Comparison of Outcomes of Clinical Teaching Station and Traditional Bedside Teaching among the Final Year Medical Students.

Background: Teaching clinical skills is generally done by bedside teaching (BT). Clinical teaching stations (CTSs) are specially designed for the final year medics.

Methods: The aim was to evaluate and compare the impact of CTS with BT on the final year medical undergraduates.

Comparative evaluation of indigenous ELISAs for detection of anti-cysticercus IgG antibodies in serum from clinically and radiologically suspected cases of neurocysticercosis.

Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is an important but neglected tropical infectious disease, which is recently recognized as a global problem due to its potentiality for human-to-human transmission beyond tropics. The laboratory diagnosis of NCC is considered useful to confirm clinical and radiological diagnosis. However there is a lack of indigenous diagnostic method particularly in the tropical developing countries.

Clinicomycological Study of Dermatophytosis in South India.

Introduction: Dermatophytic infections are commonly encountered a problem and constitute more than 50% of cases in dermatology outpatient departments. Diagnosis of these infections requires the proper use of laboratory methods.

Objectives: This study was conducted to know the etiology of dermatophytosis in patients attending Tertiary Care Level Hospital in South India and to compare the efficacy of Sabouraud's dextrose agar (SDA) with actidione and dermatophyte test medium (DTM) in isolating and identifying dermatophytes.