Publications

1.

Suman Jain, Syed Muzaffarullah, Sundaresh Peri, Ramesh Ellanti, Krishna Moorthy KV and Indira Nath Lower touch sensibility in the extremities of healthy Indians:  further deterioration with age. Journal of Peripheral Nervous System (In press).

2.

Saroj K Young, Jorg M ponnighaus, Suman Jain, Sebastian Lucas, Sujai Suneetha, Diana Lockwood, Douglas B Young, Paul EM Fine. Use of Short Tandem Repeat Sequences to Study Mycobacterium leprae in leprosy patients in Malawi and India. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (Inpress)

3.

Anuradha B, Shilpa S Rakh, M Ishaq, Murthy KJR and Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri. Interferon g Low Producer Genotype +874 Overrepresented In BCG Non-responding Children. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, April 2008 (In press).

4.

Kishore Reddy VC, Prasad CE, Aparna S, Gokhale S and Anjaneulu.A study of mycobacterial species causing lymphadenitis. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine Public Health (In press).

5.

Aparna.S, Kishore VC, Gokahale S, Krishna Murthy KV. In vitro drug resistance and response to therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis patients under a DOTS programme in South India.  Transactions of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (In press).

6.

Kishore Reddy VC, Aparna S, Prasad CE, Srinivas A, Triveni B, Gokhale S, Krishna Moorthy  KV. Mycobacterial Culture of Fine Needle Aspirate - A Useful Tool in Diagnosing Tuberculous Lymphadenitis. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology (In press).

7.

Caroline Lund, Mika Koskinen, Sujai Suneetha, Diana NJ Lockwood, Amija Haanpaa, Hannu Haapasalo, Aki Hietaharju. Histopathological and clinical findings in leprosy patients with chronic neuropathic pain: a study from Hyderabad, India. Leprosy Review. 2007; 78, 369-380.

8.

Anuradha B, Haripriya Sai V, Sumanlatha G, Murthy KJR, Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri. Age-related waning of in vitro Interferon-gamma levels against r32kDaBCG in BCG vaccinated children. Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines 2007, 5:8 doi:10.1186/1476-8518-5-8.

9.

Andersson AK, Atkinson SE, Khanolkar-Young S, Chaduvula M, Jain S, Suneetha L, Suneetha S, Lockwood DN. Alteration of the cortisol-cortisone shuttle in leprosy type 1 reactions in leprosy patients in Hyderabad, India. Immunol Lett. 2007 Mar 15, 109(1),  72-75

10.
Krishna Moorthy KV and Desikan KV. Indeterminate leprosy in an infant. Leprosy Review 2006; 77, 377-380.
11.
Srikantam A, Krishna Moorthy KV, Gokhale S. Bacteriological Techniques Compliment the Clinical and Cytological Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Human Immuno Deficiency Virus Infected Persons. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2006; 24 (3): 225-7.
12.
Rao PN, Pratap D, Ramana Reddy AV, Sujai S. Evaluation of leprosy patients with 1 to 5 skin lesions with relevance to their grouping into paucibacillary or multibacillary disease. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2006; 72:207-210.
13.
Pocaterra L, Jain S, Reddy R, Muzaffarullah S, Torres O, Suneetha S, Lockwood DN. Clinical course of Erythema Nodosum Leprosum: an 11-year cohort study in Hyderabad, India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 May; 74(5):868-879.
14. S Aparna, Shishir Gokhale, KV Krishna Murthy. From microscopy center to culture laboratory- a viable ride for mycobacterium. Int.J.Tuberc. Lung.Dis, 2006 ,10(4):447-449.
15. B Anuradha, VHS Priya, VV Lakshmi, Y Akbar, S Aparna, GS Latha, K J R Murthy. Prevalence of drug resistance under the DOTS strategy in Hyderabad, South India, 2001-2003. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2006;10 (1): 58-62.
16. Renuka Raju, Sujai Suneetha, Karuna Devi, Mehervani, Saraswathi V, Satyanarayana AVV & Lavanya M Suneetha. Diagnostic role of the antibody response to the 38kDa, 16kDa proteins and liparabinomannan of M.tuberculosis. Indian J. of Clinical Biochemistry, 2005: 20(1) 123-128
17. Anna K. Andersson, MeherVani Chaduvula, Sara E. Atkinson, Saroj Khanolkar-Young, Suman Jain, Lavanya Suneetha, Sujai Suneetha and Diana N.J. Lockwood. Effects of prednisolone treatment on cytokine expression in leprosy type 1 reactions. Infection & Immunity, June 2005; 3725-3733.
18. Diana NJ Lockwood and Sujai Suneetha. Leprosy: too complex a disease for a simple elimination paradigm. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 2005; 83: 230-235.
19. van Brakel WH, Nicholls PG, Das L, Barkataki P, Suneetha SK, Jadhav RS, Maddali P, Lockwood DN, Wilder-Smith E, Desikan KV. The INFIR Cohort Study: investigating prediction, detection and pathogenesis of neuropathy and reactions in leprosy. Methods and baseline results of a cohort of multibacillary leprosy patients in north India. Lepr Rev. 2005 Mar;76(1):14-34.
20.

Rao PN, Sujai S, Srinivas D, Lakshmi TS. Comparison of two systems of classification of leprosy based on number of skin lesions and number of body areas involved--a clinicopathological concordance study. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2005 Jan-Feb;71(1):14-9.

21. Lavanya M Suneetha, Karunakar V, Mehervani, Karuna, Sujai Suneetha. Serum Butyrylcholinesterase activity in leprosy. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis, 2004: 72(3): 324-6.
22. Deena Vardhini, Niyaz Ahmed, Suneetha S, Joshi S.A, Karuna S., Sridhar V., Karunakar K.V, Juan J. Archelos, Lavanya M Suneetha. Comparative proteomics of the M. leprae binding proteins and the genome of M. leprae: its implications in understanding leprosy nerve damage and other neurodegenerative diseases. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2004: 4(1):21-8.
23. Saroj Young, G Michael Taylor, Suman Jain, Lavanya Suneetha, Sujai Suneetha, Diana NJ Lockwood and Douglas B Young. Microsatellite maping of Mycobacterium leprae populations in human infection. J. Clinical Microbiology, 2004: 42(11); 4931-6.
24. Sara Atkinson, Khanolkhar-Young S, Reddy R, Jain S, Suneetha S, Lockwood DNJ. Detection of IL-13, IL-10 & IL-6 in the leprosy skin lesions of patients during prednisolone treatment for type 1 (T1R) reaction. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis, 2004: 72(1): 27-34.
25. Niyaz Ahmed, Mahfooz Alam, K.Rajendra Rao, Farhana Kauser, N. Ashok Kumar, Nazia N. Qazi, Vartul Sangal, VD Sharma, Ram Das, VM Katoch, KJR Murthy, Sujai Suneetha, SK Sharma, Leonardo A Sechi, Robert H. Gilman and Seyed Hasnain. Molecular genotyping of a large, multicentric collection of tubercle bacilli indicates geographical partitioning of strain variation and has implications for global epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Clinical Microbiology, 2004: 42 (7): 3240-7.
26. Lavanya Suneetha, Surya S Singh, Meher Vani, Deena Vardhini, David Scollard, Juan J. Archeolos, Subramaniawar R, Suneetha S. Mycobacterium leprae binds to a major human peripheral nerve glycoprotein myelin P zero (P0). Neurochemical Research 2003; 28(9); 1393-1399.
27. Kirkaldy AA, Musonda AC, Khanolkhar-Young S, Suneetha S, Lockwood DN. Expression of CC and CXC chemokines receptors in human leprosy skin lesions. Clin Exp Immunol. 2003 Dec; 134(3):447-53.
28. Sujai Suneetha. Key issues in the Management of Reactions & Relapse in Leprosy. Round Table Conference. Ranbaxy Science Foundation, October 2002.
29. Suneetha L, Bhanumathy CD, Solomon S, Korula R J., Balasubramnian A.S., Suneetha S. Cholinesterases in leprosy nerves: a preliminary report. International J Leprosy, September 2002. Vol. 70 (3): 208-210.
30. Suman Jain, Rajgopal Reddy, Suhail Naser, Suneetha S. Childhood leprosy – Clinical presentation and the role of household contacts. Leprosy Review September, 2002.
31. Srinivas D, Narasimha Rao P, Laxmi TSS and Suneetha S. Bacterial index of granuloma and its relevance compared to BI of skin smears. Letter to the Editor. Leprosy Review. March, 2002, Vol.73, 79-80.
32. Suneetha LM, Deena V, Suneetha S, Job CK., David Scollard. A review on biochemical aspects of M. leprae binding proteins. International. J. of Leprosy, December 2001 Vol. 69 (4): 341-348.
33. Suneetha S & Rajgopal Reddy. Histological resolution and bacterial clearance with pulse ‘ROM’ therapy in borderline lepromatous leprosy. International. J Leprosy, April, 2001, Vol.69(1): 53-54.
34. David Little, Saroj Khanolkar-Young, Anne Coulthart, Suneetha S and Lockwood DNJ. Immuno-histohemical analysis of cellular infiltrate, IFN, IL-12 and iNOS expression in leprosy type 1 (reversal) reactions before and during prednisolone treatment. Infection & Immunity, May 2001; 3413-3417.
 
 
 

 

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