Microbiology
Research
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
ICMR:
Dr. Priya Santharam, Professor – Guide for STS – Self-Medication and Its Link with Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) among Medical College Students: A Cross- Sectional Study
Dr. Mowna Karthick, Assistant – Guide for ICMR STS – Antimicrobial stewardship program awareness among the physicians and the interns: Initial risk assessment and implementation of ASPIC process model in tertiary care hospital
Dr. Bavadharani, Assistant – Seed money Project – This is to certify that bascd on detail scientific review thc Chancellor has approved on the following project with SBV-Sccd moncy for implementation of the project detailed below.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS OF RESEARCH PAPERS IN STATE, NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL:
Dr. Bavadharani , Asst Prof – Best paper presentation on “ Susceptibility pattern of aspergillus flawus to conventional and newwe azole antifungal agenst and detection of CYP51 (a,b,c) gene mutation among azole resistant isolates – 46th National conference of Indian Association of medical microbiologists held at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow from 23rd to 26th November 2023.
Research Activities
Faculty members and students from the Department are regularly involved in research activities
Research Thrust Area
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Parasitology
- Scrub typhus
- Hospital infection surveillance studies
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Biomarkers for Dengue infection
- Dermatophyte ITS sequencing
- Candida
Research Projects
- Consecutively every year our department receives ICMR projects sanctioned till now 15 ICMR
Ongoing:
- Paragonimus westermani
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Drug resistance among enteric bacilli
- Hospital acquired infections