tract: first case report from India. JMM Case Reports 2017;4:1-4

13. Srivastava A, Saha S, Meenawat A, Sahu C, Srivastava S, Khan Y S. Detection of Periodontal Pathogens from Dental Plaques in Children of Mixed Dentition. University J Dent Scie 2017; 3(2):50-53

14. Negi A, Tejan N, Sahu C, Dhole T N. A case of coinfection by Salmonella and Leptospira presenting as subacute intestinal obstruction with colitis: Diagnostic dilemma and rare case report. J Clin Diagn Res. 2018 Mar, Vol-12(3): DD01-DD02

15. Sahu C, Kumar A, Singh A, Singh S, Singh S K, Prasad K N, Dhole T N. “Occurrence of SCCmec Type Ii Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among Health Care Workers of a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India”. EC Microbiology 14.2 (2018): 57-59.

16. Sahu C, Jain V, Mishra P, Prasad K N. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) versus European Committee For Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST)Guidelines for Interpretation of Carbapenem Antimicrobial Susceptibility Results for Escherichia coli in Urinary Tract Infection( UTI). J Lab Physicians 2018;10:289-93

17. Kumar A, Sahu C, Singh A, Prasad K N, Dhole T N. Emerging Chryseobacterium indologenes sepsis: study by automated identification system, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionisation Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) and Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) typing. Indian Journal of Microbiology Research, April-June 2018; 5(2):288-289

18. Jain V, Sahu C, Afzal Hussain NA, Ghar M, Prasad KN. The era of device colonizers: Chryseobacterium indologenes infections from a tertiary care center in North India. Indian J Crit Care Med 2018;22: 537-40

19. Gupta S, Jaswani P, Sharma RK, Agrawal S, Prasad N, Sahu C, Gupta A, Prasad KN. Procalcitonin as a diagnostic biomarker of sepsis: A tertiary care centre experience. J Infect Public Health. 2018, Nov 26. pii: S1876-0341(18)30312-5.

20. Mishra P, Pandey CM, Singh U, Gupta A, Sahu C, Keshri A. Descriptive statistics and normality tests for statistical data. Ann Card Anaesth 2019;22:67-72.

21. Gupta S, Sahu C, Nag S, Saha U S, Prasad N , Prasad K N. First report of peritonitis caused by the vancomycin-resistant coccus Pediococcus pentosaceus in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Access Microbiology 2019.

22. Anand M, Sahu C, Negi A., Singh A. In vitro Assessment of Fosfomycin: A Beacon of Hope in Drug Resistant Organisms Causing Urinary Tract Infections. Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research 2019; 30(2): 1-9.

23. Kumar A, Sahu C, Marak Rungmei S K, Misra U K, Dhole T N. Comparison of shell vial culture assay and molecular methods including a molecular chip for diagnosis of acute viral encephalitis in Northern India. International Journal of Current Research, Vol. 9, Issue, 06, pp.53203-53207, June, 2017

1. Garg A, Garg J. Evaluation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) RT-qPCR Tests in Multi-sample Pools. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2020 Aug. DOI: 10.1093/ cid/ciaa1099

2. Garg A, Garg J, Kumar S, Bhattacharya A, Agarwal S, Upadhyay GC. Molecular epidemiology & therapeutic options of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. The Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2019 Feb;149 (2):285.

3. Garg A, Garg J, Singh DV, Dhole TN. Can rapid dengue diagnostic kits be trusted? A comparative study of commercially available rapid kits for serodiagnosis of dengue fever. Journal of laboratory physicians. 2019 Jan;11(1):63.

4. Saran S, Gurjar M, Garg A, Sahu C, Bhaskar B, Mishra P, Azim A, Poddar B, Baronia AK. Uncommon non-fermenting Gram-negative bacillary bacteraemia in ICU patients. Infectious Diseases. 2020 May 3;52(5):372-5.

5. Katiyar R, Kaistha S, Srivastava N, Chowdhary S, Garg A, Dhole TN. High Prevalence of Multiple Drug Resistant and Biofilm Forming Staphylococcus aureus among Infected Patients with Suspected Pneumonia. J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2018;12(4):1905-12.

6. Paul D, Garg A, Bhattacharjee A. Occurrence of bla NDM-1 and bla NDM-5 in a tertiary referral hospital of North India. Microbial Drug Resistance. 2017 Oct 1;23 (7):815-21.

7. Sharma AK, Sharma JN, Garg A, Rajak H, Joshi RK, Dixit VK. Anti-atherosclerotic Potential of Achyranthes aspera Husk and its Crude Saponins in Experimental Rats. Journal of Biologically Active Products from Nature. 2013 Jun 1;3(3):216-23.

8. Upadhyay V, Verma D, Garg A, Siddique ME, Uphadhyay G C. Comparison of phenotypic methods to study the prevalence of ampc β-lactamases. National Journal of Medical and Allied Sciences 2015; 4(1):26-31.

9. Atul Garg, Jaya Garg, G C Upadhyay, Anurag agarwal, Amitabh bhattacharya. Evaluation of the RAPIDEC CARBA NP Test Kit for detection of Carbapenemase producing Gram Negative Bacteria. antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2015;59: 7870-72.

10. Rao YK, Midha T, Garg A, Garg J, Dwivedi GN, Singh NE. Neonatal septicemia in north india due to extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) producing gram negative bacteria. Int J Pharma Bio Sci. 2012;3:B282-90.

11. Atul garg, Jaya garg. Dissemination of NDM-1 positive bacteria in the New Delhi environment and its implications for human health: an environmental point prevalence study. Lancet Infectious diseases,(12) 2012 ;99-100.

12. Atul Garg, Jaya Garg, Y K Rao, G. C. Upadhyay and Suman Sakhuja. Prevalence of dengue among clinically suspected febrile episodes at a teaching hospital in North India. Jr of Inf Dis and Imm 2011, 3(5), 85-89.

13. Atul Garg, Jaya Garg, Anand swaroop, Sanjay Kala, Yashwant K Rao,Anand Kumar, R K Singh,Piyush Tripathi. Emerging Carbapenemases: Bringing a step closer to Extremely drug resistant bacteria. Int jour of cur Res 2011, 3(10), 35-38.

14. S C Parija, Atul Garg, Pushpa S, Krishna Khairnar. Molecular Study on Incidence of amoebiasis at Puducherry. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2010 Jul;29(4):140-2.

15. S C Parija, Atul Garg. Seroprevalence of filarisis in souther india. J Parasit Dis (Jan-June 2010) 34(1):20–23.

16. Jaya Garg, S.Sujatha, Atul Garg, S C Parija. Current distribution of etiology of oculomycosis from different ocular sites. Asian J Ophthalmol. 2010;12:29-32.

17. Jaya Garg, S.Sujatha, Atul Garg, S C Parija. Nosocomial cutaneous zygomycosis in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis. Int jr Inf Disease 2009. 12(2): 34-36.

18. Ragini Tilak, Sanjay Singh, Atul Garg, Jaya Bassi, Vijai Tilak, Anil K. Gulati. A case of Actinomycotic mycetoma involving the right foot. Jr Infect Dev Countries 2009; 3(1):71-73.

19. Jaya Garg, Ragini Tilak, Atul Garg, Pradyot Prakash, Anil Kumar Gulati and Gopal Nath . Rapid detection of dermatophytes from skin and hair. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:60 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-60.

20. Atul Garg, S.Sujatha, Jaya Garg, N. Srinivas Acharya, S.C. Parija. Wound infection secondary to snake bite. J Infect Dev Cont 2009; 3(3):221-223.

21. Garg A, Sujatha S, Garg J, Parija SC, Thappa DM. Eumycetoma due to Curvularia lunata. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2008;74:515-6.

22. Atul Garg, Sistla.Sujatha, Jaya Garg, Sistla Sarath Chandra, Debdatta Basu, Subash Chandra Parija . Fulminant necrotizing fasciitis due to zygomycetes. J Cutan Pathol 2008; 20 (3): 54-55.

23. Gaur A, Garg A, Prakash P, Anupurba S, Mohapatra TM. Observations on carbapenem resistance by minimum inhibitory concentration in nosocomial isolates of Acinetobacter species: an experience at a tertiary care hospital in North India. J Health Popul Nutr. 2008 Jun; 26(2):183-8.

24. D R Chaya, Harish B. Garg Atul, Garg Jaya, Parija S C, Sathessh S. Isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis due to MRSA after septic abortion. The Internet jr of cardiol.2008.Vol 2, number 5.

25. Shampa Anupurba, Amitabha Bhattacharjee, Atul Garg, Malay Ranjan Sen “Prevalence of gram negative organisms isolated from blood culture and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern: A five-year retrospective study from a tertiary referral hospital.” Annals of National Academy of Med Sciences. 0ct 2008. 54-59.

26. Atul Garg, S Anupurba, Jaya Garg, RK Goyal, MR Sen Bacteriological Profile and Antimicrobial Resistance of Blood Culture Isolates from a University Hospital. Jour of Ind Acad of Clin Med 2007; 8(2): 139-4.

27. Jaya Garg, Ragini Tilak, Sanjay Singh, Atul Garg, Pradyot Prakash, Anil Kumar Gulati and Gopal Nath. “Evaluation of Pan Dermatophyte Nested PCR in Diagnosis Onychomycosis.” Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 0ctober 2007, 3443-3445.

28. M Kumar, R Jain, K Tripathi, R Tandon, AK Gulati, A Garg, J Garg. Acanthamoebae presenting as primary meningoencephalitis in AIDS. Ind jour of path and microbial 2007; 50(4): 928-30.

29. Garg J,Tilak R, Singh S, Gulati AK, Prakash P, Garg A “Scytalidium infection associated with dyskeratosis congenita”. Brit Jr Dermatol” 2007, 156. 610 – 612.

30. Shampa Aupurba, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Atul Garg, M R Sen. Antimicrobial susceptibility of pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from wound infections. Ind Jour of dermatol 2006;51(4):286-8.

1. Patel SS, Singh S, Sahu C, Verma H. Seroprevalence trends of Leptospirosis at a tertiary care center of North India from 2016-2019 determined by two commercial ELISA kits. J Pure Appl Microbiol 2020; 14(2):1-6

2. Singh S, Sahu C, Patel SS. Rare and Under Reported Causes of Bacteremia: Case Series from a Tertiary Health Care Center in Northern India. J Clin Diagn Res 2020;14(7):DR01-DR04

3. Sahu C, Pal S, Patel SS, Singh S, Gurjar M, Ghoshal U. Phenotypic synergy testing of ceftazidime–avibactam with aztreonam in a university hospital having high number of metallobetalactamase producing bacteria. Infectious Diseases 2020. DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2020.1788224

4. Sahu C, Singh S, Kumar A, Patel S S. Past and present of antibiotics against drug resistant Gram negative pathogens-a detailed overview of their action, spectrum and indications. International Journal of Medical Science and Current Research 2020;3(4): 653-663

5. Singh S, Sahu C, Patel SS, Singh A, Yaduvanshi N. A comparative in vitro sensitivity study of “Ceftriaxone-sulbactam-EDTA” and various antibiotics against Gram negative bacterial isolates from intensive care unit. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020. https://www.jccm.org/doi/IJCCM/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23573

6. Sangram Singh Patel, Bhawna, Anusha Venkatesan. Prevalence of Giardiasis in patients attending Tertiary Care Hospital in Northern IndiaInternational Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2015; 4(5); 339-344.

7. Sangram Singh Patel, Anusha Venkatesan, Surbhi kansal, S.L AkulwarThe role of Hand Hygiene and Mobile phones in transmitting Hospital Acquired InfectionInternational Journal of Biomedical and Advanced Research 2015; 6(05): 435-437.

8. Sangram Singh Patel, Bhawna, Anusha Venkatesan. Incidence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Pus samples and associated risk factor in Tertiary Care Hospital.International Journal of Advanced Research 2015; 3(5): 1097-1102.

9. Sangram Singh Patel, Bhawna, Anusha Venkatesan, Surbhi Kansal. Prevalence of HBsAg in Patients attending Tertiary Care Hospital in Northern India International Journal of Pharma and Biosciences 2015 July; 6(3): (B) 1087 – 1091.

10. Sangram Singh Patel, Bhawna, Ujjala Ghoshal, Anusha Venkatesan Spectrum of Infection in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. International Journal of Scientific Research 2015; 4(7): 496-500.

11. Sangram Singh Patel, Bhawna, Dhole T.N, Anusha Venkatesan

Co-Infection of Influenza A and B in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Northern India.

International Journal of Medical and Applied Sciences 2015; 4(2): 260-263.

12. Sangram Singh Patel, Bhawna, Ujjala Ghoshal, Anusha Venkatesan Spectrum of Infection in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.IOSR- Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences. 2015; 14(10): 108-114.

13. Sahu.C, Patel.S.S, Konar.J, Khan.I.D, Banerjee.S, Pal.S Bacterial isolate infecting windpipe: keynote of windpipe. International journal of recent scientific Research 2015; 6(7):4940-4941;

14. Sangram Singh Patel, Bhawna, Dilip Kr. Singh, Ravi kr. Sharma, Vishakha Srivastava, Jitendra Prasad.Antibiogram of Acinetobater Species isolated from Various Clinical Specimens in a Tertiary Care Hospital North India.Annals of international medical and dental research. 2016; 2(1): 284-287.

15. Sangram Singh Patel, Bhawna, , Ravi kr. Sharma, Vishakha Srivastava, Jitendra Prasad, Dilip Kr. Singh High Level Gentamycin and Vancomycin Resistance in Enterococcus species in various clinical specimens from Tertiary Care Hospital North India.International journal of current research and academic review. 2016; 3(10): 276-280.

16. Sangram Singh Patel, Bipin ku. Shukla, Bhawna,, Dilip Kr. Singh, Ravi kr. Sharma Dengue in North India : Teaching Hospital Based Study

Annals of International Medical and Dental Research.2016; 2(2):158-161.

17. Sangram Singh Patel, Bipin kr. Shukla ,Bhawna, Ravi kr. Sharma, Dilip Kr. Singh Isolation, Identification and Antimicrobial usceptibility pattern of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from various clinical specimens at a North India Hospital.Annals of International Medical and Dental Research.2016; 2(2): 162-165.

18. Niti Mishra, Jyoti Gupta,Sailendra Mohan Tripathi,Sangram Singh Patel, Razia Khatoon & Mahak Jain.Prevalence of Methicillin Resistance Staphylococcus Isolated from all clinical specimensEuropean Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical sciences.2016; 3(3): 399-401

19. Sangram Singh Patel, Chandrim Sengupta, Anusha Venkatesan High Level Gentamycin Resistance amongEnterococcus Species Isolated from Clinical Samples in a Tertiary Care Hospital International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences2015;October 4(4)*