Department of Infectious Diseases and Advanced Microbiology

Faculty

Name Photograph Designation Educational Qualifications Registration Number
Prof. (Dr.) Bibhuti Saha Professor and Head M.B.B.S., D.T.M.H., M.D. (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 41907
Dr. Soumendra Nath Haldar Associate Professor M.B.B.S., M.D. (Tropical Medicine), D.M. (Infectious Diseases) WBMC 59351
Dr. Dipankar Pal Assistant Professor M.B.B.S., D.T.C.D., M.D. (Tropical Medicine), D.M. (Infectious Diseases) WBMC 61666

Senior Resident

Name Designation
Dr. Agnibho Mondal Senior Resident

Staff

Name Designation
Surajit Das Contractual Staff

Academic Course

Patient Care Services

Infectious Diseases and Advanced Microbiology OPD (2023)

Patients Number
New Patients 1716
Follow-up visits 1402

Adult Immunization and Travel Medicine Clinic (2023)

Patients Number
New Patients 871
Follow-up visits 263

Indoor Patient Care and Critical Care Support (2023)

Patients Number
Admission 225
Discharge 198
Death 8

Adult Vaccination

Total number of persons vaccinated in 2023: 849

Vaccine Number of persons vaccinated
Influenza 287
Pneumococcal (Conjugate) 92
Pneumococcal (Polysaccharide) 223
Hepatitis B 234
Meningococcal Vaccine 13

Ongoing Research Activities

Investigator Title of the Project
Prof Bibhuti Saha Development of a simple scoring system based on clinical findings and simple laboratory tests for patients presenting with acute febrile illness

Publications

  1. Haldar SN, Banerjee K, Modak D, Mondal A, Sharma C, Vasireddy T, Kar RK, Patel HB, Majumdar D, Bhattacharjee B, Ghosh T, Guha SK, Saha B. Case report: A series of three meningoencephalitis cases caused by Acanthamoeba spp. from Eastern India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Jan 9. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0396.
  2. Paul M, Saha B, Mukhopadhyay S. Development of a novel lectin-based gold nanoparticle point-of-care immunoassay for rapid diagnosis of patients with severe dengue infection. J Immunoassay Immunochem. 2023 Nov 2;44(5-6):418-435. DOI: 10.1080/15321819.2023.2260480.
  3. Sengupta S, Manna S, Saha B, Tripathi A. Impact of apoptotic biomarkers for prognosis of dengue disease severity among Eastern Indian patients. J Med Virol. 2023 Oct;95(10):e29180. DOI: 10.1002/jmv.29180.
  4. Roy S, Moulik S, Chaudhuri SJ, Ghosh MK, Goswami RP, Saha B, Chatterjee M. Molecular monitoring of treatment efficacy in human visceral leishmaniasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Jan 15;trad103. DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trad103.
  5. Mondal A, Modak D, Guha SK, Saha B. Prevalence of rheumatological manifestations in HIV-infected patients in a tertiary care centre in Eastern India: A prospective observational study. J Indian Med Assoc. 2023 Jul;121(7). Available at: https://onlinejima.com/read_journals.php?article=1194. Accessed 13 Jan 2024.
  6. Modak D, Biswas S, Mondal A, Biswas M, Mascellino MT, Chakraborty B, Tiwari S, Shewale AD, Nale T, Dey R. Seroprevalence of brucellosis among animal handlers in West Bengal, India: An occupational health study. AIMS Microbiol. 2024;10(1):1-11. DOI: 10.3934/microbiol.2024001. Accepted: 20 Dec 2023. Published: 02 Jan 2024.
  7. Shobhana A, Saha B, Datta A, Trivedi S, Jha S, Bhowmik S, Banerjee K. Something amiss: Acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis – Report of two cases from Kolkata, India. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2023 Sep-Oct;26(5):789-792. DOI: 10.4103/aian.aian_621_23.
  8. Biswas T, Naskar A, Halder P, Mallik S, Mondal A, Saha B. Etiologies of space-occupying lesions of liver among patients presenting in a tertiary care center in India. J Indian Med Assoc. 2024 Jan;122(1). Accepted on: 21 Jan 2023.