Curriculum Vitae of Dr.

Jyotsna Agarwal

Name: Dr. Jyotsna Agarwal

Current Affiliation: Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology,

Dr. R M L Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow-226010, India

Email: [email protected]

Educational Qualifications:

M.D. 1997 Institute of Medical Sciences

(Microbiology) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

M.B.B.S. 1993 Christian Medical College & Hospital,

Vellore, Madras University.

Overseas Training/ Fellowships

 Fellowship awarded by HIV foundation, Nagoya University, Japan, to learn molecular

techniques in diagnosis of HIV July 1999 for duration of two weeks.
 Honorary Registrar, Infectious Diseases, Royal North shore Hospital, University of
Sydney, Australia, July 2000 to July 2001.

Membership Professional Bodies

 Life Member of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists

 Life member of UP Chapter of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists
 Life member of Clinical Infectious Disease Society of India
 Member of American Society of Microbiologists
 Member European Society of Clinical Microbiologists and Infectious Diseases

Areas of interest: Molecular diagnostics, Antimicrobial resistance in microbes,

uropathogenesis, STI/RTI in women, Hospital Associated Infections, Medical Education

Other Achievements
 Incharge Covid-19, molecular diagnostic laboratory at RMLIMS Lucknow
 Faculty In charge, Resident development program at RMLIMS, Lucknow
 Member of Scientifc Expert Committee for technical evaluation of ASEAN-India
R&D projects, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Delhi.
 Member SERB Programme Advisory Committee on Biomedical and Health
Science
 Co-ordinator, Medical Education Unit at Dr. RMLIMS, Lucknow
 Member Secretary of Hospital Infection Control Committee at RMLIMS, Lucknow
 Convenor Clinical Grand Rounds at RMLIMS, Lucknow
 Editor for Annual Microbiology News Letter, published by the Dept. of Microbiology
at Dr. RMLIMS
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 Awarded certificate of appreciation from The International Association of Lions Club

for outstanding contribution to Covid-19 management, on occasion of World doctors
day on July 1st, 2020
 Awarded as first runner up in the outstanding woman in medical and health care award
category in 3rd FLO Women Awards of Uttar Pradesh 2017-2018
 Voted “Best teacher” by outgoing MBBS students on Teachers‟ day celebration on 5th
September 2016, at King George‟s Medical University.
 „Excellence in Teaching‟ award on Teachers day on 5th September 2015, at King
George‟s Medical University Teachers‟ day celebration
 Voted “Best teacher” by outgoing MBBS students on Teachers‟ day celebration on 5th
September 2014, at King George‟s Medical University.
 Awarded first prize at KGMU Research Showcase 2013 October in Basic Sciences at
KGMU, Lucknow.
 Was Nodal officer for regional laboratory for Diphtheria and Pertussis surveillance
project sponsored by WHO.
 Was Nodal officer incharge for Regional RTI/STI diagnostic centre for state of UP
sponsored by UPSACS and NACO
 Co-organised symposium on „Blood culture in sepsis” at KGMU, Lucknow on 2nd
August, 2013
 Associate Editor for Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health (Official Journal of
IndiaCLEN, an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by
Elsevier, India Ltd).
 Reviewer for Journal of Medical Microbiology,a journal of the Society for General
Microbiology; Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology; Indian Journal of Medical
Research
 National faculty for RTI/STI teaching and training programme of NACO, India and
SIFPSA, UP Govt.
 Microbiology examiner for Diplomate of National Board (DNB).
 Member, Selection Panel for Microbiologists, Union Public Service commission.
 Core group member for curriculum designing and Module coordinator for Medical
Microbiology, for M. Phil course in Translational Health Sciences, KGMU, sponsored
by DBT, Govt. of India.
 Joint Organizing secretary for UP Chapter of IAMM, organized by Department
of Microbiology, KGMU, Lucknow on 16th February 2008
 Co-organiser of “Hands on Training Work-Shop on Antibiotic sensitivity testing of
commonly isolated bacteria” KGMU, Lucknow on 20th-21st March. 2005.
Professional Experience

Position Department Institution Period

Professor Microbiology Dr. RMLIMS, November 2017 till
Lucknow date
Assistant Microbiology KGMU, Lucknow April 2002 to
Professor- November, 2017
Professor

Research Projects:

Current (On-going) Research Projects:

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1. Project title: Lymphopenia in COVID-19: implication in pathogenesis and disease

management” (Proposal Reference Number: IUSSTF/VN-COVID/011/2020)
Funded by: DST, New Delhi, under IUSSTF COVID-19 Networks (Indo-US
Science and technology Forum) for 18 months, sanctioned in August2020
Role: Principal Investigator

2. Project title: Relation between Viral RNA in load in blood and clinical presentation
and outcome in Covid-19 patients: a time course analysis
Funded by: Dr. RMLIMS for 2 years from June 2020
Role: Principal Investigator

3. Project Title: Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS)

Program. A multi national project.
Duration: 3 years
Collaborator and Source of funding: Emory Global health Institute, Emory
University, Atlanta, GA
Site PI- Microbiology: Prof. Jyotsna Agarwal

Research Projects Completed: 6 as PI and 8 as Co-I

1. Project Title: An assessment of changing pattern of seroepidemiology of

Hepatitis A virus infection in endemic setting
Funded by: Dr. RMLIMS for 2 years from July 2018
Role: Principal Investigator
2. Project Title:Immunological, genetic and behavioral profile of women with
urinary tract infections by E. coli: role of host factors
Funded by: DBT [BT/PR7936/SPD/11/1437/2013], for 3 years from July 2015
Role: Principal Investigator
3. Project Title: Role of real time multiplex PCR in rapid diagnosis of community
acquired acute bacterial meningitis in children
Funded by: UPCST [CST/SERD/D-295] for 3 years from July 2015
Role: Principal Investigator
4. Project Title: Characterization of uropathogenic E. coli strains associated with specific
clinical syndrome and fecal E. coli population of the same women: are there distinct
uropathotypes?
Funded by: DBT, New Delhi, India for 3 years from Sep‟2010
Role: Principal Investigator
5. Project Title: Phylogenetic classification and biofilm formation ability of E. coli isolates
from acute first time and recurrent urinary tract infections in women.
Funded by: UPCST [CST/SERD/D-295] for 3 years from June 2009
Role: Principal Investigator
6. Project Title: Application of Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques in Screening
Women for Genital Chlamydia trachomatis
Funded by: DST, New Delhi, India for 3 years from Dec‟2006
Role: Principal Investigator

Research Supervision:

Chief Supervisor for following Post MD-PhD thesis

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 Identification of genetic markers of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates associated

with acute cystitis in women

Chief Supervisor for following PhD thesis

 Virulence determinants of Escherichia coli causing first urinary tract infection and risk
of second infection, August 2010
 Transcriptional and translational expression of virulence factors in concurrent urinary
and fecal isolates of E. coli from women with urinary tract infection, August 2011.

Scientific Conferences/Workshops attended, Lectures Delivered:

 Convenor and speaker in „Multi disciplinary seminar on covid-19‟ organized under

faculty and resident development program, at RMLIMS on 7th nd 8th October 2020.
 Speaker at seminar on „Bioethical issues in laboratory diagnosis: covid 19‟. Organised
at RMLIMs, on 19th September, 2020
 On behalf of Medical Education Unit, organized 2nd Curriculum Implementation
Support Programme (CISP-II) in Dr RMLIMS, under the aegis of Regional Centre
KGMU, on the 13th to 14th of August 2020.
 Guest speaker at Covid-19 Conclave a media conference on „Covid-19: management
of Herd Immunity‟; organized by News Karnataka on July8th 2020
 Guest speaker at National E-webinar on „Post Covid-19 India: health and wellbeing‟
on 23rd June 2020 by Era;s Lucknow college of management & education, Lucknow
 Guest speaker at Webinar organized by Amity University, Lucknow on „Covid-19 an
interactive session‟, on April 6th 2020
 Guest speaker and Panel moderator for CME on „Tuberuclosis and Covid update‟ on
March 14th 2020, jointly organized by the departments of Respiratory medicine and
Microbiology on the occasion of world tuberculosis day at RMLIMs, Lucknow.
 Guest speaker and Participated in Panel Discussion in Covid-19 an awareness
organized by the Department of Microbiology at KGMU Lucknow on March 13th
2020.
 Organized National Workshop on „Designing MCQs‟ on behalf of Medical Education
Unit at RMLIMS, Lucknow on March 7th 2020
 Guest speaker at UP UK Microcon, 6-8th February at SRMS IMS, Bareilly. Delivered
a lecture on „Molecular detection of Antimicrobial resistance in Gram negative rods:
Current scenario‟
 Participated in State Symposium and CME on “Neglected Tropical Diseases in UP”
in collaboration with WHO; on 30th January 2020 at, King George Medical University,
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, to speak on “Case based panel discussion on a case of
suspected acute rickettsial fever as a cause of fever with rash in young adult”..
 Delivered talk on Menstrual hygiene and Reproductive/genital tract
infections One Day Seminar on Menstrual Practices, Hygiene and it‟s Better
Management at Amity University, Lucknow on 30th January 2020
 Chaired session on Infection & ECMO in ECMOCON-2019. Organised by ECMO
Society of India at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
on 15th Dec, 2019,
 Participated and chaired a session on „Diagnosis and Antimicrobial Management of
Infections in Critically ill Patients‟ in 43rd Annual Conference of Indian Association
of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM), microcon Mumbai from 29th November to 1st
December 2019

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 Delivered a lecture on “Standard Precautions and lab safety” in foundation course

for the post graduate students at SGPGIMS, Lucknow on 4th October 2019.
 Delivered a talk on "Lab diagnosis of Rabies -Current Updates and Scope for
Research" in a National CME on “Recent Developments in Prophylaxis Against
Rabies in Humans” on 16th November, 2019, organized by Department of Community
Medicine, Dr. RMLIMS, Lucknow, under the aegis of Consortium Against Rabies
India, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine and Indian Public Health
Association.
 Attended “Introductory Course on Research Methodology and Biostatistics”
on 8th and 9th November 2019 under Faculty Development Program of RMLIMS.
Workshop was conducted by Institute of Applied Statistics under the aegis of ICMR-
NIMS and ICMR-NICPR as “Dr. Padam Singh Research and Development scheme”.
 Delivered a lecture on “Universal precautions and lab safety” in Foundation Course
for Residents, at SGPGIMS, Lucknow on November 6th 2019
 Attended and presented a paper on “Aetiology and clinical profile of acute bacterial
meningitis in children” at Madrid, Spain in “2nd Annual Congress in
Microbiology” from October 7th to 8th, 2019
 As Co-ordinator medical education unit, Organized Curriculum Implementation
Support Programme (CISP) workshop (under aegis of Regional centre KGMU,
Lucknow) for the faculty of Dr. RMLIMS from 30th May to 1st June 2019
 Participated in Curriculum Implementation Support Programme (CISP) workshop
organized by Medical education Unit at KGMU, Lucknow during 13th-15th May 2019
 Organized slogan competition and Hand hygiene day at Dept of Microbiology,
RMLIMS Lucknow on 5th May2019
 Organized CME on “Beyond Antibiotics” and Annual News letter release at Dept of
Microbiology, RMLIMS Lucknow on 2nd Mar 2019
 Delivered a lecture on the topic "Importance of Pk-Pd of Antibiotics” in 15th UP
UK MICROCON 2019 organized at Era‟s Lucknow Medical College, on 1st
February 2019
 Delivered a talk on “Optimal dosing of antibiotics in children: role of Pk-PD”, in a
CME organized by Lucknow Association of Paediatricians, on 20th January 2019 at
hotel Levana, lucknow.
 Chaired session on Infection Control Practices at Pre-Conference Workshop, on
symposium on Infection Prevention and BMW, at Kalam Centre, organized by
KGMU, Lucknow on Nov 30th 2018.
 Delivered a lecture on the topic “Newer Vaccines in diseases” at India International
Science Festival (IISF-2018), a Health Conclave-2018 on 7th October 2018; organized
at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Convention Centre, Lucknow during 5-20th Oct, 2018.
 Invited speaker at Asian Society of Mastology Conference between 3rd and 5th
October, 2018 at Male, Maldives, delivered talk on „Breast Abscess: role of
microbiology diagnosis”
 Invited speaker in Panel Discussion on the topic “Save Antibiotics, Save future”
organized by Lucknow Academy of Pediatrics in Anibiotic awareness week on 30th
Sept 2018.
 Speaker in 27th annual conference of Neurotrauma society of India 2018, Lucknow,
Risk of Surgical site infection in post-op trauma patient, on 17th August at Indira
Gandhi Pratishthan Gomti Nagar Lucknow, organised by neurosurgery department of
RMLIMS, Luckniow

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 “Pathophysiology & Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis” in a CME on Obstetric

Dilemmas, Organized by Lucknow Chapter of ISOPARB & MFHER Foundation, at
Clark‟s Avadh, Hazrat Ganj, Lucknow on 8th Sep 2018.
 Attended “ Technology Vision-2035 in relevance to the State of Uttar Pradesh” as
Director, Dr. RMLIMS nominee member, organized on the occasion of National
Science Day by Council of Science and Technology, U.P. in association with
Technology Information Forecasting & assessment Council on 28th February 2018
 Delivered a lecture on the topic “Bad Bugs No Drugs” in Annual CME of
Vivekanand Polyclinic & Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, 20th February 2018
 Chaired session on “Antimicrobial Stewardship” in National CME cum workshop
on Hospital Infection Prevention & Control Practices organized by Department of
Microbiology SGPGIMS in collaboration with SGPGIMS Hospital Infection Control
Committee from 12th to 15th December, 2017.
 Delivered a lecture on the topic “Super bugs: no escape” on the occasion of
"World Antibiotic Awareness Week of WHO" on 18th November 2017, organized
by the Department of Microbiology and Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical
care, Dr. RMLIMS
 Attended orientation workshop on the theme "Seek Advice from a Healthcare
Professional before taking Antibiotics" at DGMH's Swasthya Bhawan, Lucknow on
13th November 2017
 Attended and presented a paper titled “Genotyping of E. coli associated with
community acquired vs. Hospital acquired urinary tract infection” in International
Congress on Nosocomial and Healthcare Associated Infections at Las Vegas, USA
during 2nd - 4th Oct 2017
 Participated in Newton fund proposal development workshop as SIFPSA nominee for
“Improving the diagnosis and management of infectious and non-infectious
abnormal genital discharge in women, by formal and informal frontline health
workers in rural India and Bangladesh” organised by London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine at New Delhi on 4th August 2017.
 Participated in ICMR workshop on “Antimicrobial stewardship” on May 10th at
TMC Kolkata, under flagship of CDC Atlanta.
 Attended and presented poster titled “Comparative gene expression of urine and fecal
E. coli isolated from women with acute cystitis” in “12th International Conference
of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology” t London, UK, from 15th-16th March, 2017
 Delivered Guest Lecture in meeting of Lucknow Obstetrics & Gynaecolgy Society as
part of women health awareness program for sensitization of Gynaecologist for
„Prevention of Urinary tract infection‟ on 4th February 2017 at Hotel Gemini
Continental, Lucknow
 Delivered Guest Lecture for post graduate students of Department of Obstetrics &
Gynaecolgy on“Urinary Tract Infection” on 2nd February 2017
 Attended workshop for “Capacity Building and Strengthening of Hospital
Infection Control to detect and prevent antimicrobial resistance in India”
organised by AIIMS, New Delhi under CDC Atlanta, flagship; at India Habitat Center,
New Delhi, from 14th to 15thth December, 2016
 Delivered Guest Lecture at „IAMM Symposium on MICROBIOME‟ on “Microbiota
in Disease” in MICROCON 2016, organised by PGIMER, Chandigarh, from 23rd to
27th November 2016.
 Participated at SGPGI, Lucknow, in Basic Course in „Antimicrobials‟ from 21st to
24th November 2016, Organised by Department of Critical Care Medicine.

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 Attended workshop on Laboratory Quality Management Systems and Internal Audit

As per ISO15189-2012, organised by Foundation for Quality (India), at KGMU,
Lucknow, from 4th -7th November 2016
 Participated in ASM CME on “Antibiotic Resistance: Renewed Fears”, on 10th
September, 2016, organised by The American Society of for Microbiology in
collaboration with AIIMS, New Delhi and UCMS, New Delhi at New Delhi.
 Invited Speaker at “Hospital Based Surveillance for Radiological Pneumonia in
Children Under 5 Years of Age in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar” organised by
Department of Paediatrics, KGMU on 25th august 2016 at Lucknow
 Participated in 6th Annual conference of Clinical Infectious Diseases society
(CIDSCON 2016), from 26th to 28th August, 2016, at Varanasi.
 Invited speaker at Symposium on „Molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases” on
“Molecular detection of antimicrobial resistance in Gram negative rods” on 22nd June
2016, organised by T.N. Medical College and Byl Nair Hospital, Mumbai
 Invited speaker at Critical care workshop, delivered lectures on „Infection control &
concept of bundle‟ and „Microbiological sample collection‟ on 7th May 2016,
organised by Department of Anesthesiology, KGMU, Lucknow
 Invited speaker at CME on „Growing Resistance to antimicrobials” on account of
World Health Day on 6thApril 2016, organised by Era‟s Lucknow Medical College
and Hospital, Lucknow.
 Scientific committee member for “Update on Infectious disease 2016” conference
and panellist on “Diagnosis and management of endocarditis” at KGMU, Lucknow on
2nd -3rd April. 2016. Also won first prize in e-poster category
 Invited speaker at pre conference CME at UPMICROCON (UP chapter of IAMM)
on „Challenges in management of STDs (gonorrhoea and chlamydia), 5thFebruary
2016, organised by Department of Microbiology at RMLIMS, Lucknow.
 Participated in the “International Symposium on Genetics and Genomics in
Modern Clinical Medicine” organized by the Indo UK Genetic education Forum,
Wales Gene Park, Cardiff University, UK and KGMU, Lucknow, UP, India from 9th to
10th February, 2015, at KGMU, Lucknow, UP.
 Attended & participated as Faculty in International Seminar on Competency based
Medical Education, organized by MCI and ICMR, New Delhi from 9th to 10th
October 2015 at KGMU Lucknow
 Attended Evidence based Medicine course, 10th to 21st August 2015 at KGMU
Lucknow
 Participated in workshop on Laboratory Diagnosis of Diphtheria, organised by
WHO and Public Health England, from 28th to 30th January, 2015, at CMC Vellore.
 Attended Hands on Training on Rickettsial infections with special reference to Scrub
Typhus, organised by CDC, Atlanta, at National Centre for Disease Control, New
Delhi, from 27th -29thMay, 2015
 Invited speaker at SGPGI, Lucknow, for Basic Course in „Antimicrobials‟ from 8th
to 13th December 2015, Organised by Department of Critical Care Medicine.
 Participated and presented paper in 114thGeneral Meeting of American Society of
Microbiologists at Boston, USA, from May 17th-20th, 2014
 Participated in Examiner Training Workshop held at KGMU, on Oct 31st, 2014
 Participated and presented paper in 37thAnnual Conference of IAMMMICROCON
organised by Nizam‟s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad 21st -24thNov 2013
 Chaired session on „Special Issues‟ at ISHWMCON 13 organized by Indian Society
of Hospital Waste Management, KGMU from 7-8th December, 2013.

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 Invited speaker in Panel Discussion on Antibiotics at UPPEDICON-2013

organized byLucknow Academy of Pediatrics and Department of Pediatrics, KGMU
from 26th-27th October 2013.
 Delivered Guest Lecture at CME on Antibiotic Stewardship organized by Ram
Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow on 5th October, 2013.
 Delivered Guest Lecture at Surgery Updates, organised by ASI, at Maulana Azad
Medical College, New Delhi on 24th September, 2013.
 Partcipated in GASP workshop, organised by World Health Organization at
Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, from 3rd-5th September, 2013.
 Attended Basic course in Medical Education Technologies, 4-6th April 2013, at
KGMU Lucknow
 Invited speaker at International Seminar on Airborne and Respiratory
Afflictions Organised by Association of Research Professionals, at Balrampur
Hospital, Lucknow on 23rdMarch, 2013.
 Participated Annual IndiaCLENConference 2nd-3rdMarch 2013, Organised at
KGMU Lucknow
 Invited speaker at Advances Immunology Course organised by Department of
Biochemistry, KGMU, Lucknow from 22nd -23rd February, 2013.
 Invited speaker at Training Course on Scientific Writing organised by National
Institute of Health and Family welfare & Department of Community Medicine,
KGMU, Lucknow held KGMU,Lucknow from16th to 20thDecember 2012.
 Chairperson for oral paper presentation session in 36thAnnual Conference of
IAMMMICROCON organised by Lady Harding Medical College, New Delhi from
23rd-25thNovember 2012.
 Invited speaker at CME on “Hospital Acquired Infections” organised by the
Department of Microbiology at Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki,
Lucknow on 18th November 2012
 Invited speaker at All India Ophthalmic society- PG Refresher programme held
at Dept. of Ophthalmology, KGMU, 25th to 27th September 2012
 Invited speaker at CME organised by Christian Medical College Vellore Alumni
Association, August 9th 2012 at CMC Vellore.
 Invited speaker at Critical Care Update: New perspectives organised by
Department of Anaesthesiology,7th April 2012
 35thAnnual Conference of IAMM MICROCON, at BHU, Varanasi, UP from 23rd
-26th Nov‟2011.
 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections: Balancing Treatment Access and
Antibiotic Resistance, New Delhi, 3rd - 5th October, 2011.
 34th Annual Conference of IAMM MICROCON, at Kolkata from 23rd -26th
November 2010.
 14th International Congress on Infectious Diseases, at Miami, Florida, and
presented a paper on “Unusual presentation of Dengue infection in children in North
India” 9-12th March 2010
 5th annual conference of UP chapter of IAMMU.P. Rural Institute of Medical
Sciences & Research Saifai, Etawah Co chaired session on Multi-drug Resistant
Bacterial Infections 7-8th February 2009
 Attended orientation meeting of National STI Resource Pool held at National
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 Molecular Epidemiology of diarrhoeal diseases with special reference to Cholera.

Hands on training workshop organised by National Institute of Cholera and Enteric
Diseases, Kolkata, 12-23November 2007.
 Resource person in “Hands on Training Work-Shop on Antibiotic sensitivity
testing of commonly isolated bacteria” organized by Departments of Microbiology
and Pathology, KGMU, Lucknow on 20th-21st March. 2005.
 Work shop on RTI/STI/HIV organised by SIFPSA, Department of Health and
family Welfare, Govt. of UP, on February 21st to 23rd, 2005.
 Delivered Guest Lecture at CME and update in Microbiology, organised by
Department of Microbiology, SN Medical College, Agra, on 17th-18th January, 2005.
 Participated and presented a paper entitled “In house PCR on first void urine in
women for diagnosis of genital Chlamydia trachomatis” at National conference of
Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, held at SGPGIMS, Lucknow,
November 26th -29th , 2004.
 Delivered Guest Lecture in CME on Surgical Infections organised by Department of
Surgery, IMS, BHU, Varanasi on April 11th, 2004.
 Workshop on Research on Sexually Transmitted and Reproductive Tract
Infections in India: Problems and Solutions. Organised by Population Council,
from 17th –20th April, 2004 at Goa.
 Recent Developments in Medical Mycology a pre conference CME organised by
SIHAM at PGIMER Chandigarh on March 11th 2004.Awarded First Prize in poster
on “Role of candida sp. in neonatal septicaemia”
 Molecular Epidemiology of diarrhoeal diseases with special reference to Cholera.
Hands on training workshop organised by National Institute of Cholera and Enteric
Diseases, Kolkata, from 2-13th November 2003.
 Encephalitis: Current trends and challenges, CME organised by department of
Microbiology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow on 26th and 27th September, 2003
 Workshop on HIV/ AIDS training at King George‟s Medical College organised by
National AIDS Control Organization and U. P. State AIDS Control Society,
Lucknow, from 15-17th May 2002.
 Participated in monthly meetings of Sydney Infectious Diseases Group, at Sydney,
Australia, from August 2000 till July 2001.
 Two weeks long fellowship awarded by HIV foundation, Nagoya University, Japan,
to learn molecular techniques in diagnosis of HIV, which included nested PCR, RT
assay, Anti HIV assay, quantitative estimation of HIV using amplicor kit and ELISA
for P-24 antigenaemia July1st –15th 1999.
 National Workshop on Helicobacter/Campylobacter organised by Department of
Microbiology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, January 19th – 23rd 1999.
 Workshop on Role of Microbiology Laboratory in Control of Hospital associated
Infection, at Vth National Conference on Hospital Infection, Lady Harding Medical
College, New Delhi, November 26th 1998.
 Symposium on Gastrointestinal Protozoal Infection organised by Department of
Gastroenterology, SGPGI, Lucknow, February 23rd – 24th, 1998.
 Workshop on Recent Advances in Mycobacterial Diseases at the XX Annual
conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, Agra, October 31st
1996.

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Scientific Publications:
Books:
1. Section Editor and Author. In: Jain A, Venkatesh V & Agarwal J (Eds) Microbiology
Practical Manual. Elsevier India, 2019.
Book Chapter:
1. Prasad KN, Agarwal J. Laboratory diagnosis and Microbiology: Bacteria. In
Dionisio D (Ed.) Textbook and Atlas of Intestinal Infections in AIDS. Springer
Verlag Italia, 2002, Milano.
2. Agarwal J, Radera S. Biofilm-Mediated Urinary Tract Infections in Kumar S. et al
(Eds) Biofilms in Human Diseases: Treatment and Control Springer Nature
Switzerland, 2019, page 177-213
Original Papers:
3. Prasad KN, Agarwal J, Dixit AK, Tiwari DP, Dhole TN, Ayyagari A. Role of
yeasts as nosocomial pathogens and their susceptibility to fluconazole and
amphotericin B. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 1999; 110: 11-17; Impact
Factor: 1.396, citations:26.
4. Dhole TN, Kapoor A, Agarwal J, Isomura S, Kew OM. Intratyping and partial
nucleotide sequencing of poliovirus isolates of Northern India. Indian Journal of
Medical Research.2000; 111: 151-156; Impact Factor: 1.396.
5. Agarwal J, Anupurba S. Isolation rates of mycobacterial species from Varanasi
(north India). Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology.2000; 18(4): 178-179;
Impact Factor:0.882.
6. Choudhury A, Govil J, Nath G. Characterization and antimicrobial susceptibility of
clinical isolates of non-fermentative bacteria. Indian Journal of Medical
Microbiology.2001; 19(1): 48-9; Impact Factor:0.882.
7. Prasad KN, Agarwal J, Nag VL, Verma AK, Dixit AK, Ayyagari A. Cryptococcal
infection in patients with clinically diagnosed meningitis in a tertiary care centre.
Neurology India. 2003; 51(3): 364-366; Impact Factor: 1.232, citations: 33.
8. Kishore J, Agarwal J, Agarwal S, Ayyagari A. Seroanalysis for Chlamydia
trachomatis and S-TORCH agents in women with recurrent spontaneous abortions.
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology.2004; 46(4): 684-687; Impact
Factor: 0.466, citations:16.
9. Agarwal J, Bansal S, Jain A. Trends in neonatal septicemia: emergence of non
albicans Candida. Indian Journal of Paediatrics.2004; 41(7): 712-715; Impact
Factor: 0.867,citations: 26.
10. Jain A, Agarwal J, Bansal S. Prevalence of methicillin resistant coagulase negative
staphylococci in neonatal ICU- findings from a tertiary care hospital in India.
Journal of Medical Microbiology.2004; 53: 941-944; Impact Factor: 2.248,
citations:32.
11. Bansal S, Jain A, Agarwal J, Malik GK. Significance of coagulase negative
staphylococci isolated from neonates with late onset septicemia.Indian Journal of
Pathology and Microbiology.2004; 47(4): 586-588;Impact Factor: 0.466,
citations:14.
12. Das V, Agarwal M, Agarwal J, Jain A, Agarwal A and Pandey A. Prevalence of
genital Chlamydia trachomatis by first void urine polymerase chain reaction test in
women attending out patient clinic. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of
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13. Jain R, Jain A, Agarwal J and Awasthi S. Role of Chlamydia sp. in children with
community acquired pneumonia, Indian Pediatrics.2007; 44(3):216-218; Impact
Factor: 1.04,citations:5.
14. Chandrakanta, Kumar R, Agarwal J, Kapoor G, Jain A, Changing clinical
manifectations of Dengue infection in North India. Dengue Bulletin of WHO.
2008; 32:118-125.
15. Agarwal J, Kalyan R and Singh M. High level Resistance to aminoglycosides and
- lactamase production in enterococci at a tertiary care hospital. Japanese Journal
of Infectious Diseases.2009; 62: 158-159;Impact Factor:1.161, citations:13.
16. Agarwal J, Awasthi S, Rajput A, Tiwari M, A Jain. Atypical bacterial pathogens in
community-acquired pneumonia in children: a hospital based study. Tropical
Doctor.2009; 39:109-111; Impact Factor:0.481,citations:11.
17. Agarwal J, Kapoor G, Srivastava S, Singh KP, Kumar R, Jain A. Unusual clinical
profile of Dengue Infection in patients attending a tertiary care teaching hospital in
north India. Abstract published in International Journal of Infectious
Diseases.2010; 14(1): e174-e175; Impact Factor: 1.859.
18. Mittal V, Agarwal J, Jain A, Verma AK. Prevalence of genital Chlamydia
trachomatisin women using PCR on urine specimen. Biomedical Research. 2010;
21: 21-24.Impact factor: 0.24.
19. Jindal G, Pandey RK, Agarwal J, Singh M. A comparative evaluation of probiotics
on salivary mutans streptococci counts in Indian children. European Archives of
Paediatric Dentistry.2011; 12(4): 211-215; Impact Factor: 0.48, citations:14.
20. Malik S, Gupta A, Singh KP, Agarwal J, Singh M. Antibiogram of Aerobic
Bacterial Isolates from Post-operative Wound Infections at a Tertiary Care Hospital
in India. Journal of Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Agents. 2011; 28(1):
45-51
21. Mishra B, Srivastava S, Singh K, Pandey A, Agarwal J. Symptom based diagnosis
of urinary tract infections in women: are we over prescribing antibiotics? The
International Journal of Clinical Practice.2012; 66(5): 493–498;Impact
Factor:2.566.
22. Awasthi S, Yadav KK, Agarwal J. Chlamydia Pneumoniae infection associated
with uncontrolled asthma: A hospital based cross sectional study. Indian Journal
of Pediatrics.2012;79(10):1318-22; Impact Factor:0.867.
23. Mohd S, Vaish AK, Mohd ZI, Sonkar AA, Agarwal J, Singh M, Ahmad I, Gupta
M. Prevalence of nosocomial infections in surgical wards of tertiary care hospital
at Lucknow. Indian Journal of Scientific Research 2012; 3(2):79-84.
24. Mohd S, Vaish AK, Mohd ZI, Sonkar AA, Agarwal J, Singh M, Singh SK,
Srivastava VK. Pattern of antibiotic usage among patients admitted in medical and
surgical wards of a secondary care hospital in north India- an epidemiological
evaluation. Indian Journal of Community Health. 2012; 24: 285-290.
25. Saleem M, Vaish AK, Idris MZ, Sonkar AA, Agarwal J, Singh M, Ahmad I.
Prevalence of Nosocomial infection among patients admitted in medical and
surgical wards of a secondary care hospital in north India-an epidemiological
evaluation. Journal of Recent Advances in Applied Sciences, 2013: 28, 12-18.
26. Agarwal J, Mishra B, Srivastava S, Srivastava R, Genotypic characteristics and
biofilm formation among Escherichia coli isolatesfrom Indian women with acute
cystitis. Transactions of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.2013;
107(3): 183-187; Impact Factor:1.839.
27. Sinha N, Agarwal J, Srivastava S, Singh M. Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of
carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter from a tertiary care setting in north India.

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Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology.2013; 31(1): 60-63; Impact Factor:

0.882, citations:6.
28. Kalyan R, Singh M, Singh A K, Agarwal J. Prevalence of Syphilis at a Tertiary
Care Setup of Northern India: A Hospital Based Study. Indian Journal of Public
Health Research & Development. 2013; 4(1): 153- 157.
29. Kalyan R, Singh M, Agarwal J. Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci at a Tertiary
Care Hospital in Northern India. International Journal of Pharma and Bio
Sciences.2013; 4(2): 1090 – 1094.
30. Jain B, Agarwal J, Singh M. Observations on community associated methicillin
resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage.Clinical Epidemiology and Global
Health2013.2(1): 15–18.
31. Srivastava R, Agarwal J, Srivastava S, Kumar M, Singh M. Multi drug resistant
Gram negative bacillifrom neonatal septicaemia at a tertiary care centre in north
India- a phenotypic and genotypic study. Indian Journal of Medical
Microbiology.2014;32(1):97-8;Impact Factor:0.882.
32. Verma M K, Pandey R K, Khanna R, Agarwal J. The antimicrobial effectiveness
of 25% propolis extract in root canal irrigation of primary teeth. Journal of Indian
Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry. 2014; 32(2): 120-124.
33. Srivastava R. Agarwal J, Srivastava S. Mishra B. Role of special pathogenicity vs.
prevalence theory in pathogenesis of acute cystitis caused by E. coli. Journal of
Medical Microbiology.2014; 63(8):1038-43;Impact Factor:2.248.
34. Mohan S, Agarwal J, Srivastava R, Singh M. Observations on Citrobacter species
from a tertiary care health centre with special reference to multi drug resistance and
presence of CTX-M gene. Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology.2014;
57(3): 439-441; Impact Factor:0.466.
35. Baghel K, Srivastava RN, ChandraA, Raj S, Goel SK, Pant AB, Agrawal J. Tumor
Necrosis Factor-β Nco1 Polymorphism and Susceptibility to Sepsis following
Major Elective Surgery. Surgical Infections. 2014; 15(3): 213-220; Impact
Factor:1.148.
36. Baghel K, Srivastava RN, Chandra A, Goel SK, Pant AB, Agrawal J, Kazmi HR,
Raj S. TNF-α, IL-6, and IL-8 Cytokines and Their Association with TNF-α-308
G/A Polymorphism and Postoperative Sepsis. Journal of Gastrointestinal
Surgery. 2014; 18(8): 1886-1894; Impact Factor:2080.
37. Agarwal J, Mishra B, Srivastava S, Srivastava R, Pandey A.Virulence determinants
in E. coli associated with recurrent cystitis in sexually active women.Microbial
Pathogenesis.2014; 74:38-41; Impact Factor: 1.79.
38. Singh M, Agarwal J, Tripathi CP, Chandrakanta. Spotted fever rickettsiosis in
Uttar Pradesh: a case series. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2015 Feb;
141(2): 242–244. Impact Factor:1.396.
39. Krishna K Yadav, Shally Awasthi, Lalit Takia, Jyotsna Agarwal, G G Agarwal.
Procalcitonin and C-Reactive Protein in WHO defined severe and very severe
community acquired pneumonia: ahospital based cross sectional study. Clinical
Epidemiology and Global Health, 2015.
40. Kalyan R, Radera S, Agarwal J, Singh M. Superbugs causing infections at a
tertiary care hospital and the return of pre-antibiotic era! Asian Journal of Medical
Sciences, 2015, 7 (2):72-79
41. Gupta P, Agarwal J, Reddy H, W Anupam, S. Kirti, P. Mohd . Evaluation of a
hand hygiene campaign in various intensive care units of a tertiary care hospital
Journal of Patient Safety & Infection Control, 2015 August 3 (2): 73

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42. Srivastava S. Agarwal J. Mishra B. Srivastava R. Virulence vs. fitness determinants

in E. coli isolated from asymptomatic bacteriuria in healthy non pregnant women.
Accepted for publication in Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology. 2016; 34
(1): 46-51; Impact Factor:0.882.
43. Mishra B, Srivastava R, Agarwal J, Srivastava S, Pandey A. Behavioral and
psychosocial risk factors associated with first and recurrent cystitis in Indian
women: a case-control study. Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2016;
41 (1): 27-33
44. Yadav DK, Tripathi AK, Kumar A, Agarwal J, Prasad KN, Gupta D, Singh AK.
Association of TNF-α -308G>A and TNF-β +252A>G genes polymorphisms with
primary immune thrombocytopenia: A North Indian study. Blood Coagulation and
Fibrinolysis. 2016 Oct, 27(7):791-796.
45. Pant S, Agarwal J, Goel A, Gangwar PK, Waseem M, Gupta P, Sankhwar
SN, Purkait B. Does 24bp Duplication of Human CHIT1 Gene (Chitotriosidase1)
Predispose to Filarial Chyluria? A Case-Control Study. Journal of Clinical and
Diagnostic Research 2016 Sep, 10(9):PC01-PC04.
46. Tripathi C D P , Singh M, Agarwal J , Kalyan R K , Chandra Kanta, Atam V.
Scrub Typhus in Uttar Pradesh, India-A Prospective Study. International Journal
of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 2017, 6(4): 977-986.
47. Tripathi C D P , Singh M, Agarwal J , Kalyan R K , Chandra Kanta, Atam V.
Seroepidemiology of Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis in Uttar Pradesh: A Prospective
Study. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017, June 11(6): 4-9.
48. Ahuja S, Chhabra AK, Agarwal J (2017) Study of Bacterial Spectrum in Patients
of Chronic Dacryocystitis, at a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern India. J
Community Med Health Educ, 2017, Jul (7) 536. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000536
49. Yadav DK, Tripathi AK, Gupta D, Shukla S, Singh AK, Kumar A, Agarwal J, Prasad,
KN. Interleukin-1B (IL-1B-31 and IL-1B-511) and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist
(IL-1Ra) gene polymorphisms in primary immune thrombocytopenia. Blood Res.
2017;52(4):264-269.
50. Sen M, Singh V, Das A, Garg J, Pandey A, Agarwal J. Analysis Of Bacterial
Cholangitis In Patients Attending Tertiary Health Care Centre In North India. Int J
Microbiol Res 2018; 10(6): 1256-1258
51. Singh V, Maurya K, Sen M, Das A, Agarwal J. Candida biofilm-a medical havoc:
prospective study among the patients in a tertiary health care centre in north India.
Accepted for publication in IP international Journal of Medical Microbiology and
tropical diseases. vol. 4 issue 3; manuscript id 2001.
52. Chaudhary N, Kalyan RK, Agarwal J, Singh M, Qureshi S. Evaluation of risk
factors in women attending a sexually transmitted infection clinic at a tertiary care
centre. International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 2018 Jul;6(7):2332-
2337. DOI: 10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20182812.
53. Das A, Islahi S, Sen M, Kanujia R, Kumar G, Agarwal J. In vitro susceptibility of
Escherchia coli and Enterococcus faecalis isolates from patients with urinary tract
infection to Fosamycin in North India: A retrospective study in a tertiary care
center. MGM J Med Sci 2018;5(3):110-114.
54. Jyotsna Agarwal, Shruti Radera, Swastika Suvirya, Manish Awasthi. Antibiotic
resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from a tertiary care center in North
India Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS, Volume 40, Issue
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55. M Srivastava, A Chandra, J Agarwal, R Rahul, J Nigam, D Parmar, L K Satyam.

Antibacterial spectrum of human omentum and differential expression of beta
defensins. Indian Journal of Gastroenterology: 2019 October
56. Chaudhary N, Kalyan R, Singh M, Agarwal J, Qureshi S. Prevalence of
Reproductive tract infections in women attending a tertiary care centre in Northern
India with special focus on associated risk factors. Indian Journal of sexually
transmitted disease and AIDS; Vol 46, issue 2, July-December 2019
57. Sanshriti Chauhan1, Jyotsna Agarwal, Amita Jain, K.K. Sawlani, Prashant Gupta,
Abhishek Goel, Neera Verma & D. Himanshu. Status of adult immunity to
hepatitis A virus in healthcare workers from a tertiary care hospital in north India
Indian J Med Res 150, November 2019, pp 508-511
58. Jaya Garg, Vikramjeet Singh, Pranshu Pandey, Ashish Verma, Manodeep Sen,
Anupam Das, Jyotsna Agarwal. Evaluation of sample pooling for diagnosis of
COVID‐19 by Real time PCR‐ A resource saving combat strategy, First published:
01 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.26475
59. ICMR COVID Study Group, Laboratory surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in India:
Performance of testing & descriptive epidemiology of detected COVID-19,Indian J
Med Res . May;151(5):424-437. doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1896_20.
Review Article:
60. Ayyagari A, Agarwal J, Garg A. Antibiotic associated diarrhoea: Review. Indian
Journal of Medical Microbiology.2003; 21(1): 6-11;Impact Factor:0.882,
citations:16.
61. Agarwal J, Srivastava S, Singh M. Pathogenomics of uropathogenic E.coli: Review.
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology.2012; 30(2): 141-149; Impact Factor:
0.882, citations:8.
62. IndiaClen 2013 Annual Conference Group, Agarwal J, et al. IndiaClen
recommendations for improving postgraduate medical research and publication.
Published Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health.2013; 1(2): 54-57.
Case Reports:
63. Agarwal J, Agarwal G, Ayyagari A, Kar DK, Mishra S K, Bhatia E. Isolated
Pneumocystis carinii infection of adrenals causing Addison‟s disease in a non-
immunocompromised adult. Endocrine Pathology.2001; 12(1): 87-91; Impact
Factor:1.76
64. Kar D, Agarwal G, Mehta B, Agarwal J, Gupta RK, Dhole TN, Agarwal A, Mishra
SK. Tubercular granulomatous inflammation associated with adenoma of parathyroid
gland manifesting as primary hyperparathyroidism. Endocrine Pathology.2001;
12(3): 355-359; Impact Factor: 1.76.
65. Suvirya S, Gandhi R, Agarwal J, Patil R K. Erythematous candidiasis leading to
systemic manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus coinfection with
secondary syphilis: A diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. European Journal of
Dentistry. 2015; 9: 449-452.Impact Factor: 0.94
66. Radera S, Tripathi S, Agarwal J, Kumar M. Chryseobacterium Indologenes-
Associated Pneumonia in 2 Neonates. Pediatrics Infectious Disease Journal. 2017
Mar;3 6(3):337-339. doi: 10.1097/INF.
67. Jameel F, Agarwal J, Waseem M Serajuddin M. Antibacterial activity of epidermal
mucus extracts of three freshwater air-breathing fish species against human
pathogenic bacteria. Indian J. Fish., 2019; 66(1): 119-123.

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