Saroj Khadka, PhD

Education & Training

  • PhD in Microbiology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2026
  • MS Microbiology (2019)
  • BS Microbiology (2016)

Research Interests

Bacterial pathogenesis; Molecular Biology; Antimicrobial resistance

Publications

Pariseau, D. A., Ring, B. E., Khadka, S., & Mike, L. A. (2024). Cultivation and Genomic DNA Extraction of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Current Protocols, 4(1), e932.

Khadka, S., & Mike, L. A. (2024). Klebsiella pneumoniae sugar import suppresses hypermucoviscosity. Translation: The University of Toledo Journal of Medical Sciences, 12(3).

Ring, B. E., Khadka, S., Pariseau, D. A., & Mike, L. A. (2023). Genetic manipulation of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Current Protocols, 3(10), e912.

Khadka, S.*, Ring, B. E.*, Walker, R. S., Krzeminski, L. R., Pariseau, D. A., Hathaway, M., Mobley, H. L., & Mike, L. A. (2023). Urine-mediated suppression of Klebsiella pneumoniae mucoidy is counteracted by spontaneous Wzc variants altering capsule chain length. Msphere, 8(5), e00288-23. *co-first authors

Khadka, S., Ring, B. E., Pariseau, D. A., & Mike, L. A. (2023). Characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniae extracellular polysaccharides. Current Protocols, 3(11), e937.

Rayamajhee, B., Pokhrel, A., Syangtan, G., Khadka, S., Lama, B., Rawal, L. B., Mehata, S., Mishra, S. K., Pokhrel, R., & Yadav, U. N. (2021). How well the government of Nepal is responding to COVID-19? An experience from a resource-limited country to confront unprecedented pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 597808.

Pokhrel, A., Rayamajhee, B., Khadka, S., Thapa, S., Kapali, S., Pun, S. B., Banjara, M. R., Joshi, P., Lekhak, B., & Rijal, K. R. (2021). Seroprevalence and clinical features of scrub typhus among febrile patients attending a referral hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 6(2), 78.

Khadka, S., Shrestha, B., Pokhrel, A., Khadka, S., Joshi, R. D., & Banjara, M. R. (2021). Antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella Typhi isolated from a referral Hospital of Kathmandu, Nepal. Microbiology Insights, 14, 11786361211056350.