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  Name of Scientists

  Dr. Tahziba Hussain

  Designation

 Senior Research Officer/ Scientist D.

  Date of Birth

 August 25, 1964

  Discipline

  HIV/AIDS

  Address Office

 HIV/ AIDS Unit
 National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases,
 P.B.NO.101 Tajganj, Agra - 282001

  Address Residence

  House No.11, Sri Nikunj, Shamshabad Road, Agra.

  Date of Joining

 November 23, 1993

  Date of Present Post

 November 23, 2005

  Department

  HIV/AIDS Unit

  Research Experience

  22 years.

  Foreign Visits

 

  Educational Qualification

  M.Sc, PhD M.A.

  Membership
  1. Life Member of the Indian Immunology Society (IIS)
  2. Life Member of the National Leprosy Organisation (NLO)
  3. Member of Indian Leprosy Association (ILA )

  Publications
  1. B.Ravindran, A.K.Satapathy, T.Hussain and N.M.Pattanaik (1989). Antibodies in human filariasis sera react with Diethylcarbamazine. Clinical and Experimental Immunology. 78 : 219 - 223.
  2. Tahziba Hussain and Balachandran Ravindran (1992). Antigenic mimicry between piperazine derivatives and Wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae. Acta Tropica. 50 : 353 - 356.
  3. T.Hussain, S.K.Sharma and J.Mahanta (March,1999). Antibodies to Chloroquine in Human malaria sera. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 109 : 100 - 102.
  4. T.Hussain, K.Kulshreshtha, S.K.Ghei, M.Natarajan, K.Katoch and U.Sengupta (March, 2000). HIV seroprevalence in Leprosy patients. International Journal of Leprosy. 68(1) : 67 - 69.
  5. Tahziba Hussain, K.K.Kulshreshtha, Sumita Sood, Mohd.Arif, Shikha Sinha, V.S.Yadav, U.Sengupta & V.M.Katoch. (Nov., 2005). Seroprevalence of HIV infection among the Foreign Students at Agra between 1988 - 2002. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 122 : 447 - 450.
  6. Tahziba Hussain, Shikha Sinha, K.K.Kulshreshtha, Kiran Katoch, V.S.Yadav, U.Sengupta & V.M.Katoch. (June, 2005). Seroprevalence of HIV infection among leprosy patients in Agra, India : Trends and perspective. International Journal of Leprosy. 73 : 93 - 99.
  7. Tahziba Hussain, Shikha Sinha, K.K.Kulshreshtha, V.S.Yadav, Pradeep Sharma, U.Sengupta & V.M.Katoch. (2006). Seroprevalence of HIV infection among tuberculosis patients in Agra, India - a hospital based study. Tuberculosis. 86 : 54 - 59.
  8. Tahziba Hussain, K.K.Kulshreshtha, V.S.Yadav, U.Sengupta & V.M.Katoch. (2006). Seroprevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Syphilis infections among patients attending the STD, Gyn.&Obs. and ANC clinics at different districts hospitals of northern India : Observations from 7 years of Sentinel Surveillance (1998-2004). American Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2 (1) : 28 - 35.
  9. Tahziba Hussain, K.K.Kulshreshtha, Shikha Sinha, V.S.Yadav & V.M.Katoch. (2006). HIV, HBV, HCV and Syphilis co-infections among patients attending the STD, Gyn.&Obs. and ANC clinics of different District Hospitals of northern India. International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
  10. 358 – 363. 10. Tahziba Hussain, Shikha Sinha, Sujata Talan, Sanjay Verma, V.S.Yadav, Rajeshwar Dayal, U.Sengupta & V.M.Katoch. (2007). Seroprevalence of HIV infection among paediatric Tuberculosis patients in Agra, India - a hospital based study. Tuberculosis. 87 (1) : 7 - 11.
  11. Tahziba Hussain. (2007). Leprosy and Tuberculosis : an insight review. Critical Reviews in Microbiology (CRM). 33 (1) : 15 - 66.
  12. Tahziba Hussain, Shikha Sinha, Kiran Katoch, K.K.Kulshreshtha, V.S.Yadav, Itu Singh, U.Sengupta & V.M.Katoch. (2007). Serum samples from patients with mycobacterial infections cross-react with HIV structural proteins, Gp41, p56 and p18. Leprosy Review. Jun ;78 (2):137 - 47. 17824484.
  13. Virendra S.Yadav, Kiran Katoch and Tahziba Hussain. (2007). Leprosy patients attending the Out patient’s Clinic at Agra : a retrospective analysis of the Characteristics and frequency of regularity vs irregularity for determining absenteeism, non-adherence and non-compliance. American Journal of Infectious Diseases. 3 (1) : 36 - 41.

  Areas of Interest

  HIV/AIDS, Diagnostics, Infectious diseases
Conferences Attended

Seminars / Conferences :

  1. Presented a paper entitled, “Antigenic mimicry between piperazine derivatives and W.Bancrofti microfilariae” in the 59th Annual General Meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists (India) : 27th - 29th Dec.1990 at Udaipur.
  2. Presented a paper entitled, “Antigenic mimicry between piperazine derivatives and filarial parasites” in the Indo-Swiss Seminar on Industrial Applications of Biotechnology : 27th - 28th Feb.1991 at Bangalore.
  3. Presented a paper entitled, “HIV seroprevalence in leprosy patients” in the Indian Association of Leprologists : 17th -19th Sep. 1999 at Chandigarh.
  4. Presented a paper entitled, “A survey of the KABP regarding HIV and AIDS among a group of Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs)” in the 1st Conference of the Behavioural Scientists : 2nd -3rd Oct.1999 at the Central JALMA Institute for Leprosy, Agra.
  5. Presented a paper entitled, “A comparative evaluation of the serum and urine samples from individuals of high-risk group” in the 26th Conference of the Indian Immunology Society : 13th -15th Jan. 2000 at Bombay.
  6. Attended the UPSACS meeting : 28thMarch,2000 at Lucknow.
  7. Attended the UPSACS meeting for In-Charges and Lab.Technicians of Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centres at Lucknow : 26th July,2001.
  8. Attended the UPSACS meeting for the 5th round of the National Annual STD Surveillance at Lucknow : 9th August,2001.
  9. Presented a paper entitled, “HIV seroprevalence among Leprosy patients” in the Golden Jubilee Conference of the Indian Association of Leprologists (IAL) at Patna : 23rd -25th November,2001.
  10. Presented a paper entitled, “Cross-reactivity of Leprosy sera with HIV antigens” in the International Conference on HIV/AIDS at Mumbai : 16th -19th December, 2001.
  11. Presented a paper entitled, “Disease manifestations among HIV - positive patients” in the 30th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (IADVL) at Cochin : 24th -27th January,2002.
  12. Attended the Orientation/Workshop meeting of National Annual Sentinel Surveillance for HIV infections at Lucknow during 18th - 19th of July, 2002.
  13. Attended the Round Table Conference on Leprosy sponsored by Ranbaxy at the Hotel JayPee Palace, Agra on 29th September,2002.
  14. Attended the Indo-US Collaborative Workshop on HIV/STD Behavioural Prevention Research sponsored by ICMR, NACO & NIMH at the Hotel JayPee Palace, Agra from 22nd - 24th January,2003.
  15. Attended the one - day meeting at the National AIDS Research Institute at Pune on the 27th of Jan.,2003 in connection with the project on “HIV-1 subtyping and detection of HIV-1 recombinants in India” under Genomics (ICMR).
  16. Attended the workshop on “Application of Flow Cytometry in Drug Mechanistics” at the Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu from 15th - 19th September,2003.
  17. Attended the IAL National Workshop on Diagnosis & Management of Leprosy at Hotel JayPee Palace, Agra from 18th -19thOct.,2003.
  18. Attended the ICMR - WHO sponsored Workshop on IPR and WTO issues at Agra from 22nd - 23rd January,2004.
  19. Attended the Indo-French Workshop on Research on HIV/AIDS at the Hotel JayPee Palace, Agra from 22nd - 24th January,2004.
  20. Attended the conference of Immunology and Immunopathology, at Agra.
  21. Attended the Regional Workshop on EQAS sponsored by NACO at the Hotel JayPee Palace, Agra from 25th - 26th March,2004.
  22. Attended the 24th Biennial Conference of the Indian Association of Leprologists, 12th-14th November,2005 at Central JALMA Institute for Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra.
  23. Attended the VII Sir Dorabji Tata Symposium on HIV/AIDS research issues at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 10th-11th March,2006 and presented a paper entitled, “A comparative analysis of CD4+, CD8+, CD3+ cells counts and CD4+/CD8+ ratio among Leprosy and TB patients and Normal Healthy Adults”.
  24. Attended the International Conference on Opportunistic pathogens in AIDS at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi on 27thMarch,2006 and presented a paper entitled, “A study of the relationship between HIV infection and Mycobacterial Diseases : the JALMA experience”.
  25. Attended the 1st International Symposium on Genetic and Immune correlates of HIV infection and Vaccine-induced Immunity meeting held at Budapest, Hungary from 10th to 13thJune,2007 and presented a paper entitled, “HIV-leprosy co-infected cases attending the outpatient’s clinic at Agra, India : case report of  14 patients”.
  26. Attended the 1-day training of Health care providers in UP in sensitive and timely treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS at A.N.M. Training Centre at Agra on 17th Feb.,2009 organised by UPSACS, Lucknow.
  27. Attended the Bhartiya Rajbhasha Conference from 9th to 11thDec.,2009 at Puri, Orissa.