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Das, Mayukh ; Nandy, R. K. ; Bhowmick, Tushar Suvra ; Yamasaki, S. ; Ghosh, A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sarkar, B. L. (2012) Vibrio cholerae typing phage N4: genome sequence and its Relatedness to T7 viral supergroup Intervirology, 55 (3). pp. 185-193. ISSN 0300-5526

Pazhani, G. P. ; Chakraborty, S. ; Fujihara, K. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Ghosh, A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Ramamurthy, T. (2011) QRDR mutations, efflux system & antimicrobial resistance genes in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from an outbreak of diarrhoea in Ahmedabad, India Indian Journal of Medical Research, 134 . pp. 214-223. ISSN 0971-5916

Chowdhury, Goutam ; Pazhani, Gururaja Perumal ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ghosh, Amit ; Ramamurthy, T. (2011) Transferable plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance in association with extended-spectrum β-lactamases and fluoroquinolone-acetylating aminoglycoside-6'-N-acetyltransferase in clinical isolates of Vibrio fluvialis International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 38 (2). pp. 169-173. ISSN 0924-8579

Sur, D. ; Manna, B. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Palit, A. ; Nomoto, K. ; Takahashi, T. ; Shima, T. ; Tsuji, H. ; Kurakawa, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (2011) Role of probiotic in preventing acute diarrhoea in children: a community-based, randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled field trial in an urban slum Epidemiology and Infection, 139 (6). pp. 919-926. ISSN 0950-2688

Lindsay, Brianna ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Gupta, Sourav Sen ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Rajendran, Krishnan ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Colin Stine, O. (2011) Diarrheagenic pathogens in polymicrobial infections Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17 (4). ISSN 1080-605

Patra, Rajashree ; Chattopadhyay, Santanu ; De, Ronita ; Datta, Simanti ; Chowdhury, Abhijit ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Berg, Douglas E. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. (2011) Intact cag pathogenicity island of Helicobacter pylori without disease association in Kolkata, India International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 301 (4). pp. 293-302. ISSN 1438-4221

Takahashi, Eizo ; Kobayashi, Hidetomo ; Yamanaka, Hiroyasu ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Arimoto, Sakae ; Negishi, Tomoe ; Okamoto, Keinosuke (2011) Inhibition of biosynthesis of metalloprotease of Aeromonas sobria by sodium chloride in the medium Microbiology and Immunology, 55 (1). pp. 60-65. ISSN 0385-5600

Na-Ubol, M. ; Srimanote, P. ; Chongsa-nguan, M. ; Indrawattana, N. ; Sookrung, N. ; Tapchaisri, P. ; Yamazaki, S. ; Bodhidatta, L. ; Eampokalap, B. ; Kurazono, H. ; Hayashi, H. ; Nair, G. B. ; Takeda, Y. ; Chaicumpa, W. (2011) Hybrid & El Tor variant biotypes of Vibrio cholerae O1 in Thailand Indian Journal of Medical Research, 133 (4). pp. 387-394. ISSN 0971-5916

Banerjee, Mousumi ; Nair, Gopinath B. ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan (2011) Phenotypic & genetic characterization of Bacillus cereus isolated from the acute diarrhoeal patients Indian Journal of Medical Research, 133 (1). pp. 88-95. ISSN 0971-5916

Panda, Samiran ; Pati, Kamala Kanta ; Bhattacharya, Mihir Kumar ; Koley, Hemanta ; Pahari, Sobha ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2011) Rapid situation & response assessment of diarrhoea outbreak in a coastal district following tropical cyclone AILA in India Indian Journal of Medical Research, 133 (4). pp. 395-400. ISSN 0971-5916

Lara, Ruben J. ; Neogi, Sucharit B. ; Islam, Mohammad S. ; Mahmud, Zahid H. ; Islam, Shafiqul ; Paul, Debasish ; Demoz, Biniam B. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Nair, Gopinath B. ; Kattner, Gerhard (2011) Vibrio cholerae in waters of the Sunderban mangrove: relationship with biogeochemical parameters and chitin in seston size fractions Wetlands Ecology and Management, 19 (1). pp. 109-119. ISSN 0923-4861

Deb, Alok Kumar ; Kanungo, Suman ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Narain, Jai P. (2011) The challenge of pneumonia & acute diarrhoea at global, regional & national levels: time to refocus on a top most priority health problem Indian Journal of Medical Research, 133 (2). pp. 128-130. ISSN 0971-5916

Shamim Hasan Zahid, M. ; Waise, Zaved ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Khairul Bashar, S. A. M. ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Faruque, Shah M. (2011) An experimental study of phage mediated bactericidal selection & emergence of the El Tor Vibrio cholerae Indian Journal of Medical Research, 133 (2). pp. 218-224. ISSN 0971-5916

Hasan, Nur A. ; Grim, Christopher J. ; Haley, Bradd J. ; Chun, Jongsik ; Alam, Munirul ; Taviani, Elisa ; Hoq, Mozammel ; Christine Munk, A. ; Saunders, Elizabeth ; Brettin, Thomas S. ; Bruce, David C. ; Challacombe, Jean F. ; Chris Detter, J. ; Han, Cliff S. ; Xie, Gary ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Huq, Anwar ; Colwell , Rita R. (2010) Comparative genomics of clinical and environmental Vibrio mimicus PNAS, 107 (49). pp. 21134-21139. ISSN 0027-8424

Ghosh-Banerjee, J. ; Senoh, M. ; Takahashi, T. ; Hamabata, T. ; Barman, S. ; Koley, H. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Chatterjee, S. ; Asakura, M. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Takeda , Y. (2010) Cholera toxin production by the El Tor variant of vibrio cholerae O1 compared to prototype El Tor and classical biotypes? Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 48 (11). pp. 4283-4286. ISSN 0095-1137

Takahashi, Eizo ; Fujii, Yoshio ; Kobayashi, Hidetomo ; Yamanaka, Hiroyasu ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Arimoto, Sakae ; Negishi, Tomoe ; Okamoto, Keinosuke (2010) Maturation pathway of metalloprotease produced by Aeromonas sobria Microbiology and Immunology, 54 (10). pp. 596-605. ISSN 0385-5600

Senoh, Mitsutoshi ; Ghosh-Banerjee, Jayeeta ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Hamabata, Takashi ; Kurakawa, Takashi ; Takeda, Makoto ; Colwell, Rita R. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (2010) Conversion of viable but nonculturable Vibrio cholerae to the culturable state by co-culture with eukaryotic cells Microbiology and Immunology, 54 (9). pp. 502-507. ISSN 0385-5600

Choi, Seon Young ; Lee, Je Hee ; Jeon, Yoon-Seong ; Lee, Hye Ri ; Kim, Eun Jin ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Endtz, Hubert P. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Sarkar, B. L. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Nguyen, Binh Minh ; Hien, Nguyen Tran ; Czerkinsky, Cecil ; Clemens, John D. ; Chun, Jongsik ; Kim, Dong Wook (2010) Multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains harbouring classical toxin B Journal of Medical Microbiology, 59 (7). pp. 763-769. ISSN 0022-2615

Kanungo, S. ; Sah, B. K. ; Lopez, A. L. ; Sung, J. S. ; Paisley, A. M. ; Sur, D. ; Clemens, J. D. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2010) Cholera in India: an analysis of reports, 1997-2006 Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88 (3). pp. 185-191. ISSN 0042-9686

Morita, Masatomo ; Ohnishi, Makoto ; Arakawa, Eiji ; Yamamoto, Shouji ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Matsushita, Shigeru ; Yokoyama, Keiko ; Kai, Akemi ; Seto, Kazuko ; Watanabe, Haruo ; Izumiya , Hidemasa (2010) Emergence and genetic diversity of El Tor Vibrio cholerae O1 that possess classical biotype ctxB among travel-associated cases of cholera in Japan Journal of Medical Microbiology, 59 (6). pp. 708-712. ISSN 0022-2615

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Narain, Jai P. (2010) From endotoxin to exotoxin: De's rich legacy to cholera Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88 (3). ISSN 0042-9686

Begum, Y. A. ; Chakraborty, S. ; Chowdhury, A. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, R. B. ; Svennerholm, A. M. ; Qadri, F. (2010) Isolation of a bacteriophage specific for CS7-expressing strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Journal of Medical Microbiology, 59 (3). pp. 266-272. ISSN 0022-2615

Raychoudhuri, Amit ; Mukherjee, Piyali ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Nair, Gopinath B. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. (2010) Genetic analysis of CTX prophages with special reference to ctxB and rstR alleles of Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated from Kolkata over a decade FEMS Microbiology Letters, 303 (2). pp. 107-115. ISSN 0378-1097

Charenjiratragul, W. ; Bhoopong, P. ; Kantachote, D. ; Jomduang, S. ; Kong-Ngoen, R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Vuddhakul, V. (2010) Inhibitory activity of lactic acid bacteria isolated from Thai fermented food against pandemic strains of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus Journal of Food Safety, 30 (1). pp. 67-82. ISSN 0149-6085

Haley, Bradd J. ; Grim, Christopher J. ; Hasan, Nur A. ; Taviani, Elisa ; Chun, Jongsik ; Brettin, Thomas S. ; Bruce, David C. ; Challacombe, Jean F. ; Chris Detter, J. ; Han, Cliff S. ; Huq, Anwar ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Colwell, Rita R. (2010) The pre-seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae BX 330286 El Tor genome: evidence for the environment as a genome reservoir Environmental Microbiology, 2 (1). pp. 208-216. ISSN 1462-2912

Kamruzzaman, M. ; Nashir Udden, S. M. ; Ewen Cameron, D. ; Calderwood, Stephen B. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Faruque , Shah M. (2010) Quorum-regulated biofilms enhance the development of conditionally viable, environmental Vibrio cholerae PNAS, 107 (4). pp. 1588-1593. ISSN 0027-8424

Safa, Ashrafus ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Kong, Richard Y. C. (2010) Evolution of new variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 Trends in Microbiology, 18 (1). pp. 46-54. ISSN 0966-842X

Halder, Kalpataru ; Das, Bhabatosh ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bhadra, Rupak K. (2010) Molecular evidence favouring step-wise evolution of Mozambique Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor hybrid strain Microbiology, 156 (1). pp. 99-107. ISSN 1350-0872

Alam, Munirul ; Nusrin, Suraia ; Islam, Atiqul ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Rahim, Niaz ; Delgado, Gabriela ; Morales, Rosario ; Mendez, Jose Luis ; Navarro, Armando ; Gil, Ana I. ; Watanabe, Haruo ; Morita, Masatomo ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Cravioto , Alejandro (2010) Cholera between 1991 and 1997 in Mexico was associated with infection by classical, El Tor, and El Tor variants of vibrio cholerae? Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 48 (10). pp. 3666-3674. ISSN 0095-1137

Choi, Seon Young ; Lee, Je Hee ; Kim, Eun Jin ; Lee, Hye Ri ; Jeon, Yoon-Seong ; Seidlein, Lorenz von ; Deen, Jaqueline ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Marcelino, G. ; Lucas, E. S. ; Barreto, Avertino ; Songane, Francisco F. ; Mondlane, Catarina ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Czerkinsky, Cecil ; Clemens, John D. ; Chun, Jongsik ; Kim , Dong Wook (2010) Classical RS1 and environmental RS1 elements in Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains harbouring a tandem repeat of CTX prophage: revisiting Mozambique in 2005 Journal of Medical Microbiology, 59 (3). pp. 302-308. ISSN 0022-2615

Alam, Munirul ; Hasan, Nur A. ; Sultana, Marzia ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sadique, A. ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Endtz, Hubert P. ; Sack, R. B. ; Huq, A. ; Colwell, R. R. ; Izumiya, Hidemasa ; Morita, Masatomo ; Watanabe, Haruo ; Cravioto , Alejandro (2010) Diagnostic limitations to accurate diagnosis of cholera? Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 48 (11). pp. 3918-3922. ISSN 0095-1137

Siddique, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Alam, M. ; Sack, D. A. ; Huq, A. ; Nizam, A. ; Longini Jr, I. M. ; Qadri, F. ; Faruque, S. M. ; Colwell, R. R. ; Ahmed, S. ; Iqbal, A. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Sack, R. B. (2010) El Tor cholera with severe disease: a new threat to Asia and beyond Epidemiology and Infection, 138 (3). pp. 347-352. ISSN 0950-2688

Basu, Sulagna ; Singh, Arun K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2010) Emerging carbapenem resistance in the context of a New Metallo-β-lactamase (NDM-1) The National Medical Journal of India, 23 (5). pp. 261-262. ISSN 0970-258X

Nair, Gopinath B. ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Bhattacharya, Mihir K. ; Krishnan, Triveni ; Ganguly, Sandipan ; Saha, Dhira R. ; Rajendran, Krishnan ; Manna, Byomkesh ; Ghosh, Mrinmoy ; Okamoto, Keinosuke ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (2010) Emerging trends in the etiology of enteric pathogens as evidenced from an active surveillance of hospitalized diarrhoeal patients in Kolkata, India Gut Pathogens, 2 (4). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1757-4749

Mukherjee, Piyali ; Ghosh, Santanu ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, Mihir K. ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mukhopadhyay , Asish K. (2010) Evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic dipstick Kit for diagnosis of cholera emphasizes its outbreak utility Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases, 63 (4). pp. 234-238. ISSN 1344-6304

Ramamurthy, T. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2010) Evolving identity of epidemic vibrio cholera: past and the present Science and Culture, 76 (5-6). pp. 153-159. ISSN 1000-3398

Sur, D. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Lopez, Anna Lena ; Clemens, John D. ; Katoch, Viswa Mohan (2010) Oral cholera vaccines - a call for action Indian Journal of Medical Research, 131 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 0971-5916

Shamim Hasan Zahid, M. ; Zaved Waise, T. M. ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Ghosh, Amar N. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Faruque , Shah M. (2010) The cyclic AMP (cAMP)-cAMP receptor protein signaling system mediates resistance of vibrio cholerae O1 strains to multiple environmental bacteriophages Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76 (13). pp. 4233-4240. ISSN 0099-2240

Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Nusrin, Suraia ; Alam, Munirul ; Morita, Masatomo ; Watanabe, Haruo ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Cravioto, Alejandro ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish (2009) Changing genotypes of cholera toxin (CT) of vibrio cholerae O139 in Bangladesh and description of three new CT genotypes FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 57 (2). pp. 136-141. ISSN 0928-8244

Sur, Dipika ; Lopez, Anna Lena ; Kanungo, Suman ; Paisley, Allison ; Manna, Byomkesh ; Ali, Mohammad ; Niyogi, Swapan K. ; Park, Jin Kyung ; Sarkar, Banawarilal ; Puri, Mahesh K. ; Kim, Deok Ryun ; Deen, Jacqueline L. ; Holmgren, Jan ; Carbis, Rodney ; Rao, Raman ; Van, Nguyen Thu ; Donner, Allan ; Ganguly, Nirmal K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bhattacharya, Sujit K. ; Clemens, John D. (2009) Efficacy and safety of a modified killed-whole-cell oral cholera vaccine in India: an interim analysis of a cluster-randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial The Lancet, 374 (9702). pp. 1694-1702. ISSN 0140-6736

Alam, Munirul ; Chowdhury, Wasimul B. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Islam, Atiqul ; Hasan, Nur A. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Watanabe, H. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Huq, Anwar ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Akhter, M. Z. ; Grim, Christopher J. ; Kam, K. M. ; Luey, C. K. Y. ; Endtz, Hubert P. ; Cravioto, Alejandro ; Colwell, Rita R. (2009) Serogroup, virulence, and genetic traits of vibrio parahaemolyticus in the estuarine ecosystem of Bangladesh? Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75 (19). pp. 6268-6274. ISSN 0099-2240

Chuna, Jongsik ; Grim, Christopher J. ; Hasan, Nur A. ; Lee, Je Hee ; Choi, Seon Young ; Haley, Bradd J. ; Taviani, Elisa ; Jeon, Yoon-Seong ; Kim, Dong Wook ; Lee, Jae-Hak ; Brettin, Thomas S. ; Bruce, David C. ; Challacombe, Jean F. ; Chris Detter, J. ; Han, Cliff S. ; Christine Munk, A. ; Chertkov, Olga ; Meincke, Linda ; Saunders, Elizabeth ; Walters, Ronald A. ; Huq, Anwar ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Colwell , Rita R. (2009) Comparative genomics reveals mechanism for short-term and long-term clonal transitions in pandemic Vibrio cholerae PNAS, 106 (36). pp. 15442-15447. ISSN 0027-8424

Mahalanabis, D. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Ghosh, A. ; Shaikh, S. ; Sen, B. ; Thungapathra, M. ; Ghosh, R. K. ; Pazhani, G. P. ; Nandy, R. K. ; Jana, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (2009) Randomized placebo controlled human volunteer trial of a live oral cholera vaccine VA1.3 for safety and immune Vaccine, 27 (35). pp. 4850-4856. ISSN 0264-410X

Bhattacharya, S. ; Black, R. ; Bourgeois, L. ; Clemens, J. ; Cravioto, A. ; Deen, J. L. ; Dougan, Gordon ; Glass, R. ; Grais, R. F. ; Greco, M. ; Gust, I. ; Holmgren, J. ; Kariuki, S. ; Lambert, P. H. ; Liu, M. A. ; Longini, I. ; Nair, G. B. ; Norrby, R. ; Nossal, G. J. V. ; Ogra, P. ; Sansonetti, P. ; von Seidlein, L. ; Songane, F. ; Svennerholm, A. M. ; Steele, D. ; Walker , R. (2009) The cholera crisis in Africa Science, 324 (5929). p. 885. ISSN 0036-8075

De, Ronita ; Kundu, Parag ; Swarnakar, Snehasikta ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Chowdhury, Abhijit ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. (2009) Antimicrobial activity of curcumin against helicobacter pylori isolates from India and during infections in mice? Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 53 (4). pp. 1592-1597. ISSN 0066-4804

Nusrin, Suraia ; Gil, Ana I. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Asakura, Masahiro ; Lanata, Claudio F. ; Hall, E. ; Miranda, H. ; Huapaya, B. ; Carmen Vargas, G. ; Luna, M. A. ; Sack, D. A. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2009) Peruvian Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains possess a distinct region in the Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II that differentiates them from the prototype seventh pandemic El Tor strains Journal of Medical Microbiology, 58 (3). pp. 342-354. ISSN 0022-261

Das, Mayukh ; Bhowmick, Tushar Suvra ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Nair, Gopinath B. ; Sarkar, Banwarilal L. (2009) Surveillance of vibriophages reveals their role as biomonitoring agents in Kolkata FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 67 (3). pp. 502-510. ISSN 0168-6496

Chatterjee, Souvik ; Patra, Tapas ; Ghosh, Kausik ; Raychoudhuri, Amit ; Pazhani, Gururaja P. ; Das, Mayukh ; Sarkar, Banwarilal ; Bhadra, Rupak K. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Nandy, Ranjan K. (2009) Vibrio cholerae O1 clinical strains isolated in 1992 in Kolkata with progenitor traits of the 2004 Mozambique variant Journal of Medical Microbiology, 58 (2). pp. 239-247. ISSN 0022-2615

Kumar, P. ; Jain, M. ; Goel, A. K. ; Bhadauria, S. ; Sharma, S. K. ; Kamboj, D. V. ; Singh, L. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. B. (2009) A large cholera outbreak due to a new cholera toxin variant of the Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype in Orissa, Eastern India Journal of Medical Microbiology, 58 (2). pp. 234-238. ISSN 0022-2615

Safa, Ashrafus ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Murphy, Denise ; Bates, John ; Nusrin, Suraia ; Kong, Richard Y. C. ; Chongsanguan, Manas ; Chaicumpa, Wanpen ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2009) Multilocus genetic analysis reveals that the Australian strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 are similar to the pre-seventh pandemic strains of the El Tor biotype Journal of Medical Microbiology, 58 (1). pp. 105-111. ISSN 0022-2615

Lee, Je Hee ; Choi, Seon Young ; Jeon, Yoon-Seong ; Lee, Hye Ri ; Kim, Eun Jin ; Nguyen, Binh Minh ; Hien, Nguyen Tran ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Sirajul Islam, M. ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Nair, G. B. ; et., al (2009) Classification of hybrid and altered Vibrio cholerae strains by CTX prophage and RS1 element structure Journal of Microbiology, 47 (6). pp. 783-788. ISSN 1225-8873

Mazumder, Koushik ; Choudhury, Biswa P. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sen , Asish K. (2009) Identification of a novel sugar 5,7-diacetamido-8-amino-3,5,7,8,9-pentadeoxy-d - glycero -d - galacto -non-2-ulosonic acid present in the lipooligosaccharide of Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 Glycoconjugate Journal, 25 (4). pp. 345-354. ISSN 0282-0080

Teh, Cindy Shuan Ju ; Thong, Kwai Lin ; Ngoi, Soo Tein ; Ahmad, Norazah ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan (2009) Molecular characterization of serogrouping and virulence genes of Malaysian Vibrio cholerae isolated from different sources Journal of General and Applied Microbiology, 55 (6). pp. 419-425. ISSN 0022-1260

Shirajum, Monira ; Nur Haque, Alam ; Antonia, Suau ; Fabien, Magne ; Gopinath Balakrish, Nair ; Polash Chandra, Karmakar ; Motiur, Rahman ; Philippe, Pochart ; Jehan-Francois, Desjeux (2009) Time course of bacterial diversity in stool samples of malnourished children with cholera receiving treatment Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 48 (5). pp. 571-578. ISSN 0277-2116

Raychoudhuri, Amit ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nandy, R. K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2008) Biotyping of Vibrio cholerae O1: time to redefine the scheme Indian Journal of Medical Research, 128 . pp. 695-698. ISSN 0971-5916

Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Chowdhury, Ashrafuzzaman ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Sultana, Marzia ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Lucas, Marcelino ; Seidlein, Lorenz von ; Barreto, Avertino ; Chaignat, Claire-Lise ; Sack, David A. ; Clemens, John D. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Choi, Seon Young ; Jeon, Yoon Seong ; Lee, Je Hee ; Lee, Hye Ri ; Chun, Jongsik ; Kim, Dong Wook (2008) Characteristics of a pandemic clone of O3 : K6 and O4 : K68 Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated in Beira, Mozambique Journal of Medical Microbiology, 57 (12). pp. 1502-1507. ISSN 0022-2615

de Magny, Guillaume Constantin ; Murtugudde, Raghu ; Sapiano, Mathew R. P. ; Nizam, Azhar ; Brown, Christopher W. ; Busalacchi, Antonio J. ; Yunus, Mohammad ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Gil, Ana I. ; Lanata, Claudio F. ; Calkins, John ; Manna, Byomkesh ; Rajendran, Krishnan ; Bhattacharya, Mihir Kumar ; Huq, Anwar ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Colwell, Rita R. (2008) Environmental signatures associated with cholera epidemics PNAS, 105 (46). pp. 17676-17681. ISSN 0027-8424

Ghosh, Raikamal ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Tang, Li ; Glenn Morris, J. ; Sharma, Naresh C. ; Ballal, Mamatha ; Garg, Pallavi ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Colin Stine, O. (2008) Epidemiological study of Vibrio cholerae using variable number of tandem repeats FEMS Microbiology Letters, 288 (2). pp. 196-201. ISSN 0378-1097

Khan, Rasel ; Nahar, Shamsun ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Berg, Douglas E. ; Ahmad, Mian Mashhud ; Okamoto, Keinosuke ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Rahman, Motiur (2008) Isolation of tetracycline-resistant clinical Helicobacter pylori without mutations in 16S rRNA gene in Bangladesh Microbiology and Immunology, 52 (10). pp. 508-511. ISSN 0385-5600

Nashir Udden, S. M. ; Shamim Hasan Zahid, M. ; Biswas, Kuntal ; Ahmad, Qazi Shafi ; Cravioto, Alejandro ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Faruque, Shah M. (2008) Acquisition of classical CTX prophage from Vibrio cholerae O141 by El Tor strains aided by lytic phages and chitin-induced competence PNAS, 105 (33). pp. 11951-11956. ISSN 0027-8424

Morita, Masatomo ; Ohnishi, Makoto ; Arakawa, Eiji ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Nusrin, Suraia ; Alam, Munirul ; Siddique, A. K. ; Qadri, Firdausi ; Izumiya, Hidemasa ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Watanabe, Haruo (2008) Development and validation of a mismatch amplification mutation PCR assay to monitor the dissemination of an emerging variant of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor Microbiology and Immunology, 52 (6). pp. 314-317. ISSN 0385-5600

Kam, Kai Man ; Luey, Cindy K. Y. ; Parsons, Michele B. ; Cooper, Kara L. F. ; Nair, G. B. ; Alam, M. ; Atiqul Islam, M. ; Cheung, Danny T. L. ; Chu, Y. W. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Pazhani, G. P. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Watanabe, H. ; Terajima, J. ; Arakawa, E. ; Ratchtrachenchai, O. A. ; Huttayananont, S. ; Ribot, Efrain M. ; Gerner-Smidt, Peter ; Swaminathan, Bala (2008) Evaluation and validation of a pulsenet standardized pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for subtyping vibrio parahaemolyticus: an International multicenter collaborative study? Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 46 (8). pp. 2766-2773. ISSN 0095-1137

Shima, Kensuke ; Kawamura, Naohisa ; Hinenoya, Atsushi ; Sugimoto, Norihiko ; Wu, Yuluo ; Asakura, Masahiro ; Nishimura, Kazuhiko ; Nair, Gopinath B. ; Yamasaki, Shinji (2008) Rapid culture-free identification and molecular typing of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli by PCR-RFLP Microbiology and Immunology, 52 (6). pp. 310-313. ISSN 0385-5600

Colin Stine, O. ; Alam, Munirul ; Tang, Li ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Kasem Siddique, A. ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Huq, Anwar ; Colwell, Rita ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Glenn Morris, J. (2008) Seasonal cholera from multiple small outbreaks, Rural Bangladesh Emerging Infectious Diseases, 14 (5). ISSN 1080-6059

Shinoda, Sumio ; Nakagawa, Tomoko ; Hirakawa, Nobuyuki ; Miyoshi, Shin-ichi ; Arakawa, Eiji ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Dutta, B. ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish (2008) Molecular epidemiological studies of vibrio cholerae in Bengal Region Biocontrol Science, 13 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 1342-4815

Tapchaisri, P. ; Na-Ubol, M. ; Tiyasuttipan, W. ; Chaiyaroj, S. C. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Wongsaroj, T. ; Hayashi, H. ; Nair, G. B. ; Chongsa-Nguan, M. ; Kurazono, H. ; Chaicumpa , W. (2008) Molecular typing of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates from Thailand by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 26 (1). pp. 79-87. ISSN 1606-0997

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Aslam, Mohammad ; Islam, Zhahirul ; Azmi, Ishrat J. ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Hossain, Sabir ; Nur-E-Kama, Alam ; Nair, Gopinath B. ; Cravioto, Alejandro ; Sack, David A. ; Endtz , Hubert P. (2008) Prevalence of virulence genes and cytolethal distending toxin production in campylobacter jejuni isolates from diarrheal patients in Bangladesh? Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 46 (4). pp. 1485-1488. ISSN 0095-1137

Takahashi, Eizo ; Sultan, Zafar ; Shimada, Sumika ; Aung, Wah Wah ; Nyein, Mar Mar ; Oo, Khin Nwe ; Balakrish Nair, Gopinath ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Okamoto, Keinosuke (2008) Studies on diarrheagenic Escherichia coli isolated from children with diarrhea in Myanmar Microbiology and Immunology, 52 (1). pp. 2-8. ISSN 0385-5600

Tapchaisri, Pramuan ; Na-Ubol, Mathukorn ; Jaipaew, Jirayut ; Srimanote, Potjanee ; Chongsa-nguan, Manas ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Hayashi, Hideo ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Kurazono, Hisao ; Chaicumpa, Wanpen (2007) Virulence genes of clinical Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates in Thailand and their ribotypes Journal of Infection, 55 (6). pp. 557-565. ISSN 0163-4453

Alam, Munirul ; Sultana, Marzia ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Hasan, Nur A. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Sack, David A. ; Ahmed, K. U. ; Sadique, A. ; Watanabe, H. ; Grim, Christopher J. ; Huq, A. ; Colwell, Rita R. (2007) Viable but nonculturable vibrio cholerae O1 in biofilms in the aquatic environment and their role in cholera transmission PNAS, 104 (45). pp. 17801-17806. ISSN 0027-8424

Begum, Y. A. ; Talukder, K. A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Khan, S. I. ; Svennerholm, A. M. ; Sack, R. B. ; Qadri, F. (2007) Comparison of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from surface water and diarrhoeal stool samples in Bangladesh Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 53 (1). pp. 19-26. ISSN 0008-4166

Ansaruzzaman, Mohammad ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Sultana, Marzia ; Mcuamule, Arminda ; Mondlane, Catarina ; Wang, Xuan-Yi ; Deen, Jacqueline L. ; Seidlein, Lorenz von ; Clemens, John D. ; Lucas, Marcelino ; Sack, David A. ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish (2007) Genetic diversity of El Tor strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 with hybrid traits isolated from Bangladesh and Mozambique International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 297 (6). pp. 443-449. ISSN 1438-4221

Asakura, Masahiro ; Hinenoya, Atsushi ; Alam, Mohammad S. ; Shima, Kensuke ; Hasan Zahid, Shamim ; Shi, Lei ; Sugimoto, Norihiko ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Yamasaki, Shinji (2007) An inducible lambdoid prophage encoding cytolethal distending toxin (Cdt-I) and a type III effector protein in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli PNAS, 104 (36). pp. 14483-14488. ISSN 0027-8424

Mahmud, Zahid Hayat ; Neogi, Sucharit Basu ; Kassu, Afework ; Wadac, Takaomi ; Sirajul Islam, M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ota, Fusao (2007) Seaweeds as a reservoir for diverse Vibrio parahaemolyticus populations in Japan International Journal of Food Microbiology, 118 (1). pp. 92-96. ISSN 0168-1605

Sirajul Islam, M. ; Brooks, A. ; Kabir, M. S. ; Jahid, I. K. ; Shafiqul Islam, M. ; Goswami, D. ; Nair, G. B. ; Larson, C. ; Yukiko, W. ; Luby, S. (2007) Faecal contamination of drinking water sources of Dhaka city during the 2004 flood in Bangladesh and use of disinfectants for water treatment Journal of Applied Microbiology, 103 (1). pp. 80-87. ISSN 1364-5072

Ravi Kumar, A. ; Sathish, V. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Nagaraju, J. (2007) Genetic characterization of Vibrio cholerae strains by inter simple sequence repeat-PCR FEMS Microbiology Letters, 272 (2). pp. 251-258. ISSN 0378-1097

Gil, Ana I. ; Miranda, Hernan ; Lanata, Claudio F. ; Prada, Ana ; Hall, Eric R. ; Barreno, Carmen M. ; Nusrin, Suraia ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Sack, David A. ; Nair , Gopinath Balakrish (2007) O3:K6 Serotype of Vibrio parahaemolyticus identical to the global pandemic clone associated with diarrhea in Peru International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 11 (4). pp. 324-328. ISSN 1201-9712

Rahmana, Mahbubur ; Siddique, Abul Kasem ; Tam, Frankie Chi-Hang ; Sharmin, Sabrina ; Rashid, Harunur ; Iqbal, Anwarul ; Ahmed, Sirajuddin ; Nair, Gopinath Balkrish ; Chaignat, Claire-Lise ; Lim, Pak-Leong (2007) Rapid detection of early typhoid fever in endemic community children by the TUBEX® O9-antibody test Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 58 (3). pp. 275-281. ISSN 0732-8893

Mahbubur, Rahman ; Shoma, Shereen ; Rashid, Harunur ; Arifeen, Shams El ; Baqui, A. H. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, D. A. (2007) Increasing spectrum in antimicrobial resistance of shigella isolates in Bangladesh: resistance to azithromycin and ceftriaxone and decreased susceptibility to ciprofloxacin Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 25 (2). pp. 158-167. ISSN 1606-0997

Serichantalergs, Oralak ; Bhuiyan, Nurul Amin ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ; Chivaratanond, Orapan ; Srijan, Apichai ; Bodhidatta, Ladaporn ; Anuras, Sinn ; Mason , Carl J. (2007) The dominance of pandemic serovars of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in expatriates and sporadic cases of diarrhoea in Thailand, and a new emergent serovar (O3 : K46) with pandemic traits Journal of Medical Microbiology, 56 (5). pp. 608-613. ISSN 0022-2615

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Mondol, Abdus S. ; Aminul Islam, M. ; Islam, Zhahirul ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Khajanchi, Bijay K. ; Azmi, Ishrat J. ; Hossain, M. A. ; Rahman, M. ; Cheasty, Thomas ; Cravioto, Alejandro ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack , David A. (2007) A novel serovar of Shigella dysenteriae from patients with diarrhoea in Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology, 56 (5). pp. 654-658. ISSN 0022-2615

Abd, Hadi ; Saeed, Amir ; Weintraub, Andrej ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sandstrom, Gunnar (2007) Vibrio cholerae O1 strains are facultative intracellular bacteria, able to survive and multiply symbiotically inside the aquatic free-living amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 60 (1). pp. 33-39. ISSN 0168-6496

Faruque, Shah M. ; Tam, Vincent C. ; Chowdhury, Nityananda ; Diraphat, Pornphan ; Dziejman, Michelle ; Heidelberg, John F. ; Clemens, John D. ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2007) Genomic analysis of the Mozambique strain of Vibrio cholerae O1 reveals the origin of El Tor strains carrying classical CTX prophage PNAS, 104 (12). pp. 5151-5156. ISSN 0027-8424

Wong, Hin-chung ; Liu, Shu-Hui ; Chiou, Chien-Shun ; Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki ; Lee, Bok-Kwon ; Suthienkul, Orasa ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ; Kaysner, Charles A. ; Taniguchi , Hatsumi (2007) A pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing scheme for Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from fifteen countries International Journal of Food Microbiology, 114 (3). pp. 280-287. ISSN 0168-1605

Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Begum, Y. A. ; Kuhn, I. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, D. A. ; Svennerholm, A. M. ; Qadri, F. (2007) Characterization of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli from diarrhoeal patients in Bangladesh using phenotyping and genetic profiling Journal of Medical Microbiology, 56 (2). pp. 217-222. ISSN 0022-261

Hinenoya, A. ; Nagita, A. ; Asakura, M. ; Tsukamoto, T. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Takeda, Y. ; Yamasaki, S. (2007) Cytolethal distending toxin (Cdt)-producing escherichia coli isolated from a child with bloody diarrhea in Japan Microbiology and Immunology, 51 (1). pp. 435-438. ISSN 0385-5600

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Bhattacharya, Sujit K. ; Dutta, Basabjit ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Sack, David A. (2007) Global dissemination of vibrio parahaemolyticus Serotype O3:K6 and its serovariants Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 20 (1). pp. 39-48. ISSN 0893-8512

Maiti, Diganta ; Das, Bhabatosh ; Saha, Arjun ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bhadra , Rupak K. (2006) Genetic organization of pre-CTX and CTX prophages in the genome of an environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strain Microbiology, 152 (12). pp. 3633-3641. ISSN 1350-0872

Mwansa, J. C. ; Mwaba, J. ; Lukwesa, C. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Alam, M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2006) Multiply antibiotic-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor strains emerge during cholera outbreaks in Zambia Epidemiology and Infection, 135 . pp. 847-853. ISSN 0950-2688

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Qadri, Firdausi ; Holmgren, Jan ; Svennerholm, Ann-Mari ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Shafi Ahmad, Q. ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Sack , David A. (2006) Cholera due to altered El Tor strains of vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh? Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 44 (11). pp. 4211-4213. ISSN 0095-1137

Safa, Ashrafus ; Bhuyian, N. A. ; Nusrin, Suraia ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Alam, Munirul ; Hamabata, T. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Sack, David A. ; Balakrish Nair , G. (2006) Genetic characteristics of matlab variants of vibrio cholerae O1 that are hybrids between classical and El Tor biotypes Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55 (11). pp. 1563-1569. ISSN 0022-2615

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Nusrin, Suraia ; Murphy, Denise ; Nicol, Carolyn ; Valcanis, Mary ; Iddings, Steven ; Kubuabola, Ili ; Vally, Hassan (2006) Isolation of vibrio cholerae O1 strains similar to pre-seventh pandemic El Tor strains during an outbreak of gastrointestinal disease in an island resort in Fiji Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55 (11). pp. 1559-1562. ISSN 0022-2615

Ahmed, Dilruba ; D'Costa, Liton T. ; Alam, Khorshed ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Anowar Hossain , M. (2006) Multidrug-resistant salmonella enterica serovar typhi isolates with high-level resistance to ciprofloxacin in Dhaka, Bangladesh Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 50 (10). pp. 3516-3517. ISSN 0066-4804

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Islam, Zhahirul ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Aminul Islam, M. ; Khajanchi, Bijay K. ; Azmi, Ishrat J. ; Iqbal, Mohd S. ; Hossain, M. A. ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sack , David A. (2006) Antibiotic resistance and genetic diversity of Shigella sonnei isolated from patients with diarrhoea between 1999 and 2003 in Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55 (9). pp. 1257-1263. ISSN 0022-2615

Seidlein, Lorenz von ; Kim, Deok Ryun ; Ali, Mohammad ; Lee, Hyejon ; Wang, XuanYi ; Thiem, Vu Dinh ; Canh, Do Gia ; Chaicumpa, Wanpen ; Agtini, Magdarina D. ; Hossain, Anowar ; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A. ; Mason, Carl ; Sethabutr, Ornthipa ; Talukder, Kaisar ; Nair, G. B. ; Deen, Jacqueline L. ; Kotloff, Karen ; Clemens, John (2006) A multicentre study of shigella diarrhoea in six Asian countries: disease burden, clinical manifestations, and microbiology PLoS Medicine, 3 (9). e353-e353. ISSN 1549-1277

Alam, Munirul ; Hasan, Nur A. ; Sadique, Abdus ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Ahmed, Kabir U. ; Nusrin, Suraia ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Sack, David A. ; Huq, Anwar ; Colwell, Rita R. (2006) Seasonal cholera caused by vibrio cholerae serogroups O1 and O139 in the coastal aquatic environment of Bangladesh Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72 (6). pp. 4096-4104. ISSN 0099-2240

Chakraborty, Rupa ; Sinha, Sutapa ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Asakura, Masahiro ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ramamurthy , T. (2006) Species-specific identification of Vibrio fluvialis by PCR targeted to the conserved transcriptional activation and variable membrane tether regions of the toxR gene Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55 (6). pp. 805-808. ISSN 0022-2615

Talukder, K. A. ; Khajanchi, B. K. ; Islam, M. A. ; Dutta, D. K. ; Islam, Z. ; Khan, S. I. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, D. A. (2006) The emerging strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 2 in Bangladesh are clonal Epidemiology and Infection, 134 (6). pp. 1249-1256. ISSN 0950-2688

Shi, Lei ; Fujihara, Kazutaka ; Sato, Toshio ; Ito, Hideaki ; Garg, Pallavi ; Chakrabarty, Rupa ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Yamasaki, Shinji (2006) Distribution and characterization of integrons in various serogroups of Vibrio cholerae strains isolated from diarrhoeal patients between 1992 and 2000 in Kolkata, India Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55 (5). pp. 575-583. ISSN 0022-2615

Faruque, Shah M. ; Biswas, Kuntal ; Nashir Udden, S. M. ; Ahmad, Qazi Shafi ; Sack, David A. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mekalanos, John J. (2006) Transmissibility of cholera: in vivo-formed biofilms and their relationship to infectivity and persistence in the environment PNAS, 103 (16). pp. 6350-6355. ISSN 0027-8424

Alam, Munirul ; Sultana, Marzia ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Sack, David A. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Ali, Afsar ; Huq, Anwar ; Colwell, Rita R. (2006) Toxigenic vibrio cholerae in the aquatic environment of mathbaria, Bangladesh Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72 (4). pp. 2849-2855. ISSN 0099-2240

Alam, Munirul ; Sadique, Abdus ; Nur-A-Hasan, ; Bhuiyan, Nurul A. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Sack, David A. ; Ahsan, Sunjukta ; Huq, Anwar ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Colwell, Rita R. (2006) Effect of transport at ambient temperature on detection and isolation of vibrio cholerae from environmental samples Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72 (3). pp. 2185-2190. ISSN 0099-2240

Bhattacharya, Tanuja ; Chatterjee, Souvik ; Maiti, Diganta ; Bhadra, Rupak K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Nandy, Ranjan K. (2006) Molecular analysis of the rstR and orfU genes of the CTX prophages integrated in the small chromosomes of environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains Environmental Microbiology, 8 (3). pp. 526-634. ISSN 1462-2912

Rahman, M. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Kuhn, I. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Rahman, M. ; Mollby, R. ; Nair, G. B. (2006) Biochemical fingerprinting of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by the PhenePlate system: comparison between pandemic and non-pandemic serotypes Epidemiology and Infection, 134 (5). pp. 985-989. ISSN 0950-2688

Lee, Je Hee ; Han, Kyung Ho ; Choi, Seon Young ; Lucas, Marcelino E. S. ; Mondlane, C. ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sack, David A. ; Seidlein, Lorenz von ; Clemens, John D. ; Song, Manki ; Chun, Jongsik (2006) Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor isolates from Mozambique that harbour the classical CTX prophage Journal of Medical Microbiology, 55 (2). pp. 165-170. ISSN 0022-2615

Mahmud, Zahid Hayat ; Kassu, Afework ; Mohammad, Alizadeh ; Yamato, Masayuki ; Bhuiyanb, N. A. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ota, Fusao (2006) Isolation and molecular characterization of toxigenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus from the Kii Channel, Japan Microbiological Research, 161 (1). pp. 25-37. ISSN 0944-5013

Kalluri, Pavani ; Naheed, Aliya ; Rahman, Saifur ; Ansaruzzaman, Mohammad ; Golam Faruque, Abu Syed ; Bird, Michele ; Khatun, Fatema ; Bhuiyan, Nurul Amin ; Nato, Farida ; Fournier, Jean-Michel ; Bopp, Cheryl ; Breiman, Robert F. ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ; Mintz, Eric D. (2006) Evaluation of three rapid diagnostic tests for cholera: does the skill level of the technician matter? Tropical Medicine and International Health, 11 (1). pp. 49-55. ISSN 1360-2276

Cooper, K. L. F. ; Luey, C. K. Y. ; Bird, M. ; Terajima, J. ; Nair, G. B. ; Kam, K. M. ; Arakawa, E. ; Safa, A. ; Cheung, D. T. ; Law, C. P. ; Watanabe, H. ; Kubota, K. ; Swaminathan, B. ; Ribot, E. M. (2006) Development and validation of a pulseNet standardized pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocol for subtyping of vibrio cholerae Foodbourne Pathogens & Disease, 3 (1). pp. 51-58. ISSN 1535-3141

Wang, X. Y. ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Vaz, R. ; Mondlane, C. ; Lucas, M. E. ; von Seidlein, L. ; Deen, J. L. ; Ampuero, S. ; Puri, M. ; Park, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Clemens, J. D. ; Chaignat, C. L. ; Rajerison, M. ; Nato, F. ; Fournier, J. M. (2006) Field evaluation of a rapid immunochromatographic dipstick test for the diagnosis of cholera in a high-risk population BMC Infectious Diseases, 6 (1). p. 17. ISSN 1471-233

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Khajanchi, Bijay K. ; Islam, Mohammad A. ; Islam, Zhahirul ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Rahman, Mustafizur ; Watanabe, Haruo ; Nair, Gopinath B. ; Sack, David A. (2006) Fluoroquinolone resistance linked to both gyrA and parC mutations in the quinolone resistance-determining region of shigella dysenteriae type 1 Current Microbiology, 52 (2). pp. 108-111. ISSN 0343-8651

Alam, M. ; Nur-A-Hasan, ; Ahsan, S. ; Pazhani, G. P. ; Tamura, K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Gomes, D. J. ; Rahman, S. R. ; Islam, A. ; Akhtar, F. ; Shinoda, S. ; Watanabe, H. ; Faruque, S. M. ; Nair, G. B. (2006) Phenotypic and molecular characteristics of Escherichia coli isolated from aquatic environment of Bangladesh Microbiology and Immunology, 50 (5). pp. 359-370. ISSN 0385-5600

Faruque, Shah M. ; Johirul Islam, M. ; Ahmad, Qazi Shafi ; Biswas, Kuntal ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Sack, David A. ; Mekalanos , John J. (2006) An improved technique for isolation of environmental vibrio cholerae with epidemic potential: monitoring the emergence of a multiple-antibiotic-resistant epidemic strain in Bangladesh The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 193 (7). pp. 1029-1036. ISSN 0022-1899

Khan, A. I. ; Talukder, K. A. ; Huq, S. ; Mondal, D. ; Malek, M. A. ; Dutta, D. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Faruque, A. S. (2005) Detection of intra-familial transmission of shigella infection using conventional serotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis Epidemiology and Infection, 134 (03). pp. 605-611. ISSN 0950-2688

Qadri, Firdausi ; Svennerholm, Ann-Mari ; Shamsuzzaman, Sohel ; Bhuiyan, Taufiqur Rahman ; Harris, Jason B. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Weintraub, Andrej ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Ryan, Edward T. ; Sack, David A. ; Calderwood , Stephen B. (2005) Reduction in capsular content and enhanced bacterial susceptibility to serum killing of vibrio cholerae O139 associated with the 2002 cholera epidemic in Bangladesh Infection and Immunity, 73 (10). pp. 6577-6583. ISSN 0019-9567

John, Albert M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2005) Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal - 10 years on Reviews in Medical Microbiology, 16 (4). pp. 135-143. ISSN 0954-139X

Huq, Anwar ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Nizam, Azhar ; Longini, Ira M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ali, Afsar ; Glenn Morris Jr., J. ; Huda Khan, M. N. ; Kasem Siddique, A. ; Yunus, Mohammed ; John Albert, M. ; Sack, David A. ; Colwell , Rita R. (2005) Critical factors influencing the occurrence of vibrio cholerae in the environment of Bangladesh Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71 (8). pp. 4645-4654. ISSN 0099-2240

Chakraborty, Rupa ; Chakraborty, Subhra ; De, Keya ; Sinha, Sutapa ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Khanam, Jasmina ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Bhattacharya, Sujit K. ; Balakrish Nair , G. (2005) Cytotoxic and cell vacuolating activity of Vibrio fluvialis isolated from paediatric patients with diarrhoea Journal of Medical Microbiology, 54 (8). pp. 707-716. ISSN 0022-2615

Datta, S. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chowdhury, A. ; Santra, A. ; Saha, D. R. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Berg, D. E. ; Nair, G. B. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. (2005) Diagnosis and genotyping of Helicobacter pylori by polymerase chain reaction of bacterial DNA from gastric juice Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 20 (8). pp. 1253-1259. ISSN 0815-9319

LaRocque, Regina C. ; Harris, Jason B. ; Dziejman, Michelle ; Li, Xiaoman ; Khan, Ashraful I. ; Faruque, Abu S. G. ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Nair, G. B. ; Ryan, Edward T. ; Qadri, Firdausi ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Calderwood, Stephen B. (2005) Transcriptional profiling of vibrio cholerae recovered directly from patient specimens during early and late stages of human infection Infection and Immunity, 73 (8). pp. 4488-44936. ISSN 0019-9567

Rahman, M. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Shoma, S. ; Rashid, H. ; Salam, M. A. ; Ahmed, Q. S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Breiman, R. F. (2005) Emergence of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi with decreased ciprofloxacin susceptibility in Bangladesh Epidemiology and Infection, 134 (2). pp. 433-438. ISSN 0950-2688

Qadri, F. ; Khan, A. I. ; Faruque, A. S. ; Begum, Y. A. ; Chowdhury, F. ; Nair, G. B. ; Salam, M. A. ; Sack, D. A. ; Svennerholm, A. M. (2005) Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae diarrhea, Bangladesh, 2004 Emerging Infectious Diseases, 11 (7). pp. 1104-1107. ISSN 1080-6059

Begum, Yasmin A. ; Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Qadri, Firdausi ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Svennerholm, Ann-Mari (2005) Enterotoxigenic escherichia coli isolated from surface water in Urban and Rural areas of Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 43 (7). pp. 3582-3583. ISSN 0095-1137

Datta, S. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Patra, R. ; De, R. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Hembram, J. ; Chowdhury, A. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Berg, D. E. ; Nair, G. B. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. (2005) Most Helicobacter pylori strains of Kolkata in India are resistant to metronidazole but susceptible to other drugs commonly used for eradication and ulcer therapy Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 22 (1). pp. 51-57. ISSN 0269-2813

Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Lucas, Marcelino ; Deen, Jacqueline L. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Wang, Xuan-Yi ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Sultana, Marzia ; Chowdhury, A. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sack, David A. ; Seidlein, Lorenz von ; Puri, Mahesh K. ; Ali, Mohammad ; Chaignat, Claire-Lise ; Clemens, John D. ; Barreto , Avertino (2005) Pandemic Serovars (O3:K6 and O4:K68) of vibrio parahaemolyticus associated with diarrhea in mozambique: spread of the pandemic into the African Continent Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 43 (6). pp. 2559-2562. ISSN 0095-1137

Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Sultana, Marzia ; Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Alam, K. ; Matsushita, S. ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Khajanchi, Bijay K. ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Islam, Zhahirul ; John Albert, M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sack , David A. (2005) Isolation and characterization of provisional serovar Shigella boydii E16553 from diarrhoeal patients in Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology, 54 (5). pp. 477-480. ISSN 0022-2615

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Khajanchi, Bijay K. ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Islam, Zhahirul ; Aminul Islam, M. ; Shamim Iqbal, M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sack, David A. (2005) An unusual cluster of dysentery due to Shigella dysenteriae type 4 in Dhaka, Bangladesh Journal of Medical Microbiology, 54 (5). pp. 511-513. ISSN 0022-2615

Faruque, Shah M. ; Johirul Islam, M. ; Ahmad, Qazi Shafi ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Sack, David A. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mekalanos , John J. (2005) Self-limiting nature of seasonal cholera epidemics: Role of host-mediated amplification of phage PNAS, 102 (17). pp. 6119-6124. ISSN 0027-8424

Das, S. C. ; Khan, A. ; Panja, P. ; Datta, S. ; Sikdar, A. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. B. (2005) Dairy farm investigation on Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in Kolkata, India with emphasis on molecular characterization Epidemiology and Infection, 133 (4). pp. 617-626. ISSN 0950-2688

Safa, Ashrafus ; Bhuiyan, Nurul Amin ; Alam, Munirul ; Sack, David A. ; Balakrish Nair , G. (2005) Genomic Relatedness of the new matlab variants of vibrio cholerae O1 to the classical and El Tor biotypes as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 43 (3). pp. 1401-1404. ISSN 0095-1137

Faruque, Shah M. ; Naser, Iftekhar Bin ; Johirul Islam, M. ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sack, David A. ; Mekalanos, John J. (2005) Seasonal epidemics of cholera inversely correlate with the prevalence of environmental cholera phages PNAS, 102 (5). pp. 1702-1707. ISSN 0027-8424

Abdullah Brooks, W. ; Hossain, Anowar ; Goswami, Doli ; Sharmeen, Amina Tahia ; Nahar, Kamrun ; Alam, Khorshed ; Ahmed, Noor ; Naheed, Aliya ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Luby, Stephen P. ; Breiman , Robert F. (2005) Bacteremic typhoid fever in children in an Urban slum, Bangladesh Emerging Infectious Diseases, 11 (2). pp. 326-329. ISSN 1080-6059

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Holmes , Barry (2005) International committee on systematics of prokaryotes; subcommittee on the taxonomy of vibrionaceae; minutes of the meetings, 31 July 2002, Paris, France International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 55 (1). pp. 539-542. ISSN 1466-5026

Islam, M. S. ; Rahman, M. Z. ; Khan, S. I. ; Mahmud, Z. H. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, R. B. ; Sack, D. A. (2005) Organization of the CTX prophage in environmental isolates of Vibrio mimicus Microbiology and Immunology, 49 (8). pp. 779-784. ISSN 0385-5600

Akter, Jasmin ; Das, Suresh Chandra ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Ashraf, Hasan ; Saha, Debasish ; Faruque, Abu Syed Golam ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ; Salam, Mohammed Abdus (2005) Prevalence and characteristics of escherichia coli isolates harbouring shiga toxin genes (STX) from acute diarrhoeal patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh Tropical Medicine and Health, 33 (3). p. 119. ISSN 1348-8945

Nusrin, Suraia ; Yeahia Khan, G. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Hossain, M. A. ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Khan, Rasel ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Sack, David A. ; Hamabata, T. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2004) Diverse CTX phages among toxigenic vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 strains isolated between 1994 and 2002 in an area where cholera is endemic in Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42 (12). pp. 5845-5856. ISSN 0095-1137

Sinha, Sutapa ; Chattopadhayay, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Ramamurthy, T. (2004) An unusually high level of quinolone resistance associated with type II topoisomerase mutations in quinolone resistance-determining regions of Aeromonas caviae isolated from diarrhoeal patients Research in Microbiology, 155 (10). pp. 827-829. ISSN 0923-2508

Rijpkema, Sjoerd G. ; Durrani, Zarmina ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Balakrish Nair , G. (2004) Assessing clonality of Vibrio cholerae Inaba isolates by characterization of nonsense mutations in wbeT Journal of Medical Microbiology, 53 (11). pp. 1105-1107. ISSN 0022-2615

Sarker, S. A. ; Nahar, S. ; Rahman, M. ; Bardhan, P. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Beglinger, C. ; Gyr, N. (2004) High prevalence of cagA and vacA seropositivity in asymptomatic Bangladeshi children with Helicobacter pylori infection Acta Paediatrica, 93 (11). pp. 1432-1436. ISSN 0803-5253

Nahar, Shamsun ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Khan, Rasel ; Ahmad, Mian Mashhud ; Datta, Simanti ; Chattopadhyay, Santanu ; Dhar, Swapan Chandra ; Sarker, Shafiqul Alam ; Engstrand, Lars ; Berg, Douglas E. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Rahman, Motiur (2004) Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Helicobacter pylori Strains Isolated in Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42 (10). pp. 4856-4858. ISSN 0095-1137

Rahman, Mahbubur ; Shoma, Shereen ; Rashid, Harunur ; Siddique, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack , D. A. (2004) Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-mediated third-generation cephalosporin resistance in Shigella isolates in Bangladesh Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 54 (4). pp. 846-847. ISSN 0305-7453

Naheed, A. ; Kalluri, P. ; Talukder, K. A. ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Khatun, F. ; Nair, G. B. ; Mintz, E. D. ; Breiman, R. F. (2004) Fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 in Northeastern Bangladesh The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 4 (10). pp. 607-608. ISSN 1473-3099

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Khajanchi, Bijay K. ; Aminul Islam, M. ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Islam, Zhahirul ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Khan, G. Y. ; Alam, Khorshed ; Hossain, M. A. ; Malla, Sarala ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Rahman, Mustafizur ; Watanabe, Haruo ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sack , David A. (2004) Genetic relatedness of ciprofloxacin-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 strains isolated in South Asia Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 54 (4). pp. 730-734. ISSN 0305-7453

Chattopadhyay, Santanu ; Patra, Rajashree ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Chowdhury, Abhijit ; Santra, Amal ; Dhali, G. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Berg, Douglas E. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. (2004) Multiplex PCR assay for rapid detection and genotyping of helicobacter pylori directly from biopsy specimens Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42 (6). pp. 2821-2824. ISSN 0095-1137

Sinha, S. ; Shimada, T. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2004) Prevalence, serotype distribution, antibiotic susceptibility and genetic profiles of mesophilic Aeromonas species isolated from hospitalized diarrhoeal cases in Kolkata, India Journal of Medical Microbiology, 53 (6). pp. 527-534. ISSN 0022-2615

Chowdhury, Nandini Roy ; Colin Stine, O. ; Glenn Morris, J. ; Nair, G. B. (2004) Assessment of evolution of pandemic vibrio parahaemolyticus by multilocus sequence typing Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42 (3). pp. 1280-1282. ISSN 0095-1137

De, Keya ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Nandy, Ranjan K. (2004) Molecular characterisation of rough strains of Vibrio cholerae isolated from diarrhoeal cases in India and their comparison to smooth strains FEMS Microbiology Letters, 232 (1). pp. 23-30. ISSN 0378-1097

Faruque, Shah M. ; Chowdhury, Nityananda ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Dziejman, Michelle ; Hasibur Rahman, M. ; Sack, David A. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mekalanos, John J. (2004) Genetic diversity and virulence potential of environmental Vibrio cholerae population in a cholera-endemic area PNAS, 101 (7). pp. 2123-2128. ISSN 0027-8424

Panutdaporn, N. ; Chongsa-nguan, M. ; Nair, G. B. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Chaisri, U. ; Tongtawe, P. ; Eampokalarp, B. ; Tapchaisri, P. ; Sakolvaree, Y. ; Kurazono, H. ; Thein, W. B. ; Hayashi, H. ; Takeda, Y. ; Chaicump, W. (2004) Genotypes and phenotypes of Shiga toxin producing-Escherichia coli isolated from healthy cattle in Thailand Journal of Infection, 48 (2). pp. 149-160. ISSN 0163-4453

Sack, David A. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Siddique, A. K. (2004) Cholera The Lancet, 363 (9404). pp. 223-233. ISSN 0140-6736

Faruque, S. M. ; Nair, G. B. ; Mekalanos, J. J. (2004) Genetics of stress adaptation and virulence in toxigenic vibrio cholerae DNA and Cell Biology, 23 (11). pp. 723-741. ISSN 1044-5498

Sirajul Islam, M. ; Tasmin, Rizwana ; Khan, Sirajul Islam ; Mahmud Bakht, Habibul Bari ; Mahmood, Zahid Hayat ; Ziaur Rahman, M. ; Bhuiyan, Nurul Amin ; Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Huq, Anwar ; Colwell, Rita R. ; Sack, David A. (2004) Pandemic strains of O3:K6 Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the aquatic environment of Bangladesh Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 50 (10). pp. 827-834. ISSN 0008-4166

Dutta, S. ; Iida, K. ; Takade, A. ; Meno, Y. ; Nair, G. B. ; Yoshida, S. (2004) Release of Shiga toxin by membrane vesicles in Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 strains and in vitro effects of antimicrobials on toxin production and release Microbiology and Immunology, 48 (12). pp. 965-969. ISSN 0385-5600

Islam, M. S. ; Talukder, K. A. ; Khan, N. H. ; Mahmud, Z. H. ; Rahman, M. Z. ; Nair, G. B. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Yunus, M. ; Sack, D. A. ; Sack, R. B. ; Huq, A. ; Colwell, R. R. (2004) Variation of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 in the aquatic environment of Bangladesh and its correlation with the clinical strains Microbiology and Immunology, 48 (10). pp. 773-777. ISSN 0385-560

Islam, M. S. ; Kabir, M. S. ; Khan, S. I. ; Ekramullah, M. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, R. B. ; Sack, D. A. (2004) Wastewater-grown duckweed may be safely used as fish feed Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 50 (1). pp. 51-56. ISSN 0008-4166

Uma, G. ; Chandrasekaran, M. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2003) Recent advances in cholera genetics Current Science, 85 (11). pp. 1538-1545. ISSN 0011-3891

Alam, K. ; Hossain, M. A. ; Islam, N. ; Sen, S. K. ; Sur, G. C. ; Talukder, K. A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, D. A. (2003) Enhanced isolation of Shigella species by extended incubation of primary isolation plates Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 9 (4). pp. 396-397. ISSN 1606-0997

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Sarkar, K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Sack, David A. (2003) Multidrug-resistant shigella dysenteriae type 1 in South Asia The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 3 (12). p. 755. ISSN 1473-3099

Dutta, Shanta ; Ghosh, Ayantika ; Ghosh, Kaushik ; Dutta, Dharitri ; Bhattacharya, Sujit K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Yoshida , Shin-ichi (2003) Newly emerged multiple-antibiotic-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 strains in and around Kolkata, India, are clonal Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (12). pp. 5833-5834. ISSN 0095-1137

Faruque, Shah M. ; Chowdhury, Nityananda ; Khan, Rasel ; Rubayet Hasan, M. ; Nahar, Jebun ; Johirul Islam, M. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sack, David A. (2003) Shigella dysenteriae type 1-specific bacteriophage from environmental waters in Bangladesh Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69 (12). pp. 7028-7031. ISSN 0099-2240

Pandey, Mritunjay ; Khan, Asis ; Das, Suresh C. ; Sarkar, Bhaswati ; Kahali, Soumen ; Chakraborty, Subhra ; Chattopadhyay, Santanu ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ramamurthy , T. (2003) Association of cytolethal distending toxin locus cdtB with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from patients with acute diarrhea in Calcutta, India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (11). pp. 5277-5281. ISSN 0095-1137

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Aminul Islam, M. ; Khajanchi, Bijay K. ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Islam, Zhahirul ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Alam, Khorshed ; Hossain, A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, David A. (2003) Temporal shifts in the dominance of serotypes of shigella dysenteriae from 1999 to 2002 in Dhaka, Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (11). pp. 5053-5058. ISSN 1098-660X

Faruque, Shah M. ; Chowdhury, Nityananda ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Shafi Ahmad, Q. ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Abdus Salam, M. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Weintraub, Andrej ; Sack, David A. (2003) Reemergence of epidemic vibrio cholerae O139, Bangladesh Emerging Infectious Diseases, 9 (9). pp. 1116-1122. ISSN 1080-6059

Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Qadri, Firdausi ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Malek, M. A. ; Salam, M. A. ; Nato, Farida ; Fournier, J. M. ; Chanteau, S. ; Sack, David A. ; Balakrish Nair , G. (2003) Use of dipsticks for rapid diagnosis of cholera caused by vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 from rectal swabs Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (8). pp. 3939-3941. ISSN 0095-1137

Datta, Simanti ; Chattopadhyay, Santanu ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Hembram, Jabaranjan ; Berg, Douglas E. ; Saha, Dhira Rani ; Khan, Asis ; Santra, Amal ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Chowdhury, Abhijit (2003) Virulence genes and neutral DNA markers of Helicobacter pylori isolates from different ethnic communities of West Bengal, India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (8). pp. 3737-3743. ISSN 0095-1137

Datta, Simanti ; Khan, Asis ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Rehman, Motiur ; Sinha, Sutapa ; Chattopadhyay, Santanu ; Das, Suresh C. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2003) Environmental isolates of Aeromonas spp. harboring the cagA-like gene of Helicobacter pylori Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69 (7). pp. 4291-4295. ISSN 0099-2240

Khan, Asis ; Datta, Simanti ; Das, S. C. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Khanam, J. ; Takeda, Y. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. (2003) Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli infection: current progress & future challenges Indian Journal of Medical Research, 118 . pp. 1-24. ISSN 0019-5340

Rahman, Motiur ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Nahar, Shamsun ; Datta, Simanti ; Ahmad, Milan Mashhud ; Sarker, Safique ; Masud, Ibna M. ; Engstrand, Lars ; John Albert, M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Berg, Douglas E. (2003) DNA-level characterization of Helicobacter pylori strains from patients with overt disease and with benign infections in Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (5). pp. 2008-2014. ISSN 0095-1137

Nato, F. ; Boutonnier, A. ; Rajerison, M. ; Grosjean, P. ; Dartevelle, S. ; Guenole, A. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Sack, D. A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Fournier, J. M. ; Chanteau, S. (2003) One-step immunochromatographic dipstick tests for rapid detection of vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 in stool samples Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 10 (3). pp. 476-478. ISSN 1556-6811

Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish (2003) Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal: odyssey of a fortuitous variant Microbes and Infection, 5 (4). pp. 329-344. ISSN 1286-4579

Faruque, Shah M. ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Asadulghani, ; Sack, David A. ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2003) CTXΦ-independent production of the RS1 satellite phage by Vibriocholerae PNAS, 100 (3). pp. 1280-1285. ISSN 0027-8424

Faruque, Shah M. ; Sack, David A. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Colwell, Rita R. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2003) Emergence and evolution of Vibrio cholerae O139 PNAS, 100 (3). pp. 1304-1309. ISSN 0027-8424

Colwell, Rita R. ; Huq, Anwar ; Sirajul Islam, M. ; Aziz, K. M. A. ; Yunus, M. ; Huda Khan, N. ; Mahmud, A. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Chakraborty, J. ; Sack, David A. ; Russek-Cohen , E. (2003) Reduction of cholera in Bangladeshi villages by simple filtration PNAS, 100 (3). pp. 1051-1055. ISSN 0027-8424

Chaudhuri, Sujith ; Chowdhury, Abhijit ; Datta, Simanti ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Chattopadhya, Santanu ; Saha, Dhira R. ; Dhali, Gopal ; Santra, Amal ; Banlakrish Nair, G. ; Bhattacharya, Sujit ; Berg, Douglas E. (2003) Anti-Helicobacter pylori therapy in India: differences in eradication efficiency associated with particular alleles of vacuolating cytotoxin (vacA) gene Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 18 (2). pp. 190-195. ISSN 0815-9319

Faruque, Shah M. ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Meraj, Ismail M. ; Chowdhury, Nityananda ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Colwell, Rita R. ; Sack , David A. (2003) Pathogenic potential of environmental Vibrio cholerae strains carrying genetic variants of the toxin-coregulated pilus pathogenicity island Infection and Immunity, 71 (2). pp. 1020-1025. ISSN 0019-9567

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Islam, Zhahirul ; Aminul Islam, M. ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Shahed, Shamima N. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, David A. (2003) Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of provisional serotype Shigella flexneri 1c and clonal relationships with 1a and 1b strains isolated in Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (1). pp. 110-117. ISSN 1098-660X

Bradley Sack, R. ; Kasem Siddique, A. ; Longini Jr, Ira M. ; Nizam, Azhar ; Yunus, Md. ; Sirajul Islam, M. ; Glenn Morris Jr, J. ; Ali, Afsar ; Huq, Anwar ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Qadri, Firdausi ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Sack, David A. ; Colwell, Rita R. (2003) A 4-year study of the epidemiology of vibrio cholerae in four Rural areas of Bangladesh The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 187 (1). pp. 96-101. ISSN 0022-1899

Qadri, Firdausi ; Alam, Muhammad Shamsul ; Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki ; Rahman, Taufiqur ; Alam, Nur Haque ; Chisti, Jobayer ; Kondo, Seiichi ; Sugiyama, Junichi ; Bhuiyan, Nurul Amin ; Mathan, Minnie M. ; Sack, David A. ; Balakrish Nair , G. (2003) Adaptive and inflammatory immune responses in patients infected with strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 187 (7). pp. 1085-1096. ISSN 0022-1899

Kurazono, H. ; Nakano, M. ; Yamamoto, S. ; Ogawa, O. ; Yuri, K. ; Nakata, K. ; Kimura, M. ; Makino, S. ; Nair, G. B. (2003) Distribution of the USP gene in uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from companion animals and correlation with serotypes and size-variations of the pathogenicity island Microbiology and Immunology, 47 (10). pp. 797-802. ISSN 0385-5600

Khan, A. ; Nandi, R. K. ; Das, S. S. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Khanam, J. ; Shimizu, T. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Bhattacharya, K. ; Chaicumpa, W. ; Takeda, Y. ; Balakrishn Nair, G. (2003) Environmental isolates of Citrobacter braakii that agglutinate with Escherichia coli O157 antiserum but do not possess the genes responsible for the biosynthesis of O157 somatic antigen Epidemiology and Infection, 130 (2). pp. 179-186. ISSN 0950-2688

Sarkar, B. ; Chowdhury, N. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Nishibuchi, M. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Gupta, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. (2003) Molecular characterization of Vibrio parahaemolyticus of similar serovars isolated from sewage and clinical cases of diarrhoea in Calcutta, India World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 19 (8). pp. 771-776. ISSN 1573-0972

Garg, Pallavi ; Aydanian, Antonia ; Smith, David ; Glenn Morris, J. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Colin Stine, O. (2003) Molecular epidemiology of O139 Vibrio cholerae: mutation, lateral gene transfer, and founder flush Emerging Infectious Diseases, 9 (7). pp. 810-814. ISSN 1080-6059

Karasawa, Tadahiro ; Ito, Hideaki ; Tsukamoto, Teizo ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Kurazono, Hisao ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (2002) Cloning and characterization of genes encoding homologues of the B subunit of Cholera toxin and the Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin from clinical isolates of Citrobacter freundii and E. coli Infection and Immunity, 70 (12). pp. 7153-7155. ISSN 0019-9567

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Siddique, A. K. ; Sack, David A. (2002) New variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor with attributes of the classical biotype from hospitalized patients with acute diarrhea in Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 40 (9). pp. 3296-3299. ISSN 0095-1137

Thungapathra, M. ; Amita, ; Sinha, Kislay K. ; Chaudhuri, Saumya Ray ; Garg, Pallavi ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish ; Ghosh, Amit (2002) Occurrence of antibiotic resistance gene cassettes aac (6')-Ib, dfrA5, dfrA12, and ereA2 in class I integrons in non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae strains in India Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 46 (9). pp. 2948-2955. ISSN 1098-6596

Faruque, Shah M. ; Khan, Rasel ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Shafi Ahmad, Q. ; Azim, Tasnim ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Sack, David A. (2002) Isolation of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 and S. flexneri strains from surface waters in Bangladesh: comparative molecular analysis of environmental Shigella isolates versus clinical strains Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68 (8). pp. 3908-3913. ISSN 0099-2240

Baranwal, Somesh ; Dey, Keya ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Kundu, Manikuntala (2002) Role of active efflux in association with target gene mutations in fluoroquinolone resistance in clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 46 (8). pp. 2676-2678. ISSN 1098-6596

Sarkar, Amit ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ghose, Asoke C. (2002) Vibrio pathogenicity island and cholera toxin genetic element-associated virulence genes and their expression in non-O1 non-O139 strains of Vibrio cholerae Infection and Immunity, 70 (8). pp. 4735-4742. ISSN 0019-9567

Sinha, Sutapa ; Chakraborty, Rupa ; De, Keya ; Khan, Asis ; Datta, Simanti ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2002) Escalating association of Vibrio cholerae O139 with cholera outbreaks in India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 40 (7). pp. 2635-2637. ISSN 0095-1137

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Aminul Islam, M. ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Hassan, Ferdaus ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, David A. (2002) Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of serologically a typical strains of Shigella flexneri type 4 isolated in Dhaka, Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 40 (7). pp. 2490-2497. ISSN 0095-1137

Chattopadhyay, Santanu ; Datta, Simanti ; Chowdhury, Abhijit ; Chowdhury, Sujit ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Rajendran, K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Berg, Douglas E. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2002) Virulence genes in Helicobacter pylori strains from West Bengal residents with overt H. pylori-associated disease and healthy volunteers Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 40 (7). pp. 2622-2625. ISSN 1098-660X

Khan, Asis ; Das, S. C. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Sikdar, A. ; Khanam, J. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2002) Antibiotic resistance, virulence gene, and molecular profiles of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolates from diverse sources in Calcutta, India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 40 (6). pp. 2009-2015. ISSN 0095-1137

Bergstrom, Niklas ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Weintraub, Andrej ; Jansson, Per-Erik (2002) Structure of the O-polysaccharide from the lipopolysaccharide from Vibrio cholerae O6 Carbohydrate Research, 337 (9). pp. 813-817. ISSN 0008-6215

Datta, S. ; Chowdhury, A. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Berg, D. E. ; Nair, G. B. (2002) Molecular & evolutionary genetics & drug resistance of the gastric pathogen, Helicobacter pylori Indian Journal of Medical Research, 115 . pp. 73-101. ISSN 0971-5916

Chowdhury, Abhijit ; Berg, Douglass E. ; Jeong, Jin-Yong ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish ; Balakrish nair, G. (2002) Metronidazole resistance in Heliobacter pylori: magnitude, mechanism and implications for India Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, 21 . pp. 23-28. ISSN 0254-8860

Khan, A. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Sato, T. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Pal, A. ; Datta, S. ; Chowdhury, N. R. ; Das, S. C. ; Sikdar, A. ; Tsukamoto, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. (2002) Prevalence and genetic profiling of virulence determinants of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from cattle, beef, and humans, Calcutta, India Emerging Infectious Diseases, 8 (1). pp. 54-62. ISSN 1080-6059

Bhuiyan, N. A. ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Alam, Khorshed ; Chowdhury, N. R. ; Nishibuchi, M. ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Sack, David A. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2002) Prevalence of the pandemic genotype of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and significance of its distribution across different serotypes Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 40 (1). pp. 284-286. ISSN 1098-660X

Faruque, Shah M. ; Asadulghani, ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Nandi, Ranjan K. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Balakrish, G. ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Sack, David A. (2002) RS1 element of Vibrio cholerae can propagate horizontally as a filamentous phage exploiting the morphogenesis genes of CTXΦ Infection and Immunity, 70 (1). pp. 163-170. ISSN 0019-9567

Chhotray, G. P. ; Pal, B. B. ; Khuntia, H. K. ; Chowdhury, N. R. ; Chakraborthy, S. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2002) Incidence and molecular analysis of Vibrio cholerae associated with cholera outbreak subsequent to the super cyclone in Orissa, India Epidemiology and Infection, 128 (2). pp. 131-138. ISSN 1469-4409

Faruque, S. M. ; Nair, G. B. (2002) Molecular ecology of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae Microbiology and Immunology, 46 (2). pp. 59-66. ISSN 1348-0421

Sarkar, B. ; Bhattacharya, T. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Shimada, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2002) Preferential association of the heat-stable enterotoxin gene (stn) with environmental strains of Vibrio cholerae belonging to the O14 serogroup Epidemiology and Infection, 129 (2). pp. 245-251. ISSN 0950-2688

Dutta, S. ; Rajendran, K. ; Roy, S. ; Chatterjee, A. ; dutta, P. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Yoshida, S-I. (2002) Shifting serotypes, plasmid profile analysis and antimicrobial resistance pattern of shigellae strains isolated from Kolkata, India during 1995-2000 Epidemiology and Infection, 129 (2). pp. 235-243. ISSN 1469-4409

Datta, S. ; Kurazono, H. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Chowdhury, A. ; Chaudhuri, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Berg, D. E. ; Hirayama, T. ; Nair, G. B. (2001) Estimation of vacuolating cytotoxin secreted by different strains of Helicobacter pylori using bead enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay & its correlation with bacterial genotype Indian Journal of Medical Research, 114 . pp. 192-198. ISSN 0971-5916

Nakano, Masayuki ; Yamamoto, Shingo ; Terai, Akito ; Ogawa, Osamu ; Makino, Sou-ichi ; Hayashi, Hideo ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Kurazono, Hisao (2001) Structural and sequence diversity of the pathogenicity island of uropathogenic Escherichia coli which encodes the USP protein FEMS Microbiology Letters, 205 (1). pp. 71-76. ISSN 0378-1097

Talukder, Kaisar A. ; Dutta, Dilip K. ; Safa, Ashrafus ; Ansaruzzaman, M. ; Hassan, Ferdaus ; Alam, Khorshed ; Islam, K. M. N. ; Carlin, N. I. A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, David A. (2001) Altering trends in the dominance of Shigella flexneri serotypes and emergence of serologically a typical S. flexneri strains in Dhaka, Bangladesh Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 39 (10). pp. 3757-3759. ISSN 0095-1137

Chakraborty, S. ; Garg, P. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Thungapathra, M. ; Gautam, J. K. ; Kumar, C. ; Maiti, S. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Shimada, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Ghosh, A. ; Nair, G. B. (2001) Comparison of antibiogram, virulence genes, ribotypes and DNA fingerprints of Vibrio cholerae of matching serogroups isolated from hospitalised diarrhoea cases and from the environment during 1997-1998 in Calcutta, India Journal of Medical Microbiology, 50 (10). pp. 879-888. ISSN 0022-2615

Faruque, Shah M. ; Mostafizur Rahman, M. ; Mahbub Hasan, A. K. M. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Mekalanos, John J. ; Sack, David A. (2001) Diminished diarrheal response to Vibrio choleraeStrains carrying the replicative form of the CTXφ genome instead of CTXφlysogens in adult rabbits Infection and Immunity, 69 (10). pp. 6084-6090. ISSN 0019-9567

Chakraborty, Subhra ; Deokule, J. S. ; Garg, Pallavi ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nandy, R. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Ramamurthy, T. (2001) Concomitant infection of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in an outbreak of Cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 in Ahmedabad, India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 39 (9). pp. 3241-3246. ISSN 0095-1137

De, K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Ghose, A. C. ; Islam, M. S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. ; Nandy, R. K. (2001) Modification of the multiplex PCR for unambiguous differentiation of the El Tor & classical biotypes of Vibrio cholerae O1 Indian Journal of Medical Research, 114 . pp. 77-82. ISSN 0971-5916

Sinha, S. ; Chowdhury, P. ; Chowdhury, N. R. ; Kamruzzaman, M. ; Faruque, S. M. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. (2001) Molecular comparison of toxigenic clinical & non-toxigenic environmental strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa isolated during an outbreak of cholera in South India Indian Journal of Medical Research, 114 . pp. 83-89. ISSN 0971-5916

Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Chakraborty, Soumen ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Berg, Douglas E. (2001) Characterization of VPI pathogenicity island and CTXφ prophage in environmental strains of Vibrio cholerae Journal of Bacteriology, 183 (16). pp. 4737-4746. ISSN 0021-9193

Sonjai, K. ; Soisangwan, R. ; Sakolvaree, Y. ; Kurazono, H. ; Chongsa-nguan, M. ; Tapchaisri, P. ; Mahakunkijcharoen, Y. ; Nair, G. B. ; Hayashi, H. ; Chaicumpa, W. (2001) Validation of salmonellosis and shigellosis diagnostic test kits at a provincial hospital in Thailand Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology, 19 (2). pp. 115-127. ISSN 0125-877X

Yamamoto, Shingo ; Nakano, Masayuki ; Terai, Akito ; Yuri, Kazuyo ; Nakata, Katsuhisa ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Kurazono, Hisao (2001) The presence of the virulence island containing the usp gene in uropathogenic Escherichia coli is associated with urinary tract infection in an experimental mouse model The Journal of Urology, 165 (4). pp. 1347-1351. ISSN 0022-5347

Hoque, Kazi Mirajul ; Pal, Amit ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Chattopadhyay, Sukumar ; Chakrabarti, Manoj K. (2001) Evidence of calcium influx across the plasma membrane depends upon the initial rise of cytosolic calcium with activation of IP₃ in rat enterocytes by heat-stable enterotoxin of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 FEMS Microbiology Letters, 196 (1). pp. 45-50. ISSN 0378-1097

Mitra, Rupak K. ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Bhattacharya, Sujit K. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Shimada, Toshio ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2001) Molecular characterisation of rough variants of Vibrio cholerae isolated from hospitalised patients with diarrhoea Journal of Medical Microbiology, 50 (3). pp. 268-276. ISSN 0022-2615

Pal, A. ; Hoque, K. M. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Chakrabarti, M. K. (2001) Rise in free intracellular calcium in HeLa cells infected with aggregative Klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated from cases of diarrhoea Indian Journal of Medical Research, 113 . pp. 1-4. ISSN 0971-5916

Garg, Pallavi ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Chaudhury, Papiya ; Chowdhury, Nandini Roy ; De, Keya ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2000) Emergence of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor serotype Inaba from the prevailing O1 Ogawa serotype strains in India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 38 (11). pp. 4249-4253. ISSN 0095-1137

Chowdhury, Nandini Roy ; Chakraborty, Soumen ; Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan ; Nishibuchi, Mitsuaki ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Nair, Gopinath Balakrish (2000) Molecular evidence of clonal Vibrio parahaemolyticus pandemic strains Emerging Infectious Diseases, 6 (6). pp. 631-636. ISSN 1080-6059

Nandi, Bisweswar ; Nandy, Ranjan K. ; Mukhopadhyay, Sarmishtha ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Shimada, Toshio ; Ghose, Asoke C. (2000) Rapid method for the species-specific identification of Vibrio cholerae using primers targeted to the gene of outer membrane protein OmpW Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 38 (11). pp. 4145-4151. ISSN 1098-660X

Sur, D. ; Dutta, P. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (2000) Severe cholera outbreak following floods in a Northern district of West Bengal Indian Journal of Medical Research, 112 . pp. 178-182. ISSN 0971-5916

Faruque, Shah M. ; Saha, Manujendra N. ; Asadulghani, ; Sack, David A. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2000) The O139 serogroup of Vibrio cholerae comprises diverse clones of epidemic and nonepidemic strains derived from multiple V. cholerae O1 or non-O1 progenitors Journal of Infectious Diseases, 182 (4). pp. 1161-1168. ISSN 0022-1899

Ramamurthy, T. ; Rajendran, K. ; Garg, P. ; Shimada, T. ; Basu, A. ; Chowdhury, N. R. ; Nandy, R. K. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. (2000) Cluster-analysis & patterns of dissemination of multidrug resistance among clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae in Calcutta, India Indian Journal of Medical Research, 112 . pp. 78-85. ISSN 0971-5916

Jeong, Jin-Yong ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Dailidiene, Daiva ; Wang, Yipeng ; Velapatiño, Billie ; Gilman, Robert H. ; Parkinson, Alan J. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Wong, Benjamin C. Y. ; Lam, Shiu Kum ; Mistry, Rajesh ; Segal, Isidore ; Yuan, Yuan ; Gao, Hua ; Alarcon, Teresa ; Brea, MaNuel Lopez ; Ito, Yoshiyuki ; Kersulyte, Dangeruta ; Lee, Hae-Kyung ; Gong, Yan ; Goodwin, Avery ; Hoffman, Paul S. ; Berg, Douglas E. (2000) Sequential inactivation of rdxA (HP0954) and frxA (HP0642) nitroreductase genes causes moderate and high-level metronidazole resistance in Helicobacter pylori Jouranl of Bacteriology, 182 (18). pp. 5082-5090. ISSN 0021-9193

Chakraborty, Soumen ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Bhadra, Rupak Kumar ; Ghosh, Amar Nath ; Mitra, Rupak ; Shimada, Toshio ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Faruque, Shah M. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Colwell, Rita R. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2000) Virulence Genes in environmental strains of Vibrio cholerae Applied and Evironmental Microbiology, 66 (9). pp. 4022-4028. ISSN 0099-2240

Saha, D. R. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Manna, B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (2000) Detection of faecal leucocytes & erythrocytes from stools of cholera patients suggesting an evidence of an inflammatory response in cholera Indian Journal of Medical Research, 112 . pp. 5-8. ISSN 0971-5916

Dutta, D. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Deb, A. K. ; Sarkar, D. ; Chatterjee, A. ; Biswas, A. B. ; Chatterjee, K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (2000) Evaluation of oral hypo-osmolar glucose-based and rice-based oral rehydration solutions in the treatment of cholera in children Acta Paediatrica, 89 (7). pp. 787-790. ISSN 0803-5253

Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Kersulyte, Dangeruta ; Jeong, Jin-Yong ; Datta, Simanti ; Ito, Yoshiyuki ; Chowdhury, Abhijit ; Chowdhury, Sujit ; Santra, Amal ; Bhattacharya, Sujit K. ; Azuma, Takeshi ; Nair, G. Balakrish ; Berg, Douglas E. (2000) Distinctiveness of genotypes of Helicobacter pylori in Calcutta, India Journal of Bacteriology, 182 (11). pp. 3219-3227. ISSN 1098-5530

Mitra, Rupak ; Figueroa, Paula ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Shimada, Toshio ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Berg, Douglas E. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2000) Cell vacuolation, a manifestation of the El Tor hemolysin of Vibrio cholerae Infection and Immunity, 68 (4). pp. 1928-1933. ISSN 1098-5522

Basu, Arnab ; Garg, Pallavi ; Datta, Simanti ; Chakraborty, Soumen ; Bhattacharya, Tanuja ; Khan, Asis ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2000) Vibrio cholerae O139 in Calcutta, 1992-1998: incidence, antibiograms, and genotypes Emerging Infectious Diseases, 6 (2). pp. 139-147. ISSN 1080-6059

Kurazono, H. ; Yamamoto, S. ; Nakano, M. ; Nair, G. B. ; Terai, A. ; Chaicumpa, W. ; Hayashi, H. (2000) Characterization of a putative virulence island in the chromosome of uropathogenic Escherichia coli possessing a gene encoding a uropathogenic - specific protein Microbial Pathogenesis, 28 (3). pp. 183-189. ISSN 0882-4010

Faruque, Shah M. ; Saha, Manujendra N. ; Asadulghani, ; Bag, Prasanta K. ; Bhadra, Rupak K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bradley Sack, R. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2000) Genomic diversity among Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated in Bangladesh and India between 1992 and 1998 FEMS Microbiology Letters, 184 (2). pp. 279-284. ISSN 0378-1097

Chakrabarti, A. K. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Sarkar, B. L. (2000) Development and evaluation of a phage typing scheme for Vibrio cholerae O139 Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 38 (1). pp. 44-49. ISSN 0095-1137

Basu, Arnab ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Garg, Pallavi ; Chakraborty, Soumen ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2000) Diversity in the arrangement of the CTX prophages in classical strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 FEMS Microbiology Letters, 182 (1). pp. 35-40. ISSN 0378-1097

Chowdhury, N. R. ; Chakraborty, S. ; Eampokalap, B. ; Chaicumpa, W. ; Chongsa-nguan, M. ; Moolasart, P. ; Mitra, R. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nishibuchi, M. ; Takeda, Y. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (2000) Clonal dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus displaying similar DNA fingerprint but belonging to two different serovars (O3:K6 and O4:K68) in Thailand and India Epidemiology and Infection, 125 (1). pp. 17-25. ISSN 1469-4409

Garg, P. ; Chakraborty, S. ; Basu, I. ; Datta, S. ; Rajendran, K. ; Bhattacharya, T. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Takeda, Y. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ramamurthy, T. (2000) Expanding multiple antibiotic resistance among clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae isolated from 1992-7 in Calcutta, India Epidemiology and Infection, 124 (3). pp. 393-399. ISSN 0950-2688

Ramamurthy, T. ; Chakraborty, S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (2000) Health impairments arising from drinking water resources contaminated with vibrio cholerae Schriftenreihe des Vereins fur Wasser-Boden-und Lufthygiene, 105 . pp. 29-34. ISSN 0300-8665

Sozhamannan, Shanmuga ; Deng, Ying Kang ; Li, Manrong ; Sulakvelidze, Alexander ; Kaper, James B. ; Johnson, Judith A. ; Balkrish Nair, G. ; Glenn Morris Jr, J. (1999) Cloning and sequence of the genes downstream of the wbf gene cluster of Vibrio cholerae serogroup O139 and analysis of the junction genes in other serogroups Infection and Immunity, 67 (10). pp. 5033-5040. ISSN 1098-5522

Guhathakurta, B. ; Sasmal, D. ; Pal, S. ; Chakraborty, S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Datta, A. (1999) Comparative analysis of cytotoxin, hemolysin, hemagglutinin and exocellular enzymes among clinical and environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae O139 and non-O1, non-O139 FEMS Microbiology Letters, 179 (2). pp. 401-407. ISSN 1574-6968

Yamasaki, Shinji ; Garg, Surabhi ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1999) Distribution of Vibrio cholerae O1 antigen biosynthesis genes among O139 and other non-O1 serogroups of Vibrio cholerae FEMS Microbiology Letters, 179 (1). pp. 115-121. ISSN 1574-6968

Basu, Indira ; Mitra, Rupak ; Saha, Pradip Kumar ; Ghosh, Amar Nath ; Bhattacharya, Jayanta ; Chakrabarti, Manoj Kumar ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1999) Morphological and cytoskeletal changes caused by non-membrane damaging cytotoxin of Vibrio cholerae on Int 407 and HeLa Cells FEMS Microbiology Letters, 179 (2). pp. 255-263. ISSN 1574-6968

Walia, Kamini ; Ghosh, Sujata ; Singh, Harminder ; Nair, G. B. ; Ghosh, Amit ; Sahni, Girish ; Vohra, Harpreet ; Ganguly, Nirmal Kumar (1999) Purification and characterization of novel toxin produced by O1 Vibrio cholerae Infection and Immunity, 67 (10). pp. 5215-5222. ISSN 1098-5522

Yamasakia, Shinji ; Shimizua, Takeshi ; Hoshino, Katsuaki ; Ho, Soon-Tae ; Shimada, Toshio ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1999) The genes responsible for O-antigen synthesis of Vibrio cholerae O139 are closely related to those of Vibrio cholerae O22 Gene, 237 (2). pp. 321-332. ISSN 0378-1119

Chakraborty, Soumen ; Khanam, Jasmina ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Niar, G. (1999) Application of PCR for detection of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 in water samples during an outbreak of cholera The Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 93 (5). pp. 527-528. ISSN 0035-9203

Alam, N. H. ; Majumder, R. N. ; Fuchs, G. J. (1999) Efficacy and safety of oral rehydration solution with reduced osmolarity in adults with cholera: a randomised double-blind clinical trial The Lancet, 354 (9175). pp. 296-299. ISSN 1474-547X

Bag, Prasanta K. ; Nandi, Suvobroto ; Bhadra, Rupak K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nishibuchi, M. ; Hamabata, T. ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1999) Clonal diversity among the recently emerged strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 associated with pandemic spread Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 37 (7). pp. 2354-2357. ISSN 1098-660X

Thungapathra, M. ; Sharma, C. ; Gupta, N. ; Ghosh, R. K. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. ; Koley, H. ; Nair, G. Balakrish ; Ghosh, Amit (1999) Construction of a recombinant live oral vaccine from a non-toxigenic strain of Vibrio cholerae O1 serotype inaba biotype El Tor and assessment of its reactogenicity and immunogenicity in the rabbit model Immunology Letters, 68 (2-3). pp. 219-227. ISSN 0165-2478

Pal, A. ; Saha, P. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. (1999) Clonal analysis of non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 associated with an outbreak of cholera Indian Journal of Medical Research, 109 . pp. 208-211. ISSN 0971-5916

Chakrabarti, M. K. ; Bhattacharya, J. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Mahalanabis, D. (1999) Killed oral shigella vaccine made of Shigella flexneri 2a protects against challenge in the rabbit model of shigellosis Acta Paediatrica, 88 (2). pp. 161-165. ISSN 1651-2227

Koley, Hemanta ; Mitra, Rupak ; Basu, Arnab ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Saha, P. K. ; Ramakrishna, B. S. ; Krishnan, Selvi ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1999) Response of wild-type mutants of Vibrio cholerae O1 possessing different combinations of virulence genes in the ligated rabbit ileal loop and in Ussing chambers: evidence for the presence of additional secretogen Journal of Medical MIcrobiology, 48 (1). pp. 51-57. ISSN 1473-5644

Pal, A. ; Ghosh, S. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Tsukamoto, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Takeda, Y. (1999) Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli from healthy cattle in a semi-Urban community in Calcutta, India Indian Journal of Medical Research, 110 . pp. 83-85. ISSN 0971-5916

Mitra, Rupak ; Saha, Pradip K. ; Basu, Indira ; Venkataraman, Aparna ; Ramakrishna, B. S. ; John Albert, M. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1998) Characterization of non-membrane-damaging cytotoxin of non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and its relevance to disease FEMS Microbiology Letters, 169 (2). pp. 331-339. ISSN 0378-1097

Chaicumpa, Wanpen ; Srimanote, Potjanee ; Sakolvaree, Yuwaporn ; Kalampaheti, Thareerat ; Chongsa-Nguan, Manas ; Tapchaisri, Pramuan ; Eampokalap, Boonchuay ; Moolasart, Pikul ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Echeverria, Peter (1998) Rapid diagnosis of cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae O139 Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 36 (12). pp. 3595-3600. ISSN 1098-660X

Kimsey, Harvey H. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ghosh, Amit ; Waldor, Matthew K. (1998) Diverse CTX s and evolution of new pathogenic Vibrio cholerae The Lancet, 352 (9216). pp. 457-458. ISSN 0140-6736

Pal, Sangita ; Datta, Archana ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Guhathakurta, Bhakti (1998) Use of monoclonal antibodies to identify phospholipase C as the enterotoxic factor of the bifunctional hemolysin-phospholipase C molecule of Vibrio cholerae O139 Infection and Immunity, 66 (8). pp. 3974-3977. ISSN 1098-5522

Mukhopadhyay, Asish Kumar ; Basu, Arnab ; Garg, Pallavi ; Bag, Prasanta K. ; Ghosh, Amit ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Nair, G. Balakrish (1998) Molecular epidemiology of reemergent Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal in India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 36 (7). pp. 2149-2152. ISSN 0095-1137

Dutta, D. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Deb, A. ; Chowdhury, A. S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Ramakrishna, B. S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (1998) Uncooked rice powder in oral rehydration solution: an alternative to glucose or cooked rice powder Indian Journal of Medical Research, 107 . pp. 257-262. ISSN 0971-5916

Sharma, C. ; Ghosh, A. ; Ghosh, R. K. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. (1998) Molecular analysis of the cholera toxin gene & antibiotic sensitivity profile of Vibrio cholerae O1 & O139 associated with mixed infection Indian Journal of Medical Research, 107 . pp. 199-203. ISSN 0971-5916

Hoshino, Katsuaki ; Yamasaki, Shinji ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Chakraborty, Soumen ; Basu, Arnab ; Bhattacharya, Sujit K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Shimada, Toshio ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1998) Development and evaluation of a multitest PCR assay for rapid detection of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 20 (3). pp. 201-207. ISSN 1574-695X

Basu, Arnab ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Sharma, Charu ; Jyot, Jeevan ; Gupta, Naveen ; Ghosh, Amit ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Faruque, A. S. G. ; Albert, John M. ; Nair, G. Balakrish (1998) Heterogeneity in the organization of the CTX genetic element in strains of Vibrio choleraeO139 Bengal isolated from Calcutta, India and Dhaka, Bangladesh and its possible link to the dissimilar incidence of O139 cholera in the two locales Microbial Pathogenesis, 24 (3). pp. 175-183. ISSN 0882-4010

Sharma, Charu ; Thungapathra, M. ; Ghosh, A. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Basu, Arnab ; Mitra, Rupak ; Basu, Indira ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Shimada, T. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Takeda, T. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1998) Molecular analysis of non-O1 non-O139 Vibrio cholerae associated with an unusual upsurge in the incidence of cholera-like disease in Calcutta, India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 36 (3). pp. 756-763. ISSN 1098-660X

Sharma, Charu ; Ghosh, Amit ; Dalsgaard, A. ; Forslund, Anita ; Ghosh, R. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1998) Molecular evidence that a distinct Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor strain in Calcutta may have spread to the African continent Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 36 (3). pp. 843-844. ISSN 1098-660X

Chaudhuri, Alok Ghosh ; Bhattacharya, Jayanta ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Tae ; Chakrabarti, Manoj K. (1998) Rise of cytosolic Ca²⁺ and activation of membrane-bound guanylyl cyclase activity in rat enterocytes by heat-stable enterotoxin of Vibrio cholerae non-01 FEMS Microbiology Letters, 160 (1). pp. 125-129. ISSN 1574-6968

Nair, G. B. ; Takeda, Y. (1998) The heat-stable enterotoxins Microbial Pathogenesis, 24 (2). pp. 123-131. ISSN 0882-4010

Mukhopadhyay, Asish Kumar ; Basu, Indira ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1998) Emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance in strains of Vibrio cholerae isolated from hospitalized patients with acute diarrhoea in Calcutta, India Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 42 (1). pp. 206-207. ISSN 1098-6596

Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Dutta, D. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Deb, A. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Shimada, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Chowdhury, A. ; Mahalanabis, D. (1998) Association of a disease approximating cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae of serogroups other than O1 and O139 Epidemiology and Infection, 120 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 1469-4409

Balakrish Nair, G. (1998) Unsupervised use of oral rehydration therapy and Hyponatraemia and Hypokalaemia in diarrhoeal children Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 44 (4). pp. 248-249. ISSN 1465-3664

Basu, A. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Chakrabarti, A. K. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Saha, M. R. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. (1997) Comparison between the multiplex PCR, sensitivity to biotype specific phages & polymyxin B for biotyping of Vibrio cholerae O1 Indian Journal of Medical Research, 106 . pp. 491-493. ISSN 0971-5916

Okuda, J. ; Ishibashi, M. ; Hayakawa, E. ; Nishino, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Garg, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Nishibuchi, M. (1997) Emergence of a unique O3:K6 clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Calcutta, India, and isolation of strains from the same clonal group from Southeast Asian travellers arriving in Japan Jurnal of Clinical Microbiology, 35 (12). pp. 3150-3155. ISSN 1098-660X

Sharma, C. ; Maiti, S. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Basu, A. ; Basu, I. ; Nair, G. B. ; Mukhopadhyaya, R. ; Das, B. ; Kar, S. ; Ghosh, R. K. ; Ghosh, A. (1997) Unique organization of the CTX genetic element in Vibrio cholerae O139 strains which reemerged in Calcutta, India, in September 1996 Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 35 (12). pp. 3348-3350. ISSN 1098-660X

Radhakutty, G. ; Sircar, B. K. ; Mondal, S. K. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Mitra, R. K. ; Basu, A. ; Ichhpujani, R. L. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (1997) Investigation of the outbreak of cholera in Alleppey & Palghat districts, South India Indian Journal of Medical Research, 106 . pp. 455-457. ISSN 0971-5916

Chakraborty, S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Shinoda, S. (1997) Pathogenic vibrios in the natural aquatic environment Reviews on Environmental Health, 12 (2). pp. 63-80. ISSN 2191-0308

Ghosh, Chandradipa ; Nandya, Ranjan K. ; Dasgupta, Sujoy K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Hall, Robert H. ; Ghose, Asoke C. (1997) A search for cholera toxin (CT), toxin coregulated pilus (TCP), the regulatory element ToxR and other virulence factors in non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae Microbial Pathogenesis, 22 (4). pp. 199-208. ISSN 0882-4010

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Dutta, D. ; Dutta, S. ; Deb, M. ; Deb, A. ; Das, K. P. ; Koley, H. ; Nair, G. B. (1997) Double-blind, randomized clinical trial for safety and efficacy of Norfloxacin for Shigellosis in children Acta Paediatrica, 86 (3). pp. 319-320. ISSN 1651-2227

Shamlal, Rita ; Rajarathnam, Shantha ; Sankaran, Krishnan ; Ramachandran, Vasanthi ; Subrahmanyam, Yerramilli V. B. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Macaden, Ragini ; Roy, Raman K. (1997) Detection of virulent Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli by induction of the 43 kDa invasion plasmid antigen, ipaC FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 17 (2). pp. 73-78. ISSN 1574-695X

Saha, P. K. ; Nair, G. B. (1997) Production of monoclonal antibodies to the non-membrane-damaging cytotoxin (NMDCY) purified from Vibrio cholerae O26 and distribution of NMDCY among strains of Vibrio cholerae and other enteric bacteria determined by monoclonal-polyclonal sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Infection and Immunity, 65 (2). pp. 801-805. ISSN 1098-5522

Yamasaki, S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Yamamoto, S. ; Kurazono, H. ; Takeda, Y. (1997) Cryptic appearance of a new clone of Vibrio cholerae serogroup 01 biotype El Tor in Calcutta, India Microbiology and Immunology, 41 (1). pp. 1-6. ISSN 1348-0421

Decamp, O. ; Rajendran, N. ; Nakano, H. ; Nair, G. B. (1997) Estimation of the viability of Vibrio cholerae 0139 by assessing cell membrane integrity Microbios, 92 (371). pp. 83-89. ISSN 0026-2633

Mitra, Rupak ; Basu, Arnab ; Dutta, D. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1996) Resurgence of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal with altered antibiogram in Calcutta, India The Lancet, 348 (9035). p. 1181. ISSN 1474-547X

Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Garg, S. ; Mitra, R. ; Basu, A. ; Rajendran, K. ; Dutta, D. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Shimada, T. ; Takeda, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. (1996) Temporal shifts in traits of Vibrio cholerae strains isolated from hospitalized patients in Calcutta: a 3-year (1993 to 1995) analysis Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 34 (10). pp. 2537-2543. ISSN 1098-660X

Pal, Sangita ; Sasmal, D. ; Guhathakurta, B. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Mallick, R. ; Datta, A. (1996) Electrophoretic mobility and immune response of outer membrane proteins of Vibrio cholerae O139 FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 15 (2-3). pp. 143-148. ISSN 1574-695X

Saha, P. K. ; Koley, H. ; Nair, G. B. (1996) Purification and characterization of an extracellular secretogenic non-membrane-damaging cytotoxin produced by clinical strains of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 Infection and Immunity, 64 (8). pp. 3101-3108. ISSN 1098-5522

Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Garg, S. ; Saha, P. K. ; Takeda, Y. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. (1996) Comparative analysis of factors promoting optimal production of cholera toxin by Vibrio cholerae O1 (classical & E1Tor biotypes) & O139 Indian Journal of Medical Research, 104 . pp. 129-133. ISSN 0971-5916

Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Takeda, Y. (1996) Comparison of the sensitivity & specificity of a polyclonal versus monoclonal capture antibody based Bead ELISA for direct detection of cholera toxin from stool specimens Indian Journal of Medical Research, 104 . pp. 125-128. ISSN 0971-5916

Garg, S. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. (1996) Electron microscopic studies on Vibrio cholerae O139 Indian Journal of Medical Research, 104 . pp. 134-138. ISSN 0971-5916

Nair, G. B. (1996) Molecular insights into the evolution & epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae Indian Journal of Medical Research, 104 . pp. 5-13. ISSN 0971-5916

Saha, P. K. ; Koley, H. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Ramakrishnan, B. S. ; Krishnan, S. ; Takeda, T. ; Takeda, Y. (1996) Nontoxigenic Vibrio cholerae 01 serotype Inaba biotype El Tor associated with a cluster of cases of cholera in Southern India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 34 (5). pp. 1114-1117. ISSN 1098-660X

Balakrish Nair, G. ; John Albert, M. ; Toshio, Shimada ; Yoshifumi, Takeda (1996) Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal: the new serogroup causing cholera Reviews in Medical Microbiology, 7 (1). pp. 43-51. ISSN 0954-139X

Kurazono, H. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Ratchtrachenchai, O. ; Nair, G. B. ; Takeda, Y. (1996) Analysis of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal isolated from different geographical areas using macrorestriction DNA analysis Microbiology and Immunology, 40 (4). pp. 303-305. ISSN 1348-0421

Dutta, D. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Deb, A. ; Deb, M. ; Manna, B. ; Moitra, A. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. (1996) Efficacy of norfloxacin and doxycycline for treatment of Vibrio cholerae O₁₃₉ infection Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 37 (3). pp. 575-581. ISSN 1460-2091

Ghosh, A. R. ; Koley, H. ; De, D. ; Paul, M. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sen, D. (1996) Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli associated diarrhoea among infants aged less than six months in Calcutta, India European Journal of Epidemiology, 12 (1). pp. 81-84. ISSN 1573-7284

Yoshino, K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Fukushima, H. ; Ohtomo, Y. ; Takeda, N. ; Kaneko, S. ; Takeda, T. (1995) Geographical heterogeneity between Far East and Europe in prevalence of ypm gene encoding the novel superantigen among Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains Journal of Clinical Miccrobiology, 33 (12). pp. 3356-3358. ISSN 1098-660X

Hasan, J. A. ; Huq, A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Garg, S. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Loomis, L. ; Bernstein, D. ; Colwell, R. R. (1995) Development and testing of monoclonal antibody-based rapid immunodiagnostic test kits for direct detection of Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym Bengal Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 33 (11). pp. 2935-2939. ISSN 1098-660X

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Shinoda, Sumio (1995) Cholera in the 1990s : a disease on the rampage Eisei Kagaku, 41 (4). pp. 239-249. ISSN 0013-273X

Nair, G. B. ; Bag, P. K. ; Shimada, T. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Takeda, T. ; Yamamoto, S. ; Kurazono, H. ; Takeda, Y. (1995) Evaluation of DNA probes for specific detection of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 33 (8). pp. 2186-2187. ISSN 1098-660X

Sengupta, P. G. ; Sircar, B. K. ; Mandal, S. K. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Gupta, D. N. ; Ghosh, S. ; Saha, N. C. ; Deb, B. C. ; Sikder, S. N. ; Manna, B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; De, S. P. ; Mandal, B. K. (1995) Epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae 0139 with special reference to intrafamilial transmission in Calcutta Journal of Infection, 31 (1). pp. 45-47. ISSN 0163-4453

Niyogi, S. K. ; Sengupta, P. G. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Garg, S. ; Mukhapadhayay, A. K. ; Nair, G. B. (1995) Emergence of furazolidone and cotrimoxazole resistant Vibrio cholerae 01 in Eastern India Journal of Infection, 30 (3). pp. 265-266. ISSN 0163-4453

Yamamoto, Tatsuo ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1995) Emergence of tetracycline resistance due to a multiple drug resistance plasmid in Vibrio cholerae O139 FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 11 (2). pp. 131-136. ISSN 1574-695X

Kurazono, Hisao ; Pal, Amit ; Bag, Prasanta K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Karasawa, Tadahiro ; Mihara, Tatsuya ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1995) Distribution of genes encoding cholera toxin, zonula occludens toxin, accessory cholera toxin, and El Tor hemolysin Vibrio cholerae of diverse origins Microbial Pathogenesis, 18 (3). pp. 231-235. ISSN 0882-4010

Koley, H. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Paul, M. ; Ghosh, A. R. ; Ganguly, P. K. ; Nair, G. B. (1995) Colonization ability & intestinal pathology of rabbits orally fed with Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal Indian Journal of Medical Research, 101 . pp. 57-61. ISSN 0971-5916

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Manna, B. ; Dutta, D. ; Deb, A. ; Dutta, P. ; Goswami, A. G. ; Dutta, A. ; Sarkar, S. ; Mukhopadhaya, A. ; Krishnan, T. ; Naik, T. N. ; Nair, G. B. (1995) Risk factors for development of dehydration in young children with acute watery diarrhoea: a case-control study Acta Paediatrica, 84 (2). pp. 160-164. ISSN 1651-2227

Ramamurthy, T. ; Garg, S. ; Nair, G. B. (1995) Monoclonal antibodies against Ogawa specific & Ogawa-Inaba common antigenic determinants of Vibrio cholerae O1 & their diagnostic utility Indian Journal of Medical Research, 101 (10). p. 2. ISSN 0971-5916

Shaikh, Nur Md. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Kumar, Ranajit (1995) Significance of the secreted form of IpaC, a 45 kDa protein of Shigella dysenteriae 1, in the invasive process as determined by monoclonal antibodies FEMS Microbiology Letters, 125 (2-3). pp. 247-253. ISSN 1574-6968

Pajni, Sangeeta ; Sharma, Charu ; Bhasin, Navneet ; Ghosh, Amit ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ramajayam, S. ; Das, Biswajit ; Kar, Sudeshna ; Roychowdhury, Saumya ; Ghosh, R. K. (1995) Studies on the genesis of Vibrio cholerae 0139: identification of probable progenitor strains Journal of Medical Microbiology, 42 (1). pp. 20-25. ISSN 1473-5644

Yamamoto, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Albert, M. J. ; Parodi, C. C. ; Takeda, Y. (1995) Survey of in vitro susceptibilities of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 to antimicrobial agents Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 39 (1). pp. 241-244. ISSN 1098-6596

Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Garg, S. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Kar, S. ; Ghosh, R. K. ; Pajni, S. ; Ghosh, A. ; Shimada, T. ; Takeda, T. ; Takeda, Y. (1995) Biotype traits and antibiotic susceptibility of Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 before, during and after the emergence of the O139 serogroup Epidemiology and Infection, 115 (3). pp. 427-434. ISSN 1469-4409

Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Saha, P. K. ; Garg, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Shimada, T. ; Takeda, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1995) Distribution and virulence of Vibrio cholerae belonging to serogroups other than O1 and O139: a Nationwide survey Epidemiology and Infection, 114 (1). pp. 65-70. ISSN 1469-4409

Pajni, Sangeeta ; Sharma, Charu ; Bhasin, Navneet ; Ghosh, Amit ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. Balakrish ; Ramajayam, S. ; Das, Biswajit ; Kar, Sudeshna ; Roychowdhury, Saumya ; Ghosh, R. K. (1995) Studies on the genesis of Vibrio cholerae 0139: identification of probable progenitor strains Journal of Medical Microbiology, 42 . pp. 20-25. ISSN 0022-2615

Karmaker, S. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Dey, D. ; Nair, G. B. ; Ganguly, U. (1994) Ultrastructural changes in HeLa cells associated with enteroadherent Escherichia coli isolated from infants with diarrhoea in Calcutta Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 12 (4). pp. 274-278. ISSN 0253-8768

Nair, G. B. ; Shimada, T. ; Kurazono, H. ; Okuda, J. ; Pal, A. ; Karasawa, T. ; Mihara, T. ; Uesaka, Y. ; Shirai, H. ; Garg, S. (1994) Characterization of phenotypic, serological, and toxigenic traits of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 32 (11). pp. 2775-2779. ISSN 1098-660X

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Goswami, A. G. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Dutta, D. ; Deb, A. ; Deb, M. ; Sircar, B. K. ; Chowdhury, A. S. ; Das, K. P. ; Nair, G. B. (1994) Epidemic of Vibrio cholerae 0139 in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 100 . pp. 213-216. ISSN 0971-5916

Ghosh, Asit R. ; Koley, Hemanta ; De, Debjit ; Garg, Surabhi ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Manna, B. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Shimada, Toshio ; Takeda, Tae ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1994) Incidence and toxigenicity of Vibrio cholerae in a freshwater lake during the epidemic of cholera caused by serogroup O139 Bengal in Calcutta, India FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 14 (4). pp. 285-291. ISSN 1574-6941

Takeda, T. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Chowdhury, A. S. ; Dutta, D. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Deb, B. C. ; Nair, G. B. ; Takeda, Y. (1994) Vibrio cholerae O1 vibriocidal and anti-cholera toxin antibodies in O139 Bengal cholera patients Journal of Infection, 29 (2). pp. 233-235. ISSN 0163-4453

Maruvada, Ravi ; Pal, Sudhir C. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1994) Effects of polymyxin B on the outer membranes of Aeromonas species Journal of Microbiological Methods, 20 (2). pp. 115-124. ISSN 0167-7012

Kurazono, H. ; Okuda, J. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. ; Albert, M. J. ; Sack, R. B. ; Chongsa-nguan, M. ; Chaicumpa, W. (1994) Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal isolated from India, Bangladesh and Thailand are clonal as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis Journal of Infections, 29 (1). pp. 109-110. ISSN 0163-4453

Karmali, M. A. ; Petric, M. ; Winkler, M. ; Bielaszewska, M. ; Brunton, J. ; de Kar, N. van ; Morooka, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Richardson, S. E. ; Arbus, G. S. (1994) Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of immunoglobulin G antibodies to Escherichia coli Vero cytotoxin 1 Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 32 (6). pp. 1457-1463. ISSN 1098-660X

Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Paul, M. ; Dutta, D. ; Dutta, P. ; Kole, H. ; De, D. ; Ghosh, A. R. ; Das, P. ; Nair, G. B. (1994) Shigellosis in Calcutta during 1990-1992: antibiotic susceptibility pattern and clinical features Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 12 (2). pp. 121-124. ISSN 0253-8768

Dutta, D. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Saha, S. K. (1994) Travellers' diarrhoea caused by Vibrio cholerae O139 Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 12 (2). p. 136. ISSN 0253-8768

Sengupta, T. K. ; Sengupta, D. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ghose, Asoke C. (1994) Epidemic isolates of Vibrio cholerae 0139 express antigenically distinct types of colonization pili FEMS Microbiology Letters, 118 (3). pp. 265-271. ISSN 1574-6968

Garg, Surabhi ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Deb, B. C. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Shimada, Toshio ; Takeda, Tae ; Huq, Anwarul ; Colwell, Rita R. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1994) Production and cross-reactivity patterns of a panel of high affinity monoclonal antibodies to Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 8 (4). pp. 293-298. ISSN 1574-695X

Popovic, Tanja ; Fields, Patricia I. ; Olsvik, Orjan ; Wells, Joy G. ; Evins, Gracia M. ; Cameron, Daniel N. ; Farmer III, J. J. ; Bopp, Cheryl A. ; Wachsmuth, Kaye ; Sack, R. Bradley ; Albert, M. John ; Nair, G. Balakrish ; Shimada, Toshio ; Feeley, John C. (1994) Molecular subtyping Of toxigenic vibrio cholerae O139 causing epidemic cholera in India and Bangladesh, 1992-1993 journal of Infectious diseases, 171 (1). pp. 122-127. ISSN 0022-1899

Faruque, S. M. ; Alim, A. R. Abdul ; Roy, S. K. ; Khan, F. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sack, R. B. ; Albert, M. J. (1994) Molecular analysis of rRNA and cholera toxin genes carried by the new epidemic strain of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym Bengal Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 32 (4). pp. 1050-1053. ISSN 1098-660X

Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Deb, B. C. (1994) Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal: the eighth pandemic strain of cholera Indian Journal of Public Health, 38 (2). pp. 33-36. ISSN 0019-557X

Paul, Mousumi ; Tsukamoto, Teizo ; Ghosh, Asit R. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Manna, B. ; Chakrabarti, S. ; Nair, G. Balakrish ; Sack, David A. ; Sen, Dipak ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1994) The significance of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli in the etiology of hospitalized diarrhoea in Calcutta, India and the demonstration of a new honey-combed pattern of aggregative adherence FEMS Microbiology Letters, 117 (3). pp. 319-325. ISSN 1574-6968

Ramamurthy, T. ; John Albert, M. ; Huq, Anwarul ; Colwell, Rita R. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Takeda, Tae ; Shimada, Toshio ; Mandal, B. K. ; Nair, G. B. (1994) Vibrio mimicus with multiple toxin types isolated from human and environmental sources Journal of Medical Microbiology, 40 (3). pp. 194-196. ISSN 1473-5644

Shimada, Toshio ; Arakawa, Eiji ; Itoh, Kenichiro ; Okitsu, Tadayuki ; Matsushima, Akiyoshi ; Asai, Yoshio ; Yamai, Shiro ; Nakazato, Tamotsu ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; John Albert, M. (1994) Extended serotyping scheme for Vibrio cholerae Current Microbiology, 28 (3). pp. 175-178. ISSN 1432-0991

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Mukhopadhyay, Asish K. ; Garg, Surabhi ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Takeda, Tae ; Shimada, Toshio ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Deb, B. C. (1994) Spread of Vibrio cholerae 0139 Bengal in India Journal of Infectious Diseases, 169 (5). pp. 1029-1034. ISSN 0022-1899

Shimada, Toshio ; Arakawa, Eiji ; Itoh, Kenichiro ; Nakazato, Tamotsu ; Okitsu, Tadayuki ; Yamai, Shiro ; Kusum, Mayura ; Nair, G. Balakrish ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1994) Two strains of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 possessing somatic (O) antigen factors in common with V. cholerae serogroup O139 synonym "Bengal" Current Microbiology, 29 (6). pp. 331-333. ISSN 1432-0991

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Dutta, D. ; Garg, S. ; Mukhopadhyay, A. K. ; Deb, M. ; Moitra, A. ; Nair, G. B. (1994) Vibrio cholerae O139 in Calcutta Archives of Disease in Childhood, 71 (2). pp. 161-162. ISSN 0003-9888

Yuan, P. ; Ogawa, A. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Shimada, T. ; Shinoda, S. ; Takeda, T. (1994) Vibrio mimicus are the reservoirs of the heat-stable enterotoxin gene (nag-st) among species of the genus Vibrio World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 10 (1). pp. 59-63. ISSN 1573-0972

Takeda, Tae ; Bhattacharya, Sujit K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1993) Cooperative studies on diarrheal diseases Pediatrics International, 35 (6). pp. 583-590. ISSN 1442-200X

Bag, Prasant K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1993) Evidence for the presence of a receptor for the cytolethal distending toxin (CLDT) of Campylobacter jejuni on CHO and HeLa cell membranes and development of a receptor-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of CLDT FEMS Microbiology Letters, 114 (3). pp. 285-291. ISSN 1574-6968

Ramamurthy, T. ; Pal, A. ; Bag, P. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Kurozano, H. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Shirai, H. ; Takeda, T. ; Uesaka, Y. (1993) Detection of cholera toxin gene in stool specimens by polymerase chain reaction: comparison with bead enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and culture method for laboratory diagnosis of cholera Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 31 (11). pp. 3068-3070. ISSN 1098-660X

Sengupta, Krisanu ; Das, Praddeep ; Johnson, Tony M. ; Chaudhuri, Partha P. ; Das, Debasish ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1993) Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against a highly immunogenic fraction of entamoeba histolytica (NIH:200) and their application in the detection of current amoebic infection The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 40 (6). pp. 722-726. ISSN 1550-7408

Ramamurthy, T. ; Bag, Prasanta K. ; Pal, Amit ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Shimada, Toshio ; Takeda, Tae ; Karasawa, Tadahiro ; Kurazono, Hisao ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1993) Virulence patterns of Vibrio cholerae non-01 strains isolated from hospitalised patients with acute diarrhoea in Calcutta, India Journal of Medical Microbiology, 39 (4). pp. 310-317. ISSN 1473-5644

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Dutta, D. ; Deb, A. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Garg, Surabhi ; Saha, Pradip K. ; Dutta, P. ; Moitra, A. ; Mandal, B. K. ; Shimada, Toshio ; Takeda, Yoshifumi ; Deb, B. C. (1993) Clinical profile of acute diarrhoea cases infected with the new epidemic strain of Vibrio cholerae O139: designation of the disease as cholera Journal of Infection, 27 (1). pp. 11-15. ISSN 0163-4453

Garg, Surabhi ; Saha, Pradip K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Deb, B. C. ; Nair, G. Balakrish (1993) Nationwide prevalence of the new epidemic strain of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal in India Journal of Infection, 27 (1). pp. 108-109. ISSN 0163-4453

Yoshino, Ken-ichi ; Miyachia, Miki ; Takao, Toshifumi ; Bag, Prasanta K. ; Xiaozhe, Huang ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Takeda, Tae ; Shimonishi, Yasutsugu (1993) Purification and sequence determination of heat-stable enterotoxin elaborated by a cholera toxin-producing strain of Vibrio cholerae O1 FEBS Letters, 326 (1-3). pp. 83-86. ISSN 0014-5793

Dutta, P. ; Mitra, U. ; Raisaily, R. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; De, S. P. ; Sen, D. ; Saha, M. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Das, P. ; Jana, A. (1993) Prospective study of nosocomial enteric infections in a padiatric hospital, Calcutta Indian Pediatrics, 30 . pp. 187-194. ISSN 0019-6061

Karasawa, Tadahiro ; Mihara, Tatsuya ; Kurazonoa, Hisao ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Garg, Surabhi ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1993) Distribution of the zot (zonula occludens toxin) gene among strains of Vibrio cholerae 01 and non-01 FEMS Microbiology Letters, 106 (2). pp. 143-145. ISSN 1574-6968

Takeda, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Suzuki, K. ; Zhe, H. X. ; Yokoo, Y. ; De Mol, P. ; Hemelhof, W. ; Butzler, J. P. ; Takeda, Y. ; Shimonishi, Y. (1993) Epitope mapping and characterization of antigenic determinants of heat-stable enterotoxin (STh) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli by using monoclonal antibodies Infection and Immunity, 61 (1). pp. 289-294. ISSN 1098-5522

Dohia, Sekiko ; Kasugaa, Hidehiko ; Nakaoa, Hiroshi ; Ogawaa, Akira ; Balakrish Naira, G. ; Takeda, Tae (1993) Heterogeneity in the molecular species of heat-stable enterotoxin of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 expressed by Escherichia coli carrying the cloned toxin gene FEMS Microbiology Letters, 106 (2). pp. 223-227. ISSN 1574-6968

Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Takeda, T. (1993) Identification of heat-stable enterotoxin-producing strains of Yersinia enterocolitica and Vibrio cholerae non-O1 by a monoclonal antibody-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Microbiology and Immunology, 37 (3). pp. 181-186. ISSN 1348-0421

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Datta, D. ; Garg, Surabi ; Manna, B. ; Balakrish, G. ; Nag, A. ; Moitra, A. (1992) Cholera in young children in an endemic area The Lancet, 340 (8834-8835). p. 1549. ISSN 1474-547X

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Pal, A. ; Bag, P. K. ; Takeda, T. ; Shimada, T. ; Dutta, P. ; Debnath, A. ; Chakraborti, S. (1992) Acute secretory travellers' diarrhoea caused by Vibrio cholerae non-01 which does not produce cholera-like or heat-stable enterotoxins Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 10 (3). pp. 161-163. ISSN 0253-8768

Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sen, D. ; Paul, M. ; Debnath, A. ; Nag, A. ; Dutta, D. ; Dutta, P. ; Pal, S. C. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. (1992) Efficacy of norfloxacin for shigellosis: a double-blind randomised clinical trial Journal Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 10 (3). pp. 146-150. ISSN 0253-8768

Pal, A. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; Takeda, T. ; Shimada, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. ; Pal, S. C. ; Chakrabarti, S. (1992) Reassessment of the prevalence of heat-stable enterotoxin (NAG-ST) among environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1 strains isolated from Calcutta, India, by using a NAG-ST DNA probe Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 58 (8). pp. 2485-2489. ISSN 1098-5336

Ramamurthy, T. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Uesaka, Y. ; Horigome, K. ; Paul, M. ; Sen, D. ; Pal, S. C. ; Takeda, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. (1992) Evaluation of the bead enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of cholera toxin directly from stool specimens Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 30 (7). pp. 1783-1786. ISSN 1098-660X

Nair, G. B. ; Takeda, Y. (1992) Immunodiagnosis of bacterial enteric infections: where do we stand? Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology, 10 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 0125-877X

Ramamurthy, T. ; Pal, A. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Chowdhury, A. ; Takeda, Y. ; Takeda, T. ; Pal, S. C. ; Nair, G. B. (1992) Serovar, biotype, phage type, toxigenicity & antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Vibrio cholerae isolated during two consecutive cholera seasons (1989-90) in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 95 . pp. 125-129. ISSN 0971-5916

Ghosh, A. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Naik, T. N. ; Paul, Mousumi ; Pal, S. C. ; Sen, D. (1992) Entero-adherent Escherichia coli is an important diarrhoeagenic agent in infants aged below 6 months in Calcutta, India Journal of Medical Microbiology, 36 (4). pp. 264-268. ISSN 1473-5644

Ramamurthy, T. ; Pal, A. ; Pal, S. C. ; Nair, G. B. (1992) Taxonomical implications of the emergence of high frequency of occurrence of 2,4-diamino-6,7-diisopropylpteridine-resistant strains of Vibrio cholerae from clinical cases of cholera in Calcutta, India Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 30 (3). pp. 742-743. ISSN 1098-660X

Pal, A. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Ghosh, A. R. ; Pal, S. C. ; Takeda, Y. ; Nair, G. B. (1992) Virulence traits of aeromonas strains in relation to species and source of isolation Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie: Internatioanl Journal of Medical Microbiology, 276 (3). pp. 418-428. ISSN 0174-3015

Bhadra, Rupak K. ; Dutta, P. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Dutta, S. K. ; Pal, S. C. ; Nair, G. Balakrish (1992) Campylobacter species as a cause of diarrhoea in children in Calcutta Journal of Infection, 24 (1). pp. 55-62. ISSN 0163-4453

Uesaka, Y. ; Otsuka, Y. ; Kashida, M. ; Oku, Y. ; Horigome, K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Pal, S. C. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Takeda, Y. (1992) Detection of cholera toxin by a highly sensitive bead-enzyme linked immunosorbent assay Microbiology and Immunology, 36 (1). pp. 43-53. ISSN 1348-0421

Maruvada, R. ; Das, P. ; Ghosh, A. N. ; Pal, S. C. ; Nair, G. B. (1992) Electrophoretic mobility and immunoblot analysis of the outer membrane proteins of aeromonas hydrophila, A. sobria and A. caviae Microbios, 71 (287-287). pp. 105-113. ISSN 0026-2633

Bag, P. K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Takeda, Y. ; Pal, S. C. ; Balakrish Nair, G. (1992) Identification of subunits of cholera toxin in stool specimens of patients with campylobacteriosis by Western immunoblotting Biomedical Letters, 47 (188). pp. 375-382. ISSN 0961-088X

Bhadra, R. K. ; Biswas, T. ; Pal, S. C. ; Takeda, T. ; Nair, G. B. (1991) A polyclonal-monoclonal antibody based sensitive sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for specific detection of cholera toxin Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie: The International Journal of Microbiology, 275 (4). pp. 467-473. ISSN 0934-8840

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bhadra, Rupak K. ; Ramamurthy, T. ; Ramesh, A. ; Pal, S. C. (1991) Vibrio cholerae and other vibrios associated with paddy field cultured prawns Food Microbiology, 8 (3). pp. 203-208. ISSN 1095-9998

Paul, M. ; Ghosh, A. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Pal, S. C. ; Sen, D. (1991) Diarrhoea associated with Escherichia coli O157 which do not produce verocytotoxins Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 9 (2). pp. 123-124. ISSN 0253-8768

Takeda, Tae ; Peina, Yuan ; Ogawa, Akira ; Dohi, Sekiko ; Abe, Hisao ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Pal, S. C. (1991) Detection of heat-stable enterotoxin in a cholera toxin gene-positive strain of Vibrio cholerae 01 FEMS Microbiology Letters, 80 (1). pp. 23-28. ISSN 1574-6968

Niyogi, S. K. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Dutta, P. ; Naik, T. N. ; De, S. P. ; Sen, D. ; Saha, M. R. ; Datta, D. ; Nair, G. B. ; Mitra, U. (1991) Prevalence of Clostridium difficile in hospitalised patients with acute diarrhoea in Calcutta Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 9 (1). pp. 16-19. ISSN 0253-8768

Bhadra, R. K. ; Pal, S. C. ; Nair, G. B. (1991) Simplified method for the detection of DNA hydrolysis by enteric campylobacters Indian Journal of Medical Research, 93 . pp. 87-89. ISSN 0971-5916

Bhadra, R. K. ; Bag, P. K. ; Pal, S. C. ; Nair, G. B. (1991) Comparison of selective medium supplemented with blood & a charcoal-based blood-free medium for primary isolation of campylobacters from human faeces Indian Journal of Medical Research, 93 . pp. 22-25. ISSN 0971-5916

Ghosh, A. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Dutta, P. ; Pal, S. C. ; Sen, D. (1991) Acute diarrhoeal diseases in infants aged below six months in hospital in Calcutta, India: an aetiological study Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 85 (6). pp. 796-798. ISSN 0035-9203

Gupta, P. G. Sen ; Nair, G. B. ; Mondal, S. ; Gupta, D. N. ; Sen, D. ; Sikdar, S. N. ; Das, P. ; Sarkar, R. K. ; Ghosh, S. ; Saha, N. C. ; Deb, B. C. ; Pal, S. C. (1991) Epidemiology of campylobacteriosis in a cohort of rural population near Calcutta Epidemiology and Infection, 106 (03). pp. 507-512. ISSN 1469-4409

Ghosh, A. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Naik, T. N. ; Sarkar, S. K. ; Mazumdar, R. ; Pal, S. C. ; Sen, D. (1991) Serovars of multi-antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli from the freshwater environs of Calcutta, India Microbiology and Immunology, 35 (4). pp. 273-287. ISSN 1348-0421

Ogawa, A. ; Kato, J. ; Watanabe, H. ; Nair, B. G. ; Takeda, T. (1990) Cloning and nucleotide sequence of a heat-stable enterotoxin gene from Vibrio cholerae non-O1 isolated from a patient with traveler's diarrhea Infection and Immunity, 58 (10). pp. 3325-3329. ISSN 1098-5522

Takeda, T. ; Nair, G. B. ; Suzuki, K. ; Shimonishi, Y. (1990) Production of a monoclonal antibody to Vibrio cholerae non-O1 heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) which is cross reactive with Yersinia enterocolitica ST Infection and Immunity, 58 (9). pp. 2755-2759. ISSN 1098-5522

Ramamurthy, T. ; Pal, Amit ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Pal, S. C. ; Takeda, Tae ; Takeda, Yoshifumi (1990) Experience with toxin bead ELISA in cholera outbreak The Lancet, 336 (8711). pp. 375-376. ISSN 1474-547X

Nair, G. B. ; Pal, S. C. (1989) Enterotoxin induced diarrhoea - an update Tropical Gastroenterology, 10 (3). pp. 133-141. ISSN 0250-636X

Pal, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Das, P. ; Chaudhuri, P. ; Dutta, P. ; De, S. P. ; Sen, D. ; Saha, M. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Pal, S. C. (1989) Occurrence and significance of Cryptosporidium infection in Calcutta Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 83 (4). pp. 520-521. ISSN 0035-9203

Bhadra, R. K. ; Lior, H. ; Misra, S. K. ; Pal, S. C. ; Nair, G. B. (1989) Serotypes & biotypes of Campylobacter jejuni & C. coli from diverse sources in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 89 . pp. 225-228. ISSN 0971-5916

Misra, S. K. ; Shimada, T. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; Pal, S. C. ; Nair, G. B. (1989) Serogroups of Aeromonas species from clinical and environmental sources in Calcutta, India Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 7 (1-2). pp. 8-12. ISSN 0253-8768

Misra, S. K. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; C., S. ; Nair, G. B. (1989) Growth of Aeromonas spp. on Butzler Campylobacter selective agar and evaluation of the agar for the primary isolation of Aeromonas spp. from clinical specimens Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 27 (2). pp. 346-347. ISSN 1098-660X

Dutta, P. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Dutta, D. ; Sen, D. ; Nair, G. B. ; Mondal, B. C. ; Sinha, S. ; Pal, S. C. (1989) Hemolytic uraemic syndrome following Salmonella typhimurium enteritis The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 56 (3). pp. 409-410. ISSN 0019-5456

Nair, G. B. ; Oku, Y. ; Takeda, Y. ; Ghosh, A. ; Ghosh, R. K. ; Chattopadhyay, S. ; Pal, S. C. ; Kaper, J. B. ; Takeda, T. (1988) Toxin profiles of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 from environmental sources in Calcutta, India Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 54 (12). pp. 3180-3182. ISSN 1098-5336

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Sarkar, B. L. ; De, S. P. ; Chakrabarti, M. K. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; Pal, S. C. (1988) Ecology of Vibrio cholerae in the freshwater environs of Calcutta, India Microbial Ecology, 15 (2). pp. 203-215. ISSN 1432-184X

Mishra, S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; Sikder, S. N. ; Pal, S. C. (1987) Comparison of selective media for primary isolation of Aeromonas species from human and animal feces Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 25 (11). pp. 2040-2043. ISSN 1098-660X

Mitra, U. ; De, S. P. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sarker, B. L. ; Palchaudhuri, S. (1987) Plasmid patterns, serotyping and Kanagawa phenomenon of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from man, water and fish in Calcutta, India Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 5 (3). pp. 171-174. ISSN 0253-8768

Nair, G. B. ; Misra, S. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; Pal, S. C. (1987) Evaluation of the multitest medium for rapid presumptive identification of Vibrio cholerae from environmental sources Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 53 (5). pp. 1203-1205. ISSN 1098-5336

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Datta, P. ; Datta, D. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Sen, D. ; Saha, M. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Das, P. ; Sikdar, S. N. ; Bose, R. (1987) Relative efficacy of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and nalidixic acid for acute invasive diarrhea Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 31 (5). p. 837. ISSN 1098-6596

Dutta, P. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Dutta, D. ; Sen, D. ; Saha, M. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Bose, R. (1987) Clinical presentation of shigellosis during the 1984 epidemic of bacillary dysentery in West Bengal Journal of the Association of Physicians of India, 35 (3). pp. 195-197. ISSN 0004-5772

Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Datta, P. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Pal, S. C. (1987) Diarrhoeagenic campylobacters in hospitalized dysentery patients in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 85 . pp. 104-106. ISSN 0971-5916

Ramesh, A. ; Nair, G. B. ; Abraham, M. ; Natarajan, R. ; Venugopalan, V. K. (1987) Seasonal distribution of luminous bacteria in the tropical Vellar estuary Microbios, 52 (212-213). pp. 151-159. ISSN 0026-2633

Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Dutta, P. ; Sen, J. K. ; Dutta, D. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; Pal, S. C. (1986) Campylobacter pyloridis in samples of endoscopic biopsy in patients with upper gastrointestinal tract disease Indian Journal of Medical Research, 84 . pp. 574-576. ISSN 0971-5916

Nair, G. B. ; Bhadra, R. K. ; Datta, P. ; Datta, D. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Pal, S. C. ; Sinha, S. (1986) Biphasic campylobacter enteritis in Bengali children Journal of Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 4 (3). pp. 163-164. ISSN 0253-8768

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Sen, D. ; Nair, G. B. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Datta, P. ; Datta, D. (1986) Multiply drug-resistant shigella dysenteriae type 1 and travelers' diarrhea The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 154 (4). pp. 729-730. ISSN 0022-1899

Sen, D. ; Saha, M. R. ; Nair, G. B. ; Das, P. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; De, S. P. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Datta, P. ; Dutta, D. ; Pal, S. C. (1985) Etiological spectrum of acute diarrhoea in hospitalised patients in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 82 . pp. 286-291. ISSN 0971-5916

Nair, G. B. ; Sarkar, B. L. ; Abraham, M. ; Pal, S. C. (1985) Serotypes of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from hydrobiologically dissimilar aquatic environments Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 50 (3). pp. 724-726. ISSN 1098-5336

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; Datta, P. ; Datta, D. ; Bhattacharya, M. K. ; Bose, R. ; Pal, S. C. (1985) Clinical manifestations of campylobacter enteritis in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 82 . pp. 90-92. ISSN 0971-5916

Nair, G. B. ; Pal, S. C. (1985) Biotype characterization & antibiotic sensitivity of campylobacters from human & non-human sources in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 81 . pp. 357-363. ISSN 0971-5916

Nair, G. B. ; Sarkar, R. K. ; Chowdhury, S. ; Pal, S. C. (1985) Campylobacter infection in domestic dogs The Veterinary Record, 116 (9). pp. 237-238. ISSN 0042-4900

Sarkar, B. L. ; Nair, G. B. ; Banerjee, A. K. ; Pal, S. C. (1985) Seasonal distribution of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in freshwater environs and in association with freshwater fishes in Calcutta Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 49 (1). pp. 132-136. ISSN 1098-5336

Nair, G. B. ; Saha, M. R. ; Sarkar, B. L. ; Pal, S. C. (1985) Comparison of the modified elek test and wagatsuma agar for determination of the Kanagawa phenomenon of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 22 (5). pp. 868-869. ISSN 1098-660X

Nair, G. B. ; Abraham, M. ; Natarajan, R. ; Pal, S. C. (1985) Computer characterization of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and allied sucrose-negative vibrios isolated from aquatic environs of Porto Novo Indian Journal of Medical Research, 81 . pp. 20-30. ISSN 0971-5916

Nair, G. B. ; Chowdhury, S. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Pal, S. C. (1984) Occurrence & significance of campylobacter jejuni in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 80 . pp. 412-416. ISSN 0971-5916

Sarkar, R. K. ; Chowdhury, S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Pal, S. C. (1984) Prevalence of campylobacter jejuni in an abattoir Indian Journal of Medical Research, 80 . pp. 417-420. ISSN 0971-5916

Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Balakrish Nair, G. ; Datta, P. ; Datta, D. ; De, S. P. ; Pal, S. C. (1984) Electrocardiographic changes in Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection Journal of Association of Physicians of India, 32 (7). pp. 607-608. ISSN 0004-5772

Nair, G. B. ; Chowdhury, S. ; Das, P. ; Pal, S. ; Pal, S. C. (1984) Improved preservation medium for Campylobacter jejuni Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 19 (2). pp. 298-299. ISSN 1098-660X

Chowdhury, S. ; Nair, G. B. ; Pal, S. C. (1984) Occurrence of Campylobacter jejuni in country chicken in Calcutta Indian Journal of Medical Research, 79 . pp. 171-173. ISSN 0971-5916

Sarkar, B. L. ; Nair, G. B. ; Sircar, B. K. ; Pal, S. C. (1983) Incidence and level of Vibrio parahaemolyticus associated with freshwater plankton Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 46 (1). pp. 288-290. ISSN 1098-5336

Sen, D. ; Saha, M. R. ; Niyogi, S. K. ; Nair, G. B. ; De, S. P. ; Datta, P. ; Datta, D. ; Pal, S. C. ; Bose, R. ; Roychowdhury, J. (1983) Aetiological studies on hospital in-patients with acute diarrhoea in Calcutta Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77 (2). pp. 212-214. ISSN 0035-9203

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Bhattacharya, S. K. ; Pal, S. C. (1983) Isolation and characterization of Campylobacter jejuni from acute diarrhoeal cases in Calcutta Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77 (4). pp. 474-476. ISSN 0035-9203

Nair, G. B. ; Pal, S. C. (1982) Short-term preservation medium for Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni Indian Journal of Medical Research, 76 . pp. 692-695. ISSN 0971-5916

Balakrish Nair, G. ; Abraham, Martin ; Natarajan, R. (1980) Distribution of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in finfish harvested from Porto Novo (S. India) environs: a seasonal study Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 26 (11). pp. 1264-1269. ISSN 1480-3275

Natarajan, R. ; Abraham, M. ; Nair, G. B. (1980) Distribution of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Porto Novo environment Indian Journal of Medical Research, 71 . pp. 679-687. ISSN 0971-5916

Nair, G. B. ; Abraham, M. ; Natarajan, R. (1980) Marine vibrios and related genera from the vellar estuary Bulletin of National Institute of Oceanography, 13 (3). p. 1980. ISSN 1110-0354

Nair, G. B. (1979) Incidence of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus in relation to feeding habit of fishes Current Science, 48 (19). pp. 875-877. ISSN 0011-3891