Dr. P Vishnu Rao

P Vishnu Rao is an Infectious Disease Specialist with 7 years of experience. After completing his MBBS and MD, he did his Fellowship in Infectious DIseases. He currently works at Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. He provides several services such as fever treatment, nosocomial infections, HIV/AIDS, transplant infections, COVID etc. His areas of special interests include travel clinic, adult immunization, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, fever of unknown origin and many more.

Dr. P Vishnu Rao has recieved numerous certifications to celebrate his successful endeavours - a Diploma at the Royal College of Pathologists, United Kingdom, Combined Infection Certification Examination and many more incredible awards. He also holds a membership in Transplant Infectious Diseases, CIDS, etc.

1. Consultant in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Chairperson of Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, Head of hospital of the Infection Control Committee at Yashoda Group of Hospitals, Secunderabad, Somajiguda (26 March 2017- 28 September 2019)

2. Senior Resident at Government Fever Hospital, Nallakunta (June 2014-December 2014) (April 2019- October 2019)

3. Visiting Fellow at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

4. Henry Ford Hospitals, Detroit, Michigan (November 2016)

• Combined Infection Certification Examination (United Kingdom) (2019)
• Diplomat at Royal College of Pathologists (United Kingdom) (2019)
• Fellowship in Infectious Diseases (2019)
• Transplant Infectious Diseases
• International AIDS society (Switzerland)
• CIDS

• P.V. Rao, et al., Clinical profile of respiratory viral infections: A study from tertiary care centre of South India,Indian J Med Spec. (2017),http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.injms.2017.06.003
• Vishnu RP, Bansal N, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Madhumitha R,Nambi S, et al. Epidemiology, Clinical Features and Outcome of Hospitalised Patients with H1N1 Influenza in Chennai, India. Austin Virol and Retrovirology.2017; 4(1): 1026
• Rao PV, Sethuraman N, Ramanathan Y, Gopalakrishnan R. Disseminated Protothecosis Caused by Prototheca zopfii in a Liver Transplant Recipient. J GlobInfect Dis. 2018;10(4):228–229. doi:10.4103/jgid.jgid_55_17
• Rao,P.V. et al.Clinical spectrum of Aeromonas infections in hospitalized patients International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 45, 147 – 148
• Rajalakshmi A, Gopalakrishnan R, Nambi PS, Rao PV, Ramasubramanian V.Listeria in Adults - Truly Rare or Rarely Diagnosed in India? J Assoc Physicians India.2017 Jul;65(7):106-108. PubMed PMID: 28792179.
• Kalyani Borde, Vishnu Rao, Milap Shah, N Pavani, Mridu Anand, Not always a commensal: A case of mastitis by Corynebacterium amycolatum, IDCases, Volume 20, 2020, e00728.
• Ramesh V, Polati VR, Prakasham PS, et al. An unusual case of tropical pyomyositis: cryptococcal pyomyositis. Tropical Doctor. 2020 Jul;50(3):263-266. DOI: 10.1177/0049475520927633.
• Ramesh V, Rao Polati V, Nimmala P, Anand M, Narreddy S, Saidulu G. An unusual cause for rib osteomyelitis in the tropics: Cryptococcal osteomyelitis. Tropical Doctor. 2020;50(4):361-365. doi:10.1177/0049475520929827
• Urmila Anandh, Rakesh Kumar, Vishnu Rao, "Secondary Subcutaneous Rhizopus Infection in a Posttransplant Recipient with Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy", Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, vol. 2020, Article ID 8695204, 3 pages, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8695204