Publications by authors named "Mangayarkarasi Vincent"
Teaching methods need continuous innovation to encourage undergraduate medical students to enhance their competency level and skills. Every undergraduate medical student should be able to discuss the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) and Direct Observed Treatment Short (DOTS) course recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The DOTS strategy was launched in 1992, with the objective of detecting at least 70% of new sputum-positive tuberculosis (TB) patients and curing at least 85% of such patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tuberculosis (TB) has been identified in skeletons over 6000 years old and still remains as the most prevalent infectious disease in the world; thus, there is a need for development of new drugs or tuning of old drugs. Nanotechnology, an advanced technology, plays a vital role in research for the diagnosis and treatment of TB, thus preventing adverse effects and drug resistance. The objective of this study was to enhance the antimycobacterial activity of isoniazid- (INH) and rifampicin (RIF)-incorporated norbornene (NOR) nanoparticles in comparison with plain INH and RIF without nanoparticles.
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- * A study conducted from June 2013 to June 2014 collected and analyzed 140 samples from a hospital's wastewater recycling plant, identifying various pathogens, including Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumonia, that survived the treatment process.
- * Findings indicate that effluent treatment plants need stricter monitoring and quality control to prevent the spread of multi-drug resistant organisms in hospitals.
Aim: Subcutaneous entomophthoromycosis (EM) is an uncommon fungal infection of childhood. This article is intended to draw the attention of pediatric surgeons to the fact that EM can mimic soft-tissue tumor.
Methods: It is a retrospective review of 16 children treated for subcutaneous EM between 2000 and 2013.