Employing patient-centric health education for the prevention of parasitic infections.

Background: Soil-transmitted infections such as , Hookworm, , and are common in South India. Factors such as diet, sanitation, and living conditions play a role in the prevalence of helminthic diseases. Many individuals remain asymptomatic carriers.

Clinical profile of urinary tract infections in diabetics and non-diabetics.

Background: The risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) is higher in diabetics compared to non-diabetics. The aetiology and the antibiotic resistance of uropathogens have been changing over the past years. Hence the study was undertaken to determine if there are differences in clinical and microbiological features of UTI between diabetic and non-diabetic subjects, to study the influence of diabetes mellitus on the uropathogens and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in patients with UTI.

An unusual presentation of pulmonary cryptococcosis with co-existing disseminated tuberculosis in an AIDS patient.

Although cryptococcosis with lung involvement is not rare in patients with HIV, it is rarely considered in the differential diagnosis of an abnormal chest roentgenogram. Pulmonary cryptococcosis with concomitant opportunistic infections is frequently seen among AIDS and its association with tuberculosis (TB) has been previously reported. Untreated pulmonary cryptococcosis in immunocompromised hosts usually becomes disseminated and results in considerable mortality despite antifungal therapy.

Pulmonary nocardiosis presenting with cardiac tamponade and bilateral pleural effusion in a HIV patient.

Nocardiosis induces a high mortality rate in those infected with HIV. It is now being increasingly described in patients with AIDS. Nocardia infection usually involves the lungs.

Simple high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of acyclovir in pharmaceuticals.

An assay method for the determination of acyclovir from pharmaceutical preparations has been developed for assessment of product quality utilising high-performance liquid chromatography. The chromatographic conditions comprised a reversed-phase C18 column (250 x 4.6 mm i.

Sensitive spectrophotometric determination of amlodipine and felodipine using iron(III) and ferricyanide.

A simple, accurate, sensitive and economical procedure for the estimation of amlodipine besylate and felodipine, both in pure form and in formulations has been developed. The method is based on the reduction of iron(III) by the studied drugs in acid medium and subsequent interaction of iron(II) with ferricyanide to form Prussian blue. The product exhibits absorption maximum at 760 nm in both cases.