Mechanistic Insights on Immune Senescence, Exhaustion and Immune Activation in HIV-Tuberculosis Co-Infection

Esaki Muthu Shankar, Alireza Saeidi, Ramachandran Vignesh, Vijayakumar Velu, Marie Larsson
Handbook of Immunosenescence: Basic Understanding and Clinical Applications

Isospora belli, Strongyloides stercoralis & hookworm multiple-infection in a person with HIV infection & normal CD4+ T-lymphocyte count

Ramachandran Vignesh, Esaki Muthu Shankar, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Murugavel Kailapuri, N Kumarasamy
The Indian Journal of Medical Research

Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole drug resistance with co resistance to extended spectrum ¿-lactam antibiotics among bacterial isolates from HIV patients

Marimuthu Ragavan Rameshkumar, Nallusamy Vijaykanth, Ramachandran Vignesh, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Arunagirinathan Narasingam
BMC Infectious Diseases

Value of single acid-fast bacilli sputum smears in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV-positive subjects

Ramachandran Vignesh, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Esaki Muthu Shankar, Murugavel Kailapuri, N Kumarasamy
Journal of Medical Microbiology

Does CD4+ CD25+ foxp3+ cell (Treg) and IL-10 profile determine susceptibility to immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in HIV disease

Esaki Muthu Shankar, Ramachandran Vignesh, Vijayakumar Velu, Murugavel Kailapuri, N Kumarasamy
Journal of Inflammation

Epidemiological studies on pulmonary pathogens in HIV-positive and -negative subjects with or without community-acquired pneumonia with special emphas...

Esaki Muthu Shankar, N Kumarasamy, Ramachandran Vignesh, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Usha Anand Rao
Japanese journal of infectious diseases

High isolation rate of Staphylococcus aureus from surgical site infections in an Indian hospital

Hayath Kownhar, Esaki Muthu Shankar, Ramachandran Vignesh, Ramalingam Sekar, Usha Anand Rao
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Broad neutralization response in a subset of HIV-1 subtype C-infected viraemic non-progressors from southern India

Nandagopal, Paneerselvam, Bhattacharya, Jayanta, Srikrishnan, Aylur K., Goyal, Rajat, Ravichandran Swathirajan, Chinnambedu, Patil, Shilpa, Saravanan, Shanmugam, Deshpande, Suprit, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Solomon, Sunil Suhas
The Journal of General Virology

Hyper-Expression of PD-1 Is Associated with the Levels of Exhausted and Dysfunctional Phenotypes of Circulating CD161++TCR iV¿7.2+ Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection

Yong, Yean K., Saeidi, Alireza, Tan, Hong Y., Rosmawati, Mohamed, Enström, Philip F., Batran, Rami Al, Vasuki, V., Chattopadhyay, Indranil, Murugesan, Amudhan, Vignesh, Ramachandran
Frontiers in Immunology

Recent advances on T-cell exhaustion in malaria infection

Shankar, Esaki M., Vignesh, R., Dash, A. P.
Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Ertapenem for multiple ¿-lactamases producing gram-negative bacteria causing urinary tract infections in HIV patients

Kumar, M.R.R., Arunagirinathan, N., Vignesh, R., Balakrishnan, P., Solomon, S., Sunil, S.S.
Journal of Research in Medical Sciences

Occurrence of enteric parasitic infections among HIV-infected individuals and its relation to CD4 T-cell counts with a special emphasis on coccidian parasites at a tertiary care centre in South India

Swathirajan, Chinnambedu R., Vignesh, Ramachandran, Pradeep, Ambrose, Solomon, Sunil S., Solomon, Suniti, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Performance of point-of-care Xpert HIV-1 plasma viral load assay at a tertiary HIV care centre in Southern India

Vignesh Ramachandran
Journal of Medical Microbiology

Performance of urinalysis tests in screening for significant bacteriuria among human immunodeficiency virus¿infected subjects in South India

Vignesh, R., Swathirajan, C.R., Solomon, S.S., Solomon, S., Balakrishnan, P.
Journal of Research in Medical Sciences

Risk factors and frequency of tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome among HIV/Tuberculosis co-infected patients in Southern India

Vignesh, R., Swathirajan, C.R., Solomon, S.S., Shankar, E.M., Murugavel, K.G.
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Thalidomide as a Potential HIV Latency Reversal Agent: Is It the Right Time to Forget the Ancestral Sins?

Vignesh, R., Shankar, E.M.
EBioMedicine

Could elevated IgE levels among school children despite non-infestation with geohelminths attributed to the haze in Malaysia?

Vignesh Ramachandran
The Malaysian Journal of Pathology

Dissemination of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Drug Resistance Genes Associated with Class 1 and Class 2 Integrons Among Gram-Negative Bacteria from HIV Patients in South India

Ramesh Kumar, Marimuthu Ragavan, Arunagirinathan, Narasingam, Srivani, Seetharaman, Dhanasezhian, Aridoss, Vijaykanth, Nallusamy, Manikandan, Natesan, Balakrishnan, Sethuramalingam, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Solomon, Suniti
Microbial Drug Resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.)

Plasma cytokine and chemokine levels and their impact on HIV disease non-progression among HIV-1 subtype-C long-term non-progressors from South India

Ravichandran, S. Chinnambedu, Ramachandran, V., Pachamuthu, B., Hussain, S. I. Syed, Mohandas, S., Waldrop, G., Solomon, S. S., Solomon, S., Gangadharan, M. Kailapuri
International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Chromogenic agar medium for rapid detection of extended-spectrum ¿-lactamases and Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases producing bacteria from human immunodeficiency virus patients

Rameshkumar, M.R., Vignesh, R., Swathirajan, C.R., Balakrishnan, P., Arunagirinathan, N.
Journal of Research in Medical Sciences

Chronic hepatitis C virus infection triggers spontaneous differential expression of biosignatures associated with T cell exhaustion and apoptosis signaling in peripheral blood mononucleocytes

Barathan, M., Gopal, K., Mohamed, R., Ellegård, R., Saeidi, A., Vadivelu, J., Ansari, A.W., Rothan, H.A., Ram, M.R., Zandi, K.
Apoptosis

HIV-Mycobacterium tuberculosis co-infection: A 'danger-couple model' of disease pathogenesis

Shankar, E.M., Vignesh, R., Ellegård, R., Barathan, M., Chong, Y.K., Bador, M.K., Rukumani, D.V., Sabet, N.S., Kamarulzaman, A., Velu, V.
Pathogens and Disease

Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole drug resistance with co resistance to extended spectrum $\beta$-lactam antibiotics among bacterial isolates from HIV patients

Rameshkumar, Marimuthu R, Vijaykanth, Nallusamy, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Solomon, Suniti, Arunagirinathan, Narasingam
BMC Infectious Diseases

A rapid and low-cost microscopic observation drug susceptibility assay for detecting TB and MDR-TB among individuals infected by HIV in South India

Solomon, S, Balakrishnan, P, Vignesh, R, Waldrop, G, Solomon, SS, Murugavel, KG, Kumarasamy, N, Yephthomi, T, Poongulali, S, Swathirajan, CR
Indian J Med Microbiol

Clinical outcomes among HIV/tuberculosis-coinfected patients developing immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome after HAART initiation in South India

Kumarasamy, N, Venkatesh, Kartik K, Vignesh, R, Devaleenal, B, Poongulali, S, Yepthomi, Tokuga, Flanigan, Timothy P, Benson, Constance, Mayer, Kenneth H
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC)

Could concentrating single sputum improve the performance of smear microscopy in detecting TB among HIV patients?

Vignesh, Ramachandran, Swathirajan, Chinnambedu R, Solomon, Suniti, Waldrop, Greer, Solomon, Sunil S, Ezhilarasi, Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu
Journal of Infection

Iodine-glycerol as an alternative to lactophenol cotton blue for identification of fungal elements in clinical laboratory

Vignesh, R., Swathirajan, C.R., Solomon, S., Shankar, E.M., Murugavel, K.G., Paul, I., Waldrop, G., Solomon, S.S., Balakrishnan, P.
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

TB-IRIS after initiation of antiretroviral therapy is associated with expansion of preexistent th1 responses against mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens

Vignesh, R., Kumarasamy, N., Lim, A., Solomon, S., Murugavel, K.G., Balakrishnan, P., Solomon, S.S., Mayer, K.H., Swathirajan, C.R., Chandrasekaran, E.
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Induction and maintenance of HIV-1-specific immune responses in exposed seronegative (ESN) women of serodiscordant couples from southern India

Solomon, S, Murugavel, KG, Vignesh, R, Bella, D, Shoba, R, Poongulali, S, Kumarasamy, N, Landay, A, Solomon, SS, Swathirajan, CR
Journal of the International Aids Society

Recent advances targeting innate immunity-mediated therapies against HIV-1 infection

Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Velu, Vijayakumar, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Vijayaraghavalu, Sivakumar, Rukumani, Devi Velayuthan, Sabet, Negar Shafiei
Microbiology and immunology

Current views on the pathophysiology of GB Virus C coinfection with HIV-1 infection

Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Velu, Vijayakumar, Jayakumar, Palanisamy, Solomon, Suniti
Current infectious disease reports

Can iron depletion inside macrophages serve to prolong HIV disease progression?

Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Velu, Vijayakumar, Ponmalar, Esakimuthu, Murugavel, Kailapuri G, Sundaram, Muthu, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Solomon, Suniti
Bioscience Hypotheses

Cold agglutinins in HIV-seropositive participants and diagnosis of respiratory disease due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Velu, Vijayakumar, Ponmalar, Esakimuthu, Murugavel, Kailapuri G, Saravanan, Shanmugam, Nandagopal, Panneerselvam, Hayath, Kownhar, Solomon, Suniti
Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (JIAPAC)

Common protozoans as an uncommon cause of respiratory ailments in HIV-associated immunodeficiency

Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Murugavel, Kailapuri Gangatharan, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Ponmalar, Esakimuthu, Rao, Usha Anand, Velu, Vijayakumar, Solomon, Suniti
FEMS Immunology \& Medical Microbiology

Predominance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among HIV positive subjects with pyrexia of unknown origin in Chennai, Southern India

Vignesh, Ramachandran, Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran, Irene, Paulas, Murugavel, Kailapuri G, Mayer, Kenneth H, Solomon, Suniti, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu
Journal of Infection

Atypically distributed cutaneous lesions of Norwegian scabies in an HIV-positive man in South India: a case report

Vignesh, Ramachandran, Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Devaleenal, Bella, Pachamuthu, B, Thousen, Shieh Mark, Sekar, Ramalingam, others
J Med Case Rep

GB virus infection: a silent anti-HIV panacea within?

Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Solomon, Sunil Suhas, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Murugavel, Kailapuri G, Sundaram, Muthu, Solomon, Suniti, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

High rate of detection of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci from urinary tract specimens in South India

Sekar, Ramalingam, Mahalakshmi, Devarajan, Srivani, Ramesh, Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Vignesh, Ramachandran
International journal of antimicrobial agents

Isospora belli, Strongyloides stercoralis & hookworm multiple-infection in a person with HIV infection and normal CD4+ T-lymphocyte count

Vignesh, R., Shankar, E.M., Balakrishnan, P., Murugavel, K.G., Paul, P.I., Sekar, R., Solomon, S., Kumarasamy, N.
Indian Journal of Medical Research

Low recovery rates of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant enterococci could be attributable to restricted usage of aminoglycosides in Indian settings

Sekar, Ramalingam, Srivani, Ramesh, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Kownhar, Hayath, Shankar, Esaki Muthu
Journal of medical microbiology

Urinary infections due to multi-drug-resistant Escherichia coli among persons with HIV disease at a tertiary AIDS care centre in South India

Vignesh, Ramachandran, Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Murugavel, Kailapuri G, Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran, Sekar, Ramalingam, Irene, Paulas, Solomon, Suniti, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu
Nephron Clinical Practice

Wet mounting using iodine-glycerol provides a semi-permanent preparation for microscopic observation of faecal parasites

Vignesh, R., Sekar, R., Shankar, E.M., Kumarasamy, N., Murugavel, K.G., Irene, P., Solomon, S., Balakrishnan, P.
Journal of Medical Microbiology

High rate of acquired resistance to tuberculosis among HIV-infected subjects of Chennai, South India

Vignesh, R, Balakrishnan, P, Shankar, EM, Murugavel, KG, Hanas, S, Cecelia, AJ, Thyagarajan, SP, Solomon, S, Kumarasamy, N, Mayer, KH
Journal of Infection

Hydrothorax in association with Scopulariopsis brumptii in an AIDS patient in Chennai, India

Shankar, EM, Vignesh, R, Barton, RC, Balakrishnan, P, Murugavel, KG, Velu, V, Kownhar, H, Lloyd, CAC, Solomon, S, Rao, UA
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in association with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis: Views over hidden possibilities

Shankar, Esaki Muthu, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Murugavel, Kailapuri G, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Sekar, Ramalingam, Lloyd, Charmaine AC, Solomon, Suniti, Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran
AIDS research and therapy

Short report: High proportion of isosporiasis among hiv-infected patients with diarrhea in Southern India

Vignesh, R., Balakrishnan, P., Shankar, E.M., Murugavel, K.G., Hanas, S., Cecelia, A.J., Thyagarajan, S.P., Solomon, S., Kumarasamy, N.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

CD8+ T cells of chronic HCV-infected patients express multiple negative immune checkpoints following stimulation with HCV peptides

Barathan, Muttiah, Mohamed, Rosmawati, Vadivelu, Jamuna, Chang, Li Yen, Vignesh, Ramachandran, Krishnan, Jayalakshmi, Sigamani, Panneer, Saeidi, Alireza, Ram, M. Ravishankar, Velu, Vijayakumar
Cellular Immunology