Publications Microbiology

    • Gupta V, Tewari R. Antibiotic resistance patterns of ESBL and MBL producing gram-negative bacteria in a tertiary care hospital. Int J Sci Res. 2025 Jan;14(1).
    • Qureshi OA, Sinha S, Aggarwal N, Iqbal A, Shree N, Jameel J, Kumar S. The Efficacy of Ultraviolet Radiation in Decontaminating Dropped Bone Fragments in Orthopedic Surgery. Cureus. 2025 Jul 10;17(7):e87698.
    • Goenka S, Singh A, Reshi S, Loomba P, Manisha Jain M, Sharma A, Tyagi S. Comparative Analysis of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Gastroenterology and Gastro surgery: A Two-Year Retrospective Study at GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi. J Med Bacteriol. 2025;13(2):9-15
    • Sharma A, Bhasin A, Reshi S, Sood Loomba P. Real time RT-PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2: key performance quality indicators. Indian Journal of Applied Research. 2025 Mar;15(3). doi:10.36106/ijar.
    • Choudhary S, Mishra RK, Parihar S, Kinimi SV, Yadav R, Grotra R. Pediatric candiduria: Insights from an observational study at a tertiary care hospital in northwestern India. World J Clin Pediatr. 2025;14(4):110106. doi:10.5409/wjcp.v14.i4.110106.
    • Pedapalli M, Ramya SVK, Padmaja N. Study of virulence factors and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of uropathogenic Escherichia coli in a tertiary care hospital. Int J Adv Res. 2025;13(12):896-901.
    • Anwar MS, Biswas PP, Nandy S, Akhter K, Wari MN, Sen A. Prevalence, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Acinetobacter baumannii complex and Pseudomonas species in a tertiary care centre in the eastern part of Bihar. Student’s J Health Res Afr. 2025;6(3).
    • Chandra K , Das AK , Upadhyay B , Uddin A , Hussain SM , Islam F et al. Circulating Viral Antigenic Proteins and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections: Associations with Disease Severity and Transmission. Cureus. 2025 Dec;17(12): e100037. DOI 10.7759/cureus.100037
    • Singh D, Uddin A, Bajaj K, Chaturvedi A, Garg R, Chandra K, Das A, Kohli S, Jain V. Clinical spectrum and complications of Plasmodium vivax malaria: a retrospective study from Delhi, India. MalariaWorld J. 2025 Sep 15;16:17. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17120057. PMID: 40980424; PMCID: PMC12448373.
    • Fatima N, Baig MS, Rizvi AH, Arzoo A, Sharma M, Shahadab M, Arya A, Das AK, Batra VV, Mohanty KK, Alam MA, Ahmad E, Ali S, Selvapandiyan A, Ansari MA. Profiling HIV-1 host protein–protein interaction networks in patient-derived exosome proteins: impact on pathophysiology and innate immune pathways. Virol J. 2025 Jul 28;22(1):259. doi:10.1186/s12985-025-02717-7. PMID: 40722180; PMCID: PMC12302467.
    • Chaudhary A, Sartaj A, Sharma N, Chaudhary D, Kumar S, Das AK, et al. Combination of metronidazole and green tea extract-loaded nanoparticles: formulation, optimization, in vitro and ex vivo study for treatment of periodontal disease. J Indian Soc Periodontol. 2025 Mar–Apr;29(2):136-146.
    • Gahlowt A, Haider M, Shree N, Jairajpuri Z, Das AK, Kumari N. Comparison of performance characteristics of laboratory diagnostic modalities in extrapulmonary tuberculosis. J Clin Sci Res. 2024 Oct–Dec;13(4):269-273.
    • Akhter G, Hamid H, Dhawan B, Das AK, Tantray MA, Alam MS, Sharma K. Synthesis and Design of New 1,3,4-Oxadiazole Benzimidazole Hybrids as Potential Antibacterial Agents Against MRSA by Targeting FabI. ChemistrySelect2024, 9, e202404473
    • Das AK, Islam F, Alvi Y, Dudeja M, Ahmad M, Rahman A, Roy S, Aamir, Ahmed M. SARS-CoV-2 infection and seropositivity among household contacts of laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in residents of Delhi, India. Prev Med Rep. 2024 Jan 10;38:102603.
    • Sharma D, Haque N, Das A, Lachyan A. Comparison of Susceptibility Testing Methods for Determining Methicillin and Linezolid Resistance with mecA and cfr Gene Prevalence Among Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci – A Prospective Study from South Delhi. Int J Biol Med Res. 2024; 15(1): 7718-7723
    • Rushna Wazahat, Neetu Shree, Vasim Ahmad, Rana Zaidi, Pankaj Kumar. 96 well-formatted CrfA assay for differentiation od Mycobacterium tuberculosis and non-tuberculous Mycobacteria, diagmicrobio. 2024; 110 (2)116469.
    • Ahmed S, Shree N, Narula AS, Nirala PK, Majid H, Garg A, Nayeem U, Khan MA. The prevalence of multidrug resistance in uropathogens of patients admitted in the intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg’s Arch Pharmacol. 2024 Sep;387(9):7117-7127.
    • Kaushik S, Saigal K, Saikia D, Qureshi S. Hepatitis E: Epidemiology, Clinical course: Pediatric Population North India. The Res J Med Sci. 2024; 6(2):7-11.
    • Kaushik S, Duggal D S, Gur R et al. A Case of Fatal Disseminated Ascariasis: Clinico-Diagnostic Dilemma. J Clin Immunol Microbiol. 2022; 3(2):1-7.
    • Kaushik S, Shalini DD, Gur R, Sharma P , Shilpa. Outbreak Investigation by “Disease Detectives”: A Retrospective Analysis of Hospital Infection Control Practices. International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Research. 2023 May-June; 4(3): 154-161
    • Singh M, Rehman A, Hassan N, Anfey Faheem A, Das A, Rahman M, Ansari MJ, Sharma N, Dudeja M, Aqil M, Mirza MA, Iqbal Z. Exploration of a W/O Nanoemulsion for Antibiofilm Activity against Cariogenic Enterococcus faecalis. ACS Omega. 2023 Jan 11;8(3):2871-2879.
    • Hassan N, Farooq U, Das AK, Sharma K, Mirza MA, Fatima S, Singh O, Ansari MJ, Ali A, Iqbal Z. In Silico Guided Nanoformulation Strategy for Circumvention of Candida albicansBiofilm for Effective Therapy of Candidal Vulvovaginitis. ACS Omega. 2023 Feb;8(7):6918-6930.
    • Islam F, Alvi Y, Ahmad M, Ahmed F, Rahman A, Singh FHD, Das AK, Dudeja M, Gupta E, Agarwalla R, Alam I, Roy S. Household transmission dynamics of COVID-19 among residents of Delhi, India: a prospective case-ascertained study. IJID Reg. 2023 Jun; 7:22-30
    • Uzma Nayeem, Aakriti Garg, Ayan Kumar Das, Neetu Shree, Yasmeen, Yasmin Sultana, Shaista Ahmed, Mohd Ashif Khan, Development and evaluation of the novel chitosan-based 1% clindamycin & 2.5% benzoyl peroxide transferosomal gel for topical acne treatment, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, Volume 89, 2023,
    • Khan A, Shree N* and Ansari S. Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among patients attending a tertiary care South Delhi Hospital. IJMACR 2023; 2 (6) :107-16.
    • Saha R, Kaushik S, Kumar A, Choudhary S. The underutilization of forensic Microbiology: A narrative review. Annals of the National Academy of Medical Sciences 59 (3) 2023.
    1. Das AK, Dudeja M, Kohli S, Ray P, Nandy S. High-level gentamicin resistance
      mediated by Aac (6′)-Ie-aph (2”)-Ia gene in Enterococcus species isolated from
      clinical samples in Northern India. Indian Journal of Pharmacology. 2022
      May;54(3):171.
    2. Dudeja M, Shaikh A, Islam F, Alvi Y, Ahmad M, Kashyap V, Singh V, Rahman A, Panda M, Shree N, Nandy S. Assessment of potential risk factors for COVID-19 among health care workers in a health care setting in Delhi, India-a cohort study. PloS one. 2023 Jan 20;18(1):e0265290.
    3. A Pokhrel, J Chaudhary, P Sachdeva, AK Das, A Gupta, T Kirtania et al. Trends of infectious disease markers among healthy blood donors in northern India: A ten year study. Transfusion and Apheresis Science 61 (5), 103442
    4. HC Lewis, AJ Marcato, N Meagher, M Valenciano, … AK Das et al. Transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 in standardised first few X cases and household transmission investigations: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 16 (5), 803-819
    5. K Chandra, AK Das, S Banday, NA Rana, M Arora, S Jain, F Islam et al. Efficacy of polyherbal formulations for prevention of COVID‐19 infection in high‐risk subjects: A randomized open‐label controlled clinical trial. Phytotherapy Research 36 (9), 3632-3643
    6. T Bhatnagar, S Chaudhuri, M Ponnaiah, PD Yadav, R Sabarinathan,.. AK Das et al. Effectiveness of BBV152/Covaxin and AZD1222/Covishield vaccines against severe COVID-19 and B. 1.617. 2/Delta variant in India, 2021: a multi-centric hospital-based case. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 122, 693-702
    7. M Dudeja, P Sharma, F Islam, A Shaikh, FHD Singh, Y Alvi, V Kashyap, AK Das et al. A hospital-based prospective cohort study to assess the factors associated with transmission dynamics of SARS CoV-2 among healthcare workers in Delhi. F1000Research 11 (728), 728
    8. AK Das, K Chandra, M Dudeja, MK Aalam. Asymptomatic SARS-COV-2 carriage and sero-positivity in high risk contacts of COVID-19 cases.’ Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 40 (2), 279-284
    9. AK Das, M Dudeja, S Kohli, P Ray. Genotypic characterization of vancomycinresistant Enterococcus causing urinary tract infection in northern India. Indian Journal of Medical Research 155 (3&4), 423-431
    10. Chandra K, Das AK, Banday S, Dhyani N, Upadhyay B, Dang A, Joshi S, Dudeja M. Phenotyping of lymphocyte subsets, Th-1/Th-2 cytokines and other parameters in high-risk contacts of SARS-CoV-2. Indian J Pathol Microbiol [Epub ahead of print] Available from: https://www.ijpmonline.org/preprintarticle.asp?id=358850