2026 Shyam Sundar: Microbiology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Microbiology	99	431	388	1	1	491	38481
Medicine	107	6213	5845	6	6	656	45303

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Microbiology in India Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Medicine in India Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Microbiology in India Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Microbiology in India Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Microbiology in India Leader Award

Overview

Shyam Sundar is affiliated with Banaras Hindu University in India and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine, with a significant concentration on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Parasitology, and Immunology. Their work spans the study of infectious diseases, particularly leishmaniasis and related parasitic infections.

The scientist's research topics include:

Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
Trypanosoma species research and implications
Parasites and Host Interactions
Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation
Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Om Prakash Singh
Rajiv Kumar
Shashi Bhushan Chauhan
Christian Engwerda
Anurag Kumar Kushwaha

Shyam Sundar has contributed extensively to various scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

PLoS neglected tropical diseases
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Frontiers in Immunology
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Notable recent papers by Shyam Sundar include:

"Xenodiagnosis to evaluate the infectiousness of humans to sandflies in an area endemic for visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India: a transmission-dynamics study" (2021, The Lancet Microbe)
"Type I Interferons Suppress Anti-parasitic Immunity and Can Be Targeted to Improve Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis" (2020, Cell Reports)
"Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis: A threat to elimination program" (2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases)
"Male predominance in reported Visceral Leishmaniasis cases: Nature or nurture? A comparison of population-based with health facility-reported data" (2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases)
"Amphiregulin in cellular physiology, health, and disease: Potential use as a biomarker and therapeutic target" (2021, Journal of Cellular Physiology)

Best Publications

Drug Resistance in Leishmaniasis

Simon L. Croft;Shyam Sundar;Alan H. Fairlamb

2126
Citations
Visceral leishmaniasis: what are the needs for diagnosis, treatment and control?

François Chappuis;François Chappuis;Shyam Sundar;Asrat Hailu;Hashim Ghalib

2046
Citations
Visceral leishmaniasis : current status of control, diagnosis, and treatment, and a proposed research and development agenda

Philippe J Guerin;Philippe J Guerin;Piero Olliaro;Piero Olliaro;Shyam Sundar;Marleen Boelaert

1068
Citations
Oral Miltefosine for Indian Visceral Leishmaniasis

Shyam Sundar;T K Jha;C P Thakur;Juergen Engel

915
Citations
Failure of Pentavalent Antimony in Visceral Leishmaniasis in India: Report from the Center of the Indian Epidemic

Shyam Sundar;Deepak K. More;Manoj K. Singh;Vijay P. Singh

829
Citations
Laboratory Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis

Shyam Sundar;M. Rai

829
Citations
Drug resistance in Indian visceral leishmaniasis.

Shyam Sundar

778
Citations
Antimony Toxicity

Unknown

646
Citations
Miltefosine, an oral agent, for the treatment of Indian visceral leishmaniasis.

T.K. Jha;Shyam Sundar;C.P. Thakur;Peter Bachmann

571
Citations
Injectable paromomycin for Visceral leishmaniasis in India.

Shyam Sundar;T K Jha;Chandreshwar P Thakur;Prabhat K Sinha

555
Citations
Evidence that the High Incidence of Treatment Failures in Indian Kala-Azar Is Due to the Emergence of Antimony-Resistant Strains of Leishmania donovani

Rosalia Lira;Shyam Sundar;A. Makharia;Richard Kenney

502
Citations
Whole genome sequencing of multiple Leishmania donovani clinical isolates provides insights into population structure and mechanisms of drug resistance

Tim Downing;Hideo Imamura;Saskia Decuypere;Taane G. Clark

498
Citations
Single-Dose Liposomal Amphotericin B for Visceral Leishmaniasis in India

Shyam Sundar;Jaya Chakravarty;Dipti Agarwal;Madhukar Rai

493
Citations
Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control

Clive R Davies;Paul Kaye;Simon L Croft;Shyam Sundar

465
Citations
Liposomal Amphotericin B for the Treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis

Caryn Bern;Jill Adler-Moore;Juan Berenguer;Marleen Boelaert

412
Citations
Splenic accumulation of IL-10 mRNA in T cells distinct from CD4+CD25+ (Foxp3) regulatory T cells in human visceral leishmaniasis

Susanne Nylén;Radheshyam Maurya;Liv Eidsmo;Krishna Das Manandhar

410
Citations
Comparison of short-course multidrug treatment with standard therapy for visceral leishmaniasis in India: an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial

Shyam Sundar;Prabhat Kumar Sinha;Madhukar Rai;Deepak Kumar Verma

380
Citations
Rapid accurate field diagnosis of Indian visceral leishmaniasis

Shyam Sundar;Steven G. Reed;Vijay P. Singh;Prasanna C. K. Kumar

375
Citations
Diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis

Pankaj Srivastava;Anand Dayama;Sanjana Mehrotra;Shyam Sundar

370
Citations
Drug Uptake and Modulation of Drug Resistance in Leishmania by an Aquaglyceroporin

Benjamin Gourbal;Niluefer Sonuc;Hiranmoy Bhattacharjee;Danielle Legare

364
Citations
Drug resistance in leishmaniasis.

Jaya Chakravarty;Shyam Sundar

288
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marleen Boelaert Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Jean-Claude Dujardin Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Henry W. Murray Cornell University

Jenefer M. Blackwell Telethon Kids Institute

David B. Sacks National Institutes of Health

Pradeep Das Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences

Mary E. Wilson University of California, San Francisco

Dinesh Mondal International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Sujit K. Bhattacharya Indian Council of Medical Research

Christian R. Engwerda QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

External Links

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