Academic qualification

• MBBS (WBUHS)
• MD (MICROBIOLOGY) (SGPGIMS)
• SENIOR RESIDENT in MICROBIOLOGY (03 Years) (SGPGIMS)
• Training in “Quality Management Systems and Internal Audit in Medical Laboratories as per ISO 15189:2012”

Previous Work experience:-

• Senior Resident in Microbiology- With special exposure in Virology, Anaerobic Bacteriology, Mycology. (Time period- July 2015 to june 2018) (SGPGIMS, Lucknow, UP, India)
• Consultant Microbiologist and infection control officer:- (Time period- Sept 2018 to April 2020) (Health World Hospitals, Durgapur, WB, India)

Area of interest

• Virology
• Anaerobic Bacteriology
• Mycology

List of publications

1. Saha US, Misra R, Tiwari D, Prasad KN. A cost-effective anaerobic culture method & its comparison with a standard method. Indian J Med Res. 2016 Oct;144(4):611-613. doi: 10.4103/0971-5916.200881. PMID: 28256472; PMCID: PMC5345310..
2. Gupta S, Sahu C, Nag S, Saha US, Prasad N, Prasad KN. First report of peritonitis caused by the vancomycin-resistant coccus Pediococcus pentosaceus in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Access Microbiol. 2019 Apr 23;1(5):e000007. doi: 10.1099/acmi.0.000007. PMID: 32974525; PMCID: PMC7470283.