1. Athira Thulaseedharan Salaja, Karthika Suryaletha, Sabu Thomas, Abhirami Chithrakumari Raneshan, Deepthi Thankappan, Dijo Darjees,Sarika Ambika Rajendran. 2025. Acinetobacter baumannii: Insights into epidemiology, pathogenicity and drug resistance. The Microbe 9(2025) 100598. doi.org/10.1016/j.microb.2025.100598
2. Paul M, Sabu Thomas. 2025. Detection of morphological variants of colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae associated with sepsis in Kerala, India. Acta Microbiol Immunol Hung. 72(1):39-42. doi: 10.1556/030.2025.02515
3. Devika Das J, Vishnu SJ, Karthika Suryaletha, Merin Paul, Aparna Shankar, Swapna R Nath, Sabu Thomas. 2025. Probiotic Lacticasibacillus paracasei from human gut microbiome against colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: in vitro, in vivo and probiogenomic approaches. Beneficial Microbes. 9:1–21. doi: 10.1163/18762891-bja00065.
4. Singh SK, Sudhir S, Menon V, Warrier AR, V AR, Edathadathil F, Sathyapalan DT, Sivaprasad PS, Thomas S (2025) Epidemiology and clinical outcomes of monomicrobial carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) from a metropolitan area of Kerala, India. J Infect Dev Ctries 19:569–575. doi: 10.3855/jidc.18777
5. Vaikkathillam P, Sajeevan A, Mohan S, Solomon AP, Rajan PP, S M, Kumar P, Sabu Thomas. 2025. Genomic analysis of colistin and carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae GC29. Microb Pathog. 199:107220. doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2024.107220.
6. Aparna S, Devika DJ, Nayar S, Thomas S. 2023. Deciphering the effect of maternal postpartum antibiotic prophylaxis on the infant gut microbiome a whole metagenomic analysis. Future Microbiology. 18:427-441.
7. Betsy M, Karthika S, Amrutha ML, Alida S, Sabu Thomas, Jatish Kumar. 2022. Chiral Nanostructures Derived from Europium (III) Complexes for Enhanced Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Antibacterial Activity. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10, 13954-13963.
8. Karthika S, Sivakumar & Sabu Thomas. 2021. Comprehensive Genomics Depict Accessory Genes Encoding Pathogenicity and Biofilm Determinants in Enterococcus faecalis. Future Microbiology. 16:3.
9. Divya MP, Hardip R, Patel, Sivakumar Krishnankutty Chandrika, Sabu Thomas. 2021. Genomic attributes differ between Vibrio parahaemolyticus environmental and clinical isolates including pathotypes. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 14(3):365-375.
10. Lekshmi N, Sivakumar KC and Sabu Thomas. 2020. Adaptive laboratory evolution of Vibrio cholerae to doxycycline associated with spontaneous mutation. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 56(2020).
11. Devika DJ, Shankar A, Johnson JB, Thomas S. 2020. Critical insights into antibiotic resistance transferability in probiotic Lactobacillus. Nutrition. 69:110567.
12. Lekshmi N, Vishnu S J, Sivakumar K C, Sabu Thomas. 220. Epidemiological and pathogenic characteristics of Haitian variant V. cholerae circulating in India over a decade (2000–2018). Microbial Pathogenesis. 149 (2020)
13. Divya M.P., Ramamurthy, T. & Sabu Thomas. 2020. Genetic and virulence characterisation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from Indian coast. BMC Microbiology 20, 62.
14. Wilson PA, Sajith R, Vipin G, Karthika S, Sabu Thomas. 2020. Deciphering the Cold Adaptive Mechanisms in Pseudomonas psychrophila MTCC12324 isolated from the Arctic at 79° N. Current Microbiology. 77, 2345–2355.
15. Aparna Shankar, Devika J, Megha PR, Merin Paul, Lekshmi N, Karthika S, Akhila VS, Sabu Thomas. 2020. Elucidation of health risks using metataxonomic and antibiotic resistance profiles of microbes in flood affected waterbodies, Kerala 2018. J Flood Risk Management. 2020:e12673.
16. Karthika S, Lekshmi N, Joby John, Megha PR, Sanil George & Sabu Thomas. 2019. Decoding the proteomic changes involved in the biofilm formation of Enterococcus faecalis SK460 to elucidate potential biofilm determinants. BMC Microbiology. 19:146.
17. Lekshmi N, Mary T Sivakumar KC and Sabu Thomas. 2019. Tryptanthrin, a potent biofilm inhibitor against toxigenic Vibrio cholerae, modulating the global quorum sensing regulator,LuxO. Biofouling. 35(10):1093–1103.
18. Merin.P, Lekshmi.N, Vasanthakumary A R, Iype Joseph, Sabu Thomas. 2019. Genome sequence of a multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST78 with high colistin resistance isolated from a patient in India. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 17: 187–188.
19. Karthika S, Joby John, Megha PR, S.George & Sabu Thomas. 2018. Metataxonomic approach to decipher the polymicrobial burden in diabetic foot ulcer and its biofilm mode of infection. International Wound Journal. 15:473–481.
20. Jose D, Lekshmi N, Goel AK, Kumar RA, Thomas S. 2017. Development of a Novel Herbal Formulation to Inhibit Biofilm Formation in Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae. J Food Prot. 80(11):1933-1940.
21. Dharmaprakash Akhilandeswarre, Mutt Eshita, Jaleel Abdul, Ramanathan Sowdhamini and Sabu Thomas. 2014. Proteome profile of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus SC192 strain during planktonic and biofilm condition. Biofouling: The Journal of Bioadhesion and Biofilm 1Research. 30(6):7292-739.
22. Augustine N, Goel AK, Sivakumar KC, Kumar RA, Thomas S. 2014. Resveratrol–a potential inhibitor of biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae. Phytomedicine. 21(3):286-9.
23. Praveen Kumar and Sabu Thomas. 2011. Presence of qnrVC3 gene cassette in SXT and class1 integrons of Vibrio cholerae. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 37(3):280-1.
24. Nimmy Augustine, Praveen Kumar and Sabu Thomas. 2010. Inhibition of Vibrio cholerae biofilm by AiiA enzyme produced from Bacillus spp. Archives of Microbiology. 192 (12): 1019-1022.
25. Praveen Kumar and Sabu Thomas. 2009. Presence of dfr6 gene cassette in superintegron of non-O1/non-O139 strain of Vibrio cholerae. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 53:4959–4960.