Publications by authors named "A Kanga"
Background/aims: The prevalence of hepatitis B is higher in tribal populations, compared to non-tribal populations in India. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the risk factors, virological and biochemical profile of patients with hepatitis B in a tribal population.
Methods: This study analyzed data collected from a community-based project conducted in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, from July 2015 to 2017.
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- A network was created in India to monitor bacterial meningitis in kids and see how many cases could be prevented by vaccines, with data collected from March 2012 to September 2016 in eleven hospitals.
- Out of nearly 13,000 suspected cases, only about 586 were confirmed as bacterial meningitis, mainly caused by a bacteria called S. pneumoniae, especially in young children.
- The study showed that many of the bacteria were becoming resistant to common antibiotics, making it important to spread the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV) throughout India to help lower these tough infections in kids.
Introduction: India has the highest number of TB (27%) and MDR/RR-TB (24%) cases among the notified TB patients. Xpert MTB/ RIF assay is a fully automated cartridge-based real-time PCR to detect MTB and resistance to rifampicin within two hours using three specific primers and five unique molecular probes to target the rpoB gene. This study was done to detect RR-TB cases and frequency of missing probes, which target mutations in rpoB gene, in the different groups of study population in Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 emerged in April 2009 and spread widely in India. Although an unprecedented number of cases required intensive care, comparative community-based studies with seasonal influenza strains have not shown any significant differences in clinical symptoms or severity.
Methods: The authors performed active surveillance on confirmed influenza-related admissions and compared the clinical profile of patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and patients with seasonal influenza at a tertiary care hospital in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
Aims: To study predictors of severity in patients of scrub typhus admitted in a tertiary care hospital.
Material And Methods: Total 92 patients of scrub typhus were included in the study. The diagnosis was established by presence of IgM antibodies by Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay (IFA) test which is currently the reference standard for the diagnosis of scrub typhus.