currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Microbiology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, India. I have published several original articles, case reports and a review article in international indexed medical journals. I have also recently written a chapter on Ventilator-associated pneumonia in an Edited book. I am presently recognised as a a reviewer/ referee by several international medical journals: 1) Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2) Australasian medical journal, 3) Eastern journal of medicine, 4) Reviews in infection and 5) Translational biomedicine.