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Indian J Med Res Volume 134
Review Article
Hand hygiene: Back to the basics of infection control Purva Mathur |
Genetic correlates influencing immunopathogenesis of HIV infection Gaurav Sharma,Gurvinder Kaur,Narinder Mehra |
Genetic architecture of HIV-1 genes circulating in north India & their functional implications Ujjwal Neogi,Vikas Sood,Larence Ronsard,Jyotsna Singh,Sneh Lata,V.G. Ramachandran,S. Das,Ajay Wanchu,Akhil C. Banerjea |
HIV testing in developing countries: What is required? George Alemnji,John N. Nkengasong,Bharat S. Parekh |
Antiretroviral therapy in Indian setting: When & what to start with, when & what to switch to? N. Kumarasamy,Atul Patel,Sanjay Pujari |
Current practices in laboratory monitoring of HIV infection Madhu Vajpayee,Teena Mohan |
Low-cost assays for monitoring HIV infected individuals in resource-limited settings Pachamuthu Balakrishnan,Hussain Syed Iqbal,Saravanan Shanmugham,Janardhanan Mohanakrishnan,Kenneth H. Mayer,Pachamuthu Balakrishnan,Suniti Solomon |
Optimizing adherence to antiretroviral therapy Seema Sahay,Srikanth Reddy,Sampada Dhayarkar |
Diagnosis & treatment of tuberculosis in HIV co-infected patients C. Padmapriyadarsini,G. Narendran,Soumya Swaminathan |
HIV & immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) Surendra K. Sharma,Manish Soneja |
Parasitic infections in HIV infected individuals: Diagnostic & therapeutic challenges Veeranoot Nissapatorn,Nongyao Sawangjaroen |
Paediatric HIV - trends & challenges S.N. Mothi,S. Karpagam,V.H.T. Swamy,M. Lala Mamatha,S.M. Sarvode |
HIV in Indian MSM: Reasons for a concentrated epidemic & strategies for prevention Beena Thomas,Matthew J. Mimiaga,Senthil Kumar,Soumya Swaminathan,Steven A. Safren,Kenneth H. Mayer |
Microbicides for HIV prevention Gita Ramjee,Nutan,Satish K. Gupta |
Optimal duration of anticoagulation in patients with venous thromboembolism Paolo Prandoni,Chiara Piovella,Luca Spiezia,Fabio Dalla Valle,Raffaele Pesavento |
An understanding of the genetic basis of asthma Mahdi Bijanzadeh,Padukudru A. Mahesh,Nallur B. Ramachandra |
Umbilical cord blood: Current status & promise for the future David McKenna,Jayesh Sheth |
PCR versus serology for diagnosing Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection: A systematic review & meta-analysis Lei Zhang,Zhi-Yong Zong,Yan-Bin Liu,Hui Ye,Xiao-Ju Lv |
Endpoints in advanced breast cancer: methodological aspects & clinical implications Everardo D. Saad |
An insight into the drug resistance profile & mechanism of drug resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Achchhe Lal Patel,Uma Chaudhry,Divya Sachdev,Poonam Nagpal Sachdeva,Manju Bala,Daman Saluja |
The inherited disorders of haemoglobin: an increasingly neglected global health burden David Weatherall |
Haemoglobinopathies in Southeast Asia Suthat Fucharoen,Pranee Winichagoon |
Past, present & future scenario of thalassaemic care & control in India Ishwar C. Verma,Renu Saxena,Sudha Kohli |
Hb E/beta-thalassaemia: a common & clinically diverse disorder Nancy F. Olivieri,Zahra Pakbaz,Elliott Vichinsky |
Pathophysiological insights in sickle cell disease Marie-Hélène Odièvre,Emmanuelle Verger,Ana Cristina Silva-Pinto,Jacques Elion |
Abnormal haemoglobins: detection & characterization Henri Wajcman,Kamran Moradkhani |
Ethical issues in genetic counselling with special reference to haemoglobinopathies Vasantha Muthuswamy |
Invasive & non-invasive approaches for prenatal diagnosis of haemoglobinopathies: experiences from India R.B. Colah,A.C. Gorakshakar,A.H. Nadkarni |
Genetic counselling in tribals in India Dipika Mohanty,Kishalaya Das |
Haemoglobinopathies in Greece: prevention programme Dimitris Loukopoulos |
Original Article
Supreme Court judgment on polygraph, narco-analysis & brain-mapping: A boon or a bane Suresh Bada Math |
ICMR-DBT Guidelines for Evaluation of Probiotics in Food Paolo Prandoni |
Atherothrombotic risk factors & premature coronary heart disease in India: A case-control study Raja Babu Panwar,Rajeev Gupta,Bal Kishan Gupta,Sadiq Raja,Jaishree Vaishnav,Meenakshi Khatri,Aachu Agrawal |
Development of immunodetection system for botulinum neurotoxin type B using synthetic gene based recombinant protein Swati Jain,S. Ponmariappan,Om Kumar |
Evaluating PCR, culture & histopathology in the diagnosis of female genital tuberculosis R.B.P. Thangappah,C.N. Paramasivan,Sujatha Narayanan |
Assessment of nutritional status in Indian preschool children using WHO 2006 Growth Standards Prema Ramachandran,Hema S. Gopalan |
Fas receptor (CD95) & Fas ligand (CD178) expression in patients with tobacco-related intraoral squamous cell carcinoma Satya N. Das,Pratima Khare,Manoj K. Singh,Suresh C. Sharma |
Perceived stress, life events & coping among higher secondary students of Hyderabad, India: A pilot study Little Flower Augustine,Shahnaz Vazir,Sylvia Fernandez Rao,M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao,A. Laxmaiah,K. Madhavan Nair |
Comparison of oxidative stress & leukocyte activation in patients with severe sepsis & burn injury Diana Mühl,Gábor Woth,Livia Drenkovics,Adrienn Varga,Subhamay Ghosh,Csaba Csontos,Lajos Bogár,György Wéber,János Lantos |
Acquired alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency in tropical pulmonary eosinophilia Debidas Ray,S. Harikrishna,Chandra Immanuel,Lalitha Victor,Sudha Subramanyam,V. Kumaraswami |
Total antioxidant capacity in Eales’ disease, uveitis & cataract Radhakrishnan Selvi,Narayanasamy Angayarkanni,Jyotirmay Biswas,Sivaramakrishnan Ramakrishnan |
Prevalence of chronic cough, chronic phlegm & associated factors in Mysore, Karnataka, India P.A. Mahesh,B.S. Jayaraj,A.K. Prabhakar,S.K. Chaya,R. Vijayasimha |
Larvicidal activity of medicinal plant extracts against Anopheles subpictus & Culex tritaeniorhynchus C. Kamaraj,A. Bagavan,G. Elango,A. Abduz Zahir,G. Rajakumar,S. Marimuthu,T. Santhoshkumar,A. Abdul Rahuman |
Preliminary studies on CD36 gene in type 2 diabetic patients from north India Sunaina Gautam,C.G. Agrawal,Hemant Kumar Bid,Sunaina Gautam |
Event related potential (ERP) P300 after 6 months residence at 4115 meter Lalan Thakur,Koushik Ray,J.p. Anand,Usha Panjwani |
A comparative study of the clinico-aetiological profile of hyponatremia at presentation with that developing in the hospital S. Mahavir Agarwal,S. Mahavir Agarwal |
Prevalence of prehypertension in young military adults & its association with overweight & dyslipidaemia Sougat Ray,Bharati Kulkarni,A. Sreenivas |
A pilot study on the effects of a polyherbal formulation cream on diabetic foot ulcers Vijay Viswanathan,Rajesh Kesavan,Kavitha K.V,Satyavani Kumpatla |
Longitudinal trends in physical activity patterns in selected urban south Indian school children Sumathi Swaminathan,Sumithra Selvam,Tinku Thomas,Anura V. Kurpad,Mario Vaz |
Fc ã R IIB gene polymorphisms in Indian systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients Vandana Pradhan,Manisha Patwardhan,Anita Nadkarni,Kanjaksha Ghosh |
Mismatch repair genes expression defects & association with clinicopathological characteristics in colorectal carcinoma Gurjeet Kaur,Abdelhafid Masoud,N. Raihan,M. Radzi,W. Khamizar,Lee Suk Kam |
Intravenous device associated blood stream staphylococcal infection in paediatric patients Amita Jain,Astha Agarwa,Raj Kumar Verma,Shally Awasthi,K.P. Singh |
Promoter region polymorphism & expression profile of toll like receptor-3 (TLR-3) gene in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients from India Subhash Medhi,Manab Deka,Purabi Deka,Shyam S. Swargiary,Rajib K. Hazam,Manash P. Sharma,Phani K. Gumma,Mohammad Asim,P. Kar |
Screening & profiling of quorum sensing signal molecules in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from catheterized urinary tract infection patients Ravi Kumar,Sanjay Chhibber,Varsha Gupta,Kusum Harjai |
QRDR mutations, efflux system & antimicrobial resistance genes in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli isolated from an outbreak of diarrhoea in Ahmedabad, India G.P. Pazhani,S. Chakraborty,K. Fujihara,S. Yamasaki,A. Ghosh,G.B. Nair,T. Ramamurthy |
Effect of Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy in iron deficiency anaemia of pregnancy – A pilot study Ria Malik,Kiran Guleria,Iqbal Kaur,Meera Sikka,Gita Radhakrishnan |
Possible role of CYP2C9 & CYP2C19 single nucleotide polymorphisms in drug refractory epilepsy Ram Lakhan,Ritu Kumari,Kavita Singh,Jayanti Kalita,Usha Kant Misra,Balraj Mittal |
Immune response to second dose of MMR vaccine in Indian children Sunil Gomber,Shilpa Khanna Arora,Shukla Das,V.G. Ramachandran |
Effects of sports training & nutrition on bone mineral density in young Indian healthy females Raman K. Marwaha,Seema Puri,Nikhil Tandon,Sakshi Dhir,Neha Agarwal,Kuntal Bhadra,Namita Saini |
Recovery pattern of hypothalamo-pituitary-testicular axis in patients with macroprolactinomas after treatment with cabergoline Rama Walia,Anil Bhansali,Pinaki Dutta,Niranjan Khandelwal,Ravinder Sialy,Sanjay Bhadada |
WNIN/GR-Ob - An insulin-resistant obese rat model from inbred WNIN strain N. Harishankar,A. Vajreswari,N.V. Giridharan |
Obesity associated pathophysiological & histological changes in WNIN obese mutant rats Nemani Harishankar,Putcha Uday Kumar,Boindala Sesikeran,Nemani Harishankar |
Prevalence & correlates of metabolic syndrome in alcohol & opioid dependent inpatients Surendra K. Mattoo,Kaustav Chakraborty,Debasish Basu,Abhishek Ghosh,Vijaya Kumar KG,Parmanand Kulhara |
How do health care providers deal with kala-azar in the Indian subcontinent? Narendra Kumar,Shri Prakash Singh,Dinesh Mondal,Anand Joshi,Pradeep Das,Shyam Sundar,Axel Kroeger,Siddhivinayak Hirve,N.A. Siddiqui,Marleen Boelaert |
ãä T cells response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in pulmonary tuberculosis patients using preponderant complementary determinant region 3 sequence Xueyan Xi,Xiqin Han,Liang Li,Zhendong Zhao |
Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit typing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Sichuan Province in China Jian-hua Guo,Wen-liang Xiang,Geng Zhang,Tao Luo,Ning Xie,Zhi-rong Yang,Qun Sun |
In vitro & in vivo estrogenic activity of glycoside fractions of Solanum nigrum fruit S. Jisha,S. Sreeja,S. Manjula |
Efficacy of indigenous plant extracts on the malaria vector Anopheles subpictus Grassi (Diptera: Culicidae) G. Elango,A. Abduz Zahir,A. Bagavan,C. Kamaraj,G. Rajakumar,T. Santhoshkumar,S. Marimuthu,A. Abdul Rahuman |
Antiarthritic activity of Majoon Suranjan (a polyherbal Unani formulation) in rat Surender Singh,Vinod Nair,Y.K. Gupta |
Neutrophils to lymphocyte ratio as a screening tool for swine influenza Ajit Indavarapu,Abhilash Akinapelli |
Vitamin B12 deficiency & levels of metabolites in an apparently normal urban south Indian elderly population Vineeta Shobhaa,Subhash D. Tarey,Ramya G. Singh,Priya Shetty,Uma S. Unni,Krishnamachari Srinivasan,Anura V. Kurpad |
Prevalence & correlates of primary infertility among young women in Mysore, India Paul C. Adamson,Karl Krupp,Alexandra H. Freeman,Jeffrey D. Klausner,Arthur L. Reingold,Purnima Madhivanan |
Identifying potential pitfalls in interpreting mitochondrial DNA mutations of male infertility cases Malliya Gounder Palanichamy,Ya-Ping Zhang |
Cytogenetic profile of Indian patients with de novo myelodysplastic syndromes Rekha Chaubey,Sudha Sazawal,Rima Dada,Manoranjan Mahapatra,Renu Saxena |
A pilot study on the use of serum glyoxalase as a supplemental biomarker to predict malignant cases of the prostate Sushant V. Chavan,Niraj R. Chavan,Anusha Balaji,Vatsala D. Trivedi,Padma R. Chavan |
Cardiovascular autonomic functions & cerebral autoregulation in patients with orthostatic hypotension Ekta Khandelwal,Ashok Kumar Jaryal,K.K. Deepak |
Prevalence of & knowledge, attitude & practices towards HIV & sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among female sex workers (FSWs) in Andhra Pradesh R. Hemalatha,R. Hari Kumar,K. Venkaiah,K. Srinivasan,G.N.V. Brahmam |
Enhanced production of mosquitocidal cyclic lipopeptide from Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis A.M. Manonmani,I. Geetha,S. Bhuvaneswari |
ATR-X syndrome in two siblings with a novel mutation (c.6718C>T mutation in exon 31) Seema Thakur,Mala Ishrie,Renu Saxena,Sumita Danda,Rose Linda,Auro Viswabandya,I.C. Verma |
Mutations of TFAP2B in congenital heart disease patients in Mysore, south India Lingaiah Kusuma,Sosalagere M. Dinesh,Mysore R. Savitha,B. Krishnamurthy,Doddaiah Narayanappa,Nallur B. Ramachandra |
‘First we go to the small doctor’: First contact for curative health care sought by rural communities in Andhra Pradesh & Orissa, India Meenakshi Gautham,Erika Binnendijk,Ruth Koren,David. M. Dror |
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in a north Indian hospital-based population with obstructive sleep apnoea Swastik Agrawal,Surendra K. Sharma,Vishnubhatla Sreenivas,Ramakrishnan Lakshmy |
Study of sense of coherence health promoting behaviour in north Indian students Senjam Suraj,Amarjeet Singh |
Pulmonary function studies in young healthy Malaysians of Kelantan, Malaysia Amit Bandyopadhyay |
A pilot study on the effect of telmisartan & ramipril on 24 h blood pressure profile & dipping pattern in type 1 diabetes patients with nephropathy R. Anantharaman,Anil Bhansali,Sanjay K. Bhadada,Harbir S. Kohli,Rama Walia,G. Shanmugasundar,P. Jayaprakash |
Assessing the adhesion of putative indigenous probiotic lactobacilli to human colonic epithelial cells Raj Kumar Duary |
Prolonged expression of MHC class I - peptide expression in bone marrow derived retrovirus transfected matured dendritic cells by continuous centrifugation in the presence of IL-4 L.M. Hettihewa |
Characterization of low molecular weight antimicrobial peptide from human female reproductive tract Sarita Sharma,Sunil Sethi,Rajendra Prasad,Palash Samanta,Arvind Rajwanshi,Sarla Malhotra,Meera Sharma |
Non invasive real-time monitoring of bacterial infection & therapeutic effect of anti-microbials in five mouse models Tarani Kanta Barman,Madhvi Rao,Ashish Bhati,Krishna Kishore,Gunjan Shukla,Manoj Kumar,Tarun Mathur,Manisha Pandya,Dilip J. Upadhyay |
Mycobacterium indicus pranii as stand-alone or adjunct immunotherapeutic in treatment of experimental animal tuberculosis Jaya Faujdar,Pushpa Gupta,Mohan Natrajan,Ram Das,D.S. Chauhan,V.M. Katoch,U.D. Gupta |
Antiparasitic activity of plumericin & isoplumericin isolated from Plumeria bicolor against Leishmania donovani Venubabu Thati,Channappa T. Shivannavar,Subhaschandra M. Gaddad,Umakant Sharma,Dharmendra Singh,Parveen Kumar,M.P. Dobhal,Sarman Singh |
Preventive action of curcumin in experimental acute pancreatitis in mouse Wen-Guang Yu,Gang Xu,Gui-Jie Ren,Xia Xu,Hui-Qing Yuan,Xiao-Li Qi,Ke-Li Tian |
Framework for estimating tumour parameters using thermal imaging V. Umadevi,S.V. Raghavan,Sandeep Jaipurkar |
Prevalence of HIV among blood donors in a tertiary care centre of north India R.N. Makroo,Mohit Chowdhry,Aakanksha Bhatia,Bhavna Arora,N.L. Rosamma |
Barriers to ART adherence & follow ups among patients attending ART centres in Maharashtra, India N. Joglekar,R. Paranjape,R. Jain,G. Rahane,R. Potdar,K.S. Reddy,S. Sahay |
Genital mycoplasma & Chlamydia trachomatis infections in treatment naïve HIV-1 infected adults Arnab Ghosh,Benu Dhawan,Rama Chaudhry,Madhu Vajpayee,Vishnubhatla Sreenivas |
Dietary adequacy of HIV infected individuals in north India -A cross-sectional analysis Ravinder Kaur Sachdeva,Aman Sharma,Ajay Wanchu,Vandana Dogra,Surjit Singh,Subhash Varma |
Loss of CD127 & increased immunosenescence of T cell subsets in HIV infected individuals Kamalika Mojumdar,Madhu Vajpayee,Neeraj Kumar Chauhan,Alpana Singh,Ravinder Singh,Sravya Kurapati |
Correspondence
Long-term follow up of clients from a community-based opioid substitution therapy programme in Manipur Michelle Kermode,Gregory Armstrong,Surmick Waribam |
Performance of microscopy for detection of microsporidial spores from stool samples of HIV infected individuals with diarrhoea Sangeeta Kulkarni,Sudhir Patsute,Madhuri Chandane,Arun Risbud |
Seasonal variation & determinants in vitamin D deficiency in healthy breastfed term infants & their mothers in India Subhash C. Arya,Nirmala Agarwal |
Building ethical solidarity between public health & the press against HIV/AIDS-related stigma Devaki Nambiar |
Stigma haunts persons with mental illness who seek relief as per Disability Act 1995 Suresh Bada Math,Maria Christine Nirmala |
Dilemma of cultural determinants of health Vikas Bajpai |
A bibliometric analysis of published non-communicable disease research in India Prem Kumar Mony,Krishnamachari Srinivasan |
Emergence of dengue in Andaman & Nicobar archipelago: Eco-epidemiological perspective P. Vijayachari,S.S. Singh,A.P. Sugunan,A.N. Shriram,S.P. Manimunda,A.P. Bharadwaj,M. Singhania,Cyril Gladeus,Debdutta Bhattacharya |
Tertiary trauma care centre & antimicrobial resistance Oral Oncül |
Extended-spectrum â-lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae R.M. Parveen,M.A. Khan,G.A. Menezes,B.N. Harish,S.C. Parija,J.P. Hays |
Clinical implications of oxidative stress & sperm DNA damage in normozoospermic infertile men S. Venkatesh,M.B. Shamsi,D. Deka,V. Saxena,R. Kumar,R. Dada |
Occurrence of group B rotavirus infections in the outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis from western India S.D. Chitambar,A. Lahon,V.S. Tatte,N.H. Maniya,G.U. Tambe,K.I. Khatri,H.S. Desai,M.R. Ugare,S.V. Kulkarni,A.P. Waghmare |
CTX-M15 type ESBL producing Salmonella from a paediatric patient in Chennai, India Karthikeyan K,M. Thirunarayan,Padma Krishnan |
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