Dr. Kiran G Kulirankal

Additional Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of General Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medicals Sciences, Kochi

• Study of Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients With Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Cureus. 2021 Dec; 13(12): e20515. doi: 10.7759/cureus.20515 Published online 2021 Dec 19.
• Effectiveness of BBV152/Covaxin and AZD1222/Covishield vaccines against severe COVID-19 and B.1.617.2/Delta variant in India, 2021: a multi-centric hospital-based case-control study Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Sep; 122: 693–702. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.07.033 Published online 2022 Jul 16.
• Characterizing COVID-19 transmission risk factors among frontline health-care workers using the WHO risk assessment tool: insights from a tertiary care center in South India IJQHC Communications, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2023, Iyad006, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijcoms/iyad006 Published: 03 June 2023
• Characterization and predictive risk scoring of long COVID in a south indian cohort after breakthrough COVID infection; a prospective single centre study BMC Infect Dis. 2023; 23: 670. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08600-6 Published online 2023 Oct 9.
• Role of Baricitinib in Moderate-to-severe COVID-19: A Case–Control Study from a South Indian Tertiary Care Setting Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases Society 1(3):p 233-238, Jul–Sep 2023. | DOI: 10.4103/CIDS.CIDS_49_23 December 05, 2023
• A Prospective Observational Study on the Association of Serum 25-hydroxy Vitamin D Levels with Clinical Outcomes among COVID-19 Patients Admitted to a Tertiary Care Facility, South India Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases Society 1(3):p 255-259, Jul–Sep 2023. | DOI: 10.4103/CIDS.CIDS_5_23 Published on December 2023
• The impact of implementing barrier curtain placement in reducing nosocomial COVID-19 clusters at a tertiary care facility Amrita Journal of Medicine 20(2):p 64-68, April-June 2024. | DOI: 10.4103/AMJM.AMJM_76_23 Date of publishing: June 18, 2024
• Association of Mean Platelet Volume with Grades of Hypertensive Retinopathy Annals of African Medicine ():10.4103/aam.aam_130_23, April 04, 2024. | DOI: 10.4103/aam.aam_130_23 Date of publishing: July 1, 2024
• Predicting COVID 19–Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis Risk in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Matched Case-Control Study Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 11, Issue 7, July 2024, Ofae406, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae406 Date of publishing: July 23, 2024
• Exploring COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in unvaccinated adults within a semi-urban population of South India: A qualitative investigation Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health 29 (2024) 101739 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2024.101739 dat31 July, 2024
• Adopting a model of antimicrobial stewardship program to anti-tubercular treatment stewardship: A single-centre experience from a private tertiary care hospital in South India PLoS One.2024 Nov 5;19(11):e0310493. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310493. eCollection 2024. Date of publishing: November, 2024
• Early biomarkers in hospitalized patients as predictors of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a one-year cohort study BMC Infect Dis. 2025 Mar 24;25(1):398. doi: 10.1186/s12879-025-10619-w. Date of Publishing: March 2025