HITENDER GAUTAM

Additional Professor

Bacteriology, Serology & Hospital Infection Control

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Area of Research:

1. Antimicrobial resistance

2. Hospital Infection Control (HIC) and Hospital acquired infections (HAI)

3. Antimicrobial stewardship

4. Meningitis

5. Diarrhoea

6. Biomarkers

 

Dr.Hitender Gautam has completed his M.B.B.S. from University College of Medical Sciences (U.C.M.S.) & G.T.B. Hospital in 2003. He has completed his M.D. in 2008 and Senior Residency in 2011 from Maulana Azad Medical College (M.A.M.C.). He joined the institute as Assistant Professor in June 2014.

Dr. Hitender Gautam looks after the routine functioning of Bacteriology & Serology Laboratories; routine functioning of HIV-Immunology Laboratory; HIC Core Committee Member, AIIMS, New Delhi; Hospital Infection Control Officer, Dr. B.R.A IRCH & Surgical Block; NABL Core Committee Member & Deputy Quality Manager for Dept. of Microbiology; Invited Co-Guide for PhD in Medicine by Research Medical Microbiology program at Texila American University; Nodal Officer for COVID-19 for Department of Microbiology

 

Publications- 76

Papers in Conference either as Presenting or Co-author – 100

Book Chapters- 6

Invited Lectures: 36

Gene Bank Submission: 24

Major Extramural Research Projects as Principal Investigator:

1. “Biomarkers for bacteremia, antimicrobial resistance and hospital acquired infections by NMR and Mass Spectrometry among febrile neutropenic patients” Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), DBT 2019-2022

2. “Genomic profiling of invasive and hospital acquired Escherichia coli pathotypes from different clinical samples to identify the virulence and antimicrobial resistance markers” SERB DST. Mar 2022 to Mar 2024

3. Site-specific biomarkers to differentiate infection from either colonization or aseptic inflammation in ICU. ICMR. 2023-2026

4. Molecular Characterization of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli among children with acute diarrhea: Association of virulence and adherence genes. DHR. 2024-2027

5. IIRPIG-2023-0001405/F1. “Platform for enhanced pathogen detection for meningitis and sepsis: Rapid, portable, and field-deployable diagnostics”. ICMR. AIIMS Site PI. Approved for funding

6. Detection of viable but non-culturable (VBNC) Gram-negative bacteria in sepsis and meningitis: Clinical significance in AMR stewardship. AIIMS-THSTI Collaborative Proposal. 2023-2025

 

Major Publications:

1. Jaya Biswas , Kavi Priya Appasami, Hitender Gautam, Sarita Mohapatra, Seema Sood, Benu Dhawan, Rama Chaudhry, Arti Kapil, Bimal Kumar Das. Tick-tock, beat the clock: Comparative analysis of disc diffusion testing with 6, 10 and 24 hour growth for accelerated Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing report and antimicrobial stewardship. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 2023;42(8):929-943. (Corresponding author)

2. Bir, Raunak; Gautam, Hitender; Arif, Nazneen; Chakravarti, Priyanka; Verma, Jyoti; Banerjee, Sayantan; Tyagi, Sonu; Mohapatra, Sarita; Sood, Seema; Dhawan, Benu; Chaudhry, Rama; Kapil, Arti; Das, Bimal; Das,Bhabatosh. Analysis of Colistin resistance  in Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales and XDR Klebsiella pneumoniae. Ther Adv Infectious Dis 2022;9: 1–15. DOI: 10.1177/20499361221080650 (Corresponding author)

3. Sharma N, Gautam H, Tyagi S, Raza S, Mohapatra S, Sood S, Dhawan B, Kapil A & Das B.K. Clinical Use of Multiplex-PCR for the Diagnosis of Acute Bacterial Meningitis. J Family Med Prim Care 2022;11:593-8. (Corresponding Author)

4. Raza S, Gautam H, Mohapatra S, Sood S, Dhawan B, Chaudhry R, Kapil A, Das BK. Molecular characterization of resistance-nodulation-cell division efflux pump genes in multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. J Global Infect Dis J Global Infect Dis 2021;13:177-9. DOI: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_404_20. (Corresponding Author)

5. Sonu Agrawal, Hitender Gautam, Abdul Hakim Choudhary, Bimal Kumar Das, Lalit Kumar, Arti Kapil. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Cancer Patients: An experience from a tertiary care cancer centre. Ind J Med Microbiol 2019 Jul-Sep;37(3):376-380. (Corresponding Author).

6. Jajoo M, Manchanda V, Chaurasia S, Sankar MJ, Gautam H, Agarwal R, Yadav CP, Aggarwal KC, Chellani H, Ramji S, Deb M, Gaind R, Kumar S, Arya S, Sreenivas V, Kapil A, Mathur P, Rasaily R, Deorari AK, Paul VK; Investigators of the Delhi Neonatal Infection Study (DeNIS) collaboration, New Delhi, India. Alarming rates of antimicrobial resistance and fungal sepsis in outborn neonates in North India.PLoS One. 2018 Jun 28;13(6):e0180705. 

7. Hitender Gautam,Preena Bhalla, Sanjeev Saini, Beena Uppal, Ravinder Kaur, Chander Prakash Baveja, Richa Dewan.Epidemiology of Opportunistic Infections and its Correlation with CD4+ T-Lymphocyte Counts and Plasma Viral Load among AIDS Patients at tertiary care hospital in India. Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care2009; 8(6): 333-337. (Corresponding Author)