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  Name of Scientists

  Dr. Kiran Katoch

  Designation

  Director Incharge / Scientist F

  Date of Birth

  January 05, 1951

  Discipline

  Internal Medicine (Leprosy)

  Address Office

 National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases,
  Tajganj, Agra 282001

  Address Residence

  21, Amarlok Colony, Opposite JALMA Institute,
 Tajganj, Agra-282001

  Date of Joining

  September 1979

  Date of Present Post

  September 1, 1999

  Department

  Head, Medical Unit I

  Research Experience

  30 years

  Foreign Visits
  1. Participation in the Seventh meeting of the WHO Technical Advisory group on Elimination of Leprosy. To Geneva from 2005-04-04 to 2005-04-05
  2. Participation as a member of who technical advisory group in the WHO Technical advisory group on elimination of leprosy. To Switzerland from 2004-02-09 to 2004-02-10
  3. Participation in the meeting of WHO Technical Advisory group on Elimination of Leprosy to Geneva from 2002-06-19 to 2002-06-20

  Educational Qualification

  M.D.(Medicine)

  Membership

 Indian Association of Leprologists

  Miscellaneous

 

  Areas of Interest

 Clinical and therapeutic studies in TB & Leprosy, Field studies in TB & leprosy
 Publications
  1. Kroger, A., Pannikar, V., Htoon, M.T., Jamesh, A., Katoch, K., Krishnamurthy, P., Ramalingam, K., Jianping, S., Jadhav, V., Gupte, M.D. and Manickam, P. International open trial of uniform multi-drug therapy regimen for 6 months for all types of leprosy patients: rationale, design and preliminary results. Trop Med Int Health 13 (2008) 594.
  2. Arora, M., Katoch, K., Natrajan, M., Kamal, R. and Yadav, V.S. Changing profile of disease in leprosy patients diagnosed in tertiary care centre during years 1995-2000. Indian J Lepr 80 (2008) 257.
  3. Katoch, K., Katoch, V.M., Natrajan, M., Gupta, U.D., Sharma, V.D. and Singh, H. Long term follow-up results of 1 year MDT in MB leprosy patients treated with standard MDT and once a month Minocycline and Ofloxacin. Indian J Lepr 80 (2008) 331.
  4. Lavania, M., Katoch, K., Katoch, V.M., Gupta, A.K., Chauhan, D.S., Gandhi, R., Chauhan, V., Bansal, G., Sachan, P., Sachan, S., Yadav, V.S. and Jadhav R. Detection of viable Mycobacterium leprae from environmental soil samples: insights into possible sources for transmission of leprosy. Infect Genet Evol 8 (2008) 627.
  5. Sharma, P., Chauhan, D.S., Upadhyay, P., Faujdar, J., Lavania, M., Sachan, S., Katoch, K. and Katoch, V.M. Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a rural area of Kanpur by spoligotyping and mycobacterial imterspersed repetitive units (MIRUs) typing. Emerg Infect Dis 5 (2008) 621.
  6. Katoch, K., Singh, P., Adhikari, T., Benara, S.K., Singh, H.B., Chauhan, D.S., Lavania, M., Sachan, A.S. and Katoch, V.M. Potential of Mw as a prophylactic vaccine against pulmonary tuberculosis. Vaccine. 26 (2008) 1228.
  7. Alcais, A., Alter, A., Antoni, G., Orlova, M., Thuc, N., Singh, M., Vanderborght,P.R., Katoch, K. Mira, M.T., Thai,V.H., Houng, N.T., Ba, N.N., Moraes, M, mehta, m., Schurr, E. and Abel, L. Stepwise replication identifies a low producing lymphotoxin - alpha allele as a major risk factor for early onset leprosy. Nature Genetics 39 (2007) 517.
  8. Gupta, U.D., Katoch, K., Singh, H.B., Natarajan, M. and Katoch, V.M. Persister studies in leprosy patients treated with multi-drug treatment. Int J Lepr 73 (2006) 100.
  9. Kamal Raj, Dayal R, Katoch V M, Katoch K,   Analysis of gene probes and gene amplification techniques for diagnosis and monitoring of treatment in childhood leprosy.  Lepr Rev 2006;77:141- 6
  10. Das, R., Katoch, K., Jadaun, H.P.S., Gupta, P., Sharma, V.D., Malhotra, B. Garg, A., Ayagiri, A., Chauhan, D.S., Singh, H.B., Yadav, P. and Katoch, V.M. Studies on mutation in embB locus in Indian clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis having high degree of ethambutol resistance. Curr Sci 7 (2006) 923.
  11. Lavania, M., Katoch, K., Sachan, P., Dubey, A., Kapoor, S., Kashyap, M., Chauhan, D.S., Singh, H.B., Sharma, V.D., Jadav, R.S. and Katoch, V.M. Detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA from soil samples targeting ELEP sequences. J Commun Dis 38 (2006) 269.
  12. Hirawati Katoch K, Chauhan D S, Singh H B, Sharma V D, Singh M, Kashyap M, Katoch V M,   Detection of M. leprae by reverse transcription- PCR in biopsy specimens from leprosy cases: a preliminary study.  J Commun Dis 2006;38:280- 7
  13. Kumar, A., Yadav, V.S., Katoch, K. and Sachan, P. Filariasis in Ghatampur tehsil of Kanpur Nagar district: indication of high endemicity locus. J Commun Dis 38 (2006) 155.
  14. Lavania Mallika, Katoch K, Sachan Pawan, Dubey Anuraag, Kapoor Shashi, Kashyap Meera, Chauhan D S, Singh H B, Sharma V D, Jadhav R S, Katoch V M,   Detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA from soil samples by PCR targeting RLEP sequences.  J Commun Dis 2006;38:269- 73
  15. Dayal, R., Singh, S.P., Mathur, P.P., Katoch, V.M., Katoch, K. and Natarajan, M. Diagnostic value of in situ polymerase chain reaction in leprosy. Indian J Paediatr 72 (2005) 1043.
  16. Gupta, U.D. and Katoch, K. Use of non-human primates in leprosy research, In: National Centre for Primate Breeding and Research: A vision challenges and opportunities. Eds: CP Puri and NK Ganguly (2005) 491.
  17. Lavania M, Katoch V M, Singh H B, Das Ram, Sharma V D, Chauhan D S, Natrajan M, Katoch K,   Genetic polymorphism among Mycobacterium leprae strains from northern India, by using TTC repeats.  Indian J Lepr 2005;77:60- 5
  18. Sharma, P., Mukherjee, R., Talwar, G.P., Sarathchandra, K.G., Parida, S.C., Walia, R., Pandey, R.M., Rani, R., Kar, H., Mukherjee, A., Katoch, K., Benara, S.K., Tulsi and Singh P. Immunoprophylactic effect of anti-leprosy Mw vaccine in house hold contacts of leprosy patients: Clinical field trials with follow up of 8-10 years. Lepr Rev 76 (2005) 127
  19. Ganguly, N.K. and Katoch, K. Bringing modern health technology to the people. Global Forum Update on Research for Health 2 (2005) 136.
  20. Katoch K, Katoch VM, Natrajan M, Sreevatsa, Gupta UD, Sharma VD, Shivanavar CT.   10-12 years follow-up of highly bacillated BL/LL leprosy patients on combined chemotherapy and immunotherapy.  Vaccine. 2004;22:3649- 57
  21. Natarajan, M., Katoch, K., Katoch, V.M., Sharma, V.D., Singh, D., Das, R., Chauhan, D.S. and Singh,, H.B. In-situ hybridization in the histodiagnosis of early and clinically suspicious leprosy. Int J Lepr (2004).
  22. Singh HB, Katoch VM, Natrajan M, Sharma VD, Chauhan DS, Lavania M, Sharma P, Sharma M, Katoch K, Benara S, Singh P.   Improved protocol for PCR detection of Mycobacterium leprae in buffered formalin-fixed skin biopsies.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 2004;72:175- 8
  23. Mohanty KK, Joshi B, Katoch K, Sengupta U.   Leprosy reactions: humoral and cellular immune responses to M. leprae, 65kDa, 28kDa, and 18 kDa antigens.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 2004;72:149- 58
  24. Chaudhuri, S., Chowdhury, A., Datta, S., Mukhopadhyay, A.K., Chattopadhya, S., Saha. D.R., Dhali, G., Santra, A., Nair, G.B., Bhattacharya, S.K. and Berg, D.E. Anti-helicobacter therapy in India: Differences in eradication efficiency associated with particular alleles of vacoulating cytotoxin (vac A) gene. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 18 (2003) 190.
  25. Katoch, K., Jain, S., Chauhan, D.S., Singh, D.S., Das, R., Gupta, P., Sharma, V.D., Katoch, V.M., Sachan, A.S., Pandey, A., Benara, S.K. and Singh, P. Experience of detection and treatment of tuberculosis in a field area of Ghatampur, Kanpur, UP. Health Admin 15 (2003) 124.
  26. Gupta, U.D., Katoch, K., Sharma, R.K., Singh, H.B., Natarajan, M., Singh, D., Sharma, V.D., Chauhan, D.S., Dass, Ram, Srivastava, K. and Katoch, V.M. Analysis of quantitative relationship between viability determination in leprosy by MFP, ATP bioluminescence and Gene amplification assays. Int J Lepr (2001).
  27. Hussain T, Kulshreshtha K, Ghei SK, Natarajan M, Katoch K, Sengupta U.   HIV seroprevalence in leprosy patients.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 2000;68:67- 9
  28. Gupta UD, Katoch K, Singh HB, Natrajan M, Sharma VD, Katoch VM.   Assessment of viability by normal mouse foot-pad and bacillary ATP bioluminescence assay in multibacillary cases treated with an MDT regimen using conventional as well as newer drugs like minocycline and ofloxacin.  Indian J Lepr. 2000;72:437- 42
  29. Katoch K.   Therapeutic prospects for paucibacillary leprosy.  Indian J Lepr. 2000;72:351- 61
  30. Katoch, K., Katoch, V.M., Natarajan, M., Sharma, V.D., Singh, H.B. and Gupta, U.D. Chemotherapy trials in MB leprosy using conventional and newer drugs ofloxacin and minocycline. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 66(10) (2000) 18.
  31. Wilkinson, K.A., Katoch, K., Sengupta, U., Singh, M., Sarin, K.K., Ivanyi, J. and Wilkinson, R.J. Immune response to recombinant proteins of Mycobacterium leprae. J Infect Dis 179 (1999) 1034.
  32. Gupta, U.D., Sharma, R.K., Katoch, K., Natarajan, M., Singh, D., Sharma, V.D., Singh, H.B. and Katoch, V.M. Comparision of assessment of viability by normal mouse foot pad and PCR. Indian J Med Microbiol 17(4) (1999) 187.
  33. Wilkinson RJ, Wilkinson KA, Jurcevic S, Hills A, Sinha S, Sengupta U, Lockwood DN, Katoch K, Altman D, Ivanyi J.   Specificity and function of immunogenic peptides from the 35-kilodalton protein of Mycobacterium leprae.  Infect Immun. 1999;67:1501- 4
  34. Katoch K, Natarajan M, Katoch VM, Singh HB, Bhatia AS.   Chemotherapy trial in paucibacillary leprosy using clofazimine.  Indian J Lepr. 1999;71:311- 24
  35. Katoch, K. MDT-Experience and future therapy in leprosy. Current concepts in Dermatology Ed. Deepak, A. Parikh, Fernandez, I.U. and Thomas, J. (1999) 11.
  36. Beuria MK, Mohanty KK, Katoch K, Sengupta U.   Determination of circulating IgG subclasses against lipoarabinomannan in the leprosy spectrum and reactions.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1999;67:422- 8
  37. Gupta, U.D., Katoch, K., Singh, H.B., Natrajan, M., Sharma, V.D. and Katoch, V.M. Detection of viable organisms in cases treated with multidrug treatment. Acta Leprol.11(3) (1999) 89.
  38. Natrajan M, Katoch K, Katoch VM.   Histology and immuno-histology of lesions clinically suspicious of leprosy.  Acta Leprol. 1999;11:93- 8
  39. Singh HB, Katoch K, Natrajan M, Sharma RK, Gupta UD, Sharma VD, Singh D, Chauhan DS, Srivastava K, Katoch VM.   Effect of treatment on PCR positivity in multibacillary leprosy patients treated with conventional and newer drugs ofloxacin and minocycline.  Acta Leprol. 1999;11:179- 82
  40. Beuria MK, Parkash O, Joshi B, Mohanty KK, Katoch K, Sengupta U.   Levels of IgG subclasses in active and inactive cases in the disease spectrum of leprosy.  Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 1998;115:61- 6
  41. Sengupta, U., Beuria, M.K., Mohanty, K.K. and Katoch, K. Seroligical diagnosis of leprosy using full thickness skin cultures in vitro: a preliminary study. Proc on 10th Int Cong Immunol (1998) 793.
  42. Ramanathan VD, Thyagi P, Ramanathan U, Katoch K, Ramu G.   A sequential study of circulating immune complexes, complement and immunoglobulins in borderline tuberculoid leprosy patients with and without reactions.  Indian J Lepr. 1998;70:153- 60
  43. Sreevatsa and Katoch,K. Viability of M.leprae while undergoing laboratory procedure. Indian J Lepr 69 (1997) 353.
  44. Om Parkash, Beuria,M.K., Girdhar,B.K., Katoch,K., Sengupta,U. Efforts in diagnosing early leprosy using serological techniques. J Biosci 22 (1997) 111.
  45. Katoch,K. New emerging drug regimens for leprosy. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 69 (1997) 139.
  46. Sharma.R.K., Shivannavar,C.T., Katoch,K., Sharma,V.D., Natrajan,M.,Saxena,N. and Katoch,V.M. Microdensitometric scanning procedure for quantitative assessment of hybridization of rRNA targetting probes in leprosy. Acta Leprol 10 (1997) 213.
  47. Gupta UD, Katoch K, Natarajan M, Sharma VD, Sharma RK, Shivannavar CT, Katoch VM.   Viability determination of M.leprae: comparison of normal mouse foot pad and bacillary ATP bioluminescence assay.  Acta Leprol. 1997;10:209- 12
  48. Shivannavar CT, Katoch VM, Sharma VD, Patil MA, Katoch K, Bharadwaj VP, Sharma RK, Bhatia AS, Agrawal BM.   Determination of mycobacterial phylogeny on the basis of immunological relatedness of superoxide dismutases.  Int J Syst Bacteriol. 1996;46:1164- 9
  49. Sharma, R.K., Katoch, K., Shivannavar, C.T., Sharma, V.D., Natrajan, M., Bhatia,A.S., Saxena, N. and Katoch, V.M. Detection of M.leprae by gene amplification combined ethidium bromide staining and probe hybridization. Int J Lepr 64 (1996) 409.
  50. Shivannavar, C.T., Katoch, V.M., Sharma, V.D., Patil, M.A., Katoch, K., Bharadwaj, V.P. and Agrawal, B.M. Development of superoxide dismutase (SOD) based enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to determine the immunological relatedness among mycobacteria. Int J Lepr 64 (1996) 99.
  51. Sharma, R.K., Katoch, V.M., Katoch, K., Shivannavar, C.T., Sharma, V.D., Patil, M.A., Natrajan, M., Saxena, N. and Bhatia, A.S. Comparison of sensitivity of probes targetting ribosomal RNA vsDNA in leprosy cases. Indian J Med Microbiol 14 (1996) 99.
  52. Katoch K.   Autonomic nerve affection in leprosy.  Indian J Lepr. 1996;68:49- 54
  53. Katoch, K. Immunotherapy of leprosy. Indian J Lepr 68 (1996) 349.
  54. Sharma RK, Katoch K, Sharma VD, Shivannavar CT, Natarajan M, Katoch VM.   Isolation and characterization of cultivable mycobacteria from leprosy skin.  Indian J Lepr. 1995;67:321- 8
  55. Sharma RK, Katoch K, Sharma VD, Shivannavar CT, Natarajan M, Katoch VM.   Studies on microbial aerobic flora of skin in leprosy patients.  Indian J Lepr. 1995;67:309- 19
  56. Katoch, K., Natrajan, M., Yadav, V.S. and Bhatia, A.S. Response of single lesion in leprosycases to MDT. Acta Leprol 9 (1995) 201.
  57. Katoch, K., Katoch, V.M., Natrajan, M., Bhatia, A.S., Sreevatsa, Gupta, U.D., Sharma, V.D., Shivannavar, C.T., Patil, M.A. and Bharadwaj, V.P. Treatment of bacilliferous BL/LL cases with combined chemotherapy and Immunotherapy. Int J Lepr 63 (1995) 202.
  58. Patil, S.A., Katoch, K. and Sengupta, U. Detection of Mycobacterium leprae antigens in urine of leprosy patients by monoclonal-antibody-based sandwich immunoradiometric assay and avidin-biotin based immunoblotting. Serodiagn Immunother Infect Dis 1 (1993) 17.
  59. Narayanan, R.B., Natarajan, Mohan, Katoch, Kiran and Bagga, A.K. Reduction in CDI positive epidermal Langerhans cell numbers in leprosy lesions following epicutaneous application of 2:4 diritrochlorobenzene. Indian J Lepr 65(4) (1993)423.
  60. Katoch K, Natarajan M, Bhatia AS, Yadav VS.   Treatment of paucibacillary leprosy with a regimen containing rifampicin, dapsone and prothionamide.  Indian J Lepr. 1992;64:303- 12
  61. Tyagi P, Patil SA, Girdhar BK, Katoch K, Sengupta U.   Suppressive effect of circulating immune complexes from leprosy patients on the lymphocyte proliferation induced by M. leprae antigens in healthy responders.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1992;60:562- 9
  62. Katoch, K., Natarajan, M., Bagga, A.K., Katoch, V.M. Histological hanges with combined chemotherapy and immunotherapy in highly bacillated lepromatous leprosy. Acta Leprol 8(2) (1992) 79.
  63. Kumar, V., Katoch, K., Katoch, V.M. and Bharadwaj, V.P. A preliminary study of correlation of immunological and ultrastructural characteristics of neural granuloma in leprosy patients. Acta Leprol 8 (1992) 87.
  64. Chaturvedi, V., Sinha, S., Girdhar, B.K., Bhatia, A.S. and Sengupta, U. Association of mycobacterial-specific and Mycobacterium leprae specific antibody levels with clinical activity in tuberculoid leprosy: a comparative study of three serological enzyme-immunoassays. Lepr Rev 62 (1991) 122.
  65. Ramanathan VD, Tyagi P, Ramanathan U, Katoch K, Sengupta U, Ramu G.   Persistent reduced solubilization of immune complexes in lepromatous leprosy patients with reactions.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1991;59:5- 11
  66. Katoch K, Natarajan M, Bagga A, Katoch VM.   Clinical and bacteriological progress of highly bacillated BL-LL patients discontinuing treatment after different periods of MDT.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1991;59:248- 54
  67. Tyagi P, Girdhar BK, Katoch K, Sengupta V.   Effect of circulating immune complexes of leprosy patients on leukocyte migration inhibition induced by Mycobacterium leprae antigens in healthy volunteers.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1991;59:487- 92
  68. Bhardwaj, V.P., Katoch, Kiran and Katoch, V.M. The present status of Immunodiagnostic techniques and future Perspective in Reproduction and infection, S.K. Gupta(Ed.) IBH/Oxford Press (1991) 363.
  69. Patil, S.A., Tyagi, P., Katoch, K. Sreevastsa, Sengupta, U. Antigens of mycobacterium leprae in the cerebrospinal fluid of leprosy patient: detection by monoclonal-antibody based sandwich immunoradiometric assay and avidin/biotin immunoblotting. Clin Exp Immunol 84 (1991) 515.
  70. Tyagi P, Ramanathan VD, Girdhar BK, Katoch K, Bhatia AS, Sengupta U.   Activation of complement by circulating immune complexes isolated from leprosy patients.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1990;58:31- 8
  71. Patil SA, Katoch K, Singh KP, Ramu G, Sengupta U.   Antibodies to phenolic glycolipid-1 of Mycobacterium leprae in urine of leprosy patients.  J Infect Dis. 1990;162:281- 2
  72. Narayanan, R.B., Natarajan, M., Katoch, K. and Bagga, A. CDI positive epidermal Langerhans cells in tinea versicolor. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 56 (1990) 66.
  73. Katoch, K. Recent trends in the chemotherapy of paucibacillary leprosy. ICMR Bull 20 (1990) 54.
  74. Bharadwaj, V.P. and Katoch, K. Serological tests for diagnosis of leprosy. Proc of VI Santa Margherita Ligure Meeting, Symposium on Leprosy Research, Santa Margherita, Italy, 3-7, Oct. 1990.
  75. Bharadwaj, V.P., Katoch, V.M., Katoch, K., Sharma, V.D. and Shivannavar, C.T. Studies on factors influencing energy synthesis in M.leprae. Proc of VI Santa Margherita Ligure Meeting, Symposium on Leprosy Research, Santa Margherita, Italy, 3-7, Oct. 1990.
  76. Katoch, K., Natarajan, M., Bagga, A. and Katoch, V.M. Duration of MDT in highly bacillated leprosy cases : Follow-up of cases treated for varying periods. Proc of VI Santa Margherita Ligure Meeting, Symposium on Leprosy Research, Santa Margherita, Italy, 3-7 Oct. 1990.
  77. Katoch, K., Natarajan, M., Bagga, A. and Katoch, V.M. Immunotherapeutic trials using BCG and Mycobacterium strain W alongwith MDT in highly bacillated BL/LL cases. Proc of VI Santa Margherita Ligure Meeting, Symposium on Leprosy Research, Santa Margherita, Italy, 3-7 Oct. 1990
  78. Katoch, V.M., Kanaujia, G.V., Shivannavar, C.T., Sharma, V.D. and Katoch, K. rRNA gene based probes for early diagnosis and epidemiology of leprosy. Proc of VI Santa Margherita Ligure Meeting, Symposium on Leprosy Research, Santa Margherita, Italy, 3-7 Oct. 1990.
  79. Bharadwaj, V.P. and Katoch, K. An overview of the current states of serological techniques in the epidemiology of leprosy. Trop Med Parasitol 41 (1990) 225
  80. Katoch VM, Shivannavar CT, Katoch K, Kanaujia GV, Bharadwaj VP.   Towards clinical and epidemiological application of advances in molecular biology of Mycobacterium leprae.  Trop Med Parasitol. 1990;41:299- 300
  81. Parkash O, Katoch K, Sengupta U.   Terminal complement complex in plasma of leprosy patients.  Acta Leprol. 1990;7:221- 4
  82. Patil S, Dwivedi P, Kiran K, Singh K, Sengupta U.   Detection of antibodies to 35 kD determinant of M. leprae in urine and serum of leprosy patients.  Acta Leprol. 1990;7:139- 43
  83. Katoch V.M., Katoch, Kiran, Ramanathan, U., Sharma, V.D., Shivannavar, C.T., Datta, A.K. and Bharadwaj, V.P. Effect of chemotherapy on viability of Mycobacterium leprae as determined by ATP content, morphological index and FDA-EB fluorescent staining. Int J Lepr 57 (1989) 615.
  84. Katoch K, Natrajan M, Narayanan RB, Katoch VM.   Immunotherapy of treated BL/LL cases with BCG: histopathological, immunohistological and bacteriological assessments.  Acta Leprol. 1989;7 Suppl 1:153- 5
  85. Narayanan, R.B., Natarajan, M., Katoch, K. and Sengupta, U. CDI positive epidermal Langerhans cells in skin reactions to autologous PBMC in leprosy patients. Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 81 (1989) 38.
  86. Bharadwaj VP, Katoch VM, Katoch K, Sharma VD, Kannan KB, Datta AK, Shivannavar CT.   Studies on energy synthesis in M. leprae.  Acta Leprol. 1989;7 Suppl 1:30- 2
  87. Katoch, K. Chemotherapy of Paucibacillary Leprosy: An Update, CJIL Q Bull VIII No.2 (1989) 1.
  88. Katoch, Kiran. Current status of chemotherapy of paucibacillary leprosy. The Star 48 (1989) July/Aug.: 3.
  89. Katoch, K. Vaccines against leprosy - current status and future prospects.CME Series, Indian Assoc Dermatol Venereol Leprol(Kerala Chapter) (1989) 11.
  90. Katoch, Kiran. Assessment of Bacterial load and viability - current situation. Leprosy Research Reviews, Proc of Indo-U.K. Workshop on Leprosy Research, held at Agra, Feb 15-17, 1989, a CJIL Publication, Coronation Press, Agra (1989) 107.
  91. Katoch, K., Ramanathan, U., Natarajan, M., Bagga, A.K., Bhatia, A.S., Saxena, R.K. and Ramu, G. Relapses in paucibacillary patients after treatment with threeshort terms regimens containing rifampicin. Int J lepr Other Mycobact Dis 57 (1989) 458.
  92. Agrewala, J.N., Sinha, S., Ghei, S.K. Katoch, K., Girdhar, B.K. and Sengupta, U. Demonstration of DDS antibody in leprosy patients. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis 57 (1989) 687.
  93. Katoch K, Ramanathan U, Natrajan M, Bagga AK, Bhatia AS, Saxena RK, Ramu G.   Relapses in paucibacillary patients after treatment with three short-term regimens containing rifampin.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1989;57:458- 64
  94. Khanolkar SR, Mackenzie CD, Lucas SB, Hussen A, Girdhar BK, Katoch K, McAdam KP.   Identification of Mycobacterium leprae antigens in tissues of leprosy patients using monoclonal antibodies.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1989;57:652- 8
  95. Katoch K, Ramu G, Ramanathan U, Sengupta U, Sreevatsa, Sharma VD, Shivannavar CT, Katoch VM.   Results of a modified WHO regimen in highly bacilliferous BL/LL patients.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1989;57:451- 7
  96. Bhardwaj, V.P. and Katoch, Kiran. Detection of subclinical infection in leprosy: an eight years follow-up study. Indian J Lepr 61 (1989) 495.
  97. Ghei SK, Katoch K, Girdhar BK, Ramu G, Sengupta U.   Dermatoglyphics in leprosy: (III) Creases of palm.  Indian J Lepr. 1989;61:96- 102
  98. Katoch, V.M., Katoch Kiran, Shivannavar, C.T., Sharma, V.D., Patil, M.A. and Bharadwaj, V.P. Use of ATP assays for in vitro drug screening testing against M.leprae. Indian J Lepr 61 (1989) 333.
  99. K. Katoch, Sreevatsa, U. Ramanathan and G. Ramu. Pyrazinamide as a part of combinationtherapy for treatment of BL-LL patients. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis 56 (1988) 1.
  100. A.K.Datta, V.M. Katoch, K. Katoch, V.D. Sharma, C.T. Shivannavar and J.J. Ghosh Classification and identification of mycobacteria using their mycosidic glycolipids as taxonomic markers-1. Analysis of glycolipids of cultivable mycobacteria. Indian J Med Microbiol 6 (1988) 21.
  101. A.K. Datta, V.M. Katoch, K. Katoch, V.D. Sharma, C.T. Shivannavar and J.J. GhoshClassification and identification of mycobacteria using their mycosidic glycolipids as taxonomic markers-II. Analysis of glycolipids of M.leprae and other related taxon. Indian J Med Microbiol 6 (1988) 33.
  102. Bhardwaj, V.P. and Katoch, K. Immunodiagnostic approaches to be detection of M.leprae infection in leprosy. Progress in Vaccinology (Vol.2), G.P. Talwar (ed)Springer-Verlag publishers, New York, USA.
  103. V.M. Katoch, K. Katoch, G. Ramu, V.D. Sharma, A.K. Datta, Shivannavar, C.T. and K.V. Desikan. In vitro methods for determination of viability of mycobacteria : Comparison of ATP content, Morphological index and FDA-EB fluorescent staining in M leprae.Lepr Rev 59 (1988) 137.
  104. R.B. Narayanan, M. Natarajan, K. Katoch and A.K. Bagga. CD 1 positive epidermal Langerhans cells in Indeterminate leprosy. Acta Leprol 108 (1988) 29.
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  109. Katoch, K. Recent trend in the chemotherapy of paucibacillary leprosy. CJIL Q Bull, 6 (1) 1 and ICMR Bull June 1987.
  110. Datta, A.K., Katoch, V.M., Katoch, Kiran, Sharma, V.D. and Shivannavar, C.T. Evidence for the presence of methoxy mycolic acids in Mycobacterium leprae along with alpha- and keto-mycolic acids. Indian J Med Microbiol 5 (1987) 229.
  111. Katoch, K., Ramu, G., Ramnathan, U. and Sreevatsa. Follow-up of BL/LL patients on a slightly modified WHO regimen of multi-drug therapy.Indian J Lepr 59 (1987) 36.
  112. Katoch VM, Katoch K, Bharadwaj VP, Datta AK, Sharma VD, Shivannavar CT, Kannan KB.   Metabolic studies on mycobacteria. V. A preliminary report on the ATP synthesis by mycobacteria including M. leprae by using different substrates.  Indian J Lepr. 1987;59:163- 70
  113. Datta, A.K., Katoch Kiran, Katoch, V.M., Sharma, V.D. and Shivannavar, C.T. Apperance of Methoxy mycolate like component by acid methonolysis of Mycobacterium leprae. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis 55 (1987) 680.
  114. Katoch K, Ramu G, Ramanathan U, Desikan KV.   Comparison of three regimens containing rifampin for treatment of paucibacillary leprosy patients.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1987;55:1- 8
  115. Bhardwaj, V.P., Katoch, K., Ramu, G., Suribabu, C.S.S. and Desikan, K.V. Sero-epidemiological studies in subsided cases of leprosy using FLA-ABS test. Indian J Lepr 59 (1987) 30.
  116. Katoch, V.M., Sharma, V.D., Datta, A.K., Shivannavar, C.T., Katoch, K., Kannan, K.B. and Bharadwaj, V.P. Isoenzyme patterns of mycobacteria. Their role in taxonomical identification of species and strains of mycobacteria specially M.leprae. Indian J Med Microbiol 4 (1986) 81.
  117. Datta AK, Katoch VM, Sharma VD, Katoch K.   Comparative study on the thin-layer chromatographic pattern of methyl mycolates of M. leprae and related species.  Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1985;53:45- 51
  118. Katoch VM, Sharma VD, Datta AK, Shivannavar CT, Katoch K, Kannan KB, Bharadwaj VP.   Isoenzymes of mycobacteria. II. Relevance of LDH zymograms in taxonomy and identification.  Indian J Lepr. 1985;57:107- 14
  119. Katoch,Kiran., Katoch,V.M., Datta,A.K., Sharma,V.D. and Ramu,G. Chest infection due to M.fortuitum in a case of lepromatous leprosy. Indian J Lepr 57 (1985) 399.
  120. Bharadwaj VP, Ramu G, Desikan KV, Katoch K.   Extended studies on subclinical infection in leprosy.  Indian J Lepr. 1984;56:807- 12
  121. Ghei SK, Girdhar BK, Ramu G, Katoch K, Ramanathan U, Sengupta U, Desikan KV.   Dermatoglyphics in leprosy (I. Finger patterns).  Indian J Lepr. 1984;56:855- 60
  122. Katoch K, Ramu G, Sengupta U, Bharadwaj VP.   Central nervous system involvement in leprosy.  Indian J Lepr. 1984;56:813- 8
  123. Dutta,A.K., Katoch,V.M., Sharma,V.D. and Katoch,Kiran. Effect of pyridine extraction on the acid fastness of M.leprae. Its possible mechanisms. XII International Leprosy Congress held in New Delhi Feb.20-25, IV/219(A) (1984).
  124. Katoch,V.M., Sharma,V.D., Dutta,A.K., Kannan,K.B., Katoch,K. and Bharadwaj,V.P. Polyacrylamide gel technique for isoenzyme characterization of mycobacteria: Their relevance in taxanomy and identification. XII International leprosy Congress held in New Delhi Feb. 20-25, IV/229/CP. (1984).
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  126. Datta,A.K., Katoch,V.M., Sharma,V.D. and Katoch,K. Identification of Mycobacterium leprae using thin-layer chromatographic pattern of its methyl mycolates. Proc of Indian Science Congress Association (7Ist), held at Ranchi, 3-8th, Jan. (1984).
  127. Katoch K, Ramu G.   Cardiovascular involvement in leprosy patients.  Nippon Rai Gakkai Zasshi. 1983;52:73- 81
  128. Datta,A.K., Katoch,V.M., Sharma,V.D. and Katoch,Kiran. Effect of pyridine extraction on the acid - fastness of mycobacteria : The role of phospholipids in its mechanism. Proc Indian Association of Leprologists (XIIIth) held at Bombay, 18th-22th, Nov. (1983).
  129. Katoch,Kiran., Ramu,G. and Bharadwaj,V.P. Study of systemic involvement in casesof multibacillary type of leprosy during reactions. Proc 70th session of Indian Science Congress held at Tirupati Jan. (1983) 3.
  130. Ramu,G., Bharadwaj,V.P., Katoch,K. and Desikan,K.V. Studies on the healthy contacts of leprosy patients. Proc workshop in Serological tests for detecting Subclinical Infection in Leprosy. Tokyo (JAPAN): Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundatioin (1983) 37.
  131. Bharadwaj,V.P., Ramu,G., Desikan,K.V. and Katoch,K. Studies on subclinical infection in leprosy. Proc workshop on serological test for detecting subclinical infection in leprosy, Tokyo: Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundatioin (1983) 29.
  132. Katoch K, Ramu G, Ramanathan U.   Toxic epidermal necrolysis (Lyell syndrome). A case report.  Lepr India. 1983;55:133- 5
  133. Katoch VM, Katoch K, Dutta AK, Sharma VD, Ramu G.   Hepatitis-B virus infection in patients with leprosy--a brief communication.  Lepr India. 1983;55:193- 6
  134. Katoch,K. and Ramu,G. Drugs that cure leprosy. Science Today, June (1983) 54.
  135. Venkatesan K, Kannan KB, Bharadwaj VP, Sritharan V, Katoch K, Usha R, Ramu G.   Serum copper & zinc in leprosy & effect of oral zinc therapy.  Indian J Med Res. 1983;78:37- 41
  136. Kannan KB, Venkatesan K, Bharadwaj VP, Sritharan V, Katoch K.   Indirect assay of beta hydroxy beta methyl glutaryl CoA reductase in the sera of leprosy patients--a further probe into cholesterol metabolism.  Lepr India. 1982;54:242- 5
  137. Sharma VD, Ramu G, Dutta AK, Katoch K, Ramanathan U.   Solid, fragmented and granular index as one of the parameters in drug trials.  Lepr India. 1982;54:448- 53
  138. Katoch,Kiran. and Sogani,R.K. Correlation of serum cholesterol levels and incidence of mycocardial infarction with dietary onion and garlic eating habits.J Assoc Physician India 2 (1981) 443.
  139. Gulati SM, Katoch K, Thusoo TK, Iyenger B.   Sertoli cell tumour of the testis.  Indian J Cancer. 1980;17:131- 3