Search Results - "Balaji Veeraraghavan"

Current challenges in the accurate identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae and its serogroups/serotypes in the vaccine era by Varghese, Rosemol, Jayaraman, Ranjith, Veeraraghavan, Balaji

“…Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of pneumonia, meningitis and other invasive diseases resulting in high mortality and morbidity among children under…”
Get full text

Accurate identification of clinically important Acinetobacter spp.: an update by Vijayakumar, Saranya, Biswas, Indranil, Veeraraghavan, Balaji

“…species have emerged as one of the most clinically important pathogens. The phenotypic techniques which are currently available are insufficient in accurately…”
Get full text

Pneumococcal lineages associated with serotype replacement and antibiotic resistance in childhood invasive pneumococcal disease in the post-PCV13 era: an international whole-genome sequencing study by Lo, Stephanie W, Gladstone, Rebecca A, van Tonder, Andries J, Lees, John A, du Plessis, Mignon, Benisty, Rachel, Givon-Lavi, Noga, Hawkins, Paulina A, Cornick, Jennifer E, Kwambana-Adams, Brenda, Law, Pierra Y, Ho, Pak Leung, Antonio, Martin, Everett, Dean B, Dagan, Ron, von Gottberg, Anne, Klugman, Keith P, McGee, Lesley, Breiman, Robert F, Bentley, Stephen D, Brooks, Abdullah W, Corso, Alejandra, Davydov, Alexander, Maguire, Alison, Pollard, Andrew, Kiran, Anmol, Skoczynska, Anna, Moiane, Benild, Beall, Bernard, Sigauque, Betuel, Aanensen, David, Lehmann, Deborah, Faccone, Diego, Foster-Nyarko, Ebenezer, Bojang, Ebrima, Egorova, Ekaterina, Voropaeva, Elena, Sampane-Donkor, Eric, Sadowy, Ewa, Bigogo, Godfrey, Mucavele, Helio, Belabbès, Houria, Diawara, Idrissa, Moïsi, Jennifer, Verani, Jennifer, Keenan, Jeremy, Nair Thulasee Bhai, Jyothish N, Ndlangisa, Kedibone M, Zerouali, Khalid, Ravikumar, K L, Titov, Leonid, De Gouveia, Linda, Alaerts, Maaike, Ip, Margaret, de Cunto Brandileone, Maria Cristina, Hasanuzzaman, Md, Paragi, Metka, Nurse-Lucas, Michele, Ali, Mushal, Elmdaghri, Naima, Croucher, Nicholas, Wolter, Nicole, Porat, Nurit, Eser, Özgen Köseoglu, Akpaka, Patrick E, Turner, Paul, Gagetti, Paula, Tientcheu, Peggy-Estelle, Carter, Philip E, Mostowy, Rafal, Kandasamy, Rama, Ford, Rebecca, Henderson, Rebecca, Malaker, Roly, Shakoor, Sadia, Grassi Almeida, Samanta Cristine, Saha, Samir K, Doiphode, Sanjay, Madhi, Shabir A, Devi Sekaran, Shamala, Srifuengfung, Somporn, Obaro, Stephen, Clarke, Stuart C, Nzenze, Susan A, Kastrin, Tamara, Ochoa, Theresa J, Balaji, Veeraraghavan, Hryniewicz, Waleria, Urban, Yulia

“…Invasive pneumococcal disease remains an important health priority owing to increasing disease incidence caused by pneumococci expressing non-vaccine…”
Get full text

Is it time to move away from polymyxins?: evidence and alternatives by Soman, Rajeev, Bakthavatchalam, Yamuna Devi, Nadarajan, Abinaya, Dwarakanathan, Hariharan Triplicane, Venkatasubramanian, Ramasubramanian, Veeraraghavan, Balaji

“…Increasing burden of carbapenem resistance and resultant difficult-to-treat infections are of particular concern due to the lack of effective and safe…”
Get full text

Highly accurate-single chromosomal complete genomes using IonTorrent and MinION sequencing of clinical pathogens by Vasudevan, Karthick, Devanga Ragupathi, Naveen Kumar, Jacob, Jobin John, Veeraraghavan, Balaji

“…Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencing technology has been gaining immense importance in identification of pathogen and antimicrobial resistance, though with 10–15%…”
Get full text

Evolutionary Tracking of SARS-CoV-2 Genetic Variants Highlights an Intricate Balance of Stabilizing and Destabilizing Mutations by Jacob, Jobin John, Vasudevan, Karthick, Pragasam, Agila Kumari, Gunasekaran, Karthik, Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Mutreja, Ankur

“…The currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has accounted for millions of infections and deaths across the globe. Genome sequences of…”
Get full text

Whole genome analysis of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from community and hospital acquired bloodstream infection by Shankar, Chaitra, Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Nabarro, Laura Eve Buchnan, Ravi, Raji, Ragupathi, Naveen Kumar Devanga, Rupali, Priscilla

“…Hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKp) causes severe community acquired infections, predominantly in Asia. Though initially isolated from liver abscesses, they are…”
Get full text

Spatiotemporal persistence of multiple, diverse clades and toxins of Corynebacterium diphtheriae by Will, Robert C., Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan, Sharma, Naresh Chand, Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Sangal, Lucky, Haldar, Pradeep, Pragasam, Agila Kumari, Vasudevan, Karthick, Kumar, Dhirendra, Das, Bhabatosh, Heinz, Eva, Melnikov, Vyacheslav, Baker, Stephen, Sangal, Vartul, Dougan, Gordon, Mutreja, Ankur

“…Diphtheria is a respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae . Although the development of a toxin-based vaccine in the 1930s has…”
Get full text

Rapidly disseminating bla OXA-232 carrying Klebsiella pneumoniae belonging to ST231 in India: multiple and varied mobile genetic elements by Chaitra Shankar, Purva Mathur, Manigandan Venkatesan, Agila Kumari Pragasam, Shalini Anandan, Surbhi Khurana, Balaji Veeraraghavan

“…Abstract Background Recently, in India, there has been a shift from NDM to OXA48-like carbapenemases. OXA-181 and OXA-232 are the frequently produced variants…”
Get full text

Accurate identification and epidemiological characterization of Burkholderia cepacia complex: an update by Devanga Ragupathi, Naveen Kumar, Veeraraghavan, Balaji

“…Bacteria belonging to the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are among the most important pathogens isolated from cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and in hospital…”
Get full text

Causes and incidence of community-acquired serious infections among young children in south Asia (ANISA): an observational cohort study by Saha, Samir K, Schrag, Stephanie J, El Arifeen, Shams, Mullany, Luke C, Shahidul Islam, Mohammad, Shang, Nong, Qazi, Shamim A, Zaidi, Anita K M, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, Bose, Anuradha, Panigrahi, Pinaki, Soofi, Sajid B, Connor, Nicholas E, Mitra, Dipak K, Isaac, Rita, Winchell, Jonas M, Arvay, Melissa L, Islam, Maksuda, Shafiq, Yasir, Nisar, Imran, Baloch, Benazir, Kabir, Furqan, Ali, Murtaza, Diaz, Maureen H, Satpathy, Radhanath, Nanda, Pritish, Padhi, Bijaya K, Parida, Sailajanandan, Hotwani, Aneeta, Hasanuzzaman, M, Ahmed, Sheraz, Belal Hossain, Mohammad, Ariff, Shabina, Ahmed, Imran, Ibne Moin, Syed Mamun, Mahmud, Arif, Waller, Jessica L, Rafiqullah, Iftekhar, Quaiyum, Mohammad A, Begum, Nazma, Balaji, Veeraraghavan, Halen, Jasmin, Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, A S M, Weber, Martin W, Hamer, Davidson H, Hibberd, Patricia L, Sadeq-ur Rahman, Qazi, Mogan, Venkat Raghava, Hossain, Tanvir, McGee, Lesley, Anandan, Shalini, Liu, Anran, Panigrahi, Kalpana, Abraham, Asha Mary, Baqui, Abdullah H

“…More than 500 000 neonatal deaths per year result from possible serious bacterial infections (pSBIs), but the causes are largely unknown. We investigated the…”
Get full text

Genomic surveillance for hypervirulence and multi-drug resistance in invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae from South and Southeast Asia by Wyres, Kelly L, Nguyen, To N T, Lam, Margaret M C, Judd, Louise M, van Vinh Chau, Nguyen, Dance, David A B, Ip, Margaret, Karkey, Abhilasha, Ling, Clare L, Miliya, Thyl, Newton, Paul N, Lan, Nguyen Phu Huong, Sengduangphachanh, Amphone, Turner, Paul, Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Vinh, Phat Voong, Vongsouvath, Manivanh, Thomson, Nicholas R, Baker, Stephen, Holt, Kathryn E

“…Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of bloodstream infection (BSI). Strains producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) or carbapenemases are…”
Get full text

Exploiting genomics to mitigate the public health impact of antimicrobial resistance by Waddington, Claire, Carey, Megan E, Boinett, Christine J, Higginson, Ellen, Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Baker, Stephen

“…Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, which has been largely driven by the excessive use of antimicrobials. Control measures…”
Get full text

First Indian report on genome-wide comparison of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli from blood stream infections by Devanga Ragupathi, Naveen Kumar, Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Muthuirulandi Sethuvel, Dhiviya Prabaa, Anandan, Shalini, Vasudevan, Karthick, Neeravi, Ayyan Raj, Daniel, Jones Lionel Kumar, Sathyendra, Sowmya, Iyadurai, Ramya, Mutreja, Ankur

“…Multidrug-resistant (MDR) E. coli with extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) is becoming endemic in health care settings around the world. Baseline data on…”
Get full text

Orally Administered Amoxicillin/Clavulanate: Current Role in Outpatient Therapy by Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Bakthavatchalam, Yamuna Devi, Sahni, Rani Diana

“…Oral amoxicillin/clavulanate is a community workhorse antibiotic, routinely prescribed for respiratory tract infections, skin infections as well as urinary…”
Get full text

Secondary Infections in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: Indian Experience by Vijay, Sonam, Bansal, Nitin, Rao, Brijendra Kumar, Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Rodrigues, Camilla, Wattal, Chand, Goyal, Jagdish Prasad, Tadepalli, Karuna, Mathur, Purva, Venkateswaran, Ramanathan, Venkatasubramanian, Ramasubramanian, Khadanga, Sagar, Bhattacharya, Sanjay, Mukherjee, Sudipta, Baveja, Sujata, Sistla, Sujatha, Panda, Samiran, Walia, Kamini

“…Critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients need hospitalization which increases their risk of acquiring secondary bacterial and fungal…”
Get full text

Clinical Manifestations, Antimicrobial Drug Susceptibility Patterns, and Outcomes in Melioidosis Cases, India by Koshy, Maria, Jagannati, Manjeera, Ralph, Ravikar, Victor, Punitha, David, Thambu, Sathyendra, Sowmya, Veeraraghavan, Balaji, Varghese, George M

“…We studied the clinical manifestations and outcomes of 114 patients with culture-confirmed melioidosis treated at a tertiary hospital in southern India…”
Get full text

First Draft Genome Sequence of Linezolid and Rifampicin Resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus by Bakthavatchalam, Yamuna Devi, Vasudevan, Karthick, Neeravi, Ayyanraj, Perumal, Rajamani, Veeraraghavan, Balaji

“…Linezolid resistance has increasingly been described in coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS) in recent years. Here, we describe the molecular mechanism of…”
Get full text

Environmental Surveillance for Salmonella Typhi and its Association With Typhoid Fever Incidence in India and Malawi by Uzzell, Christopher B, Abraham, Dilip, Rigby, Jonathan, Troman, Catherine M, Nair, Satheesh, Elviss, Nicola, Kathiresan, Lalithambigai, Srinivasan, Rajan, Balaji, Veeraraghavan, Zhou, Nicolette A, Meschke, John Scott, John, Jacob, Kang, Gagandeep, Feasey, Nicholas, Mohan, Venkata Raghava, Grassly, Nicholas C

“…Abstract Background Environmental surveillance (ES) for Salmonella Typhi potentially offers a low-cost tool to identify communities with a high burden of…”
Get full text

Aerobactin Seems To Be a Promising Marker Compared With Unstable RmpA2 for the Identification of Hypervirulent Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: In Silico and In Vitro Evidence by Shankar, Chaitra, Basu, Soumya, Lal, Binesh, Shanmugam, Sathiya, Vasudevan, Karthick, Mathur, Purva, Ramaiah, Sudha, Anbarasu, Anand, Veeraraghavan, Balaji

“…BackgroundThe incidence of hypervirulent (hv) carbapenem-resistant (CR) Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) is increasing globally among various clones and is also…”
Get full text