Artesunate Resistance - An Emerging Threat.

Unlabelled: Drug resistant malaria represents a challenging health problem in developing countries like India. The failure of drug artemisinin, which is the cornerstone of malaria therapy will rapidly compromise the treatment and prognosis of malaria. Resistance should be suspected if inspite of full treatment with Artesunate Combination Therapy and with no history of vomiting or diarrhoea, there is no clinical or parasitological response in the patient after 72 hours.

Clinico-Microbiological Profile and Culture Sensitivity Pattern of Micro-Organisms Isolated from Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Study from a Tertiary Care Centre.

Unlabelled: Worldwide, diabetic foot lesions are a major medical, social and economic problem and are the leading cause of hospitalization for patients with diabetes. The organisms causing the ulcers vary from different geographical regions and initiation of empiric antibiotics depends on the prevalence of the local pathogens and their sensitivity pattern, With this background the present study was carried out to evaluate the bacterial diversity and their culture sensitivity patterns in diabetic foot ulcers.

Material: Medical records of 65 cases of diabetes mellitus with diabetic foot ulcer admitted to hospital during the period from January 2019 to December 2020 were retrieved from the Medical Records Department.