1. Hospital-acquired infections: epidemiology and prevention
2. Scrub typhus and rickettsial diseases
   

1. Determination of prevalence of carriage of multi drug resistant organisms in healthcare workers of Chandigarh
2. Detection of selected fastidious bacteria in blood of patients with fever in Chandigarh
3. Quantification of hand hygiene compliance in anesthesia providers at a tertiary care center in Chandigarh

1. A prospective epidemiological study of hospital acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HAMRSA) in an intensive care setting
2. Determination of virulence properties in Escherichia coli isolates causing asymptomatic bacteriuria and symptomatic UTI in catheterized individuals
3. A prospective study of association of extended-spectrum antibiotic use with faecal colonization of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in ICU patients
4. A prospective study of the epidemiology of Acinetobacter baumannii causing ventilator associated pneumonia in CTVS ICU of PGI 

1. Determination of prevalence of carriage of multi drug resistant organisms in healthcare workers of Chandigarh
2. Detection of selected fastidious bacteria in blood of patients with fever in Chandigarh

3.        Quantification of hand hygiene compliance in anesthesia providers at a tertiary care center in Chandigarh

1. Hospital acquired infections: epidemiology and prevention aspects
2. Scrub typhus
3. Rickettsial infections
   

1. International Federation of Infection Control (Associate member)
2. Hospital Infection Society of India (Life member)
3. Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (Life member)
4. Indian Association of Mycoplasmatologists (Life member)
5. Society for Human and Animal Mycologists (Life member)
6. Association for Prevention and Control of Rabies in India (Life member)
7. European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Annual member)

1.      Kumar A, Biswal M, Dhaliwal N,Mahesh R, Appannanavar SB, Gautam V, Ray P, Gupta AK, Taneja N. Pointprevalence surveys of healthcare-associated infections  and use of indwelling devices andantimicrobials over three years in a tertiary care hospital in India. J HospInfect. 2014 Feb 18. pii: S0195-6701(14)00034-6.

2.      Sethi S, Prasad A, Biswal M,Hallur VK, Mewara A, Gupta N, Galhotra S, Singh G, Sharma K. Outbreak of scrubtyphus in North India: a re-emerging epidemic. Trop Doct. 2014 Feb 20. [Epubahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24557641.

3.       Biswal M, Singh NV, Kaur R, Sebastian T,Dolkar R, Appananavar SB, Singh G, Taneja N. Adherence to hand hygiene inhigh-risk units of a tertiary care hospital in India. Am J Infect Control. 2013Nov;41(11):1114-5.

4.      Appannanavar SB, Biswal M,Rajkumari N, Mohan B, Taneja N. Evaluation of commercial boric acid containingvials for urine culture: low risk of contamination and cost effectivenessconsiderations. Indian J Pathol Microbiol. 2013 Jul-Sep;56(3):261-4.

5.      Taneja N, Chari P, Singh M, SinghG, Biswal M, Sharma M. Evolution of bacterial flora in burn wounds: key role ofenvironmental disinfection in control of infection. Int J Burns Trauma. 2013Apr 18;3(2):102-7. 

6.      Biswal M. New paradigms ofurinary tract infection. Indian J Urol. 2012 Apr;28(2):158.

7.      Biswal M, Ratho RK, Mishra B.Role of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain  reaction for the diagnosis of human rabies.Indian J Med Res. 2012 Jun;135(6):837-42.

8.      Taneja N, Singh M, Rao P, BiswalM, Priya S, Chander R, Sharma M. Fecal contamination of drinking water suppliesin and around Chandigarh and correlation with acute gastroenteritis. J CommunDis. 2011 Sep;43(3):193-9.

9.      Taneja N, Biswal M, Kumar A,Edwin A, Sunita T, Emmanuel R, Gupta AK, Sharma  M. Hydrogen peroxide vapour fordecontaminating air-conditioning ducts and rooms of an emergency complex innorthern India: time to move on. J Hosp Infect. 2011Jul;78(3):200-3.

10.  Khurana S, Biswal M, Bhatti HS,Pandav SS, Gupta A, Chatterjee SS, Lyngdoh WV, Malla N. Ophthalmomyiasis: threecases from North India. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2010 Jul-Sep;28(3):257-61.

11.  Taneja N, Gill SS, Biswal M,Kumar A, Gupta AK, Parwej S, Sharma M. Working awareness of healthcare workersregarding sterilisation, disinfection, and transmission of bloodborne infectionsand device-related infections at a tertiary care referral centre in northIndia. J Hosp Infect. 2010 Jul;75(3):244-5.

12.  Sharma M, Wanchu A, Biswal M,Banga SS, Sethi S. Syphilis serology in human immunodeficiency virus patients:a need to redefine the VDRL test cut-off for biological false-positives. J MedMicrobiol. 2010 Jan;59(Pt 1):130-1.

13.  Taneja N, Biswal M, Tarai B, KaurJ, Sharma M, Sharma NM. Outbreak of cholera in a labour encampment in suburbsof a modern city in north India. J Commun Dis. 2007 Dec;39(4):241-4.

14.  Biswal M, Ratho R, Mishra B.Usefulness of reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction for detection ofrabies RNA in archival samples. Jpn J Infect Dis. 2007 Sep;60(5):298-9.

15.  Shivaprakash MR, Rao P, Mandal J,Biswal M, Gupta S, Ray P, Chakrabarti A. Nocardiosis in a tertiary carehospital in North India and review of patients reported from India.Mycopathologia. 2007 May;163(5):267-74.

16.  Taneja N, Biswal M. Safe disposalof infectious waste--Indian perspective. J Hosp Infect. 2006 Apr;62(4):525-7.

17.  Taneja N, Biswal M, Tarai B,Sharma M. Emergence of Vibrio cholerae O1Biotype El Tor serotype Inaba in northIndia. Jpn J Infect Dis. 2005 Aug;58(4):238-40.

18. Taneja N,Biswal M, Emmanuel R, Singh M, Sharma M. Hydrogen peroxide fogging in anovercrowded tertiary care referral centre: some practical queries. J Hosp Infect.2005 May;60(1):85.