Past Research students

MSc Dissertation Students:

• 2020
  • Gayatri Sondhiya
• 2021
  • Iti Dhuriya
  • Somya Mishra
  • Deepika Patel
• 2022
  • Vandana Joshi
• 2023
  • Ankita Verma
  • Satya Tamrakar
• 2024
  • Ayushi Ranavat
  • Tushar Saini

Ongoing research projects

• Molecular characterization, genome sequencing, and comparative analysis of different strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi from central India
• Molecular Mechanism of Immunomodulation Imparted by Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP) Vaccine against multibacillary
• Development of a sustainable network of laboratories in India for identification, monitoring, and research on viruses and bacteria causing acute encephalitis syndrome and other novel pathogens through capacity building in advanced biomedical technologies

Virology Lab:

Current research collaborators

• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
• Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur
• The Leprosy Mission
• ILS, Bhubaneswar (Dr. Sunil K. Raghav)

Past research collaborators

• NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur

Research in news

• o Leprosy Day 2023 at Victoria Hospital.

Award/Recognition/Honours

N/A

Workshop/Conference Organized

• Webinar on Genomics4Health in Five Sessions, 2021.
• National Science Day 2023 on 150th Anniversary of the discovery of Mycobacterium Leprae, at auditorium ICMR-NIRTH.
• National Science Day 2024 on Indigenous Technology for Viksit Bharat at auditorium ICMR-NIRTH.

Academic contributions

• Research Publications (Google Scholar) and organize different training and workshops for MSc and PhD Students.

Research Grants

Received funding from:

• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
• Leprosy Research Initiative (LRI), Netherlands

Publications

MPGL

• Marc Monot, Nadine Honoré, Thierry Garnier, Nora Zidane, Diana Sherafi, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Masanori Matsuoka, G Michael Taylor, Helen H Donoghue, Abi Bouwman, Simon Mays, Claire Watson, Diana Lockwood, Ali Khamesipour, Yahya Dowlati, Shen Jianping, Thomas H Rea, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Mariane M Stefani, Sayera Banu, Murdo Macdonald, Bishwa Raj Sapkota, John S Spencer, Jérôme Thomas, Keith Harshman, Pushpendra Singh, Philippe Busso, Alexandre Gattiker, Jacques Rougemont, Patrick J Brennan, Stewart T Cole; Comparative genomic and phylogeographic analysis of Mycobacterium leprae; Nature genetics 41 (12), 1282-1289, 2009
• Richard W Truman, Pushpendra Singh, Rahul Sharma, Philippe Busso, Jacques Rougemont, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Adamandia Kapopoulou, Sylvain Brisse, David M Scollard, Thomas P Gillis, Stewart T Cole; Probable zoonotic leprosy in the southern United States; New England Journal of Medicine 364 (17), 1626-1633, 2011
• Verena J Schuenemann, Pushpendra Singh, Thomas A Mendum, Ben Krause-Kyora, Günter Jäger, Kirsten I Bos, Alexander Herbig, Christos Economou, Andrej Benjak, Philippe Busso, Almut Nebel, Jesper L Boldsen, Anna Kjellström, Huihai Wu, Graham R Stewart, G Michael Taylor, Peter Bauer, Oona Y-C Lee, Houdini HT Wu, David E Minnikin, Gurdyal S Besra, Katie Tucker, Simon Roffey, Samba O Sow, Stewart T Cole, Kay Nieselt, Johannes Krause; Genome-wide comparison of medieval and modern Mycobacterium leprae; Science 341 (6142), 179-183, 2013
• Renu Gupta, Bandana Thakur, Pushpendra Singh, HB Singh, VD Sharma, VM Katoch, SV Chauhan; Anti-tuberculosis activity of selected medicinal plants against multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates.; Indian Journal of Medical Research 131 (6), 2010
• Manoj V Murhekar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Sriram Selvaraju, Kiran Rade, V Saravanakumar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Naman Shah, R Sabarinathan, Alka Turuk, Parveen Kumar Anand, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Chethana Rangaraju, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Alok Kumar Deb, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, S Muhammad Salim Khan, Inaamul Haq, M Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Amarendra Mahapatra, Anindya Mitra, AR Nirmala, Avinash Pagdhune, Mariya Amin Qurieshi, Tekumalla Ramarao, Seema Sahay, YK Sharma, Marinaik Basavegowdanadoddi Shrinivasa, Vijay Kumar Shukla, Prashant Kumar Singh, Ankit Viramgami, Vimith Cheruvathoor Wilson, Rajiv Yadav, CP Girish Kumar, Hanna Elizabeth Luke, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Subash Babu, Krithikaa Sekar, Pragya D Yadav, Gajanan N Sapkal, Aparup Das, Pradeep Das, Shanta Dutta, Rajkumar Hemalatha, Ashwani Kumar, Kanwar Narain, Somashekar Narasimhaiah, Samiran Panda, Sanghamitra Pati, Shripad Patil, Kamalesh Sarkar, Shalini Singh, Rajni Kant, Srikanth Tripathy, GS Toteja, Giridhara R Babu, Shashi Kant, JP Muliyil, Ravindra Mohan Pandey, Swarup Sarkar, Sujeet K Singh, Sanjay Zodpey, Raman R Gangakhedkar, DCS Reddy, Balram Bhargava; Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in India: Findings from the national serosurvey, May-June 2020; The Indian journal of medical research 152 (1-2), 48, 2020
• Pushpendra Singh, Andrej Benjak, Verena J Schuenemann, Alexander Herbig, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Kay Nieselt, Johannes Krause, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Stewart T Cole; Insight into the evolution and origin of leprosy bacilli from the genome sequence of Mycobacterium lepromatosis; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (14), 4459-4464, 2015
• Manoj V Murhekar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Sriram Selvaraju, V Saravanakumar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Naman Shah, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Kiran Rade, R Sabarinathan, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Alok Kumar Deb, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, S Muhammad Salim Khan, CP Girish Kumar, M Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Suman Sundar Mohanty, Chethana Rangaraju, Alka Turuk, Dinesh Kumar Baradwaj, Ashrafjit S Chahal, Falguni Debnath, Inaamul Haq, Arshad Kalliath, Srikanta Kanungo, Jaya Singh Kshatri, GGJ Naga Lakshmi, Anindya Mitra, AR Nirmala, Ganta Venkata Prasad, Mariya Amin Qurieshi, Seema Sahay, Ramesh Kumar Sangwan, Krithikaa Sekar, Vijay Kumar Shukla, Prashant Kumar Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Rajeev Singh, Dantuluri Sheethal Varma, Ankit Viramgami, Samiran Panda, DCS Reddy, Balram Bhargava, Rushikesh Andhalkar, Anshuman Chaudhury, Hirawati Deval, Sarang Dhatrak, Rajeev Ranjan Gupta, Ezhilarasan Ilayaperumal, Babu Jagjeevan, Ramesh Chandra Jha, K Kiran, Nivethitha N Krishnan, Alok Kumar, VG Vinoth Kumar, K Nagbhushanam, Arlappa Nimmathota, Ashok Kumar Pandey, Harpreet Singh Pawar, Kushal Singh Rathore, Aby Robinson, Hari Bhan Singh, Vimith Cheruvathoor Wilson, Ashwini Yadav, Rajiv Yadav, T Karunakaran, Josephine Pradhan, T Sivakumar, Annamma Jose, K Kalaiyarasi, Sauvik Dasgupta, R Anusha, Tanu Anand, Giridhara R Babu, Himanshu Chauhan, Tanzin Dikid, Raman R Gangakhedkar, Shashi Kant, Sanket Kulkarni, JP Muliyil, Ravindra Mohan Pandey, Swarup Sarkar, Aakash Shrivastava, Sujeet K Singh, Sanjay Zodpey, Aparup Das, Pradeep Das, Shanta Dutta, Rajni Kant, Kanwar Narain, Somashekar Narasimhaiah, Sanghamitra Pati, Shripad Patil, Hemalatha Rajkumar, Tekumalla Ramarao, Kamalesh Sarkar, Shalini Singh, Gurudayal S Toteja, Kamran Zaman; SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence in India, August–September, 2020: findings from the second nationwide household serosurvey; The Lancet Global Health 9 (3), e257-e266, 2021
• Pushpendra Singh, Stewart T Cole; Mycobacterium leprae: genes, pseudogenes and genetic diversity; Future microbiology 6 (1), 57-71, 2011
• Verena J Schuenemann, Charlotte Avanzi, Ben Krause-Kyora, Alexander Seitz, Alexander Herbig, Sarah Inskip, Marion Bonazzi, Ella Reiter, Christian Urban, Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, G Michael Taylor, Pushpendra Singh, Graham R Stewart, Petr Velemínský, Jakub Likovsky, Antónia Marcsik, Erika Molnár, György Pálfi, Valentina Mariotti, Alessandro Riga, M Giovanna Belcastro, Jesper L Boldsen, Almut Nebel, Simon Mays, Helen D Donoghue, Sonia Zakrzewski, Andrej Benjak, Kay Nieselt, Stewart T Cole, Johannes Krause; Ancient genomes reveal a high diversity of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Europe; PLoS pathogens 14 (5), e1006997, 2018
• Rahul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh, WJ Loughry, J Mitchell Lockhart, W Barry Inman, Malcolm S Duthie, Maria T Pena, Luis A Marcos, David M Scollard, Stewart T Cole, Richard W Truman; Zoonotic leprosy in the southeastern United States; Emerging Infectious Diseases 21 (12), 2127, 2015
• Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Pushpendra Singh, Chloé Loiseau, Selfu Girma, Philippe Busso, Amanda N Brum Fontes, Yuji Miyamoto, Masako Namisato, Kidist Bobosha, Claudio G Salgado, Moisés B Da Silva, Raquel C Bouth, Marco AC Frade, Fred Bernardes Filho, Josafá G Barreto, José AC Nery, Samira Bührer-Sékula, Andréanne Lupien, Abdul R Al-Samie, Yasin Al-Qubati, Abdul S Alkubati, Gisela Bretzel, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Fatoumata Sakho, Christian R Johnson, Mamoudou Kodio, Abdoulaye Fomba, Samba O Sow, Moussa Gado, Ousmane Konate, Mariane MA Stefani, Gerson O Penna, Philip N Suffys, Euzenir Nunes Sarno, Milton O Moraes, Patricia S Rosa, Ida MF Dias Baptista, John S Spencer, Abraham Aseffa, Masanori Matsuoka, Masanori Kai, Stewart T Cole; Phylogenomics and antimicrobial resistance of the leprosy bacillus Mycobacterium leprae; Nature communications 9 (1), 352, 2018
• Manoj V Murhekar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, V Saravanakumar, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Sriram Selvaraju, Kiran Rade, CP Girish Kumar, R Sabarinathan, Alka Turuk, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Alok Kumar Deb, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Vikas Dhikav, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, S Muhammad Salim Khan, M Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Rajiv Yadav, Rushikesh Andhalkar, K Arunraj, Dinesh Kumar Bharadwaj, Pravin Bharti, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Jyothi Bhat, Ashrafjit S Chahal, Debjit Chakraborty, Anshuman Chaudhury, Hirawati Deval, Sarang Dhatrak, Rakesh Dayal, D Elantamilan, Prathiksha Giridharan, Inaamul Haq, Ramesh Kumar Hudda, Babu Jagjeevan, Arshad Kalliath, Srikanta Kanungo, Nivethitha N Krishnan, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Alok Kumar, Niraj Kumar, VG Vinoth Kumar, GGJ Naga Lakshmi, Ganesh Mehta, Nandan Kumar Mishra, Anindya Mitra, K Nagbhushanam, Arlappa Nimmathota, AR Nirmala, Ashok Kumar Pandey, Ganta Venkata Prasad, Mariya Amin Qurieshi, Sirasanambatti Devarajulu Reddy, Aby Robinson, Seema Sahay, Rochak Saxena, Krithikaa Sekar, Vijay Kumar Shukla, Hari Bhan Singh, Prashant Kumar Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Rajeev Singh, Nivetha Srinivasan, Dantuluri Sheethal Varma, Ankit Viramgami, Vimith Cheruvathoor Wilson, Surabhi Yadav, Suresh Yadav, Kamran Zaman, Amit Chakrabarti, Aparup Das, RS Dhaliwal, Shanta Dutta, Rajni Kant, AM Khan, Kanwar Narain, Somashekar Narasimhaiah, Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarshini, Krishna Pandey, Sanghamitra Pati, Shripad Patil, Hemalatha Rajkumar, Tekumalla Ramarao, YK Sharma, Shalini Singh, Samiran Panda, DCS Reddy, Balram Bhargava, Tanu Anand, Giridhara R Babu, Himanshu Chauhan, Tanzin Dikid, Raman R Gangakhedkar, Shashi Kant, Sanket Kulkarni, JP Muliyil, Ravindra Mohan Pandey, Swarup Sarkar, Naman Shah, Aakash Shrivastava, Sujeet K Singh, Sanjay Zodpe, Anusha Hindupur, PR Asish, M Chellakumar, D Chokkalingam, Sauvik Dasgupta, MME Gowtham, Annamma Jose, K Kalaiyarasi, NN Karthik, T Karunakaran, G Kiruthika, H Dinesh Kumar, S Sarath Kumar, MP Sarath Kumar, E Michaelraj, Josephine Pradhan, EB Arun Prasath, D Gladys Angelin Rachel, Sudha Rani, Amanda Rozario, R Sivakumar, P Gnana Soundari, K Sujeetha, Arya Vinod; SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among the general population and healthcare workers in India, December 2020–January 2021; International Journal of Infectious Diseases 108, 145-155, 2021
• Tom A Mendum, Verena J Schuenemann, Simon Roffey, G Michael Taylor, Huihai Wu, Pushpendra Singh, Katie Tucker, Jason Hinds, Stewart T Cole, Andrzej M Kierzek, Kay Nieselt, Johannes Krause, Graham R Stewart; Mycobacterium leprae genomes from a British medieval leprosy hospital: towards understanding an ancient epidemic; BMC genomics 15 (1), 1-8, 2014
• Zahoor Ahmad, Sadhna Sharma, GK Khuller, Pushpendra Singh, Jaya Faujdar, VM Katoch; Antimycobacterial activity of econazole against multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; International journal of antimicrobial agents 28 (6), 543-544, 2006
• Pushpendra Singh, AK Mishra, SK Malonia, DS Chauhan, VD Sharma, K Venkatesan, VM Katoch; The paradox of pyrazinamide: an update on the molecular mechanisms of pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacteria; Journal of Communicable Diseases 38 (3), 288, 2006
• Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Wendy G Escalante-Fuentes, Minerva Gomez-Flores, Jorge Ocampo-Candiani, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh, Stewart T Cole; Case of diffuse lepromatous leprosy associated with “Mycobacterium lepromatosis”; Journal of Clinical Microbiology 49 (12), 4366-4368, 2011
• G Michael Taylor, Katie Tucker, Rachel Butler, Alistair WG Pike, Jamie Lewis, Simon Roffey, Philip Marter, Oona YC Lee, Houdini HT Wu, David E Minnikin, Gurdyal S Besra, Pushpendra Singh, Stewart T Cole, Graham R Stewart; Detection and strain typing of ancient Mycobacterium leprae from a medieval leprosy hospital; PLoS One 8 (4), e62406, 2013
• Pushpendra Singh, Clement Wesley, GPS Jadaun, Sunil Kumar Malonia, R Das, P Upadhyay, J Faujdar, P Sharma, P Gupta, Abhay Kumar Mishra, Kalpana Singh, DS Chauhan, VD Sharma, UD Gupta, K Venkatesan, VM Katoch; Comparative evaluation of Lowenstein-Jensen proportion method, BacT/ALERT 3D system, and enzymatic pyrazinamidase assay for pyrazinamide susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Journal of clinical microbiology 45 (1), 76-80, 2007
• Manoj V Murhekar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, V Saravanakumar, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Sriram Selvaraju, Kiran Rade, CP Girish Kumar, R Sabarinathan, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Debjit Chakraborty, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, Agam Jain, S Muhammad Salim Khan, M Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Talluri Ramesh, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav, Balram Bhargava, ICMR serosurveillance group; Seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the general population and healthcare workers in India, June–July 2021: A population-based cross-sectional study; PLoS medicine 18 (12), e1003877, 2021
• Rahul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh, Rajiv C McCoy, Shannon M Lenz, Kelly Donovan, Maria T Ochoa, Iris Estrada-Garcia, Mayra Silva-Miranda, Fermin Jurado-Santa Cruz, Marivic F Balagon, Barbara Stryjewska, David M Scollard, Maria T Pena, Ramanuj Lahiri, Diana L Williams, Richard W Truman, Linda B Adams; Isolation of Mycobacterium lepromatosis and Development of Molecular Diagnostic Assays to Distinguish Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis; Clinical Infectious Diseases 71 (8), e262-e269, 2020
• Mariane MA Stefani, Charlotte Avanzi, Samira Bührer-Sékula, Andrej Benjak, Chloé Loiseau, Pushpendra Singh, Maria AA Pontes, Heitor S Gonçalves, Emerith M Hungria, Philippe Busso, Jérémie Piton, Maria IS Silveira, Rossilene Cruz, Antônio Schetinni, Maurício B Costa, Marcos CL Virmond, Suzana M Diorio, Ida MF Dias-Baptista, Patricia S Rosa, Masanori Matsuoka, Maria LF Penna, Stewart T Cole, Gerson O Penna; Whole genome sequencing distinguishes between relapse and reinfection in recurrent leprosy cases; PLoS neglected tropical diseases 11 (6), e0005598, 2017
• Enrico Nunzi, Cesare Massone; Leprosy: a practical guide; Springer Science & Business Media, 2012
• Charlotte Avanzi, Pushpendra Singh, Richard W Truman, Philip N Suffys; Molecular epidemiology of leprosy: An update; Infection, Genetics and Evolution 86, 104581, 2020
• Pushpendra Singh, Philippe Busso, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Nacarid Aranzazu, Marc Monot, Nadine Honore, Andrea de Faria Fernandes Belone, Marcos Virmond, Maria Esther Villarreal-Olaya, Carlos Rivas, Stewart T Cole; Molecular drug susceptibility testing and genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae strains from South America; Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 55 (6), 2971-2973, 2011
• HB Singh, Pushpendra Singh, GPS Jadaun, K Srivastava, VD Sharma, DS Chauhan, SK Sharma, VM Katoch; Simultaneous use of two PCR systems targeting IS6110 and MPB64 for confirmation of diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis; Journal of Communicable Diseases 38 (3), 274, 2006
• R Dayal, A Singh, VM Katoch, B Joshi, DS Chauhan, P Singh, G Kumar, VD Sharma; Serological diagnosis of tuberculosis; The Indian Journal of Pediatrics 75, 1219-1221, 2008
• Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Wendy Escalante-Fuentes, Sonia S Ocampo-Garza, Jorge Ocampo-Candiani, Carmen A Molina-Torres, Charlotte Avanzi, Andrej Benjak, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh, Stewart T Cole; Mycobacterium lepromatosis infections in Nuevo León, Mexico; Journal of clinical microbiology 53 (6), 1945-1946, 2015
• P Singh, A Benjak, S Carat, M Kai, P Busso, C Avanzi, A Paniz-Mondolfi, C Peter, K Harshman, J Rougemont, M Matsuoka, ST Cole; Genome-wide re-sequencing of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium leprae Airaku-3; Clinical Microbiology and Infection 20 (10), O619- O622, 2014
• Deborah Mensah-Awere, Martin W Bratschi, Peter Steinmann, Jessica K Fairley, Thomas P Gillis; Symposium report: developing strategies to block the transmission of leprosy; Leprosy review 86 (2), 156-164, 2015
• Roxane Schaub, Charlotte Avanzi, Pushpendra Singh, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Nora Cardona-Castro, Pedro Legua, Lucibel Crespo, Karin Sewpersad, John Jairo Dávila, Josafá Barreto, Purna Dwivedi, Heather Morris-Wilson, Maria Paredes Larrea, Carolina Talhari, Ramanuj Lahiri, Richard W Truman, Rodolphe E Gozlan, Pierre Couppié, Benoit de Thoisy; Leprosy transmission in Amazonian countries: current status and future trends; Current Tropical Medicine Reports 7, 79-91, 2020
• Anja Furtwängler, Judith Neukamm, Lisa Böhme, Ella Reiter, Melanie Vollstedt, Natasha Arora, Pushpendra Singh, Stewart T Cole, Sascha Knauf, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Ben Krause-Kyora, Johannes Krause, Verena J Schuenemann, Alexander Herbig; Comparison of target enrichment strategies for ancient pathogen DNA; Biotechniques 69 (6), 455-459, 2020
• Mradula Singh, DS Chauhan, Pushpa Gupta, R Das, RK Srivastava, Prashant Upadhyay, Pushpendra Singh, K Srivastava, Jaya Faujdar, GPS Jaudaun, VS Yadav, VD Sharma, K Venkatesan, S Sachan, P Sachan, K Katoch, VM Katoch; In vitro effect of fluoroquinolones against Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Agra & Kanpur region of north India.; Indian Journal of Medical Research 129 (5), 2009
• Shamsher Singh Kanwar, Kamakshi Lumba, SK Gupta, VM Katoch, P Singh, AK Mishra, SB Kalia; Synthesis and mycobactericidal properties of metal complexes of isonicotinoyldithiocarbazic acid; Biotechnology letters 30, 677-680, 2008
• Charlotte Avanzi, Emmanuel Lécorché, Fetra Angelot Rakotomalala, Andrej Benjak, Fahafahantsoa Rapelanoro Rabenja, Lala S Ramarozatovo, Bertrand Cauchoix, Mala Rakoto-Andrianarivelo, Maria Tió-Coma, Thyago Leal-Calvo, Philippe Busso, Stefanie Boy-Röttger, Aurélie Chauffour, Tahinamandrato Rasamoelina, Aina Andrianarison, Fandresena Sendrasoa, John S Spencer, Pushpendra Singh, Digambar Ramchandra Dashatwar, Rahul Narang, Jean-Luc Berland, Vincent Jarlier, Claudio G Salgado, Milton O Moraes, Annemieke Geluk, Andriamira Randrianantoandro, Emmanuelle Cambau, Stewart T Cole; Population Genomics of Mycobacterium leprae Reveals a New Genotype in Madagascar and the Comoros; Frontiers in microbiology 11, 711, 2020
• Rahul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh, Maria Pena, Ramesh Subramanian, Vladmir Chouljenko, Joohyun Kim, Nayong Kim, John Caskey, Marie A Baudena, Linda B Adams, Richard W Truman; Differential growth of Mycobacterium leprae strains (SNP genotypes) in armadillos; Infection, Genetics and Evolution 62, 20-26, 2018
• Ram Das, Pushpa Gupta, Pushpendra Singh, DS Chauhan, Kiran Katoch, VM Katoch; Association of mutations in rpsL gene with high degree of streptomycin resistance in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in India; Indian Journal of Medical Research 129 (1), 108- 110, 2009
• Stewart T Cole, Pushpendra Singh; History and phylogeography of leprosy; Leprosy and Buruli Ulcer: A Practical Guide, 3-12, 2022
• R Dayal, G Sirohi, MK Singh, PP Mathur, BM Agarwal, VM Katoch, B Joshi, P Singh, HB Singh; Diagnostic value of ELISA serological tests in childhood tuberculosis; Journal of tropical pediatrics 52 (6), 433-437, 2006
• Karen E Nelson, Barbara Jones-Nelson; Genomics applications for the developing world; Springer Science & Business Media, 2012
• Pushpendra Singh, VM Katoch; Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: current status and emerging tools for its management in India.; The Journal of Communicable Diseases 38 (3), 216-229, 2006
• Manoj V Murhekar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Sriram Selvaraju, V Saravanakumar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, Naman Shah, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Kiran Rade, R Sabarinathan, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Alok Kumar Deb, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, S Khan, CP Kumar, M Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Suman Sundar Mohanty, Chethana Rangaraju, Alka Turuk, Dinesh Kumar Baradwaj, Ashrafjit S Chahal, Falguni Debnath, Inaamul Haq, Arshad Kalliath, Srikanta Kanungo, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Gangeti Gandhi Jayanthi Naga Lakshmi, Anindya Mitra, AR Nirmala, Ganta Venkata Prasad, Mariya Amin Qurieshi, Seema Sahay, Ramesh Kumar Sangwan, Krithikaa Sekar, Vijay Kumar Shukla, Prashant Kumar Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Rajeev Singh, Dantuluri Sheethal Varma, Ankit Viramgami, Samiran Panda, DCS Reddy, Balram Bhargava; SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in India: findings from the second nationwide household serosurvey, August-September 2020;
• Mukul Sharma, Yash Gupta, Purna Dwivedi, Prakasha Kempaiah, Pushpendra Singh; Mycobacterium lepromatosis MLPM_5000 is a potential heme chaperone protein HemW and mis-annotation of its orthologues in mycobacteria; Infection, Genetics and Evolution 94, 105015, 2021
• Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh; Repurposing Drugs to Combat Drug Resistance in Leprosy: A Review of Opportunities; Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening 25 (10), 1578-1586, 2022
• J Bhat, R Rao, R Kumar, R Yadav, P Singh, VG Rao, A Das; TB free India: Reaching the unreached tribal population under National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme; Indian Journal of Tuberculosis 69 (1), 4-7, 2022
• Suraj Shukla, Siddhi Desai, Ashutosh Bagchi, Pushpendra Singh, Madhvi Joshi, Chaitanya Joshi, Jyoti Patankar, Geeti Maheshwari, Ekadashi Rajni, Manali Shah, Devarshi Gajjar; Diversity and Distribution of β-Lactamase Genes Circulating in Indian Isolates of Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae; Antibiotics 12 (3), 449, 2023
• Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh; Advances in the Diagnosis of Leprosy; Frontiers in Tropical Diseases 3, 893653, 2022
• Pushpendra Singh, Stewart T Cole; The genomics of leprosy; Genomics Applications for the Developing World, 39-49, 2012
• Nalini Mishra, Pradip V Barde, Sarvesh Awasthi, Archana Kumawat, Rajesh Gaur, Pushpendra Singh, Suyash Srivastava, Aparup Das; Profile of diseases prevalent in Datia District of Madhya Pradesh, India; Frontiers in Public Health 10, 926000, 2022
• Carmen A Molina-Torres, Frederick D Quinn, Jorge Castro-Garza, Anaximandro Gómez-Velasco, Jorge Ocampo-Candiani, Alied Bencomo-Alerm, Héctor Javier Sánchez-Pérez, Sergio Muñoz-Jiménez, Adrián Rendón, Afzal Ansari, Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh, Lucio Vera-Cabrera; Genetic Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates From an Amerindian Population in Chiapas, México; Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 12, 942, 2022
• Mavlankar Anuj, Ansari Afzal, Mukul Sharma, Dwivedi Purna, Pushpendra Singh; Interaction of surface glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern with potential drug candidates: A molecular docking study; F1000Research 11, 2022
• Purna Dwivedi, Mukul Sharma, Purushottam Patel, Pushpendra Singh; Simultaneous detection and differentiation between Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis using novel polymerase chain reaction primers; The Journal of Dermatology 48 (12), 1936-1939, 2021
• Verena J Schuenemann, Charlotte Avanzi, Ben Krause-Kyora, Alexander Seitz, Alexander Herbig, Andrej Benjak, Sarah Inskip, G Michael Taylor, Pushpendra Singh, Jesper L Boldsen, Helen D Donoghue, Sonia Zakrzewski, Kay Nieselt, Stewart T Cole, Johannes Krause; Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genomes reveal an unexpected diversity of leprosy in medieval Europe; AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 165, 245-245, 2018
• Pushpendra Singh, JoAnn Tufariello, Alice R Wattam, Thomas P Gillis, William R Jacobs Jr; Genomics Insights Into the Biology and Evolution of Leprosy Bacilli; International Textbook of Leprosy, 2018
• P Singh, C Wesley, GP Jadaun; Comparative evaluation of pyrazinamide susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Lowenstein Jensen proportion method, BacT/ALERT 3D system, and enzymatic pyrazinamidase assay; J Clin Microbiol 45, 76-80, 2006
• Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh; Epidemiological scenario of leprosy in marginalized communities of India: Focus on scheduled tribes; The Indian journal of medical research 156 (2), 218, 2022
• Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh; Role of TlyA in the Biology of Uncultivable Mycobacteria; Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening 25 (10), 1587-1594, 2022
• Hana Krismawati, Astri Ferdiana, Astrid Irwanto, Teky Budiawan, Clara Imaniar, Tri Wahyuni, Pushpendra Singh, Liesbeth Mieras, Arry Pongtiku; Implementation of genetic screening test to reduce the incidence of dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome among patients with leprosy in Papua, Indonesia: a study protocol; BMJ open 12 (5), e057173, 2022
• Mukul Sharma, Purna Dwivedi, Pushpendra Singh; Current situation of leprosy in tribal areas of India in the post-elimination era; Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology 88 (4), 450-451, 2022
• Manoj V Murhekar, Tarun Bhatnagar, Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj, V Saravanakumar, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Sriram Selvaraju, Kirankumar Rade, CP Kumar, R Sabarinathan, Alka Turuk, Nivethitha N Krishnan, Aby Robinson, Nivetha Srinivasan, Smita Asthana, Rakesh Balachandar, Sampada Dipak Bangar, Avi Kumar Bansal, Jyothi Bhat, Vishal Chopra, Dasarathi Das, Alok Kumar Deb, Kangjam Rekha Devi, Gaurav Raj Dwivedi, S Khan, M Sunil Kumar, Avula Laxmaiah, Major Madhukar, Amarendra Mahapatra, Chethana Rangaraju, Jyotirmayee Turuk, Suresh Yadav, PK Anand, Rushikesh Andhalkar, Nimmathota Arlappa, Khalid Bashir, Dinesh Kumar Baradwaj, Pravin Bharti, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Sthita Pragnya Behera, Ashrafjit S Chahal, Debjit Chakraborty, Anshuman Chaudhury, Hirawati Deval, Sarang Dhatrak, Vikas Dhikav, Ranjit Prasad, Prathiksha Giridharan, Inaamul Haq, Babu Jagjeevan, Agam Jain, Arshad Kalliath, Srikanta Kanungo, T Karunakaran, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Niraj Kumar, Vijay Kumar, VG Kumar, Gangeti Gandhi Jayanthi Naga Lakshmi, Ganesh Mehta, Anindya Mitra, K Nagbhushanam, AR Nirmala, Subrat Kumar Palo, Ashok Kumar Pandey, Ganta Venkata Prasad, Uday Kumar Pucha, Mariya Amin Qurieshi, Vikas Sabaharwal, Seema Sahay, Ramesh Kumar Sangwan, Rochak Saxena, Krithikaa Sekar, Vijay Kumar Shukla, Hari Bhan Singh, Prashant Kumar Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Rajeev Singh, Mahendra Thakor, Dantuluri Sheethal Varma, Ankit Viramgami, Pradeep A Menon, Rajiv Yadav, Surabhi Yadav, Manjula Singh, Amit Chakrabarti, Aparup Das, Shanta Dutta, Rajni Kant, AM Khan, Kanwar Narain, Somashekar Narasimhaiah, Chandrasekaran Padmapriyadarshini, Krishna Pandey, Sanghamitra Pati, Hemalatha Rajkumar, T Ramesh, Arun Kumar Sharma, YK Sharma, Shalini Singh, Samiran Panda, DCS Reddy, Balram Bhargava; Prevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the general population and healthcare workers in India, June–July 2021;
• Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh; Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research and Clinical Decision Making for Combating Mycobacterial Diseases; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare, 183-215, 2021
• Marc Monot, Nadine Honoré, Thierry Garnier, Nora Zidane, Diana Sherafi, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Masanori Matsuoka, G Michael Taylor, Helen D Donoghue, Abi Bouwman, Simon Mays, Claire Watson, Diana Lockwood, Ali Khamispour, Yahya Dowlati, Shen Jianping, Thomas H Rea, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Mariane M Stefani, Sayera Banu, Murdo Macdonald, Bishwa Raj Sapkota, John S Spencer, Jérôme Thomas, Keith Harshman, Pushpendra Singh, Philippe Busso, Alexandre Gattiker, Jacques Rougemont, Patrick J Brennan, Stewart T Cole; Correction: Corrigendum: Comparative genomic and phylogeographic analysis of Mycobacterium leprae; Nature Genetics 42 (4), 361-361, 2010
• Sharma M, Pushpendra Singh; Authors reply: Increased serum levels of interleukin-6 in erythema nodosum leprosum suggest its use as a biomarker; Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology 88 (3), 2022
• Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh; Differential expression of interleukin-6 in leprosy reactions; Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology 88 (3), 378-379, 2022
• Anuj Mavlankar, Afzal Ansari, Mukul Sharma, Purna Dwivedi, Pushpendra Singh; Interaction of surface glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern with potential drug candidates: A molecular docking study; F1000Research 11, 2022
• Pushpendra Singh, Mukul Sharma, Purna Dwivedi; RE: Quantitative estimation of different strains in co-infection experiments to determine differential growth rates and transmissibility;
• Liesbeth Mieras, Netherlands Leprosy Relief, Wim van Brakel, Ana Paula Fontana, Diana Lockwood, Kelly Regina Dias Scipioni, Pushpendra Singh, Cairns Smith, James Staples, Tantut Susanto, Susilene Maria Tonelli Nardi, Steve Walker, Cassandra White, Basudeve Yadav, READ Nepal; Global Partnership on Zero Leprosy Research Agenda Working Group Subgroup on Disability;
• Enrico Nunzi, Cesare Massone; A Practical Guide
• Annemieke Geluk, Pushpendra Singh, Shintouo Cabirou Mounchili, Juliana de Moura; Global Partnership for Zero Leprosy Research Agenda Working Group Subgroup on Diagnostics;