Scientific Updates in 2015

Projects completed:

1. Assessment of laboratory capacity for malaria microscopy in health facilities of malaria endemic districts in Nepal: supported by WHO country office Nepal in collarobarion with EDCD and KCMS, 2015 (as a research assistant).

2. USAID Grant: Colorado State University, Feed the Future Innovation Lab; Parasitic burden among dairy cows supplying milk to Kathmandu Valley and its impact on milk production, 2015 (as principle investigator-TIRI Scholar) Second Project.

Journal Started:

MED-MICRO JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY-MMJM
Volume 1 Issue 1 (2015)
Executive Editor

Article published:

1. Rojina Maharjan, Dina Shrestha, Jyoti Acharya, Nabaraj Adhikari, Komal Raj Rijal, Prakash Ghimire, Upendra Thapa Shrestha (2015). Change in Biotype trend of Vibrio cholerae in Nepal.  Med-Micro Journal of Microbiology (MMJM), 1 (1): 45-54.

2. Bhomi Ujwol, Rijal Komal Raj, Neupane Biswas, Shrestha Santu, Chaudhary Mahesh, Acharya Dhiraj, Thapa Shrestha Upendra, Adhikari Nabaraj and Ghimire Prakash (2015).  Status of inducible clindamycin resistance among macrolide resistant Staphylococcus aureus. African Journal of Microbiology Research (Accepted)

3. Upendra Thapa Shrestha, Nabaraj Adhikari, Rojina Maharajan, Megha R Banjara, Komal R Rijal, Shital R Basnet, Vishwanath P Agrawal. Multidrug resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 from clinical and environmental samples in Kathmandu city. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2015; 15: 104. http://www.biomedcentral.com/orderreprints/s12879-015-0844-9 (IMPACT FACTOR-2.61).

4. Khanal S, Ansari S, Basnyat SR, Joshi DR, Adhikari N, Shrestha UT, Acharya D, Adhikari P, Niraula PM, Khadka R and Upadhyay BP (2015). Sero-prevalence of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) among Nepalese Children. British Microbiology Research Journal, 6(3): 126-134, 2015, Article no.BMRJ.2015.065.

Thesis Supervised:

Total Six dissertation completed by M.Sc. Medical Microbiology students under my supervision.