Dr. Sanchita Mitra

Consultant Microbiologist, LV Prasad Eye Institute, KAR Campus, Hyderabad, India.

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Sanchita Mitra works as a Clinical Microbiologist at LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. She completed her MBBS from NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, followed by post-graduate Diploma in Child Health (DCH). She worked as a paediatrician for a few years before completing her training in MD, Microbiology from SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha. Her experience in clinical medicine as a paediatrician helped her develop a broader perspective of medical microbiology and its application in human infections. With her MD thesis Clinico-microbiological profile, antibiotic sensitivity and biofilm formation in chronic dacryocystitis, she gained extensive hands-on training on ocular pathogens for which she received best free paper award at the Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM), Odisha chapter. Currently, Dr Mitra's research work spans unusual ocular pathogens in different ocular infections (endophthalmitis, keratitis and orbital infections); antimicrobial resistance and their mechanisms in ocular pathogens (especially related to biofilms and plasmids); multidrug-resistant ocular pathogens; polymicrobial ocular infections with polymicrobial interactions and their effect on antimicrobial resistance and clinical outcome. She has published in International and Indian scientific journals on various ocular Microbiology related topics.

  1. Articles 7 Oct 2021 6 min read

    Normal flora /Microbiome of the Eye: 10 Facts

    1. Definition of Microbiome Microbiomes are communities of organisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses) that normally reside on any part of the human body (both external and internal) and are in a symbiotic relationship with the host. The members of the microbiome live in close harmony, sharing food and shelter and offering benefits to each other, e.g. some members give protection by secreting extracellular polymeric substances to form a protective covering of biofilm around the community, while some excrete metabolic by-products which are useful substrates for the others. 2. Relation of Microbiome with the host Most of the organisms of the microbiome provide support to the good health of the host (like preventing colonization by harmful pathogens by competing for shelter and food niches, occupying the pathogen receptor sites, or secreting antibiotics and metabolic by-products like acetic and lactic acids which harm such pathogens). But some of the members can also act as opportunistic pathoge

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