Education

Biography

Archaan sud is Currently Senior Staff Specialist in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Associate Professor Medicine at Nepean Clinical School, University of Sydney. She Left India in 2005 as Professor of Tropical Medicine at PGIMER, Chandigarh, after 11 years on the faculty of Internal Medicine. Her  research interest focuses on bacterial infectious diseases as well as HIV infection with over 80 peer reviewed publications. Served on various expert committees with the National AIDS Control Organisation in India.She is Convenor of the HIV-HCV co-infection clinic.

Research Interest

• Bacterial infectious diseases
• HIV infection

Scientific Activities

Appointments and Positions

Memberships in professional and scientific societies

• Member Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases
• Member HITH society Australasia
• Member European Society of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• Member Australasian Society of Antimicrobials
• Member Infectious Diseases Society of America
• Member of International AIDS Society
• Member of the International Society of Infectious Diseases
• Member of India International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)
• Member National Academy of Medical Sciences (MNAMS)
• Member of the Indian Immunology Society
• Member of the Indian Rheumatology Association
• Member of Indian AIDS Society
• Member of the Association of Physicians of India.
• Member of the Indian Medical Association

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Publications

1. Bacteriological diagnosis of pyogenic meningitis by latex agglutination. A Thesis for MD (Medicine), Punjab University, Chandigarh.
2. Sud A, Vuyyuru R, Gupta S, Behra A, Bambery P, Deodhar SD. Emphysematous pancreatitis with endocrine and exocrine insufficiency. Bull PGI 1996: 30, 165-167.
3. S Sehgal, S Varma, A Rajwanshi, A Sud, RJ Dash, K Singh, V Sakhuja, DK Bhasin, BK Sharma. Incidence of tuberculosis in AIDS patients in Punjab: A retrospective study. HIV and AIDS research in India. Eds OP Aggarwal, AK Sharma, A Indrayan. 1997; 602-604.
4. Sud A, Venkatesh S, Sehgal S, Wanchu A, Bambery P, Deodhar SD. Ebstein Barr induced nonhodgkins lymphoma in a patient with AIDS. J Assoc Physicians of India 1999; 47: 442-443.
5. Sud A. Tuberculosis in the HIV infected. Pulmonary and critical care update. Eds. SK Jindal, D Gupta. Pp 172-175; 1998.
6. Sud A, Singh S. Health care worker and HIV infection. Current Medical Journal of North India. 1999; 4:15-18.
7. A Sud, K Sud, S Singh, V Sakhuja. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection In a Living Related Transplant Recepient. Indian Journal of Nephrology 1999; 9:54-6.
8. Sud A, Wanchu A, Bambery P, Singh S, Chawla Y. Prevalence of hepatitis C virus co-infection and its effect on liver functions in patients infected with HIV. Tropical gastroenterology. 1999;20:128-30.
9. Sud A, Rajwanshi A, Sehgal S, Chakravarty A, Wanchu A, Bambery P, Singh S. Diseminated histoplasmosis as an Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome defining disease. J Assoc Physicians of India 2000; 48:435-6.
10. Wanchu A, Khullar M, Bhatnagar A, Sud A, Bambery P, Singh S. Pentoxyphylline reduces NO levels among patients with HIV infection. Immunology letters 2000;74:121-125
11. Malhotra P, Singh S, Sud A, Kumari S. Tropical pyomyositis - experience in a tertiary care centre. J Assoc Physicians India 2000; 48: 1057-1059.
12. A Charaborty, A Sharma, A Sud, R Grover, V Sakhuja, S Prabhakar, S Varma. Changing scenario of cryptococcosis in a tertiary care hospital in north India. Indian J Med Res 2000 ; 56-60.
13. Bhansali A, Dash RJ, Sud A, Bhadada S, Sehgal S, Sharma BR. A preliminary report on basal and stimulated cortisol levels in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Indian J Med Res 2000; 112: 173-177.
14. A Wanchu, A Bhatnagar, A Sud, P Bambery, S Singh, S Varma. Pentoxyphylline in the prevention of opportunistic infections A panacea for the economically underprivileged? J Human Virology 2000; 3: 280.
15. A Sud, M Sharma, S Sehgal, B Kumar, S Varma. Spectrum of co infections in HIV infected patients in North India. Ann Natl Acad of Med Sci 1999; 35: 151-8.
16. A Wanchu, S Arora, A Bhatnagar, A Sud, P Bambery, S Singh. Decline in Beta-2 microglobulin levels after anti-tubercular therapy among HIV/TB infected individuals. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 2001: 43; 211-15.
17. Sud A, Singh J, Dhiman RK, Singh S, Chawla Y. Prevalence of co-infection with hepatitis B virus in HIV infected patients. Tropical Gasteroenterol 2000: 22; 90-2.
18. A Wanchu, S Arora, A Bhatnagar, A Sud, P Bambery, S Singh. Suppression if Beta 2 Microglobulin by pentoxyphylline therapy in asymptomatic HIV infected individuals. India J Med Res 2001: 113; 75-7.
19. A Wanchu, A Sud, P Bambery, S Singh. Paradoxical reaction in HIV and Tuberculosis co-infection. J Assoc Physicians India 2002; 50: 588-89.
20. Mohandas K, Sehgal R, Sud A, Malla N. Prevalence of intestinal parasitic pathogens in HIV seropositive individuals in Northern India. Jpn J Infect Dis 2002; 55(3): 83-4.
21. Wanchu A, Bhatnagar A, Khullar M, Sud A, Bambery P, Singh S. Antitubercular therapy decreases nitric oxide production in HIV/TB co-infected patients. BMC Infect Dis 2002; 2(1): 15.
22. A Sud, P Ray, DK Bhasin, A Wanchu, P Bambery, S Singh. Helicobacter pylori in Indian HIV infected patients. Tropical Gastroenterol 2002; 23: 79-81.
23. A Wanchu, A Sud, S Singh, P Bambery. Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. J Assoc Physicians India 2003; 51: 1102-4.
24. N Malla, C Sengupta, ML Dubey, A Sud, NA Ansari, P Salotra. Antigenemia and antibody response to Leishmania donovani stage-specific antigens and rk 39 antigen in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. Br J Biomed Sciences 2003; 60 (4); 210-16.
25. S Sehgal, U Dutta, S Mujtaba, A Sud, VK Vinayak. Cellular and serological markers of disease activity in Indian patients with HIV/AIDS. Methods in Cell Science 2002; 24: 107-114.
26. JM Hui, JG Kench, S Chitturi, A Sud, GC Farrell, K Byth, P Hall, M Khan, J George. Long term outcomes of cirrhosis in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis compared with hepatitis C. Hepatology 2003; 38: 420-27.
27. Hui JM, Sud A, Farrell GC, Bandara P, Byth K, Kench JG, McCaughan GW, George J. Insulin resistance is associated with chronic hepatitis C virus infection and fibrosis progression [corrected]. Gastroenterology 2003; 125(6): 1695-704
28. S Sethi, A Sud, Pooja, S Sharma, C Sengupta, M Sharma. Leptospirosis in Northern India- A clinical and Serological Study. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 2003;34(4):822-25.
29. Sud A, Hui JM, Farrell GC, Bandara P, Kench JG, Fung C, Lin R, Samarasinghe D, Liddle C, McCaughan GW, George J. Improved prediction of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C using measures of insulin resistance in a probability index.
    Hepatology. 2004 ;39:1239-47.
30. A Wanchu, Y Chawla, RK Dhiman, A Sud, P Bambery, KD Gill. Paucity of Anti-Hepatitis C Virus Antibodies in the Serum of Indian Patients with Sjogren's syndrome and Inflammatory myositis. Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology 2003: 46; 191-3.
31. A Wanchu, S Arora, A Bhatnagar, A Sud, P Bambery, S Singh. Beta-2 Microglobulin as a surrogate marker for HIV infection: Good correlation with CD4 counts. Indian J Pathol Microbiol 2004; 47 (2): 297-301.
32. Sud A, Varma N, Marwaha RK, Patel FM, Trehan A, Singh S, Varma S. Visceral leishmaniasis in a non-endemic area of India. Trop Doct 2004; 34: 247-249.
33. Singh MP, Dubey ML, Sud A, Malla N. Antibody response to Toxoplasma gondii in saliva samples from human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. Br J Biomed Sci. 2005;62(2):81-4.
34. Malla N, Sengupta C, Dubey ML, Sud A, Dutta U. Antigenemia and antibody response to Toxoplasma gondii in Human immunodeficiency virus infected patients. Br J Biomed Sciences 2005; 62 (1): 19-23.
35. Sud A. Pulmonary manifestations of HIV infection and AIDS. Sexually Transmitted Infections. Eds. Bhushan Kumar and Somesh Gupta. Published by Elsevier, Delhi, India. 2005: 694-707.
36. Pasricha N, Datta U, Chawla Y, Singh S, Arora SK, Sud A, Minz RW,
    Saikia B, Singh H, James I, Sehgal S. Immune responses in patients with HIV infection after vaccination with recombinant Hepatitis B virus vaccine. BMC Infect Dis. 2006 Mar 30;6(1):65
37. Sachdeva N, Sehgal S, Sud A, Dutta U, Arora SK. Incidence of lamivudine resistance associated mutations in pol gene of HIV 1 in patients from North India: A preliminary report. Indian J Pathol Microbiol 2005:48(3), 337-40
38. Pasricha N, Dutta U, Chawla Y, Singh S, Arora SK, Sud A, Minz RW,
    Saikia B, Singh H, James I, Sehgal S. Poor response to recombinant HBV vaccination in patients with HIV infection. Tropical Gastroentrol 2005:26(4);178-82.
39. Rao P, Sethi S, Sud A, Banga SS, Sharma M. Screening of patients with acute febrile illness for leptospirosis using clinical criteria and serology. Natl Med J India 2005 Sep-Oct;18(5):244-6.
40. Chatterjee I, Dulhunty JM, Iredell J, Gallagher JE, Sud A, Woods M, Lipman J. Predictors and outcome associated with an Enterococcus positive isolate during intensive care unit admission. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2009 Nov;37(6):976-82
41. Blyth CC, Gomes L, Sorrell TC, da Cruz M, Sud A, Chen SC. Skull-base osteomyelitis: fungal versus bacterial infection. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2011; 17(2); 306-11
42. Haraguchi, D. , Kim, J., Lemon, C. A., Sud, A., Branley, J. & Khadra, M. H., (2014), A Telehealth Framework for Mobile Nursing: Improving Patient Medical Record Management and Staff Communications, The International Conference on Health Informatics IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 42, 67 – 70.
43. Lemon, C. A., Kim, J., Haraguchi, D., Sud, A., Branley, J. & Khadra, M. H., (2014), Maintaining Continuity of Care in a Multidisciplinary Health Service by Using M-Health Technologies to Develop Patient Medical Records, The International Conference on Health Informatics IFMBE Proceedings, Vol. 42, 84 – 87.
44. Joshua S. Davis, Archana Sud, Matthew V. N. O’Sullivan, James O. Robinson,   Patricia E. Ferguson, Hong Foo, Sebastiaan J. van Hal, Anna P. Ralph, Benjamin P. Howden, Paula M. Binks, Adrienne Kirby, and Steven Y. C. Tong; for the Combination Antibiotics for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CAMERA) study group; and for the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network (2015). Combination of Vancomycin and β-Lactam Therapy for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: A Pilot Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Jan 15;62(2):173-80