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 Photograph Designation Educational Qualifications Registration Number
Dr. Agnibho Mondal Senior Resident M.B.B.S., M.D. (Tropical Medicine) WBMC 77394

Staff

Name Designation
Surajit Das Contractual Staff

Academic Course

Patient Care Services

Infectious Diseases and Advanced Microbiology OPD (2024)

Patients Number
New Patients 2677
Follow-up visits 655

Indoor Patient Care and Critical Care Support (2024)

Patients Number
Admission 250
Discharge 224
Death 19

Adult Vaccination

Total number of persons vaccinated in 2024: 609

Vaccine Number of persons vaccinated
Influenza 401
Pneumococcal (Conjugate) 93
Pneumococcal (Polysaccharide) 131
Hepatitis B 280
Meningococcal Vaccine 66

Ongoing Research Activities

Investigator Title of the Project
Prof Bibhuti Saha (Principal Investigator) Development of a simple scoring system based on clinical findings and simple laboratory tests for patients presenting with acute febrile illness
Dr. Sampurna Biswas Pramanik (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Soumendra Nath Haldar (Co-Principal Investigator) 		A Study on Prevalence of Invasive Fungal Infections in Two Tertiary Care Hospitals in Eastern India

Recent Publications

  1. Haldar SN, Banerjee K, Modak D, Mondal A, Sharma C, Vasireddy T, Karad RK, Patel HB, Majumdar D, Bhattacharjee B, Khurana S, 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. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0396.
  2. Vasireddy T, Karad R, Patel H, Mondal A, Bhattacharjee B, Haldar SN, Saha B. A case series on intestinal tapeworm infections from Eastern India. J Gastro Digest Syst. 2024;8(1):01-05.
  3. Karad R, Vasireddy T, Patel H, Bhattacharjee B, Mondal A, Haldar SN, Saha B. Case Report: Unveiling the unseen – Ocular tuberculosis presenting as chalazion. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Aug 13;111(4):841-843. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.24-0271.
  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. Ghosh P, Saha B, Kaveri K, Tripathi A. Significance of diagnostic and therapeutic potential of serum endothelial and inflammatory biomarkers in defining disease severity of dengue-infected patients. Med Microbiol Immunol. 2024 Dec 14;214(1):3. DOI: 10.1007/s00430-024-00810-2.
  6. Vasireddy T, Banerjee K, Karad R, Patel H, Bhattacharjee B, Haldar SN, Roy S, Saha B. A facial deformity treated non-surgically – a case report. J Dermat Cosmetol. 2024;8(1):91.
  7. Bhattacharjee B, Patel H, Karad R, Vasireddy T, Mondal A, Haldar SN, Saha B. Dengue hemorrhagic fever with rectus sheath hematoma: A case report. Asian Pac J Trop Med. 2024;27(3):136-138. DOI: 10.4103/apjtm.ajtmh_814_23.
  8. Modak D, Biswas S, Mondal A, Biswas M, Mascellino MT, Chakraborty B, Tiwari S, Shewale AD, Nale T, Bey 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.
  9. Patel H, Majumdar D, Modak D. Guillain-Barre syndrome: An atypical presentation of IRIS on initiation of antiretroviral therapy in a newly diagnosed HIV-infected patient. J Clin Sci Res. 2024;13(Suppl 1):36-9.
  10. Naskar A, Mondal A, Chatterjee R, De RD, Roy S. Assessing liver fibrosis in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: The role of non-invasive scoring systems and associated factors. Cureus. 2024 Jun 14;16(6):e62405. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.62405.
  11. Naskar A, Mondal A. Factors associated with microalbuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional study from Eastern India. Endocrinol Res Pract. 2024;28:224-228. DOI: 10.5152/erp.2024.24451.
  12. Naskar A, Mondal A, Dhar I. Prevalence of iron deficiency in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and its association with altered lipid profile. MGM J Med Sci. 2024;11(2):228-233. DOI: 10.4103/mhmgj.mhmgj_140_24.
  13. Biswas T, Naskar A, Halder P, Mallik S, Mondal A, Saha B. Etiologies of space-occupying lesions of the liver among patients presenting in a tertiary care center in India. J Indian Med Assoc. 2024;122(1).