PGI microbiologist Kusum felicitated
Chandigarh, November 29
Dr Kusum Sharma, Additional Professor, Medical Microbiology, PGI, was awarded the prestigious Prof AN Chakrabarty Memorial Prize-2016 at the recently concluded MICROCON 2016 held at the PGI.
Two of her students, who worked under Dr Sharma’s observation, also won prizes in the field of mycobacteriology.
Dr Shreya Singh, senior resident in the Department of Medical Microbiology, won the Mumbai Belgaum Prize for best poster in mycobacteriology. Dr Kamran, senior resident in the Department of Medical Microbiology, also won the best poster award in mycobacteriology.
The Prof AN Chakrabarty Memorial Prize-2016 award is presented every year for the best published research paper in the field of mycobacteriology from all over India.
Dr Sharma was given this award for her research paper titled “rpoB gene high-resolution melt curve analysis: a rapid approach for diagnosis and screening of drug resistance in tuberculous meningitis” published in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease in October 2015. This work evaluated the role of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using rpoB, IS6110, and MPB64 as targets in diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitis, a severe and potentially fatal form of brain tuberculosis, and subsequent high-resolution melt (HRM) curve analysis of rpoB gene amplicons for screening of drug resistance. — TNS
