Annapoorana Medical College and Hospitals

Department of Microbiology

Vision

 The Department of Microbiology strives to be excellent in the field of  Bacteriology, Immunology, Parasitology , Mycology , Mycobacteriology & Virology aiming to be recognized as among the best for education in the field of Microbiology , patient care service and scientific research.

Mission

• Providing quality education in Microbiology and training  Under graduate Medical and Nursing  students, and bringing out the very best in them through the stimulus of scholarly progression and intellectual development.
• Equipping students with excellence in education and skills to enable them pursue a career of their choice
• To prepare them to become responsible contributing citizens of society, who can take up leadership positions around the globe.  
• The Department of Microbiology is committed to provide service, research, education and training of quality in the field of Medical Microbiology   
• Department is involved in  Newer diagnostic services for better patient care, research and innovation

Courses Offered:

The department serves as the nucleus of two important graduate training programs: M.B.B.S (Undergraduate Medical students).

Curriculum/Academic Activities:

The under graduates learn medical microbiology for period of 12 months. The curriculum includes General microbiology, Immunology, Systematic bacteriology, Virology, Mycology, Bacteriology & Applied Microbiology. The undergraduate students have hands on practices in various techniques Followed in diagnostics work.

Currently  The undergraduate medical education program is designed with a goal to create an “Indian Medical Graduate” (IMG) possessing requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and responsiveness to deal with Aetiology, Pathogenesis , Lab diagnosis , Treatment and prevention of Infectious agents.

The Undergraduate Medical course is Based on “ Competency based medical education “ as prescribed Medical Council of India the curriculum The knowledge will be transferred by educators through didactic lectures, integrated lectures, Small group teaching, self directed learning, Seminars and Practical sessions.

Our Faculty:

Department of microbiology organizes several workshops, CME and conferences. Microbiology faculties take part in many international/national workshops and conferences, presenting papers and bringing in very valuable technical knowledge. Faculties are members of professional organizations like Indian Medical Association, Indian Association of Medical Microbiologist, Indian Association of Tropical Parasitology, National Tuberculosis Eradication Program, Forum for Ethics Review Committee in India. Department is a part of Hospital Infection control committee.

Infrastructure:

The department of Microbiology is situated in the ground floor of college block .The department is established with the following infrastructure as per MCI guidelines.

• Two Demonstration Rooms (each 60 Sq.mt) with 75 students capacity.
• Practical Laboratories (200 Sq.mt) with 90 students capacity.
• Service Laboratory (each 35 Sq.mt).
• Bacteriology including Anaerobic culture
• Serology.
• Virology
• Parasitology.
• Mycology.
• Tuberculosis.
• Immunology.
• Museum (80 Sq.mt) with 40 students capacity.
• Departmental Library-cum-Seminar Room (30 Sq.mt).
• Research Laboratory (50 Sq.mt).

Services offered at Central Microbiology Lab:

Our central clinical microbiology laboratory at AMCH offers expertise in all areas of conventional and molecular medical microbiology. The labs offer a broad selection of tests to rapidly identify and characterize causative agents of infectious diseases in great depth

Our central lab have implemented culture techniques, immunoassays, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and  Molecular methods to rapidly detect identify and characterize microbial pathogens as well as provide guidance for their treatment.

Collectively the labs perform thousands of tests each year and functions as 24x7 emergency laboratory services. The tests done at our lab in the following areas

• Bacteriology
• Virology
• Parasitology
• Infectious Diseases Serology
• Hepatitis and HIV
• Mycology and Mycobacteriology
• Initial Processing and Media Preparation Laboratories
• Molecular testing

Molecular  Research Laboratory – BSL 2:

During this COVID-19 pandemic as per MCI directive a  NABL accredited and ICMR approved Biosafety level-2 Infectious disease laboratory  was started for testing COVID-19 infected patients

Infra structure: The infra structure & design of the lab is as per NABL where the work areas are physically separated as reagent preparation room, RNA extraction room, PCR amplification room & Post PCR room. The Equipments of the lab is also as per NABL.

Personnel: We have trained technicians and consultant as per the norms of NABL

Quality control:

We are enrolled with External Quality Assurance schemes (EQAS) in bacteriology & serology, mycology, viro-serology; parasitology offered by Christian medical college (Vellore).This maintains the standards of the laboratory in a National forum

We also enrolled with King Institute of Preventive Medicine for Inter Lab Quality Control (ILQC) for Molecular Biology.

We also have a well documented internal quality checks for efficient patient care delivery.

CME  conducted :

TITLE	DATE & MONTH	YEAR
AN UPDATE ON HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTION – CONTROL & PREVENTION	31.10.2014	2014
HIV - UPDATES	14.12.2016	2016
MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DENGUE FEVER	28.4.2017	2017
MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SWINE FLU	10.10.2017	2017
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE – AN UPDATE	20.11.2017	2017
REEMERGING NIPAH VIRUS INFECTION IN INDIA – LESSONS WE NEED TO LEARN	22.2.2018 Thursday	2018
DETECTION & REPORTING OF GRAM NEGATIVE ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE	9.10.2018 Thursday	2018
WUHAN VIRUS-EMERGING PANDEMIC CHALLENGE	18.02.2020	2020

Seminars :

Date	Topic	Faculty
07.10.2015	UTI	Dr. Priya santharam
05.10.2015	Stool Examination	Dr. N. Shanmuga Vadivoo
12.10.2015	Meningitis	Dr. Sudha
14.10.2015	URI LRI	Mr.Amar kumar
19.10.2015	Gastro Enteritis	Dr. Kalai selvi
20.10.2015	PUO
18.11.2015	Vaccine	Dr. Kalai selvi
25.11.2015	Bacteriology of Air& water	Dr. Kalai selvi
30.11.2015	AST	Dr. N. Shanmuga Vadivoo
17.09.2019	Tuberculosis	Dr.B.Usha
18.09.2019	Emerging infections	Dr.K.Sudha
09.10.2019	PUO	Dr. N. Shanmuga Vadivoo
13.10.2019	Diarrhea  & food poisoning	Dr.I.Sunil
15.10.2019	Meningitis	Dr. N. Shanmuga Vadivoo
16.10.2019	STD	Dr. Sudha
22.10.2019	Zoonoses	Mrs.Sahana
28.11.2018	Zoonoses food poisoning	Dr. N. Shanmuga Vadivoo
03.12.2018	Infection control practices	Dr.B.Usha
05.12.2018	PUO,HAI& STD	Dr. Sudha

Completed Research Projects List (Till July 2020):

1. Does structured educational intervention programme lead to sustainable knowledge improvement on infection control practices among under graduate medical students (2016)
2. Dynamic bacterial profile of endotracheal aspirates and its sensitivity pattern(2014)
3. Assessment of Clinician’s Knowledge and Perception on Antimicrobial Resistance a Primary Strategy for Antimicrobial  Resistance Control(2015)
4. Periodic Surveillance of Systemic Infection Antibiogram a Necessity – A Retrospective and Prospective Study(2016)
5. ESKAPE pathogens: Trends in antibiotic resistance pattern(2018)
6. Study to Assess Quality of Antimicrobial Use by Point Prevalence Survey at a Tertiary care centre.(2019)
7. Phospholipase activity of Candida albicans isolated from urine samples of hospitalized patients.(2013)
8. Role of Phospholipase and Proteinase as Virulence Factors of Candida Albicans Isolated from Clinical Samples of Inpatients in a Tertiary Care Hospital (2014)
9. A Fresh look into the Antimicrobial susceptibility trends of Uropathogens in a care hospital Online Journal of BioSciences and Informatics (2014)
10. Changing prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles by uropathogens(2015)
11. Prevalence of Non-Fermenting Gram Negative Bacilli and their Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Tamilnadu (2018)
12. Active Surveillance of Endo-Tracheal Aspirates from Mechanically Ventilated Patients in Intensive Care Unit at a Tertiary Care Center (2018)
13. Study on the additional criteria for the early diagnosis of Leptospirosis (2013)
14. Study on Bacterial and Fungal infections in clinically suspected Tuberculosis patient (2017)
15. Rectal Carriage of Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase and Carbapenamase producing Enterobacteriaceae in ICU patients in a Tertiary care Hospital (2019)

Ongoing Research Projects List:

1. Prevalence of Mupirocin resistance in MRSA among patients admitted at a tertiary care hospital
2. A prospective Multi-center study to develop an antibiotic resistance prediction model supporting empirical antibiotic therapy
3. Medical students Knowledge, Perception and Attitude regarding  Utility of Smartphone Medical Applications

Publications:

1. Balasundaram, Usha & Natarajan, Shanmuga. (2016). Does structured educational intervention programme lead to sustainable knowledge improvement on infection control practices among under graduate medical students?. Infection, Disease & Health. 21. 125. 10.1016/j.idh.2016.09.042
2. N. Shanmuga Vadivoo, K. Sujatha, N.V.K.Sridevi, R. Sharda, M. Niranjana.Ten year study of fungal keratitis at a Tertiary care centre, National journal of Basic medical sciences, Oct-Dec 2012, Volume - III, Issue- 2,149-153.
3. Shanmuga Vadivoo Natarajan, N. SasiRekha, Rewa D. Sharda, Niranjana MahalingamColletotrichum keratitis: A Rare but Definite Clinical Entity. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2013 Jul, Vol-7(7): 1430-1433. PMCID: PMC3749653.
4. Shanmuga Vadivoo Natarajan, Sridevi V.K Nemani, , K. Sujatha, Rewa D Sharda , M. Niranjana, M. Bhavani Analysis on frequency of Imipenem resistant gram negative bacilli at a tertiary care centre. Online journal of biosciences and informatics, vol: 5, issue 3, 2013.page 537-548.
5. N. Shanmuga Vadivoo, M. Niranjana, Rewa D Sharda, K. Sujatha, M.Bavani.Prevalence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at a Tertiary Care Centre – a Retrospective and Prospective study. IJSRR 2013, 3(1), 79- 88.
6. Vadivoo NS, Santharam P, Sudha K, Kalaiselvi G, Padmavathi B, Usha B, Kumar A, Jaiswal nk. Dynamic bacterial profile of endotracheal aspirates and its sensitivity pattern –a cause of concern. ijcrr. 2014; 6(10): 112-119. 
7. Dr.N.ShanmugaVadivoo M.D, Sharda.D. Rewa  ,Kolukula .Sujatha  , Mahalingam Niranjana ,BavaniManivannan&Nemani.V.KSridevi  .Antibiogram Analysis and Altering Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Multidrug ResistantPathogens . GJMR(2014) Volume 14 Issue 4.Page 23-33
8. Dr. N. Shanmuga Vadivoo, Dr. B. Usha & Dr. B. K Padmavathi-Assessment of Clinician’s Knowledge and Perception on Antimicrobial Resistance a Primary Strategy for Antimicrobial  Resistance Control- Global journal of Medical research .GJMR Volume 15(2015) Issue 4 Page 9-14
9. Shanmuga Vadivoo Natarajan, G. Kalaiselvi, B. Usha and B.K. Padmavathi .Periodic Surveillance of Systemic Infection Antibiogram a Necessity – A Retrospective and Prospective Study Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2016) 5(12): 277-290
10. Natarajan, Shanmuga & Dhanasekar, Usha. (2016). Trends in antibiotic resistance pattern against ESKAPE pathogens from tertiary care teaching institute – South India. Infection, Disease & Health. 21. 142-143. 10.1016/j.idh.2016.09.118
11. N Shanmuga Vadivoo, B Usha. ESKAPE pathogens: Trends in antibiotic resistance pattern.MedPulse International Journal of Microbiology. September 2018;7(3): 26-32. https://www.medpulse.in/Microbiology.
12. Vadivoo NS, Usha B, Sudha K. Study to assess quality of antimicrobial use by point prevalence survey at a tertiary care centre.Indian J Microbiol Res.2019;6(3):245-252.
13. Kalaiselvi G, Shanmuga vadivoo N, Padmavathi B. K, Usha B.CHANGING PREVALENCE AND ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY PROFILES BY UROPATHOGENS – A STUDY IN INDIA. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences 2015;Vol- 4, Issue 65, Page: 11342-11351
14. Bhavani Manivannan, Deepak Gowda, Pradeep Bulagonda,Abhishek Rao, Sai Suguna, ShanmugaVadivoo Natarajan. Surveillance, Auditing and Feedback (SAF) approach can reduce Surgical Site Infection (SSI) to an extremely low level – Towards Zero SSI.Surgical infections,Volume-19,Number-3, 2018
15. Sudha Krishnan, Priya Santharam , N. Shanmuga vadivoo and B. Usha. Prevalence of Non-Fermenting Gram Negative Bacilli and their Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Tamilnadu, India. Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2018) 7(2): 2751-2758
16. Priya Santharam, Sudha K, Shanmugavadivoo N, Usha B, Padmavathi B K.Active Surveillance Of Endo-Tracheal Aspirates From Mechanically Ventilated Patients In Intensive Care Unit At A Tertiary Care Center.National journal of Basic medical sciences, Volume 8, Issue 3, January - March 2018
17. Shanmuga Sundaram Rajamani, Sudha Krishnan, Shankar Radhakrishnan. Efficacy of dark field microscopy and igm-elisa in the detection of leptospirosis Volume 3 Issue65 Pages3542-3546
18. Vignesh Kanna Balaji, K. Sudha, B. Usha  Rectal Carriage of Carbapenemase ProducingEnterobacteriaceae in Intensive Care Units of a Tertiary Care Hospital. ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 06 (2019)
19. Sunil Indernath, R.Indra Priyadharsini, M. Manikkanan, S Vinod Babu  Prevalence and phenotypic characterization of ESBL producing E.coli and Klebsiella among the fecal isolates of normal population, Indian Journal of Microbiology Research, January-March, 2018;5(1):52-56
20. Rajkumar S, Shanmugam S., Prabhurajan R and Thirunavukkarasu P. Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of clinical Acinetobacter baumannii from a major diagnostic laboratory in Coimbatore city South India. International Journal of Recent Scientific Research Vol. 8, Issue,7, pp.18347-18351,July 2017
21. Rajan Prabhurajan, R. Mary Esther Selvam, Kesavaram Padmavathy. Lower incidence of multi-drug resistant Salmonella Typhi in blood cultures of pediatric patients with typhoid fever in South India. Drug Invention Today | Vol 14 • Issue 6 • 2020
22. Rajan Prabhurajan, Kesavaram Padmavathy, R. Mary Esther Selvam, Jayamathi Govindaraj. Antibacterial efficacy of methanol extract of mango kernel against blood culture isolates of Salmonella Typhi. Drug Invention Today | Vol 14 • Issue 5 • 2020

REVIEW ARTICLE

1. B.Usha, N. Shanmuga vadivoo, K.Sudha.Pandora’s box – Another Novel Coronavirus. National Journal of Basic Medical Sciences. 2020: Volume 10 ; Issue 3 ;97-106.
2. N.Shanmuga vadivoo, B.Usha, K.Sudha. A comprehensive review of current microbiological detection methods of SARS CoV-2. IndianJMicrobiol Res 2020;7(2):1-12

Awards  faculty :

 Best performance Award at Second National “ Hospital Infection Control Workshop” organised by Department of Microbiology - Jipmer Medical college-Pondicherry Jan-29’th 2018- Feb 2’nd-2018

Awards  students :

Our students S.Vishambhar, U.M.Ramkrishna and Nikhil.S.Nair participated in NRIC 2016 - Novel Research and innovation competition held between August 16-18 in University Sains Malaysia and won Bronze medal for their project "Hand Hygiene - Need of the hour" under the guidance of Dr.B.Usha , Professor of Microbiology, Annapoorana Medical College & Hospital, Salem.