Publications by authors named "J Faujdar"
Background & Objectives: Mycobacterium w (M.w) is a saprophytic cultivable mycobacterium and shares several antigens with M. tuberculosis.
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- Identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes expressed during infection helps us understand how the bacteria causes disease and survives in hosts.
- The study utilized in-vivo-induced antigen technology (IVIAT) to discover 11 genes that are likely involved in the bacteria's survival and infection, with functions related to metabolism, regulation, and cell processes.
- Analysis showed that these genes had increased expression in TB patients compared to laboratory conditions, indicating their potential role in adaptation and pathogenicity, including in drug-resistant strains.
Background & Objective: Rise in prevalence of multi-drug resistance (MDR) in tubercle bacilli is a serious cause of concern. As mutations with two house keeping genes rpoB and katG are associated with resistance to two important anti-tubercular drugs rifampicin and isoniazid respectively, there is a need to understand the growth kinetics of organisms with such mutated genes in experimental animals. This study was undertaken to study the growth kinetics of susceptible as well multi-drug resistance Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Objective: Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are important drugs used for treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis and are also now being considered as first line drugs to shorten the duration of treatment of tuberculosis (TB). In order to find out useful FQs for treatment of tuberculosis, the comparative efficacy of five FQs, namely, ofloxacin (OFL), ciprofloxacin (CIP), sparfloxacin (SPX), gatifloxacin (GAT) and levofloxacin (LEVX) was studied against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates obtained from both treated and untreated patients from Agra and Kanpur regions of north India.
Methods: A total of 162 MTB isolates [including 110 MTB isolates obtained from untreated patients (Cat-I) and 52 isolates from treated patients (Cat-II)] were tested for their susceptibilities to FQs using standard minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) method on Löwenstein-Jensen medium.
Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates has greatly facilitated the understanding of epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB). This study was done to characterize prevalent genotypes of M. tuberculosis on a collection of 97 isolates based on spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing in rural area of Kanpur, North India.
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