Contents Indian J Med Res Volume 123

Editorial

Indias leading role in tuberculosis epidemiology and control Christopher Dye Christopher Dye

Human resources for health Prema Ramachandran

Publish no evil : Should editors publish research that could have dual-use? Lalit Kant

Road traffic injuries and fatalities in India - a modern epidemic Dinesh Mohan

Clinical safety issues in developing and testing of vaginal microbicides Smita Joshi,Sanjay Mehendale

The Journal on the move K Satyanarayana

The IF of IJMR is on the rise K Satyanarayana,N C Jain

Microbicide development: new challenges S D Seth,Bhawna Sharma,Rahmat Bano,N K Ganguly

Data protection issues in India K Satyanarayana,S Srivastava,N K Ganguly

Leishmaniasis research - the challenges ahead C P Thakur

Elimination of leishmaniasis (kala-azar) from the Indian subcontinent is technically feasible and operationally achievable S K Bhattacharya,Dipika Sur,P K Sinha,Juntra Karbwang

Tobacco control in India Prakash C Gupta

Randomized study of effect of different doses of vitamin A on childhood morbidity and mortality - claiming benefit when there is none ! K Vijayaraghavan

Indian registry for clinical trials K Satyanarayana,Anju Sharma,N K Ganguly

Commentry

Rapid diagnosis of typhoid fever Tharwat F Ismail

Comments on the new analysis of the Chingleput BCG trial Graham A W Rook,Louise U Kim

TB control - a long way to go Mridula Bose

Effect of myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion on brain S K Shankar,B S Shankaranarayana Rao

Tumour necrosis factor and dengue U C Chaturvedi

Cholera: time for action M John Albert

Is there a change in seroepidemiology of hepatitis A infection in India? P Kar

Chlamydia trachomatis and infertility Krishna Ray

Smear microscopy to diagnose tuberculosis V M Katoch

IgA deficiency: Implications for transfusion Neelam Marwaha

Obesity and abdominal obesity in Asian Indians V Mohan,R Deepa

Pharmacogenomic studies: hype and reality P Pandhi

Review Article

Psychotropics in pregnancy: weighing the risks Sandeep Grover,Ajit Avasthi,Yogesh Sharma

Drug resistance in amoebiasis Devendra Bansal,Nancy Malla,R C Mahajan

Epigenetic therapy - a new development in pharmacology Jacob Peedicayil

Low carbohydrate diets for weight loss: Historical and environmental perspective Prakash Seshadri,Nayyar Iqbal

Mycobacterium leprae interactions with the host cell: recent advances Lucia P Barker

Glycobiology of Leishmania donovani Sumi Mukhopadhyay,Chitra Mandal

Topoisomerase research of kinetoplastid parasite Leishmania, with special reference to development of therapeutics Benu Brata Das,Nilkantha Sen,Somdeb Bose Dasgupta,Agneyo Ganguly,Rakhee Das,Hemanta K Majumder

Apoptosis in Leishmania species and its relevance to disease Chandrima Shaha

Immune responses in kala-azar Samiran Saha,Smriti Mondal,Antara Banerjee,Jayeeta Ghose,Sudipta Bhowmick,Nahid Ali

Pathophysiology of visceral leishmaniasis - some recent concepts Nancy Malla,R C Mahajan

The epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in Bangladesh: prospects for improved control Caryn Bern,Rajib Chowdhury

Visceral leishmaniasis in the New World and Africa Jonathan Berman

Challenges in the diagnosis of post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis Poonam Salotra,Ruchi Singh

New developments in diagnosis of leishmaniasis Sarman Singh

Visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar): Challenges ahead R K Singh,H P Pandey,S Sundar

Visceral leishmaniasis - current therapeutic modalities Shyam Sundar,Mitali Chatterjee

Childhood visceral leishmaniasis S K Bhattacharya,Dipika Sur,Juntra Karbwang

Leishmania/HIV co-infections in the second decade Israel Cruz,Javier Nieto,Javier Moreno,Carmen Cantilde;avate,Philippe Desjeux,Jorge Alvar

Drug unresponsiveness and combination therapy for kala-azar T K Jha

Current scenario of drug development for leishmaniasis Simon L Croft,Karin Seifert,Vanessa Yardley

Drug resistance mechanisms in clinical isolates of Leishmania donovani Neeloo Singh

Leishmaniasis vaccine candidates for development: A global overview Ali Khamesipour,Sima Rafati,Noushin Davoudi,Fereidoun Maboudi,Farrokh Modabber

Animal models for vaccine studies for visceral leishmaniasis Ravendra Garg,Anuradha Dube

Genetically modified live attenuated parasites as vaccines for leishmaniasis Angamuthu Selvapandiyan,Robert Duncan,Alain Debrabant,Nancy Lee,G Sreenivas,Poonam Salotra,Hira L Nakhasi

Vector control in leishmaniasis K Kishore,V Kumar,S Kesari,D S Dinesh,A J Kumar,P Das,S K Bhattacharya

Journey from hepatocyte transplantation to hepatic stem cells: A novel treatment strategy for liver diseases A Aleem Khan,N Parveen,M A Habeeb,C M Habibullah

Diagnostic methods for detection and isolation of dengue viruses from vector mosquitoes P Philip Samuel,B K Tyagi

Hyperthermia induced brain oedema: Current status and future perspectives Hari Shanker Sharma

 

Original Article

Circulating levels of tumour necrosis factor-alpha; and interferon-gamma; in patients with dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever during an outbreak Anita Chakravarti,Rajni Kumaria

Epidemiological, microbiological and electron microscopic study of a cholera outbreak in a Kolkata slum community Dipika Sur,B L Sarkar,B Manna,J Deen,S Datta,S K Niyogi,A N Ghosh,A Deb,S Kanungo,A Palit,S K Bhattacharya

Anti-HBc and HBV-DNA detection in blood donors negative for hepatitis B virus surface antigen in reducing risk of transfusion associated HBV infection A Behzad Behbahani,,A Mafi Nejad,S Z Tabei,K B Lankarani,A Torab,A Moaddeb

Increased endocytic activity in monocyte-derived dendritic cells in patients with psoriasis vulgaris Ke Jian Zhu,Hao Cheng,Xiao Hong Mao,Li Min Lao,Jian Ping Cen,Jun Ye

Serosurvey of rubella in five blocks of Tamil Nadu Nalini Ramamurty,S Murugan,D Raja,Varalaksmi Elango,Mohana,D Dhanagaran

Ultra low volume aerosol application of deltacide (deltamethrin 0.5% w/v, S-bioallethrin 0.71% w/v and piperonyl butoxide 8.9% w/v) against mosquitoes R Srinivasan,M Kalyanasundaram

Occurrence of Aeromonas hydrophila in acute gasteroenteritis among children Rathinasamy Subashkumar,Thangavelu Thayumanavan,Govindhasamy Vivekanandhan,Perumalsamy Lakshmanaperumalsamy

Phenotypic characters of urinary isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their association with mouse renal colonization Rahul Mittal,Rakesh K Khandwaha,Varsha Gupta,P K Mittal,Kusum Harjai

Androgen and vitamin D nuclear receptor expression in archival breast tumour samples B S Satish Rao,B R Krishnanand,Awtar Krishan

Prevalence and phenotypic expression of sopB gene among clinical isolates of Salmonella enterica H Rahman

Simultaneous ethambutol and isoniazid resistance in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pushpa Gupta,G P S Jadaun,Ram Das,U D Gupta,Kiran Srivastava,Aradhana Chauhan,V D Sharma,D S Chauhan,V M Katoch

Changes in the expression of c-fos and heat shock protein genes and blood flow velocity in the brain of rats undergoing myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion Shuguang Wang,Xiaohu Xu,Li Gu

Genotype analysis of human Mycobacterium avium isolates from India Sujeet Kumar,Mridula Bose,Mohammad Isa

Isolation and antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella from patients with acute gastroenteritis in western Nepal Godwin Wilson,Joshy M Easow,Chiranjoy Mukhopadhyay,P G Shivananda

Relationship between Anopheles fluviatilis and A. stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae) catches and the prevalence of malaria cases at Kalsi area in Dehradun district (Uttaranchal) N Pemola Devi,R K Jauhari

Mycological profile of infectious Keratitis from Delhi Rumpa Saha,Shukla Das

Detection of Mycobacterium avium and M. tuberculosis from human sputum cultures by PCR-RFLP analysis of hsp65 gene and pncA PCR A S Bannalikar,Rishendra Verma

Filiform papillae in the mucosa of the human vaginal wall Daisy Sahni,Indar Jit,Kusum Joshi,Indu Gupta

Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in health care workers of a tertiary care centre in New Delhi Nidhi Jindal,Mohit Jindal,Nishat Jilani,P Kar

Aspergillus fumigatus, Pneumocystis jiroveci, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Mycoplasma fermentans co-infection in a HIV infected patient with respiratory conditions from southern India E M Shankar,Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy,Ramachandran Rajan,P Balakrishnan,Suniti Solomon,Bella Devaleenol,U A Rao

Pre- and post-treatment evaluation of immunological features in Indian visceral leishmaniasis (VL) patients with HIV co-infection P K Sinha,Sanjiva Bimal,S K Singh,Krishna Pandey,D N Gangopadhyay,S K Bhattacharya

Co-prescription of alginate based formulations and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease : time for rethink? S Davis,N A Kshirsagar

Prospective evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test Typhidotreg; for typhoid fever Mary V Jesudason,S Sivakumar

Administration of an alginate based gastric reflux suppressant on the bioavailability of omeprazole P W Dettmar,F C Hampson,A Jain Jain,S Choubey,S L Little,T Baxter

Optimization of media composition for the production of cyclosporin A by Tolypocladium species K Balaraman,Nisha Mathew

Estimation of iodine in salt fortified with iodine and iron S Ranganathan,M G Karmarkar

Periodontal and systemic bone changes in rats with experimental lathyrism Gonca Keles,Tarik Basoglu,Oktay Yapici,Burcu Ozkan Cetinkaya,Gokhan Acikgoz,Erhan Firatli

Acceptability of Praneem polyherbal vaginal tablet among HIV uninfected women and their male partners in Pune India - Phase I study N S Joglekar,S N Joshi,S N Navlakha,U R Katti,S M Mehendale

Nipah/Hendra virus outbreak in Siliguri, West Bengal, India in 2001 A K Harit,R L Ichhpujani,Sunil Gupta,K S Gill,Shiv Lal,N K Ganguly,S P Agarwal

Production of murine monoclonal anti-B Y S Iyer,K Vasantha,P Manisha,S Jadhav,S C Gupte,D Mohanty

Urine nevirapine as a predictor of antiretroviral adherence A K Hemanth Kumar,Geetha Ramachandran,Banu Saradha,G Narendran,Soumya Swaminathan

Low prevalence of IgA deficiency in north Indian population Shelly Chandran,Dheeraj Khetan,Rajendra Chaudhary,Ramnath Misra,Amita Aggarwal

Relationship of anthropometric indicators with blood pressure levels in rural Wardha P R Deshmukh,S S Gupta,A R Dongre,M S Bharambe,C Maliye,S Kaur,B S Garg

Influence of the CYP2C9 and CYP2C19 polymorphisms on phenytoin hydroxylation in healthy individuals from south India J Rosemary,A Surendiran,S Rajan,C H Shashindran,C Adithan

Polymerase chain reaction for early diagnosis of post-operative fungal endophthalmitis Bansidhar Tarai,A Gupta,P Ray,M R Shivaprakash,A Chakrabarti

High prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its correlates in two tribal populations of India and the impact of urbanization Sobhanjan Sarkar,Mithun Das,Barun Mukhopadhyay,C S Chakrabarti,Partha P Majumder

Elevated percentage of perforin positive cells in active pulmonary tuberculosis D Nisha Rajeswari,P Selvaraj,M S Jawahar,A R Adhilakshmi,M Vidyarani,P R Narayanan

Molecular typing of Salmonella enterica serotype Worthington isolates from infantile diarrhoea Lata Kapoor,Hatem K Eideh,Shamweel Ahmad,Pankaj Lal,Monorama Deb,S S Thukral

Serological and entomological investigations of an outbreak of dengue fever in certain rural areas of Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu R Paramasivan,V Thenmozhi,J Hiriyan,K Dhananjeyan,B Tyagi,A P Dash

DOTS at a tertiary care center in northern India: successes, challenges and the next steps in tuberculosis control Mohammad Tahir,S K Sharma,Duncan smith Rohrberg,Deepak Gupta,U B Singh,P K Sinha

Emergence of ciprofloxacin resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in north India Sunil Sethi,Dharmendra Sharma,S D Mehta,Bhupinder Singh,Manu Smriti,Bhushan Kumar,Meera Sharma

Molecular characterization of hepatitis A virus from a large outbreak from Kerala, India V A Arankalle,K L Sarada Devi,K S Lole,K T Shenoy,V Verma,M Haneephabi

Chlamydia trachomatis infection and female infertility Abida Malik,S Jain,S Hakim,I Shukla,M Rizvi

A novel method of staining acid-fast bacilli in sputum containers N Selvakumar,D Ravikumar,S Sivagamasundari,P G Gopi,P R Narayanan

Impact of oral vitamin E supplementation on oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation in patients with polymorphous light eruption Rafat S Ahmed,Sanvidhan G Suke,Vandana Seth,Annu Jain,Sambit Nath Bhattacharya,Basu Dev Banerjee

Disease mapping using mixture distribution K Chandrasekaran,G Arivarignan

Gastroprotective effect of Cissus quadrangularis extract in rats with experimentally induced ulcer Mallika Jainu,K Vijai Mohan,C S Shyamala Devi

Association of conversion and cure with initial smear grading among new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated with Category I regimen P G Gopi,V Chandrasekaran,R Subramani,T Santha,A Thomas,N Selvakumar,P R Narayanan

Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in India S Grover,S Tandon,R Misra,A Aggarwal

Toxigenicity testing of clinical isolates of non-typhoidal salmonellae in Vero cell culture and Caenorhabditis elegans model Mary V Jesudason,V V Balaji,Shoba Densibai

Iodine deficiency disorders among the pregnant women in a rural hospital of West Bengal Indranil Chakraborty,Subhromoy Chatterjee,Debjani Bhadra,B B Mukhopadhyaya,Anindya Dasgupta,Bulbul Purkait

Correspondence

Species distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of coagulase negative Staphylococci in a tertiary care hospital Ritu Singhal,Shikha Dhawan,Srujana Mohanty,Seema Sood,Benu Dhawan,Bimal Das,Arti Kapil

Inducible clindamycin resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus Ravisekhar Gadepalli,Benu Dhawan,Srujana Mohanty,Arti Kapil,Bimal K Das,Rama Chaudhry

High fertility among scheduled tribes of Madhya Pradesh Kalyan B Saha,Arvind Verma

Which hantaviruses in India ? Jan Clement,Piet Maes,Marc Van Ranst

Keeping the promise in stopping HIV/AIDS: Can India succeed? Govindasamy Agoramoorthy,Minna J Hsu

Seroprevalence of rubella in pregnant women in Delhi, India Ekta Gupta,Lalit Dar,Shobha Broor

Prevalence of visceral leishmania and HIV co-infection in Nepal R L Gurubacharya,S M Gurubacharya,D L Gurubacharya,J Quinkel,V L Gurubacharya

Vitamin A deficiency in children U Kapil

Book Review

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart diseases

Clinical electroencephalography

Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (CICADs)

The catalyst: a tribute to a professor

Trends and research in Leishmaniasis, with particular reference to kala azar.

Mental health: Facing the challenges, building solutions

Book Received

Diagnostic parasitology

  
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