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Awards

December 2019 Science and Technology Young Researcher Award

January 2020 Provincial Health Research Grant for 2020

September 2019 IWA HRWM 2019 Scholarship for Authors of Best Abstracts from Developing Countries,

February 2019 University of Yamanashi Student Award

July 2018 Excellent Presentation Award

June 2018 ASM Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award

September 2016 MEXT Scholarship awarded by Government of Japan

September 2015 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Attendance Grant

October 2015 Kurita Water and Environment Foundation
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University of Yamanashi

Degrees:

2019
Doctorate     Engineering sciences
2006
Master     Biological Systems and Organisms
2004
Undergraduate     Biological Systems and Organisms

Publications resulting from Research
Tandukar S, Sherchan SP, and Haramoto E. Applicability of crAssphage, pepper mild mottle virus, and tobacco mosaic virus as indicators of reduction of enteric viruses during wastewater treatment. Scientific Reports. 10:3616. 2020
Tandukar S, Sherchand JB, Karki S, Malla B, Ghaju RS, Bhandari D, Thakali O, and Haramoto E. Co-infection by waterborne enteric viruses in children with gastroenteritis in Nepal. Healthcare. 7(1):9, January, 2019.
Tandukar S, Sherchand JB, Bhandari D, Sherchan SP, Malla B, Ghaju RS, and Haramoto E, Presence of human enteric viruses, protozoa, and indicators of pathogens in the Bagmati River, Nepal. Pathogens, 7(2):38, April, 2018.
Tandukar S, Sherchand JB, Xue J, Uprety S, Sherchan SP, Bhandari D, Malla B, Ghaju RS, Parajuli L, Poudel S, Dhital A, and Eiji Haramoto, Prevalence and associated risk factors of Giardia duodenalis infection among school-going children in Nepal. Parasitology Research, 117:287–293, January, 2018.
Tandukar S, Ansari S, Adhikari N, Shrestha A, Gautam J, Sharma B, Rajbhandari D, Gautam S, Nepal HP and Sherchand JB, Intestinal parasitosis in school children of Lalitpur district of Nepal, BMC Research Notes, 6:449, November, 2013.
Tandukar S, Sherchand O, Singh A, Sherchand JB. Enteropathogenic microorganisms in children, Journal of Institute of Medicine, 30(3), 17-22, December, 2008.
Jha AR, Davenport ER, Gautam Y, Bhandari D, Tandukar S, Ng KM, Gut microbiome transition across a lifestyle gradient in Himalaya, PLoS biology,16 (11), November, 2018.
Shrestha RG, Tanaka Y, Malla B, Bhandari D, Tandukar S, Inoue D, Sei K, Sherchand JB, and Haramoto E, Next-generation sequencing identification of pathogenic bacterial genes and their relationship with fecal indicator bacteria in different water sources in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Science of the Total Environment, 601-602:278-284, December, 2017.
Sherchan JB, Hayakawa K, Miyoshi-Akiyama T, Ohmagari N, Kirikae T, Nagamatsu M, Tojo M, Ohara H, Sherchand JB, Tandukar S, Clinical epidemiology and molecular analysis of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in Nepal: characteristics of sequence types ST131 and ST648, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 59(6):3424-32, March, 2015.
Thakali O, Tandukar S, Brooks JP, Sherchan SP, Sherchand JB, and Haramoto E.
The occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes in an urban river in Nepal. Water. 12(2):450.2020.
Ahmed W, Kitajima M, Tandukar S, and Haramoto E. (in press) Recycled water safety: current status of traditional and emerging viral indicators. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health. XX(XX):XXX-XXX.

20th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology.
2025
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20th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology.
2025
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Water and Environment Technology Conference
2025
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ASM Microbe 2018
2025
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