Gunturu Revathi

Prof. Gunturu Revathi

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Prof Gunturu Revathi is the Head of Clinical Microbiology at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. Her research interests include Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship, Molecular Epidemiology, Drug Resistance in Salmonellosis, H. pylori and Staphylococcus aureus, One Health Aspects of Tuberculosis, and Microbiology Diagnostics to name a few prominent areas. Her collaborators include various Kenyan public universities, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Several Departments of Ministry of Health in Kenya, Oita University of Japan, Wurzburg University in Germany, Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Alexandia University in Egypt, CDC Kenya, German Research Foundation (DFG) ReAct Africa and ICARS, to name some of them. She is the current Chair of IPNET Kenya, a professional society that advocates for IPC education as one of the chief weapons to combat infectious diseases and AMR. She is a member of several national and international professional bodies such as ISID, ESCMID, BSAC, ICAN, GARP, AHMSG, PAMWG, KACP, APECSA, ERS, and FAILSAFE and of various National Technical Advisory Committees (TAC / TWG) such as National Program for Tuberculosis and Leprosy, National Committee on Infection Prevention and Control, National Antimicrobial Stewardship Interagency Committee, Kenya National Committee on Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Research Program (IPDRPC), National working group for Clinical Management and Referral guidelines of Ministry of Health, Global Antimi

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