Department Of Microbiology

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

YEAR (2021)

1.     A Comparative Study of Conventional Cultural Methods for Better Yield of Zygomycetes at Tertiary Care Hospital Jaipur Kavita Mourya, Snigdha Purohit, Aruna Vyas, Nazneen Pathan, Bharti Malhotra.. International Journal of Medical Science and Current Research:Volume-4|Issue-5|Page no.77-82|September-October 2021

2.     Retrospective Study of Mycological Profile of Respiratory Infections in Five Consecutive Years in a Tertiary Care Hospital. Dr.Kavita Mourya, Dr.Aruna Vyas, Dr.Snigdha Purohit(Corresponding author), Dr.Suman Meena. International Journal of Scientific Research:Volume-10|Issue-9|September-2021| doi :10.36106/ijsr

3.     Clinical and Microbiological Assessment to Correlate RT-PCR Ct Value with Post Covid Symptoms in Health Care Workers: Does Adjuvant Therapy Helps Alleviate Post Covid Symptoms?. Snigdha Purohit ,Manish Bansal, Aruna vyas, Nitya Vyas(Corresponding author) Nazneen Pathan, Varunika Vijayvergia, Monika Gupta, Kanika Sharma. International Journal of Medical Research Professional. 2021 Jan; 7(1):49-51. Doi:10.21276/ijmrp.2021.7.1.014

4.     Bacteriological profile from cell phones amongst laboratory personnel at tertiary care hospital Jaipur Snigdha Purohit, Aruna Vyas, Rajni Sharma. The Rajasthan Medical Journal ,ISSN:0485-9561, Vol-14, issue-1, Jan-2020: 10-14

5.     Study of Bacteriological Profile and Antibacterial Susceptibility of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections among Trauma ICU Patients Snigdha Purohit, (First & Corresponding Author),  Aruna Vyas, Rajni Sharma, Devendra Purohit , Nitya Vyas.. The Rajasthan Medical Journal, ISSN: 0185-9561, ISSUE : Dec (S) 2019 :72-79

6.     A study on requirement of cold chain maintenance for reliable testing of SARS CoV-2 samples. Varunika Vijayvergiya, Aruna Vyas, Nazneen Pathan, Rajni Sharma, Snighdha Purohit, Aakriti, Neha Sharma , Nitya Vyas. Accepted in JCDR 2021.

7.     Evaluation of Saline as Potential Alternative to Viral Transport Media for COVID-19 Samples Stored at Different Temperatures. Parul Sinha, Dinesh Kumar Jain, Sandeep Gupta, Monika Gupta, Megha Gupta, Aditi Agarwal, Rajni Sharma, Nitya Vyas . JCDR 2021, 15(4)

8.      Evaluation of stability of RNA in Viral transport media for the detection of SARS- CoV-2 by RT -PCR under different temperature conditions. Dr Sandeep Gupta, Dr Dinesh  Jain, Dr Parul Sinha, Dr Monika Gupta, Dr Malvika Sharma, Dr Nitya Vyas. IJMSE, 2021.

9.      Multidrug resistant stenotrophomonas maltophilia- Changing Sensitivity pattern with resitance to Trimethoprim-Sulfamethaxazole- A retrospective Study from Jaipur, India

Dinesh Jain, Yogesh Gupta, Parul Sinha, Sandeep Gupta, Varunika Vijayvargiya, Shivra Batra. J Evid Based Med Healthc 2021.

10.  Transmission of Coronavirus disease-19 through asymptomatic and pre symptomatic is a challenge to containment: A Retrospective observational study. Dr Parul sinha, Dr Megha Gupta, Dr. Nisha Patidar, Dr Nitya Vyas. IJSR, 2021

11.  Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Viral Infections in Thalassemia Patients Undergoing Multiple Blood Transfusions in a Tertiary Care Hospital. Anupriya Yadav*, Rameshwari Bithu, Manju Yadav and Rakesh K. Maheshwari IJCMAS, 2021

12.  A Hospital based observational study to evaluate,the microbiological profile among patients with ear discharge. Nazneen Pathan, Shivra Batra, Veena Balothia. International Journal of Health and Clinical research. 2021; 4  (7): 11-15 Accepted 22/03/2021.

13.  Prevalence of high level aminoglycoside resistance and vancomycin resistant enterococci in enterococcal isolates in a Tertiary Care Hospital . Sunita Agarwal, Nazneen Pathan, Shvira Batra, Rajni Sharma. Global Journal for Research Analysis 2021; 4 (10).

14.  Provider Initiated and client intiated HIV testing. A ten year ICTC based study : 2009-2019. Nazneen Pathan, Sunita Agarwal, Anshu Mittal, Adil Aziz, Nitya Vyas.. International Journal of Scientific Research. 2021; 4 (10): 16-19

15.  Knowledge, attitude and practices regarding biomedical waste management among healthcare personnel in jaipur, India. Dr. Dinesh kumar jain, Dr. Monika gupta, Dr. Parul sinha, Dr. Sandeep gupta, Dr. Jaishree jain. Published Dec 2021 International J Medical sci and education.

16.  Impact of corona virus disease (covid-19) on mental health: A comparative study Dr. Dinesh kumar jain, Dr. Monika gupta, Dr. Jaishree jain, Dr.Gaurav rajender, Dr. Sandeep Gupta, Published Dec 2021, International journal of medical science and education.

17.  Role of RT-PCR Ct value in predicting severity of covid-19 infection: is it still required??? Monika gupta, Kanika sharma, Snigdha purohit*, Dinesh jain, Nitya Vyas published in International journal of scientific research. 2021, 10 (05) | print issn no. 2277 - 8179 | doi : 10.36106/ijsr.

18.  Gaurav Sharma, Bharti Malhotra, PJ John, Shipra Bhargava.Molecular Methods and Culture in Diagnosis of Tuberculous Meningitis in Children.Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases; 2021;11(03),140-146.

19.  Pragya D Yadav, Dimpal A Nyayanit, Triparna Majumdar, Savita Patil, Harmanmeet Kaur, Nivedita Gupta, Anita M Shete, Priyanka Pandit, Abhinendra Kumar, Neeraj Aggarwal, Jitendra Narayan, Neetu Vijay, Usha Kalawat, Attayur P Sugunan, Ashok Munivenkatappa, Tara Sharma, Sulochna Devi, Tapan Majumdar, Subhash Jaryal, Rupinder Bakshi, Yash Joshi, Rima Sahay, Jayanti Shastri, Mini Singh, Manoj Kumar, Vinita Rawat, Shanta Dutta, Sarita Yadav, Kaveri Krishnasamy, Sharmila Raut, Debasis Biswas, BiswajyotiBorkakoty, Santwana Verma, Sudha Rani, Hirawati Deval, Disha Patel, JyotirmayeeTuruk, Bharti Malhotra, Bashir Fomda, Vijaylakshmi Nag, Amita Jain, Anudita Bhargava, Varsha Potdar, Sarah Cherian, Priya Abraham, Anjani Gopal, Samiran Panda, Balram Bhargava.An Epidemiological Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Sequences from Different Regions of India. Viruses. 2021. 13; 5, 925

20.  Gaurav Sharma, Bharti Malhotra, PJ John, Shipra Bhargava.Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and drug resistance in pediatric patients suspected of pleural tuberculosis.. Journal of Advanced Scientific Research. 2021;12;2

21.  Tarun Bhatnagar, Gururaj Rao Deshpande, Bharti Malhotra, Padinjaremattathil ThankappanUllas, RutujaDhawde, Sharada Sharma, Mukesh Mittal, Jyotsna Vyas, Manickam Ponnaiah, Gajanan Sapkal, Sudhir Bhandari, Manoj MurhekarNo evidence of recent Zika virus transmission among the cohort of pregnant women after the 2018 outbreak in Jaipur city, Rajasthan, India, 2019-20..;Journal of Clinical Virology Plus. 2021; 100031.

22.  Nivedita Gupta, Harmanmeet Kaur, Pragya Dhruv Yadav, Labanya Mukhopadhyay, Rima R Sahay, Abhinendra Kumar, Dimpal A Nyayanit, Anita M Shete, Savita Patil, Triparna Majumdar, Salaj Rana, Swati Gupta, Jitendra Narayan, Neetu Vijay, Pradip Barde, Gita Nataraj, Manasa P Kumari, Debasis Biswas, Jyoti Iravane, Sharmila Raut, Shanta Dutta, Sulochana Devi, Purnima Barua, Piyali Gupta, BiswaBorkakoty, DeepjyotiKalita, Kanwardeep Dhingra, Bashir Fomda, Yash Joshi, Kapil Goyal, Reena John, Ashok Munivenkatappa, Rahul Dhodapkar, Priyanka Pandit, Sarada Devi, Manisha Dudhmal, Deepa Kinariwala, Neeta Khandelwal, Yogendra Kumar Tiwari, Prabhat Kiran Khatri, Anjli Gupta, Himanshu Khatri, Bharti Malhotra, MythilyNagasundaram, Lalit Dar, Nazira Sheikh, Jayanthi Shastri, Neeraj Aggarwal, Priya Abraham.Clinical characterization and genomic analysis of samples from COVID-19 breakthrough infections during the second wave among the various states of India.2021;Viruses;13;9;1782.

23. Khushbu Trivedi, Bharti Malhotra, Widhi Dubey, Pratibha Sharma, Farah Deeba, Jitendra Tiwari, Aradhana ChauhanDetection of H275Y Mutation Conferring Oseltamivir DrugResistance in Influenza A (H1N1) pdm09 Virus..2021. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology.15;3;1421-1429.

24.  Khushbu Trivedi, Dr. Bharti Malhotra, Dr.Widhi Dubey, Dr. Pratibha Sharma, Farah Deeba, Dr. Jitendra Tiwari, Dr. Aradhana Chauhan. Trends of Influenza A Virus Infection in Paediatric Patients. 2021. Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology. 25, 6, 13857–13867.

25.  K Alagarasu, JA Patil, MB Kakade, AM More, B Yogesh, P Newase, SM Jadhav, D Parashar, H Kaur, N Gupta, N Vijay, J Narayan, PS Shah, Ajanta Sharma, Amita Jain, Anudita Bhargava, B Anukumar, M Ashok, Bharti Malhotra, BJ Borkakoty, Debasis Biswas, SC Jaryal, Kanwardeep Singh Dhingra, K Kaveri, PK Khatri, Manoj Kumar, K Nagamani, Rahul Dhodapkar, Rupinder Bakshi, Paramjeet S Gill, SanghamitraPati, Shanta Dutta, G Shantala, Usha Kalawat, Disha A Patel, P Vijayachari.Serotype and genotype diversity of dengue viruses circulating in India: a multi-centre retrospective study involving the Virus Research Diagnostic Laboratory Network in 2018. 2021. International Journal of Infectious Diseases.111;242-252.

26.  Shreya Khandelwal, Bharti Malhotra,WidhiDubey,Shipra Bhargava Effectiveness of SD Bioline MPT 64 Test for Differentiating Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex and Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria from Liquid Culture Positive Isolates. Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology.,  2021;25(6):14736-14742.

YEAR 2020

1.      Serum Procalcitonin: A suggestive Predictor for sepsis among critically ill patients at SMS Hospital, Jaipur. Sarita Netra, J Med Sci and Clin Rearch 2020.

2.      Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections and associated risk factors among children attending a tertitary care Hospittal. Karadiya R, Hooja S, Yadav R, Pal N, Vyas N. Int J Res Pharma sci.. 2020

3.      Drug susceptibility testing of Nontuberculous mycobacteria by broth micro dilution method. Megha Sharma, Bharti Malhotra, Sherya Khandelwal Ind J Med Micro .2020, doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2020.10.022,2020

4.      Clinico-epidemiological and genomic profile of first Zika Virus outbreak in India at Jaipur city of Rajasthan state. Bharti Malhotra, Veenu Gupta, Pratibha Sharma, Ruchi Singh, Himanshu Sharma, Madhavi Vyas, RP Mathur, VKMathur, Deepa Meena, Hemant Malhotra, Pragya D. Yadav, Gajanan Sapkal, Ullas PT, Gururaj Rao Deshpande,Rashmi Gunjikar, Heena Shaman, Devendra T Mourya, Nivedita Gupta, Sujit Singh, P Ravindran, Jitender Tiwari,Dimpal A. Nyayanit, Neeraj Kumar, Sameer Phalke ,Anup Chugani, Sudhir Bhandari, Prashanth Suravajhala, PooranSingh Solanki , Manila Salaria. J Infect Public Health. 2020; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.10.006  

5.      Prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in patients suspected of tuberculosis and drug resistant tuberculosis. Megha Sharma, Gaurav Sharma, Ravi Prakash Shaliwal, Shipra bhargava, Bharti Malhotra. RUHS Journal ofHealth Sciences 2020; 5, 198-203 DOI: 10.37821/ruhsjhs.5.4.2020.326  

6.      Profile of Nontuberculous mycobacteria in patients suspected of Tuberculosis and drug resistant Tuberculosis. Megha Sharma, Bharti Malhotra, Jitendra Tiwari, Shipra Bhargava Journal of Laboratory Physicians. 2020,12(3):203-211 DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1721160

7.      COVID-19 in Rajasthan: Status and Effects of ContainmentMeasures. Ravi Prakash Sharma1, Jyoti Gupta, Kusum Lata Gaur, Deepa Meena, Praveen Aswal, KK Sharma, Ruchi Singh, Raman Sharma, Bharti Malhotra, Disha Meena. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health. 2020, 10(4):202-206 DOI: 10.5530/ijmedph.2020.4.43

8.       Laboratory preparedness for SARS-CoV-2 testing in India: Harnessing a network of Virus Research & Diagnostic Laboratories. Nivedita Gupta, Varsha Potdar, Ira Praharaj, Sidhartha Giri, Gajanan Sapkal, Pragya Yadav, Manohar Lal Choudhary,Lalit Dar, AP Sugunan, Harmanmeet Kaur, Ashok Munivenkatappa, Jayanthi Shastri, Krishnasamy Kaveri, Shanta,Dutta, Bharti Malhotra, Amita Jain, Kammilli Nagamani, GB Shantala, Sharmila Raut, MM Vegad, Ajanta Sharma,Aashish Choudhary, Megha Brijwal, Anukumar Balakrishnan, Jayaswamy Manjunatha, Manish Pathak.Sivasubramanian Srinivasan, Hasina Banu, Himanshu Sharma, Parul Jain, Pakalpati Sunita, R Ambica, Babita Fageria, Disha Patel, Gitika Rajbongshi, Neetu Vijay, Jitendra Narayan, Neeraj Aggarwal, Anu Nagar, Raman R Gangakhedkar, Priya AbrahamInd J Med Res 2020: 216- . DOI:10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_594_20 PMID:32242875

9.First isolation of SARS-CoV-2 from clinical samples in India. Prasad Sarkale, Savita Patil, Pragya D Yadav, Dimpal A Nyayanit, Gajanan Sapkal, Shrikant Baradkar, Rajen Lakra,Anita Shete-Aich, Sharda Prasad, Atanu Basu, Lalit Dar, Veena Vipat, Sidhartha Giri, Varsha Potdar, Manohar LalChoudhary, Ira Praharaj, Amita Jain, Bharti Malhotra, Pranita Gawande, Kaumudi Kalele, Nivedita Gupta, Sarah S Cherian, Priya Abraham. Ind J Med Res 2020: 244---DOI:10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1029_20 PMID:32362649

10.        Genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 strains among Indians returningfrom Italy, Iran & China, & Italian tourists in India. Varsha Potdar, Sarah S Cherian, Gururaj Rao Deshpande, Padinjaremattathil Thankappan Ullas, Pragya D Yadav, Manohar Lal Choudhary, Rohan Gughe, Veena Vipat, Sheetal Jadhav, Savita Patil, Dimpal Nyayanit, TriparnaMajumdar, Atul Walimbe, Shivshankar Gaikwad, Hitesh Dighe, Anita Shete-Aich, Sreelekshmy Mohandas, DeepikaChowdhury, Gajanan Sapkal, Atanu Basu, Nivedita Gupta, Raman R Gangakhedkar, Sidhartha Giri, Lalit Dar, AmitaJain, Bharti Malhotra, Priya Abraham, NIC Team Ind J med Res 2020: 255. DOI:10.4103 /ijmr.IJMR_1058_20PMID: 32362650.

11.        A cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infection among Italiantourists visiting India, March 2020. Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Manoj Murhekar, Yatin Mehta, Sushila Kataria, Megha

Brijwal, Nitesh Gupta,Aashish Choudhary, Bharti Malhotra, Madhavi Vyas, Himanshu Sharma, Naveen Yadav, Tarun Bhatnagar, NiveditaGupta, Lalit Dar, Raman R Gangakhedkar, Balram Bhargava.Ind J Med Res 2020; 151: 438-443. DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1722_20

12.  Hepatitis E outbreak in Jaipur due to Genotype IA. Bharti Malhotra, Farah Deba, Pratibha Sharma, Khushbu Trivedi, Jitendra Tiwari, Aradhana Chouhan, Ruchi Singh,Deepa Meena, HN Verma. Ind J Med Micro 2020.38: 46-51. DOI:10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_19_433

13.  Detection of African genotype inHyalomma tick pools during Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever outbreak, Rajasthan, India, 2019. Rima R. Sahaya, Suhas Dhandored, Pragya D. Yadava,, Arun Chauhand, Lenin Bhatth, Vipin Gargi,Nivedita Guptab,Dimpal A. Nyayanita, Anita M. Shetea, Ruchi Singhe, Savita Patila,Himanshu Sharmaf, Deepa Meenae, Jyoti Guptae,Pranita Gawandea, Kaumudi Kalelea,Rajlaxmi Jaina, Deepak Malia, Bharti Malhotra, Vijayalakshmi Nagg, Prabhat K. Khatrij, Harmanmeet Kaurc, Neetu Vijayc, Sujeet Singhd, Maya Gopalakrishnan. Virus Research.2020: 286; 198046.DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2020.198046.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

1)      Dr. Nazneen Pathan. Dakshta Praman Patra awarded by Principal & Controller, SMS Medical College, Jaipur in August 2021

2)      Dr. Dinesh Jain. Dakshta Praman Patra awarded by Principal & Controller, SMS Medical College, Jaipur in August 2021

3)      Dr. Varunika Vijayvergiya.  Dakshta Praman Patra awarded by Principal & Controller, SMS Medical College, Jaipur in August 2021

4)      Dr Rekha Bachhiwal.  Dakshta Praman Patra awarded by Principal & Controller, SMS Medical College, Jaipur in January 2021

5)      Dr. Manju Yadav. Dakshta Praman Patra awarded by Principal & Controller, SMS Medical College, Jaipur in January 2021

6)      Dr. Parul Sinha. Dakshta Praman Patra awarded by Principal & Controller, SMS Medical College, Jaipur in August 2020

7)      Dr.Sandeep Gupta. Dakshta Praman Patra awarded by Principal & Controller, SMS Medical College, Jaipur in August, 2020

8)      Dr. Malvika Sharma. Dakshta Praman Patra awarded by Principal & Controller, SMS Medical College, Jaipur in August 2020

9)      Dr. Bharti Malhotra. Award for meritorious  services by Rajasthan State government, on 26^th January 2019

10)  Dr. Bharti Malhotra. Rajasthan Medical Council Award for excellence in Diagnostic services 2018

11)  Dr. Bharti Malhotra. Private practitioners society award for excellence in Microbiology 2018

12)  Dr. Bharti Malhotra. Sheikh Abdullah best published paper award by SMS Jaipur year 2017 – BhartiMalhotra et al  Evaluation of custom multiplex real - time RT - PCR in comparison to fast - track diagnostics respiratory 2l pathogens kit for detection of multiple respiratory viruses.

13)  Dr.Bharti Malhotra. Best Participant award in Gel Electrophoresis work shop at Nagpur

ACHIEVEMENTS (2021)

1.      Mycology Lab is functional for 24 hours for diagnosis of post- covid mucormycosis. Detection of beta D glucan, galactomannan and RT PCR are also done here.

2.      1 of 14 National Labs in India under “Global Measles Rubella Laboratory Network“ of South East Asia Region (SEAR) since 2009.Laboratory is accredited by W.H.O. (standards of I.S.O. :15189).

3.      Log book for Microbiology is prepared as per Competency based Medical Education Curriculum, NMC .

4.      Human Milk Bank Surveillance with Dept of Pediatrics for Human Milk Bank Situated in MahilaChikitsalaya. It’s a state government project  Microbial count  in milk samples, stored at milk banks.

5.      Maximum number of HIV Test all over India are done in this center. The HIV Test laboratory was the first laboratory in Rajasthan Government to get NABL Accreditation.

6.      TB lab is the only TB lab accredited by NABL

7.      A fully automated COBAS 8800 was installed for molecular identification of pathogens and more than 1 lakh samples were tested on the system.

8.      SARS COV2  Genome Sequencing is also being done and sequencing of more than 2000 SARS COV2 whole genome sequencing were done  .

9.      A fully functional Quality control lab is also functioning in which various COVID antigen kits have been validated, and batch testing of various RT PCT kits ,VTMs and antigen kits are also being done on regular basis.

10.  More than 17 lac SARS COV2 RT PCR done

11.  Antigen & antibody testing started for SARS COV2

12.  Molecular & serological testing validated for Measles Rubella Lan network by VRDL

Last Updated: 09.02.2022