Ashima Bhardwaj
Associate Professor
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES & BIOTECHNOLOGY
University and Institute of Advanced Research
India
Biography
Ph.D. Biochemistry (University of Delhi South Campus, 1997), Post Graduation Biochemistry (University of Delhi South Campus, 1991), Work Experience 20 Years (Post Ph.D),26 Years (Post M.Sc)
Research Interest
Molecular epidemiology of multiple drug resistance in bacterial isolates of Vibrio and Shigella species, Cloning and Characterisation of efflux pumps involved in drug resistance, Molecular characterization of quinolone resistance
Publications
-
Kittappa Vinothkumar, G. Naresh Kumar and Ashima Kushwaha Bhardwaj (2016). Characterization of Vibrio fluvialisqnrVC5 gene in native and heterologous hosts: Synergy of qnrVC5 with other determinants in conferring quinolone resistance. Front. Microbiol. 7:146.
-
Rajpara N, Kutar BMRNS, Sinha R, Nag D, Koley H, Ramamurthy T and Bhardwaj AK (2015) Role of integrons, plasmids and SXT elements in multidrug resistance of Vibrio cholerae and Providencia vermicola obtained from a clinical isolate of diarrhea. Front. Microbiol. 6:57. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00057
-
Neha Rajpara, Kittappa Vinothkumar, Priyabrata Mohanty, Arun Kumar Singh, Rajesh Singh, Ritam Sinha, Dhrubajyoti Nag, Hemanta Koley, Ashima Kushwaha Bhardwaj (2013) Synergistic Effect of Various Virulence Factors Leading to High toxicity of Environmental V. cholerae Non-O1/ Non-O139 Isolates Lacking ctx Gene : Comparative Study with Clinical Strains. PLoS one. 8 (9): e76200.
-
Kittappa Vinothkumar, Ashima Kushwaha Bhardwaj, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Swapan Kumar Niyog (2013) Triplex PCR assay for the rapid identification of three major Vibrio species, Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio fluvialis. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 76:526-528.
-
Braj M.R.N.S. Kutar , Neha Rajpara , Hardik Upadhyay, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Ashima K. Bhardwaj. (2013) Clinical Isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Ogawa of 2009 from Kolkata, India: Preponderance of SXT Element and Presence of Haitian ctxB Variant. PLoS one. 8(2): e56477.
