Utpala Mitra
Memorial Hospital of South Bend
55 Papers
433 Citations
Utpala Mitra is an academic researcher from Memorial Hospital of South Bend. The author has contributed to research in topics: Typhoid fever & Diarrhea. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 55 publications.
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Papers
Changing pattern of human group A rotaviruses: Emergence of G12 as an important pathogen among children in eastern India
Sudipta Samajdar,Vici Varghese,P. Barman,Souvik Ghosh,Utpala Mitra,P. Dutta,S. K. Bhattacharya,M.V. Narasimham,P. Panda,Triveni Krishnan,Nobumichi Kobayashi,T. N. Naik +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the prevalence of G and P-genotypes of rotavirus associated with dehydrating diarrhoea in children admitted to two leading hospitals in eastern India was studied.
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Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 serogroups and cholera-like diarrhea, Kolkata, India
Devarati Dutta,Goutam Chowdhury,Gururaja P. Pazhani,Sucharita Guin,Sanjucta Dutta,Santanu Ghosh,Krishnan Rajendran,Ranjan K. Nandy,Asish K. Mukhopadhyay,Mihir K. Bhattacharya,Utpala Mitra,Yoshifumi Takeda,G. Balakrish Nair,Thandavarayan Ramamurthy +13 more
TL;DR: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed no genetic link among strains, but many strains lacked the ctxA gene but many had hlyA, rtxA, and rtxC genes.
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Impact of zinc supplementation in malnourished children with acute watery diarrhoea.
P. Dutta,Utpala Mitra,A Datta,S K Niyogi,S Dutta,B Manna,M. Basak,T S Mahapatra,S. K. Bhattacharya +8 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that zinc supplementation as an adjunct therapy to ORS has beneficial effects on the clinical course of dehydrating acute diarrhoea.
Ciprofloxacin for treatment of severe typhoid fever in children.
Pradeep K. Dutta,Rasaily R,Saha Mr,Utpala Mitra,S. K. Bhattacharya,Mihir K. Bhattacharya,M. Lahiri +6 more
TL;DR: Eighteen children with bacteriologically confirmed severe typhoid fever were initially treated intravenously with ciprofloxacin and clinical cure with eradication of multiresistant Salmonella typhi infection was observed.
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Detection of Genogroup I and II human picobirnaviruses showing small genomic RNA profile causing acute watery diarrhoea among children in Kolkata, India.
R. Bhattacharya,Ganesh Chandra Sahoo,Mukti Kant Nayak,Krishnan Rajendran,P. Dutta,Utpala Mitra,M. K. Bhattacharya,T. N. Naik,S. K. Bhattacharya,Triveni Krishnan +9 more
TL;DR: The short genome profile PBVs associated with acute watery diarrhoea may be another emerging diarrhoeagenic virus in Kolkata, India, where four PBV positives of Genogroup II were detected during this study.
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