Bacteriological Profile of Surgical Site Infections and Their Antibiogram: A Study From Resource Constrained Rural Setting of Uttarakhand State, India.

Introduction: Surgical site infections (SSI) constitute a major public health problem worldwide and are the second most frequently reported nosocomial infections. They are responsible for increasing the treatment cost, length of hospital stay and significant morbidity and mortality.

Aim: To determine the incidence of SSIs and the prevalence of aerobic bacterial pathogens involved with their antibiogram.

The prevalence of inducible clindamycin resistance among staphylococci in a tertiary care hospital - a study from the garhwal hills of uttarakhand, India.

Objective: This study was undertaken to assess the frequency of the phenotypic expression of the inducible resistance to clindamycin which was due to the expression of the erm genes in various clinical isolates of the Staphylococcus species.

Materials And Methods: This was a cross sectional study conducted in the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Govt.

Epidemiological trends of cancer morbidity at a government medical college hospital, Chandigarh, India.

Aim: An epidemiological shift has resulted in increase in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD). Unlike other NCDs which are easily and definitely preventable, the knowledge of cancer prevention is still limited at present. Various aetiological factors are difficult to control since those are habit forming.

Epidemiological study of risk factors for oral, laryngeal and esophageal cancers at a tertiary care hospital in India.

Unlabelled: BACKGROUND AND AIS: An epidemiological shift in the form of increase in the incidence of cancer and decrease in the incidence of smoking is universally realized today. This study was conducted to observe an association of smoking, use of alcohol and tobacco and cancers of the oral cavity, larynx and esophagus

Material And Methods: it was a case control study conducted at Deptt. of Radiotherapy at GMCH, Chandigarh.