Somasundaram Jayaraman, Nishant K. Sinha, Ram C. Dalal, Rattan Lal et al.
Of late, intensive farming for higher food production is often associated with many negative implications for soil systems, such as decline of soil organic matter (SOM), increase in risks of soil erosion by wind and/or water, decline in soil biological diversity, increase in degradation of soil phys...
Sabiha Shaik, Amit Ranjan, Sumeet K. Tiwari, Arif Hussain et al.
ABSTRACT Escherichia coli sequence type 131 (ST131), a pandemic clone responsible for the high incidence of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) infections, has been known widely for its contribution to the worldwide dissemination of multidrug resistance. Although other ExPEC-associated and ex...
Arif Hussain, Sabiha Shaik, Amit Ranjan, Nishant Nandanwar et al.
Multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli (E. coli) infections are a growing public health concern. This study analyzed the contamination of commercial poultry (broiler and free-range) with pathogenic and or multi-resistant E. coli in India. We analyzed 168 E. coli isolates from broiler and free-range re...
Louise T. Day, Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Nahya Salim et al.
BACKGROUND: Progress in reducing maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths is impeded by data gaps, especially regarding coverage and quality of care in hospitals. We aimed to assess the validity of indicators of maternal and newborn health-care coverage around the time of birth in survey data an...
Sarmistha Mitra, Raju Dash, Amena Al Nishan, Sarmin Ummey Habiba et al.
BACKGROUND: The gut microbiota (GM) and brain are strongly associated, which significantly affects neuronal development and disorders. GM-derived metabolites modulate neuronal function and influence many cascades in age-related neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs). Because of the dual role of GM in ne...
Jagat Ram, Amod Gupta, Sunil Kumar, Sushmita Kaushik et al.
PURPOSE: To evaluate the outcomes of phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in eyes with uveitis. SETTING: Tertiary care center, Chandigarh, India. METHODS: Consecutive patients with uveitis and visually significant cataract were retrospectively studied for outcomes after phaco...
EN-BIRTH Study Group, Donat Shamba, Louise T. Day, Sojib Bin Zaman et al.
BACKGROUND: Policymakers need regular high-quality coverage data on care around the time of birth to accelerate progress for ending preventable maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths. With increasing facility births, routine Health Management Information System (HMIS) data have potential to tra...
M. A. Rifat, Imdadul Haque Talukdar, Nishan Lamichhane, Vera Atarodi et al.
Food handlers play a key role in maintaining food safety and preventing food borne illnesses. In Bangladesh, food safety related mainstream research focuses on microbiological and chemical qualities of foods whereas food handlers are less emphasized. Therefore, this systematic review focuses on food...
Kristen Aiemjoy, Jessica C. Seidman, Senjuti Saha, Sira Jam Munira et al.
BACKGROUND: The incidence of enteric fever, an invasive bacterial infection caused by typhoidal Salmonellae (Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi), is largely unknown in regions without blood culture surveillance. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether new diagnostic serological m...
Nishant Jaiswal, Meenu Singh, Rashmi Ranjan Das, Ishita Jindal et al.
INTRODUCTION: Each SAARC nation falls in the zone of high incidence of pneumococcal disease but there is a paucity of literature estimating the burden of pneumococcal disease in this region. OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalent serotypes causing invasive pneumococcal disease in children of SAARC cou...
Amit Ranjan, Sabiha Shaik, Nishant Nandanwar, Arif Hussain et al.
ABSTRACT Escherichia coli , an intestinal Gram-negative bacterium, has been shown to be associated with a variety of diseases in addition to intestinal infections, such as urinary tract infections (UTIs), meningitis in neonates, septicemia, skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs), and colisepticemia...
Gayana P. S. Gunaratna, A. Manamperi, Susanne Böhlken-Fascher, Renu Wickremasinge et al.
BACKGROUND: Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by vector-borne protozoans. In Sri Lanka, the cutaneous form of the disease is predominant, which is usually diagnosed using Giemsa-stained slit skin smear examination and by histology. However, the sensitivity of slit skin smears and histology are repor...
Zikria Saleem, Catrin E. Moore, Aubrey Chichonyi Kalungia, Natalie Schellack et al.
Background: There are concerns globally with rising rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). AMR is driven by high rates of inappropriate prescribing and dispensing of antibiotics, particularly Watch antibiotics. To develop future interventio...
Tarek K. Abdel‐Hamid, Felix Ankel, Michele Battle‐Fisher, Bryan Gibson et al.
Human body energy storage operates as a stock-and-flow system with inflow (food intake) and outflow (energy expenditure). In spite of the ubiquity of stock-and-flow structures, evidence suggests that human beings fail to understand stock accumulation and rates of change, a difficulty called the stoc...
Raghu Nadimpalli, Shyama Mohanty, Nishant Pathak, Krishna K. Osuri et al.
Abstract North Indian Ocean (NIO), which comprises of Bay of Bengal (BoB) and Arabian Sea (AS) basins, is one of the highly potential regions for Tropical Cyclones (TCs) in the world. Significant improvements have been achieved in the prediction of the movement of TCs, since the last decade. However...