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Indumathi Venkatachalam

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Venkatachalam I, Aung M, Mun Lai D, Qi Foo M, Ying Sim J, Arora S, et al.
J Hosp Infect . 2025 Mar; PMID: 40064447
Objective: To describe the evolving epidemiology and risk associations of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) between 2018 and 2023 in a tertiary hospital in Singapore. Methods: Inpatients in Singapore General Hospital (SGH)...
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Wee L, Lim J, Ho R, Chiew C, Young B, Venkatachalam I, et al.
Lancet Reg Health West Pac . 2025 Mar; 55:101494. PMID: 40060306
Background: More data is required to contextualise respiratory-syncytial-virus (RSV) disease burden, versus other vaccine-preventable respiratory-viral-infections (RVIs) in older adults. We aimed to compare severity of RSV in hospitalized adults versus...
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Ng Q, Wee L, Lim Y, Ong R, Ong C, Venkatachalam I, et al.
Front Public Health . 2024 Dec; 12:1491087. PMID: 39737451
Objective: To characterize the public conversations around long COVID, as expressed through X (formerly Twitter) posts from May 2020 to April 2023. Methods: Using X as the data source, we...
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Cai Y, Philip E, Arora S, Sim J, Chow W, Nazeha N, et al.
IJID Reg . 2024 Sep; 12:100427. PMID: 39281193
Objectives: We used a multi-state model, which mitigates time-dependent bias, to estimate the mortality, length of stay (LOS), and costs of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) infections in Singapore. Methods: We conducted a...
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Suphavilai C, Ko K, Lim K, Tan M, Boonsimma P, Chu J, et al.
Lancet Microbe . 2024 Jul; 5(9):100878. PMID: 39008997
Background: The emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris poses a serious threat to global public health due to its worldwide distribution, multidrug resistance, high transmissibility, propensity to cause outbreaks, and high...
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Aung M, Venkatachalam I, Sim J, Wee L, Aung M, Yang Y, et al.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol . 2024 May; 4(1):e88. PMID: 38774116
Background: Real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been the gold standard for diagnosing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but has a lag time for the results. An effective prediction algorithm...
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Arora S, Oo A, Shaik Ismail B, Poon W, Lai D, Ko K, et al.
Am J Infect Control . 2024 May; 52(9):1084-1090. PMID: 38761850
Background: We describe the investigations for control of two consecutive Serratia marcescens outbreaks in neonatology unit of Singapore General Hospital. Methods: Epidemiological investigations, environmental sampling and risk-factors analysis were performed...
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Linn K, Sutjipto S, Ng O, Teo J, Cherng B, Tan T, et al.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol . 2023 Dec; 3(1):e208. PMID: 38156208
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an initial increase in the incidence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) from clinical cultures in South-East Asia hospitals, which was unsustained as the pandemic progressed. Conversely,...
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Wee L, Conceicao E, Aung M, Aung M, Yang Y, Arora S, et al.
Infect Dis Health . 2023 Apr; 28(2):81-87. PMID: 37032572
Background: Increased transmissibility of severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2(SARS-CoV-2) variants, such as the Omicron-variant, presents an infection-control challenge. We contrasted nosocomial transmission amongst hospitalized inpatients across successive pandemic waves attributed to the Delta- and...
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Wee L, Arora S, Ko K, Conceicao E, Coleman K, Tan K, et al.
Am J Infect Control . 2023 Apr; 51(4):413-419. PMID: 37010998
Background: Temporary isolation wards have been introduced to meet demands for airborne-infection-isolation-rooms (AIIRs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental sampling and outbreak investigation was conducted in temporary isolation wards converted from...