Predictors of hypocalcaemia and hypoparathyroidism in patients undergoing thyroidectomy for benign and malignant pathologies.

Objective: To analyse the risk factors of hypoparathyroidism and hypocalcaemia after total thyroidectomy.

Methods: Clinical data of patients who underwent total thyroidectomy at a tertiary care hospital in southern part of India were collected retrospectively from January 2021 to May 2023. Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyse the risk factors associated with transient hypoparathyroidism and hypocalcaemia separately.

Aqueous two-phase extraction for the purification of alkaline agarases from culture extracts of Pseudomonas aeruginosa AG LSL-11.

The agarases were purified for the first time an using aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) consisting of polyethylene glycol (PEG) and phosphate salt. The three extracellular, alkaline agarases produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa AG LSL-11 were efficiently extracted into the top PEG-rich layer. The influencing factors on the partition of agarases--molecular weight of the PEG, system pH, system temperature, and NaCl concentration--were investigated.

Comparison of a rapid commercial test, Enterocheck WB(®), with automated blood culture for diagnosis of typhoid fever.

Background: Rapid diagnosis of typhoid fever is very important in the timely initiation of therapy.

Objectives: To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the Enterocheck WB(®) test.

Methods: In a prospective study, the sensitivity and specificity of Enterocheck WB(®) that detects IgM antibodies to Salmonella typhi were compared with blood culture using BacT/Alert.

Correlation of renal length with somatic variables in Indian children.

Mean kidney length in 230 Indian children without apparent renal disease were examined sonographically and correlated with, age, body weight, length/height, upper thigh (femur) length, head circumference and chest circumference. Mean kidney is length best correlated with height, followed by upper thigh (femur) length and chest circumference.

Cellular infiltration at skin lesions and draining lymph nodes of sheep infested with adult Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum ticks.

Immunohistochemical analysis of skin and draining lymph nodes of sheep repeatedly infested with the ixodid tick Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum were studied for different antigen-presenting cells and lymphocyte subpopulations. Infiltration of neutrophils, macrophages and lymphocytes adjacent to the tick bite site were observed. Skin biopsies showed significant increases in dermal infiltration of CD8+ and gammadelta+ T cells at 72 h and 8 days after both primary and secondary infestation.