Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya

Summary

Affiliation: Sehgal Nursing Home
Country: India

Publications

  1. ncbi An evaluation of current cholera treatment
    Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P 33, C I T Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
    Expert Opin Pharmacother 4:141-6. 2003
  2. ncbi An evaluation of current shigellosis treatment
    Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P 33, CIT Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
    Expert Opin Pharmacother 4:1315-20. 2003
  3. ncbi Emergence of tetracycline-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Inaba, in Kolkata, India
    Amit Roychowdhury
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
    Jpn J Infect Dis 61:128-9. 2008
  4. ncbi A note on incidence of typhoid fever in diverse age groups in Kolkata, India
    Malay Ranjan Saha
    Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (National Council of Medical Research, Kolkata 700010, India
    Jpn J Infect Dis 56:121-2. 2003
  5. ncbi Phenotypic and genotypic traits and epidemiological implication of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 strains in India during 2003
    Souvik Chatterjee
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P 33, C I T Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
    J Med Microbiol 56:824-32. 2007
  6. ncbi Young age is a risk factor for HIV among female sex workers--an experience from India
    Kamalesh Sarkar
    Division of Epidemiology HIV AIDS, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P 33, CIT Road Scheme XM, PO Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, India
    J Infect 53:255-9. 2006
  7. ncbi Prevalence and genetic profiling of virulence determinants of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from cattle, beef, and humans, Calcutta, India
    Asis Khan
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, CIT Road, Belighata, Calcutta 700 010, India
    Emerg Infect Dis 8:54-62. 2002
  8. ncbi Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1, Kolkata, India
    Shanta Dutta
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
    Emerg Infect Dis 9:1471-4. 2003
  9. ncbi Epidemic of HIV coupled with hepatitis C virus among injecting drug users of Himalayan West Bengal, Eastern India, Bordering Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh
    Kamalesh Sarkar
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata 700010, India
    Subst Use Misuse 41:341-52. 2006
  10. ncbi Determination of gag and env subtypes of HIV-1 detected among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Manipur, India: evidence for intersubtype recombination
    Payel Bhanja
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme-XM, Beliaghata, Calcutta 700010, India
    Virus Res 114:149-53. 2005

Collaborators

  • Anup Palit
  • Shanta Dutta
  • D Sur
  • S K Niyogi
  • Shyam Sundar
  • Leon R Ochiai
  • Abhijit Chowdhury
  • Mohammad Ali
  • J Wain
  • C J Acosta
  • John D Clemens
  • Kamalesh Sarkar
  • Mihir Kumar Bhattacharya
  • Arup Banerjee
  • Malay Kumar Saha
  • Ranjan Kumar Nandy
  • Sekhar Chakraborty
  • Rita Mukherjee
  • Amit Roychowdhury
  • Asish Kumar Mukhopadhyay
  • T Ramamurthy
  • Arpita Pan
  • Souvik Chatterjee
  • Sekhar Chakrabarti
  • Baishali Bal
  • Runu Chakravarty
  • Vici Varghese
  • Trailokya Nath Naik
  • Dharitri Dutta
  • Payel Bhanja
  • Dwijendra Nath Gangopadhyay
  • Subarna Roy
  • Prabhat Kumar Sinha
  • Malay Ranjan Saha
  • Asis Khan
  • Kausik Ghosh
  • Avik Biswas
  • Prasun Bhattacharya
  • Subhasis Chakraborty
  • Sibnarayan Datta
  • Partha K Chandra
  • Amit Raychoudhuri
  • Triveni Krishnan
  • Souvik Ghosh
  • Parimal Karmakar
  • Nobumichi Kobayashi
  • Soma Das
  • Sujit Chowdhury
  • Baisali Bal
  • Subhash C Sehgal
  • Roger Detels
  • Smarajit Jana
  • Asit Ranjan Ghosh
  • Chinmoy Kumar Panda
  • Pratim Ray
  • Satarupa Sengupta
  • Byomkesh Manna
  • A P Sugunan
  • Soma Banerjee
  • Amal Santra
  • Susanta Roychowdhury
  • Mitra Chanda
  • Basabjit Dutta
  • N Yaima Singh
  • Sudesh Baraily
  • Sumana Dasgupta
  • Alok Ranjan
  • Vidya Nand Rabidas
  • Pradip Das
  • Neena Verma
  • Krishna Pandey
  • Phalguni Dutta
  • Utpala Mitra
  • Anil Kumar Gupta
  • Asim Sikdar
  • Nandini Roy Chowdhury
  • Toshio Sato
  • Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
  • Shinji Yamasaki
  • Suresh Chandra Das
  • Yoshifumi Takeda
  • Gopinath Balakrish Nair
  • Simanti Datta
  • Amit Pal
  • Teizo Tsukamoto

Detail Information

Publications24

  1. ncbi An evaluation of current cholera treatment
    Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P 33, C I T Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
    Expert Opin Pharmacother 4:141-6. 2003
    ..Many antisecretory drugs have been tried as an adjunct therapy, unfortunately, until today, none has been found useful in the treatment of cholera. Feeding during and after cholera is emphasised...
  2. ncbi An evaluation of current shigellosis treatment
    Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P 33, CIT Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
    Expert Opin Pharmacother 4:1315-20. 2003
    ..Feeding during and after shigellosis is emphasised. Hand-washing practices with plenty of water and soap help to prevent the transmission of infection from person to person. A search is on for an effective vaccine against shigella...
  3. ncbi Emergence of tetracycline-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype Inaba, in Kolkata, India
    Amit Roychowdhury
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
    Jpn J Infect Dis 61:128-9. 2008
    ..3% for Ogawa and 15% for Inaba) was noted in 2005. It appears that the population might be at risk of infection by the Inaba serotype and that tetracycline may not be useful for the treatment...
  4. ncbi A note on incidence of typhoid fever in diverse age groups in Kolkata, India
    Malay Ranjan Saha
    Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (National Council of Medical Research, Kolkata 700010, India
    Jpn J Infect Dis 56:121-2. 2003
  5. ncbi Phenotypic and genotypic traits and epidemiological implication of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 strains in India during 2003
    Souvik Chatterjee
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P 33, C I T Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India
    J Med Microbiol 56:824-32. 2007
    ..Organization of tandemly arranged CTX(El), CTX(Cal) and truncated CTX(Cal) (devoid of ctxAB) prophages was unique among the majority of these O139 strains...
  6. ncbi Young age is a risk factor for HIV among female sex workers--an experience from India
    Kamalesh Sarkar
    Division of Epidemiology HIV AIDS, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P 33, CIT Road Scheme XM, PO Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, India
    J Infect 53:255-9. 2006
    ..A cross-sectional community-based study was conducted among brothel-based sex workers of West Bengal, eastern India, to study the prevalence of HIV and associated risk factors...
  7. ncbi Prevalence and genetic profiling of virulence determinants of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from cattle, beef, and humans, Calcutta, India
    Asis Khan
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, CIT Road, Belighata, Calcutta 700 010, India
    Emerg Infect Dis 8:54-62. 2002
    ..STEC is not an important cause of diarrhea in India; however, its presence in domestic cattle and beef samples suggests that this enteropathogen may become a major public health problem in the future...
  8. ncbi Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1, Kolkata, India
    Shanta Dutta
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
    Emerg Infect Dis 9:1471-4. 2003
    ..dysenteriae 1 strains complicated treatment of shigellosis patients. Six strains belonging to provisional serovars of S. dysenteriae were also identified for the first time in patients hospitalized with diarrhea in Kolkata, India...
  9. ncbi Epidemic of HIV coupled with hepatitis C virus among injecting drug users of Himalayan West Bengal, Eastern India, Bordering Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh
    Kamalesh Sarkar
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata 700010, India
    Subst Use Misuse 41:341-52. 2006
    ..The study revealed the epidemic of HIV and hepatitis C among IDU populations at this bordering district of West Bengal for the first time that requires urgent intervention at local, national, and international levels...
  10. ncbi Determination of gag and env subtypes of HIV-1 detected among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Manipur, India: evidence for intersubtype recombination
    Payel Bhanja
    National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme-XM, Beliaghata, Calcutta 700010, India
    Virus Res 114:149-53. 2005
    ....
  11. ncbi Characterization of VP1, VP2 and VP3 gene segments of a human rotavirus closely related to porcine strains
    Vici Varghese
    Division of Virology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, P-33, 700010, Kolkata, India
    Virus Genes 32:241-7. 2006
    ..This indicates that a rotavirus reassortant strain with most of its genetic material derived from a porcine strain may cause symptomatic infection in a human host...
  12. ncbi Emergence of highly fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in a community-based fever surveillance from Kolkata, India
    Shanta Dutta
    Int J Antimicrob Agents 31:387-9. 2008
  13. ncbi Increasing prevalence of Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi-A in patients with enteric fever in a periurban slum setting of Kolkata, India
    Anup Palit
    Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases ICMR, Kolkata, India
    Int J Environ Health Res 16:455-9. 2006
    ..Future vaccination strategies should include bivalent vaccines with protection capacities against both ST as well as SPTA...
  14. ncbi Phase 4 trial of miltefosine for the treatment of Indian visceral leishmaniasis
    Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya
    Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Agam Kuan, India
    J Infect Dis 196:591-8. 2007
    ..Hospital-based studies have shown that oral miltefosine is a highly effective treatment for VL both in adults and in children...
  15. ncbi Frequency and significance of hepatitis B virus surface gene variant circulating among 'antiHBc only' individuals in Eastern India
    Arup Banerjee
    ICMR Virus Unit, Kolkata, ID and BG Hospital Campus, Kolkata, India
    J Clin Virol 40:312-7. 2007
    ..The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence and significance of surface gene mutations among antiHBc only cases in our population...
  16. ncbi Visceral Leishmaniasis and HIV Coinfection in Bihar, India
    Prabhat Kumar Sinha
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 32:115-6. 2003
  17. ncbi Impact of a harm-reduction programme on soft tissue infections among injecting drug users of Kolkata, India
    Mihir Kumar Bhattacharya
    J Health Popul Nutr 24:121-2. 2006
  18. ncbi Erythrocyte sedimentation rate may be an indicator for screening of tuberculosis patients for underlying HIV infection, particularly in resource-poor settings: an experience from India
    Kamalesh Sarkar
    J Health Popul Nutr 22:220-1. 2004
  19. ncbi Hepatitis C virus infection in the general population: a community-based study in West Bengal, India
    Abhijit Chowdhury
    Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
    Hepatology 37:802-9. 2003
    ....
  20. ncbi A multi-country cluster randomized controlled effectiveness evaluation to accelerate the introduction of Vi polysaccharide typhoid vaccine in developing countries in Asia: rationale and design
    Camilo J Acosta
    International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea
    Trop Med Int Health 10:1219-28. 2005
    ..Preliminary results are presented that determined the final planning of the trial before immunization. Important methodological and practical issues regarding vaccine cluster randomized designs are illustrated...
  21. ncbi Nucleic acid sequence analysis of basal core promoter/precore/core region of hepatitis B virus isolated from chronic carriers of the virus from Kolkata, eastern India: low frequency of mutation in the precore region
    Arup Banerjee
    ICMR Virus Unit, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
    Intervirology 48:389-99. 2005
    ....
  22. ncbi Cross border HIV epidemic among injecting drug users of Himalayan West Bengal
    Kamalesh Sarkar
    Eur J Epidemiol 20:373-4. 2005
  23. ncbi Molecular tracking of the lineage of strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor associated with a cholera outbreak in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
    Subarna Roy
    Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
    Trop Med Int Health 10:604-11. 2005
    ..PFGE could discriminate within these Kolkata isolates further and established that a particular subtype of this population reached the remote Nancowry islands and was responsible for the outbreak...
  24. ncbi Evaluation of sexually transmitted diseases/human immunodeficiency virus intervention programs for sex workers in Calcutta, India
    Dwijendra Nath Gangopadhyay
    Department of Dermatology and STD, Calcutta National Medical College, Calcutta, India
    Sex Transm Dis 32:680-4. 2005
    ..Both the Sonagachi and NACO strategies have resulted in lower STD rates, but the Sonagachi Project also increased the proportion who had an optimistic attitude and increased prevention and treatment-seeking behavior...