Samir Kumar Saha

This paper develops a low-cost MAMA PCR assay for accurately differentiating members of the Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex using rpoB SNPs, achieving 100% sensitivity and specificity compared to WGS.

The paper examines how environmental and maternal factors influence infant gut metabolism through microbiome and metabolome profiling in Bangladeshi mother-infant pairs.

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary histories of antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal lineages PMEN3 and PMEN9, showing how interspecies recombination contributes to antibiotic resistance and serotype switching.

This study uses metagenomic sequencing to identify pathogens in pediatric meningitis cases in Bangladesh, revealing a Chikungunya virus outbreak and other previously undetected causes.