Nosocomial and Healthcare Associated Infections

Jyotsna Agarwal has joined at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow as faculty in April 2002, and is currently working as 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 Uttarpradesh. She is working in the field of pathogenesis

of urinary tract infections in women from last eight years. Her other research interests include antimicrobial resistance, molecular diagnostics; focus areas are

infections of children including pneumonia, septicemia and meningitis along with sexually transmitted/reproductive tract infection. She has more than 50 publications

in reputed journals.