Dr. Rugma R

Assistant Professor

MBBS, MD Microbiology

Area of Interest

  • Antimicrobial stewardship & Hospital infection control
  • Virology- Dengue & Mycology
  • Research and Teaching

Additional Responsibilities

  • Convener, Institutional Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (AMSP) Committee.
  • Nodal Officer, Department of Microbiology, for World Health Organization Measles–Rubella Surveillance Program.
  • Authorized Signatory for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Diagnostic Reports, SGMC

Achievements, Memberships, Awards

  • Certificate Program on Hospital Infection Control (CPHIC) -6 months course conducted by Sankara Nethralaya Unit of Medical Research Foundation Chennai
  • Training on "Quality Management Systems and Internal Audits in medical laboratories as per ISO 15189:2012”
  • Training/observership in molecular/virology laboratory at Rajeev Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram to learn PCR under the guidance of Dr
  • Sreekumar E, Scientist .F
  • Delegate in CME- 5th National Workshop on Hospital Infection Control, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 2022
  • 1st International congress on infectious diseases and clinical pharmacy- ID CONGRESS 2023 at Believers Convention centre, Thiruvalla
  • 9th Triennial conference (TRICON 2023) by ACM
  • Delegate in CME “Clinical Microbiology: Diagnostic Approach to Infectious Disease Syndromes”(CMID 2020) at Sree Chithre Tirunal Institute For Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram on February 29 th,2020
  • Deligate in CME & Workshop on “Infection control and antimicrobial stewardship” at Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva on 16-18th January 2020
  • Delegate in CME “Emerging Viral Infections” at Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur on September 28th, 2019.
  • Delegate in CME “Recent Advances in Clinical Microbiology” at Govt. Medical College, Ernakulam on August 4th, 2019
  • Delegate in “4th Hands-On Workshop in Viral Diagnostics” held at

                    Christian Medical College, Vellore on 7th-10th January 2019.

  • Delegate in CME “Emerging Zoonosis- Bridging the gap in Research” held at 3rd KUHS National Conference on Postgraduate Medical Research, Thricon 18 at Govt. Medical College, Thrissur on 24th & 25th October 2018.

 


Publications

TITLE

JOURNAL

PUBLICATION

AUTHORSHIP

STATE/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

INDEXED 

Molecular detection of dengue virus serotypes prevalent in central Kerala and its correlation with disease severity

Indian Journal of Microbiology Research

April 2022Indian Journal of Microbiology Research 9(1):55-61

First Author

National

Scopus Index,

Index Copernicus, Google Scholar

Regional variations in antimicrobial susceptibility of community-acquired uropathogenic Escherichia coli in India: Findings of a multicentric study highlighting the importance of local antibiograms

IJID Regions

April 2024, IJID regions, 11, p.100370. 

Others

International

Pubmed, Scopus

Klebsiella Pneumoniae Community Acquired UTI: A Multicentric Study Highlights Significant Regional Variations in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Across India

IJID Regions

March 2025, IJID regions, 14, p.100605

Others

International

Pubmed, Scopus

Chromobacterium violaceum Septicemia in a Paediatric Patient: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges

Journal of Medical Bacteriology

Vol. 13, No. 1 (2025): pp.54-59

2nd Author

International

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Google Scholar

Index Copernicus

Knowledge–practice gap in antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance among MBBS students in a tertiary care teaching hospital in South Kerala: a cross-sectional study

Journal of Applied Bioanalysis

2025;11(8 Suppl):1433–1439

3rd Author

International

Scopus,

Google Scholar

Association of Clinical Frailty Scale with Healthcare-Associated Infections and Multidrug-Resistant Organism Colonization in Hospitalized Older Adults

CME Journal Geriatric Medicine

2026 Mar 25;18:91-5

2nd Author

International

Embase,

Google Scholar,

Knowledge, attitude and practice of infection control and associated factors among microbiology laboratory technicians in a tertiary care hospital: a cross-sectional study

Journal of Applied Bioanalysis

2025;11(Suppl 14):1605–1613.

2nd Author

International

Scopus,

Google Scholar,

Index Copernicus

Presentations

Topic

Guest lecture/ Oral/Poster/ Convenor of Workshop

Event

Conference/ CME/ Workshop

Venue

Date

Level

Clinical and microbiological profile of candidemia from a tertiary care centre

Oral Presentation

CME on "Emerging Viral Infections" 

CME

Jubilee medical college and Research Foundation, Thrissur

September, 2019.


Infective endocarditis: An unusual presentation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Poster

CME on "Recent Advances in Clinical Microbiology" 

CME

Govt. Medical College, Ernakulam

August, 2019


Research Projects

Project


Funded Y/N

Collaborated Y/N

Published Y/N

Antibiotic resistance pattern of uropathogenic Escherichia coli and its correlation with metabolic factors in diabetic patients in a tertiary care hospital with special reference to phylogenetic grouping of multi drug resistant strains

Ongoing

N

Y

N

Carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in South Kerala: implications of NDM and OXA-48 detection in a low-resistance region


N

N

N

Non-O1/Non-O139 Vibrio cholerae Bacteremia presenting as spontaneous Bacterial Peritonotis in Decompensated Cirrhosis: A Case report


N

N

N