Dr.
Benu Dhawan
Affiliation
Professor
Department of
Microbiology
Contact
Email :
dhawanb@gmail.com
Phone :
Additional Responsibility
Office Address
General OPD
Special Clinic
Surgery Days
Speciality of work
Areas of teaching
Areas of teaching
Dr. Benu Dhawan graduated in Medicine from Government Medical College, Patiala, in 1987. She obtained her MD (Microbiology) degree from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh in 1993. She joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in the year 1994. She is presently a Professor in the Bacteriology & Mycoplasma division of the Department of Microbiology.
Research Focus
- Sexually Transmitted Infections with special reference to Genital Mycoplasmas and Chlamydia trachomatis
- Diagnostic Microbiology with special reference to Prosthetic Joint Infections
- Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of nosocomial pathogenswith special reference to Staphylococci and Enterococci.
Research Guidance (Chief Guide)
- Ph.D: 5
- M.D./M.S.: 6
- D.M. (Infectious Diseases): 1
- Research papers published: 168
- Cumulated citation index (CI): 3237 Cumulated Impact Factor (IF): 373.194
- Chapter in Books: 1
Selected Publications
- Rao C, *Dhawan B, Vishnubhatla S, Kapil A, Das B, Sood S. Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium Bacteremia from an Indian Tertiary Hospital. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2021 Feb; 40(2):303-314.
- Dhawan B, Rawre J, Dhawan N, Bhatia R, Gupta V, Khanna N. High Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium in men who have sex with men: A cross-sectional study. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2020 Mar-Apr; 86(2):195-196.
- Rawre J, *Dhawan B, Khanna N, Sreenivas V, Broor S, Chaudhry R. Distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis omp A genotypes in patients attending a sexually transmitted disease outpatient clinic in New Delhi, India. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2019 May 1; 149(5):662. IF: 1.503; CI:2
- Sebastian S, Malhotra R, Dhawan B, Sreenivas V, Kapil A, Chaudhry R. Sonication of antibiotic loaded cement spacers: A valuable technique for detection of infection persistence in two-stage revision for infected joint arthroplasty. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2019; 37:99-10.
- Sebastian S, Malhotra R, Sreenivas V, Kapil A, Chaudhry R, *Dhawan B. A clinico-microbiological study of prosthetic joint infections in an Indian tertiary care hospital: Role of Universal 16S rRNA gene polymerase chain reaction and sequencing in diagnosis. Indian J Orthop. 2019; 53:646-54.
