Dr. Kiran Bala

Dr. Kiran Bala, MBBS, MD

Additional Professor

Tuberculosis Section, Department of Microbiology

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi—110029

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Dr. Kiran Bala has completed her M.B.B.S. from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi in 2007. She has completed her M.D. Microbiology in 2012 from Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh.  She has worked as a Senior Resident in Department of Microbiology at Maulana Azad Medical College (M.A.M.C.) and Lok Nayak Hospital, Delhi. She has joined the institute in December 2016.

She looks after the routine functioning of Mycobacteriology laboratory;HIC Core Committee Member, AIIMS, New Delhi; Hospital Infection Control Officer, National Centre of Ageing & Department of Pulmonary Medicine & Sleep disorders.

Areas of research interest:Clinical Microbiology with major interest in Tuberculosis and opportunistic infections.

• Diagnostics of Tuberculosis

• Multi drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR)

• Non-tubercular Mycobacteria (NTM)

• Therapeutic advances of tuberculosis

• Hospital Infection Control

Publications in indexed journals- 35

Few publications

1. Mahishi N, Bala K, Malik P, Ranjan P, Kumar A, Soneja M, Mohan A, Singh UB. The burden of tuberculosis among patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma in a tertiary care center, Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, Volume 52, 2024,100729, ISSN 0255-0857, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2024.100729. (Corresponding author).

2. Roy P, Bala K, Biswas J, Ahmed J, Bir R, Yadav V, Xess A, Kumari S, Malik P, Deo SVS, Batra A, Sharma A, Singh UB. Active Tuberculosis Risk Associated with Malignancies: A 4-Year Retrospective Study in a Tertiary Care Hospital. South Asian J cancer 2024; 00 (00):00. DOI:10.1055/s-0044-1786363.

3. Bala K, Kumari S, Monga R, Sagar P, Thakar A, Sharma SC, Singh UB. Spectrum of mycobacterial pathogens for Head and Neck tuberculosis like presentation. Access Microbio. 2021. DOI 10.1099/acmi.0.000304.

4. Singh, U.B., Angitha, K.P., Bhatnagar, A. Sharma S, Bir R, Bala K et al. GeneXpert Ultra in Urine Samples for Diagnosis of Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Curr Microbiol 80, 361 (2023).

5. Ahmed J, Bir R, Bala K, Singh UB. The COVID-19 pandemic does not bode well for TB control. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2022 Sep 1;26(9):897-901. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.22.0286. PMID: 35996276.

6. Singh UB, Singh M, Sharma S, Mahajan N, Bala K, Srivastav A, Singh KJ, Rao MVV, Lodha R, Kabra SK. Expedited diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis using Truenat MTB-Rif Dx and GeneXpert MTB/RIF. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 28;13(1):6976. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32810-2. PMID: 37117209; PMCID: PMC10147673.

7. Bala K, Kumari S, Guleria R, Singh UB. Recurrent bilateral breast abscess due to Mycobacterium abscessus in an immune-competent woman. BMJ Case Reports 2020;13: e235857.doi:10.1136/bcr-2020-235857.