1. ASPIRE STUDY (A Surveillance study on The Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of Bacterial Isolates collected from Patients at various Indian Tertiary Care Hospitals – A Multicentric PAN India study) PI: Dr. Shrikala Baliga  CoI: Dr. Suchitra Shenoy Wockhardt Limited WOC/AMS/CT-44/14. Rs. 4,39,346 (2016)

2. Evaluation of Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) as a Diagnostic Tool for Rapid Detection of Pulmonary and extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis with special emphasis on speciation of culture positive Mycobacterial Species. Funded by ID FISH Technology Inc.,IEC KMC MLR 12-15/286. Rs. 16,48,800 (2015) Ph.D Student: Ms. Leesha Sharon

3. Attitude and Knowledge of Antibiotic usage among people of Dakshina Kannada District and estimation of burden of antibiotic resistant gut bacteria in humans and poultry – A community based study. DBT Scholarship DBT/JRF/BET-16/I/2016/AL/08-438 Rs. 11,88,000    Ph.D Student: Ms. Khyati Bhardwaj. Guide: Dr. Shrikala Baliga Co-Guide: Dr. Suchitra Shenoy

4. Susceptibility testing of WCK 771 discs with recent 250 clinical isolates in tertiary care hospital. PI: Dr. Shrikala Baliga ,Co PI Dr. Suchitra Shenoy. Wockhardt Limited. Rs 40,000

5. Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm property of Melanin Pigment from Pseudomonas stutzeri: A Novel Agent  PI: Dr. Suchitra Shenoy M Co-Investigators: Dr. Shrikala Baliga Dr. KeyurRaval, (NITK, Surathkal) . MAHE Seed Money grant. Rs. 25,000  - Feb 2019 

6.  Baliga, B.S., Baliga, S., Jain, A. et al. Digitized smart surveillance and micromanagement using information technology for malaria elimination in Mangaluru, India: an analysis of five-year post-digitization data. Malar J 20, 139 (2021). 

7.    Knowledge, attitude, and practices related to antibiotic use and resistance among the general public of coastal south Karnataka, India – A cross-sectional survey. Khyati Bhardwaj, Suchitra Shenoy M, Shrikala Baliga, B. Unnikrishnan, B. Shantharam Baliga, Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2021, Vol11,100717,

8  Characterization of antibiotic resistant phenotypes and linked genes of Escherichia coli and Klebsiellapneumoniae from healthy broiler chickens, Karnataka, India, Khyati Bhardwaj, Suchitra Shenoy M, Shrikala Baliga, Unnikrishnan B, B. Shantharam Baliga, Vasanth Kumar Shetty, Poultry Science, 2021, Vol 100, Issue 6, 101094

9.  Candida profile in HIV-Positive children needs a Dynamic clinical appraisal: A Microbiological Study

Research J. Pharm. and Tech. 16(1): January 2023.

10  India-discovered levonadifloxacin & alalevonadifloxacin: A review on susceptibility testing methods, CLSI quality control and breakpoints along with a brief account of their emerging therapeutic profile as a novel standard-of-care. Indian J Med Microbiol. 2023 Jan-Feb;41:71-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.11.005. Epub 2022 Dec 9. PMID: 36509611

11. Evaluation of role of Tigecycline among clinically significant multidrug resistant pathogens from a tertiary care hospital F1000 research: June 2024,13:36

Publications
1.Performance of Cepheid Xpert HIV-1 viral load plasma assay to accurately detect treatment failure. Sacks, Jilian A.a; Fong, Youyib; Gonzalez, Mercedes Perezc; Andreotti, Maurod; Baliga, Shrikalae; Garrett, Nigelf; Jordan, Jeanneg; Karita, Etienneh; Kulkarni, Smitai; Mor, Ornaj; Mosha, Faustak; Ndlovu, Zibusisol; Plantier, Jean-Christophem; Saravanan, Shanmugamn; Scott, Lesleyo; Peter, Trevora; Doherty, Megc; Vojnov, Larac AIDS: October 1, 2019 - Volume 33 - Issue 12 - p 1881–1889
2.In vitro activity of a novel antibacterial agent, levonadifloxacin, against clinical isolates collected in a prospective, multicentre surveillance study in India during 2016–18. Boppe Appalaraju, Sujata Baveja, Shrikala Baliga, Suchitra Shenoy, Renu Bhardwaj, Vaishali Kongre,, Gogi Suresh Dattatraya5, Tapan Dhole6, Binita Verma, D. N. Mukherjee, Shalini Gupta, Priyadarshini Shanmugam, Jyoti Iravane, Sudhi Ranjan Mishra, Purabi Barman, Shimpi Chopra1Meenakshi Hariharan, Rajendra Surpam, Rana Pratap16, Prashant Joshi, Hemant Khande, Ashish Mane, Rishi Jain and Sachin Bhagwat. JAC , 2019 Dec 16. pii: dkz493. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkz493. [Epub ahead of print]
3.Use of GeneXpert TB System for Viral Load Testing in India. Malden Nash, Shrikala Baliga John Ramapuram, Ramya Nidhi Kaiya, Sophie Huddart, Madhukar Pai. Lancet Global Health, Vol 5, August 2017. 754-755
4.Performance of the Xpert HIV-1 Viral Load Assay: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Madlen Nash, Sophie Huddart, Sayema Badar, Shrikala Baliga, Kavitha Saravu, Madhukar Pai. JCM.April 2018 Volume 56 Issue 4 e01673-17
5.Rapid method for detecting and differentiating Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and non-tuberculous mycobacteria in sputum by fluorescence in situ hybridization with DNA probes. Shrikala Baliga, Christina Murphy, Leesha Sharon, Suchitra Shenoy, Dhanashree Biranthabail, Helena Weltman, Steve Miller, Ranjan Ramasamy, Jyotsna Shah, International J Infectious Disease 2018 75;1-7
6.Dual Colour Florescence In situ Hybridization(FISH) assays for detectiong Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium complexes and related pathogens in culture. Jyotsna Shah, Helena Weltman, Patricia Narciso, Christina Murphy, Akhila Poruri, Shrikala Baliga, Leesha Sharon, Mary York, Gail Cunningham, Steve Miller, Luz Caviedes, Robert Gilman, Edward Desmond, Ranjan Ramasamy. Plos One 12(4): e0174989.