Dr Rajesh Karyakarte

About

Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, BJ Government Medical College and Sassoon Hospitals, Pune-411001, Maharashtra, India.
Vice-Dean (UG), BJ Government Medical College, Pune
Ex-Dean, Government Medical College, Akola-444001, Maharashtra, India.

Employment

• Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals Department of Microbiology Professor and Head
  2019 - Present

Education

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Publications (15)

• Predictive metabolite signatures for risk of progression to active TB from QuantiFERON supernatants of household contacts of TB patients
  Emerging Microbes & Infections 2025 DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2024.2437242
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• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis
  Medical Laboratory Journal 2025 DOI: 10.66224/mlj.19.1.19
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• Pathogen-wise Clinical Profile, Outcome and Antibiotic Sensitivity Profile of Septic Newborns in Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Teaching Hospital: A Retrospective Study
  Journal of Neonatology 2024 DOI: 10.1177/09732179231218823
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• Chasing SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.16 Recombinant Lineage in India and the Clinical Profile of XBB.1.16 cases in Maharashtra, India
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.22.23288965
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• Mycobiome profiling of nasopharyngeal region of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals
  Microbes and Infection 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2022.105059
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• Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Cases Infected with Omicron subvariants and XBB recombinant variant
  2023 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.05.23284211
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• An Early and Preliminary Assessment of the Clinical Severity of the Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants in Maharashtra, India
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.09.07.22279665
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• Nasopharyngeal microbiome reveals the prevalence of opportunistic pathogens in SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals and their association with host types
  Microbes and Infection 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2021.104880
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• Modern lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were recently introduced in western India and demonstrate increased transmissibility
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.04.22268645
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• Baseline IL-6 is a biomarker for unfavourable tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a multisite discovery and validation study
  European Respiratory Journal 2022 DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00905-2021
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