Assessment of spatial variation in lung cancer incidence and air pollutants: spatial regression modeling approach.

A notable finding is that Kerala's capital Thiruvananthapuram has shown an increasing trend in lung cancer (LC) incidence. Long-term exposure to air pollution is a significant environmental risk factor for LC. This study investigated the spatial association between LC and exposure to air pollutants in Thiruvananthapuram, using Spatial Lag Model (SLM), Spatial Error Model (SEM), and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR).

Wave induced coastal flooding along the southwest coast of India during tropical cyclone Tauktae.

The coastal flood during the tropical cyclone Tauktae, 2021, at Chellanam coast, Kerala, India, has invited wide attention as the wave overtopping severely affected coastal properties and livelihood. We used a combination of WAVEWATCHIII and XBeach to study the coastal inundation during high waves. The effect of low-frequency waves and the rise in the coastal water level due to wave setup caused the inundation at Chellanam, even during low tide with negligible surge height.

The influence of boreal summer intra-seasonal oscillations on Indo-western Pacific Ocean surface waves.

The present study examines the influence of Boreal Summer Intra-Seasonal Oscillation (BSISO) on Tropical Indian Ocean surface waves using the latest version of ECMWF reanalysis (ERA5) during summer monsoon months June through August (JJA). BSISO is a distinct mode of ISO during JJA having a northward and eastward movement from the equatorial Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean. Composite analysis of anomalies of significant wave heights (SWH), wind sea, swell, and mean wave period for 8 phases of BSISO has been carried out to understand its influence.

Prevalence and clonal relatedness of NDM and OXA-48-producing in a tertiary care hospital in South India.

Background: Carbapenems are used for the treatment of serious infections caused by multidrug-resistant . Resistance to carbapenems in is mainly due to metallo-beta-lactamases (NDM, IMP, and VIM) and class D oxacillinase (OXA-48-like).

Aim And Objective: This study was undertaken to detect the genes encoding for carbapenemase in and to determine the clonal relatedness of selected isolates of producing NDM and OXA-48 by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis method (PFGE).

Characterisation of virulence genes associated with pathogenicity in .

Purpose: This study was undertaken to characterise the virulence factors in clinical strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae and analyse their association with various infections caused and also to determine the association between virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance profile.

Materials And Methods: A total number of 370 clinically significant, non-duplicate isolates of K. pneumoniae isolated from both hospitalised patients and patients attending clinics were included in this study.