Laboratory Medicine & Pathology

Biography

Jyotsna Agarwal has joined at the King George’s Medical University, Lucknow as a Faculty in 2002 and is currently working as a Professor of Microbiology, In-charge Bacteriology Laboratory. She received her MBBS degree from CMC, Vellore and MD in Microbiology from BHU, Varanasi. She is Nodal Officer In-charge for Regional Centre of WHO sponsored Diphtheria Surveillance Project and Regional RTI/STI Centre for state of Uttar Pradesh. Her research interests include antimicrobial resistance, molecular diagnostics; focus areas are infections of children including pneumonia, septicemia and meningitis; sexually transmitted/reproductive tract infection along with pathogenesis of urinary tract infections in women. She has nearly 50 publications in reputed journals and a book chapter to her credit.

Abstract

Abstract : Comparative gene expression of urine and fecal E. coli isolated from women with acute cystitis