Professor Abhilasha Karkey
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Connecting research with communities in Nepal
Antimicrobial resistance is a huge burden in Nepal, particularly in hospitals where many nosocomial infections are caused by resistant pathogens. With limited resources, little infection controls and proper guidelines in place, finding out the main risk factors helps reduce infection rates within a hospital and better target vaccination campaigns.
Abhilasha Karkey
Associate Professor
- Medical Microbiologist
- Director of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Nepal
OUCRU Nepal
Abhilasha Karkey is a medical microbiologist at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Kathmandu, Nepal, which is associated with the Patan Academy of Health Sciences within Patan Hospital. She is involved with several infectious disease research projects including enteric fever, central nervous system infections, hepatitis E, tuberculosis, and antibiotic resistance. Her main research includes looking at nosocomial infections and antibiotic resistance patterns within the population, as well as molecular epidemiology of enteric fever within the study population in Kathmandu.
Recent publications
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Direct inference and control of genetic population structure from RNA sequencing data.
Fachrul M. et al, (2023), Communications biology, 6
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The identification of enteric fever-specific antigens for population based serosurveillance.
Mylona E. et al, (2023), The Journal of infectious diseases
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Perspectives of pharmacy employees on an inappropriate use of antimicrobials in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Shrestha N. et al, (2023), PloS one, 18
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Good participatory practice for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) research: the case of a COVID-19 prevention study
Perrone C. et al, (2022), Wellcome Open Research, 6, 216 - 216
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Identifying context-specific domains for assessing antimicrobial stewardship programmes in Asia: protocol for a scoping review
Vu HTL. et al, (2022), BMJ Open, 12, e061286 - e061286