Research Area

Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology, Clinical Microbiology

Work and Teaching Experience

• Jr. Lecturer - Academy of Medical Sciences(Pariyaram Medical College)- 2003-2004
• Lecturer - Academy of Medical Sciences(Pariyaram Medical College) - 2004-2009
• Asst. Professor - Academy of Medical Sciences(Pariyaram Medical College) - 2009- 2014
• Associate Professor - Govt. Medical college,Palakkad - 2014-2015
• Asst. Professor And Head - School of Health Sciences, Kannur University - 2015- to date

• Member secretary Human Ethical Committee
• Chainman Research committee
• Member Academic council, Kannur University
• Chainman Board of studies Medical Microbiology, Kannur University
• Resource person for Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP-Govt of India).
• PhD Examiner
• Research guide Kannur university (Faculty of Medicine)

Research experience

• Post graduate dissertation: Speciation of Coagulase Negative Staphylococci and Detection of slime production.
• PhD Research topic: Clinical and Mycological Study on Dermatophytosis.

PhD Thesis guided: Three

• Detection Of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Specific Antibodies For Diagnosis Of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Especially Smear Negative Cases.
• Micronuclei assay in TORCH Positive women experience in bad Obstructive history.
• In Vitro Evaluation of the Anticandidal Activity of selected Medicinal plant Extracts.

PhD Thesis guiding: Four

• BK virus in renal transplant recipients- study of risk factors and immunological predictors.
• Oral Microbiome and immunological studies in cardiovascular diseases
• Detection and characterization of carbapenem resistant in non-fermenting Gram Negative bacilli

Post graduate Research project guided : 8

• Surveillance of Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance
• Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern and Detection of ESBL Producing Uropathogenic Enterobacteriaceae
• An Examination of the Distribution of Diabetes Mellitus among TB Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Drug Resistant Tuberculosis In Kannur.
• Seroprevalence of Scrub Typhus in Thalassery Area.
• Study on prevalence of MDRTB in Thalasseri area.
• Adverse drug reactions and treatment outcome analysis of DOTS-plus therapy of MDR-TB patients at district tuberculosis centre, Kannur in 2015-17.
• Necessity of morning sputum sample and incidence of smear positive pulmonary TB in Kannur.
• Study of presumptive TB referred from other hospitals for RNTCP.

Publications and Presentations

1. Arun B, Remya V S, Sheeba P M, PratyushaKokkayil Mycological study on incidence of tinea incognito in a tertiary hospital. MedPulse – International Medical Journal October 2015; 2(10): 649-65.
2. Sheeba PM, Arun B, Prathyusha K. A comparative study of primary & secondary dengue in a tertiary care centre. Int J Health Sci Res. 2015; 5(12):153-157.
3. ArunB,Remya V S, N Premkumar In vitro antifungal susceptibility of Trichophyton species against Itraconazole, Ketaconazole and Terbinafine. World journal of pharmaceutical Research. April 2015Vol.4 issue.4.
4. Murugan, Vishal babu, S. Suresh, Kalpanadeepapriya, B. Arun .Amelioration of antiproliferative activity of withaferin-a on experimental hepatocellular carcinomas. Int j med pharscivol 7 ( 1), 15-19:Jan 2016.
5. N Premkumar,Sreraj K,J N Darsana,ArunB,Nigeeth.M. Prevalence and use of rescuemedicationin stable Asthma patients.World journal of pharmaceutical Research march 2014Vol.3 issue.3.
6. Jisha P, Aneesh P, RachanaRaveendran, Arun B. A new light on TORCH infection among bad obstetric history al of Recent Trends in Science and Technology. January 2016; 17(3): 251-254.
7. RemyaVS,Joseph K M,Arun B Morphotyping of Candida . J AcadClinMicrobiol 2004 vol 6(1):13-17.
8. Remya VS, Arun B, KarunakaranU . Cellophane tape Pugh’s staining a novel contrast staining method for rapid detection of fungal elements of Malasseziain Pityriasisversicolor. Int J Health Sci Res. 2017; 7(11):42-46.
9. Kavitha M. K. , Dr. Arun B. Antifungal susceptibility pattern of candida sp. Isolates from cases of candidiasis, World journal of pharmaceutical Research. Sept.l 2017Vol.6 issue15.
10. Remya V S., Arun B., Sarala Devi, Deepak K. S. and Philip George Theckel, antifungal susceptibility of malasseziaspeciesisolated from pityriasisversicolor cases,World journal of pharmaceutical Research.june.l 2017Vol.6 issue9,1010-1018
11. Kavitha MK, Arun B. In vitro evaluation of the anticandidal activity of selected medicinal plant extracts. Int J Health Sci Res. 2018; 8(1):49-53.
12. Remya VS, Arun B, Sheeba PM, Kokkayil P. A study on malassezia micro flora in the skin of healthy individuals in North Kerala, India. Int J Res Med Sci 2017;5:4600-3.
13. Anuranjini C, VeenaM ,Bincy George , Dr.Arun B , and SajithChandran. Prevalence and Laboratory Profile of Dengue Viral Infection. International Journal of Emerging Trends in Science and Technology.2017; Vol.04(09), 5941-594.
14. Sebastian A, Arun B. Analysis of secreted proteins and detergent soluble sonicates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Int J Health Sci Res. 2019; 9(4):31-35.
15. Remya VS, Arun B. Diagnostic efficacy of Wood‟s lamp examination compared with KOH wet mount for diagnosis of pityriasisversicolor cases. Int J Health Sci Res. 2019; 9(4):27-30.

• Presented papers in
  • • National seminar on Recent advances in Biomedical Sciences.
    • IX National conference of Hospital Infection Society of India.
    • VI National conference of the Society for Indian human and Animal Mycology
    • Abdul adil V K, Jithya C K, Keerthi K, and Arun B.Adverse drug reactions and treatment outcome analysis of DOTS-plus therapy of MDR-TB patients at district tuberculosis centre, Kannur in 2015-17. Three day national seminar on Recent Advances in Molecular biology & Biotechnology-2018.
    • Jithya C K, Keerthi K, . Abdul adil V K and Arun B.Necessity of morning sputum sample and incidence of smear positive pulmonary TB in Kannur. . Three day national seminar on Recent Advances in Molecular biology & Biotechnology-2018.
    • Keerthi K, Jithya C K Abdul adil V K and Arun B. Study of presumptive TB referred from other hospitals for RNTCP,. Three day national seminar on Recent Advances in Molecular biology & Biotechnology-2018.

Courses And Training Attended

• XXVII UGC – Sponsored Orientation Programme conducted by HRDC Kannur university from 20/2/17 to 20/03/2017.
• Completed the course ‘Training of Trainers’- Integrated Disease Surveillance Project.from 6th to 11 february 2006 conducted by Community Health Department Christian Medical College Vellore.
• Participated many national and international Conferences and Seminars

Professional Membership

Life Member of the Society for Indian human and Animal Mycology(SIHAM)