Publications by authors named "Himadri Bhusan Bal"
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- The study focuses on the prevalence and impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) and HIV among tuberculosis (TB) cases in Odisha, India, during 2019, highlighting the interconnected health issues in the region.
- Findings reveal that 7.6% of TB patients had DM, while only 1.2% had HIV, and a very small percentage (0.08%) had both conditions alongside TB.
- Interestingly, patients with TB and DM generally had better treatment outcomes (88.2% favorable) compared to those with TB and HIV (82.3% favorable), suggesting differing impacts of these comorbidities on TB treatment success.
Background: Compared to conventional microscopy, the cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT, Xpert MTB/RIF, Cepheid, USA) has the dual advantage of higher sensitivity to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), and the ability to detect rifampicin resistance.
Aim: To evaluate the impact of the CBNAAT on the detection of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis from private and public healthcare facilities in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Pleural tuberculosis in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, during 2016 to 2022.
Indian J Med Microbiol
November 2023
We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the burden of tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in patients with pleural effusion in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, during February 2016, to December 2022, using cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT, Xpert MTB/RIF). Of the 1370 pleural fluid samples tested at the National Reference Laboratory for tuberculosis, 3.8% (52/1370) were positive for M.
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- * Found a prevalence of isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis (Hr-TB) at 1.53%, with variations from 0% to 3.4% across the districts.
- * Identified that 74% of Hr-TB strains had katG mutations, while 26% had inhA mutations, which have important implications for treatment effectiveness due to varying levels of resistance.
Beneficial plant-associated bacteria play a key role in supporting and/or promoting plant growth and health. Plant growth promoting bacteria present in the rhizosphere of crop plants can directly affect plant metabolism or modulate phytohormone production or degradation. We isolated 355 bacteria from the rhizosphere of rice plants grown in the farmers' fields in the coastal rice field soil from five different locations of the Ganjam district of Odisha, India.
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