Assessment of directly observed treatment in revised national tuberculosis control programme: A study from North India

Assessment of directly observed treatment in revised national tuberculosis control programme: A study from North India

July 10, 2017

Srikanta Kanungo1, Zulfia Khan2, Mohammad Athar Ansari2, Ali Jafar Abedi21Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, JIPMER, Puducherry, India.2Department of Community Medicine, JN Medical College, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.210003 ABSTRACT Introduction: Directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) strategy is one of the vital…

Isolation and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Escherichia coli from urinary tract infections in a tertiary care hospital of North Eastern Karnataka

Isolation and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Escherichia coli from urinary tract infections in a tertiary care hospital of North Eastern Karnataka

July 10, 2017

Sudheendra Ramesh Kulkarni1, Basavaraj V Peerapur2, Kumar Sai Sailesh31Department of Microbiology, Shri B.M Patil Medical College and research centre, BLDE University, Vijayapura, India.2Department of Microbiology, Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka, India.3Department of Physiology, Little Flower Institute of Medical Sciences and…

Is there any benefit of integrating computer-assisted learning with conventional teaching format in pharmacology to demonstrate the effects of different drugs on mean arterial blood pressure in an anesthetized dog?: A comparative study

Is there any benefit of integrating computer-assisted learning with conventional teaching format in pharmacology to demonstrate the effects of different drugs on mean arterial blood pressure in an anesthetized dog?: A comparative study

July 10, 2017

Parama Sengupta1, Abhishek Sharma2, Nina Das11Department of Pharmacology, NRS Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.210013 ABSTRACT Purpose: Computer-assisted learning (CAL) tools are often used in medical education as…

Structural and biophysical characterization of cajanus cajan protease inhibitor

Structural and biophysical characterization of cajanus cajan protease inhibitor

July 10, 2017

Tooba Naz Shamsi1, Romana Parveen1, Shahzaib Ahamad2, Sadaf Fatima11Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.2Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering and Technology, IFTM, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.210018 ABSTRACT Context: A large number of studies have proven that Protease inhibitors…

Frequency of Class 1 integron and genetic diversity of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from medical centers in Kermanshah

Frequency of Class 1 integron and genetic diversity of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from medical centers in Kermanshah

July 10, 2017

Mahsa Eghbalimoghadam1, Abbas Farahani2, Farahtaj Navab Akbar1, Parviz Mohajeri31Department of Microbiology, Naein Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.2Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.3Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah,…

Evaluation of susceptibility of glycopeptide-resistant and glycopeptide-sensitive enterococci to commonly used biocides in a super-speciality hospital: A pilot study

Evaluation of susceptibility of glycopeptide-resistant and glycopeptide-sensitive enterococci to commonly used biocides in a super-speciality hospital: A pilot study

July 10, 2017

Mohit Bhatia, Bibhabati Mishra, Archana Thakur, Vinita Dogra, Poonam Sood LoombaDepartment of Microbiology, Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, New Delhi, India.10.4103/0976-9668.210010 ABSTRACT Context: Although existence of a probable association between glycopeptide and biocide resistance among enterococci has…

The impact of the educational intervention on knowledge, attitude, and practice of pharmacovigilance toward adverse drug reactions reporting among health-care professionals in a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

The impact of the educational intervention on knowledge, attitude, and practice of pharmacovigilance toward adverse drug reactions reporting among health-care professionals in a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

July 10, 2017

Subramaniyan Ganesan1, Selvarajan Sandhiya2, Kishtapati Chenchu Reddy3, Chandrasekaran Adithan41Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India2Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India3Technical Associate, Pharmacovigilance Programme of , Jawaharlal Institute of…

Cadaveric study of mode of termination of gonadal veins: Implications for procedures utilizing terminal ends of gonadal veins as entry portals

Cadaveric study of mode of termination of gonadal veins: Implications for procedures utilizing terminal ends of gonadal veins as entry portals

July 10, 2017

Rekha Lalwani1, Sunita A Athavale1, Ketu Chauhan2, Guljari Lal Nigam2, C S. Ramesh Babu3, Sheetal Kotgirwar11Department of Anatomy, All Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.2Department of Anatomy, LLRM Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.3Department of Anatomy, Muzaffarnagar Medical College, Muzaffarnagar,…

A simple way for the preparation of natural antioxidant quercetin from rutin by subcritical water

A simple way for the preparation of natural antioxidant quercetin from rutin by subcritical water

July 10, 2017

Elena Vladimirovna Vetrova, Elena Vladimirovna Maksimenko, Salima Salimovna Khizrieva, Anastasia Fedorovna Bugaeva, Nikolay Ivanovitch Borisenko, Vladimir Isaakovitch MinkinLaboratory of Critical Fluid Technologies, Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.210009 ABSTRACT Context: Quercetin (QR) is a natural strong…

Distress and its effect on adherence to antidiabetic medications among Type 2 diabetes patients in coastal South India

Distress and its effect on adherence to antidiabetic medications among Type 2 diabetes patients in coastal South India

July 10, 2017

Nithin Kumar, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Rekha Thapar, Prasanna Mithra, Vaman Kulkarni, Ramesh Holla, Darshan Bhagawan, Avinash Kumar, Shodhan AithalDepartment of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College (Manipal University), Mangalore, Karnataka, India.DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.210008 ABSTRACT Background: Distress can bring about an unfavorable attitude among the patients…