E. Shaji, M. Santosh, K.V. Sarath, Pranav Prakash et al.
More than 2.5 billion people on the globe rely on groundwater for drinking and providing high-quality drinking water has become one of the major challenges of human society. Although groundwater is considered as safe, high concentrations of heavy metals like arsenic (As) can pose potential human hea...
Hester Biemans, Christian Siderius, Arthur Lutz, Santosh Nepal et al.
Georgi Abraham, Santosh Varughese, Thiagarajan Thandavan, Arpana Iyengar et al.
In many developing countries in the South Asian region, screening for chronic diseases in the community has shown a widely varying prevalence. However, certain geographical regions have shown a high prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown etiology. This predominantly affects the young ...
Fuminaka Sugauchi, Hiromitsu Kumada, Subrat A. Acharya, Santosh Man Shrestha et al.
Complete nucleotide sequences of 19 hepatitis B virus (HBV) isolates of genotype A (HBV/A) were determined and analysed along with those of 20 previously reported HBV/A isolates. Of the 19 HBV/A isolates, six including three from Japan and three from the USA clustered with the 14 HBV/A isolates from...
Santosh Kumar Mondal, TK Dutta
INTRODUCTION: To determine the histological pattern of involvement, clinical presentation, impact on fertility in women with genital tuberculosis. METHODS: A total number of 68 cases of gynaecological tuberculosis affecting different parts of female genital tract from 56 patients were selected. The ...
Santosh Kumar, Santosh Tripathi, Suresh Prasad Singh, A. Prasad et al.
Direct selection for yield under drought has resulted in the release of a number of drought-tolerant rice varieties across Asia. In this study, we characterized the physiological traits that have been affected by this strategy in breeding trials across sites in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. Drought-...
Gopal Datt Bhatta, Pramod Aggarwal, Santosh Poudel, Debbie Anne Belgrave
There is significant interest in determining the role of climate-induced shocks as a \nprominent driver on migration decisions of different groups of farmers in South \nAsia. Using data from a survey of 2,660 farm-families and focused group \ndiscussions in Bihar (India), Terai (plains) ...
Pepakayala Vara Lakshmi, Santosh Kumar Singh, Biswajit Pramanick, Mukesh Kumar et al.
Rice–wheat cropping system (RWCS) is considered as the furthermost vital system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South-Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Recently, the deficiency of micronutrients like zinc (Zn) has emerged as one of the prime limitations for the sustainability is...
Santosh Mahapatra
ESL/EFL teachers, especially those working in higher education, across the world were required to teach online after the spread on COVID-19. Many empirical studies have been conducted in the last 1 year to investigate various aspects of online teaching and learning of languages. However, online ESL ...
Shyam Bihari Bansal, V. Ramasubramanian, Narayan Prasad, Neeraj Saraf et al.
These guidelines discuss the epidemiology, screening, diagnosis, posttransplant prophylaxis, monitoring, and management of endemic infections in solid organ transplant (SOT) candidates, recipients, and donors in South Asia. The guidelines also provide recommendations for SOT recipients traveling to ...
Luke C. Mullany, Shams El Arifeen, Peter J. Winch, Rashed Shah et al.
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends dry cord care for newborns but this recommendation may not be optimal in low resource settings where most births take place in an unclean environment and infections account for up to half of neonatal deaths. A previous trial in Nepal indicated tha...
Rahul M. Phuke, Xinyao He, Philomin Juliana, Santosh Kumar Bishnoi et al.
Tan spot caused by Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Ptr) is an important disease of wheat in many wheat producing areas of world. A genome wide association study (GWAS) was conducted using 11,401 SNP markers of the Illumina Infinium 15K Bead Chip with whole genome coverage to identify genomic regions a...
Namratha R. Kandula, Swapna S. Dave, Peter John D. De Chavez, David X. Márquez et al.
PURPOSE: South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Nepalis, and Bhutanese) in the United States have a very high prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). This pilot study evaluated a culturally-tailored exercise intervention among South Asian immigrant mothers with DM risk fa...
Rebecca E. Rosenberg, Saifuddin Ahmed, Samir K. Saha, ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed et al.
Objective To identify a valid neonatal mortality risk prediction score feasible for use in developing countries. Study design Retrospective study of 467 neonates, Results The area under the curve receiver operating characteristic was 0.62, 0.71, 0.68, and 0.69 on the basis of the (a) CRIB II applied...
Smita Divyaveer, Raja Ramachandran, Manisha Sahay, Dibya Singh Shah et al.
Information about disease burden and the available infrastructure and workforce to care for patients with kidney disease was collected for the second edition of the International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas. This paper presents findings for the 8 countries in the South Asia regi...