Dr. Misbah Najam

Dr Misbah Najam is a Medical Microbiologist in Shimoga with 17 years of experience. She practices at Sahyadri Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Harakere.

She specialises in clinical bacteriology, hospital infection control, serological diagnostics, and antimicrobial resistance surveillance. Her expertise includes molecular diagnostic testing, infectious disease screening, and pathogen identification.

Area of Expertise

Clinical Bacteriology and Antimicrobial Resistance

Dr Misbah Najam evaluates complex bacterial infections, bloodstream infections, multi-drug resistant bacterial illnesses, surgical site infections, and urinary tract infections. She performs automated blood cultures, bacterial culture identification, antibiotic susceptibility testing, minimum inhibitory concentration tests, and carbapenem resistance screening.

Serology and Infectious Disease Diagnostics

Dr Misbah detects viral hepatitis, dengue fever, typhoid fever, human immunodeficiency virus infection, and seasonal viral illnesses. Testing includes enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, rapid card screening tests, antibody titre evaluations, antigen detection tests, and turbidimetric assays.

Hospital Infection Control and Surveillance

Dr Najam manages healthcare-associated infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, catheter-related bloodstream infections, surgical site bacterial contamination, and hospital outbreak risks. Interventions include environmental sterility surveillance, hand hygiene audits, hospital air sampling, biomedical waste management monitoring, and infection control protocol design.

Molecular Diagnostics and Mycology

Dr Misbah Najam addresses deep fungal infections, skin fungal diseases, atypical respiratory pathogens, chronic mycobacterial illnesses, and systemic opportunistic infections. Diagnostic procedures include fungal potassium hydroxide mount examinations, fungal culture isolation, polymerase chain reaction assays, acid-fast bacillus staining, and molecular pathogen detection.

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