Strategies to Decrease the Prevalence of Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Central India.

 Intestinal parasites are a major public health problem in tropical countries. Over 1.5 billion people are infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STH), of which 225 million are in India.

Disseminated tuberculosis in rare association with hemophagocytic lymphocytosis - A case report from central India.

Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is an uncommon, diverse and rare genetic hyper-inflammatory syndrome. HLH associated with tuberculosis (TB-HLH) has been described as a clinical and diagnostic quandary. The co-existence leads to significantly higher morbidity and mortality.

Comparing the Psychological Problems Among the Health Care Workers Across Two Waves of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic: An Observational Study from India.

Objective: Literature investigating the change in psychological problems of the health care workers (HCWs) throughout the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is lacking. We aimed at comparing the psychological problems and attitudes toward work among HCWs over two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Methods: A survey was conducted involving HCWs (n = 305, first wave, 2020; n = 325, second wave, 2021).

Feasibility and Effectiveness of Telecounseling on the Psychological Problems of Frontline Healthcare Workers Amidst COVID-19: A Randomized Controlled Trial from Central India.

Background: Preliminary reports suggest that during the COVID-19 pandemic, telecounseling could be an effective model of psychological intervention for the frontline healthcare workers (fHCW) with psychological problems. Literature is sparse in this area, particularly from low- and middle-income countries, including India. We aimed to investigate the feasibility and the effectiveness of telecounseling (vs.

Corticosteroids in Covid-19 pandemic have the potential to unearth hidden burden of strongyloidiasis.

COVID-19 pandemic has posed formidable public health and clinical challenges to the entire humanity. A significant proportion of the COVID-19 patients have been provided immunosuppressive agents, particularly corticosteroids, as a part of management of moderate to severe COVID-19 disease. This has the drawback of development of strongyloides hyperinfection to disseminated infection in latent strongyloides infection patients.