Girish Kumar Chethrapilly Purushothaman

Employment

• ICMR- National Institute of Epidemiology Scientist F
  2021 - Present
• ICMR- National Institute of Epidemiology Scientist E
  2016 - 2021
• ICMR- National Institute of Epidemiology Scientist D
  2012 - 2016
• ICMR- National Institute of Epidemiology Scientist C
  2008 - 2012
• ICMR- National Institute of Epidemiology State Laboratory Manager (IBBA)
  2006 - 2008

Education

• Dr. ALM Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Madras PhD
  2000 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (115)

• Pneumococcal meningitis among hospitalised children after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in India: a sentinel hospital surveillance (2019–2022)
  The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2026.100790
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• Methodological issue in a dental neuromelioidosis outbreak investigation—authors’ reply
  The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100659
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• Prevalence and risk factors of scrub typhus infection: Findings from a cross-sectional study in a rural setting in southern Tamil Nadu, India
  Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.cegh.2025.102199
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• Differentiating Secondary Dengue Cases using Capture IgG and IgM-based Approaches
  Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2025 DOI: 10.22207/JPAM.19.2.43
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• Seroprevalence of IgG Antibodies Against Hepatitis-A Infection in India, 2021: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study
  2025 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5235085
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• Association of gut microbiota with allograft injury in kidney transplant recipients: a comparative profiling through 16S metagenomics and quantitative PCR
  Journal of Medical Microbiology 2024 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.001934
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• Global seroprevalence of scrub typhus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  Scientific Reports 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61555-9
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• Adverse outcomes in patients hospitalized with pneumonia at age 60 or more: A prospective multi-centric hospital-based study in India
  PLOS ONE 2024 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297452
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• Hospital‐based norovirus surveillance in children <5 years of age from 2017 to 2019 in India
  Journal of Medical Virology 2024 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.29384
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• Brucellosis among fever patients attending a primary health centre in rural South India
  The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 2023 DOI: 10.3855/jidc.17692
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