Currently, the department is carrying out research on
• Isolation and characterization of nontuberculous mycobacteria
• Poliovirus surveillance
• Rubella virus disease surveillance
• Molecular diagnosis & surveillance rotavirus
• Surveillance of measles virus
• Detection fungal fungal infections including cryptococcal meningitis
• Infection control programmes
• Schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminthes
• Malaria Plasmodium species identification
• HPV genetic diversity
• Aetiology of sepsis
• Enteric pathogens