Publications by authors named "Preeti P Kulkarni"
Background: In August 2023, the BA.2.86 SARS-CoV-2 variant, with over 30 spike protein mutations, emerged amidst the global dominance of XBB sub-lineages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Post-COVID-19 conditions (PCC) have emerged as a significant global health concern due to their potential impact on patients' quality of life and healthcare resources. The present study aims to understand the burden and characteristics of PCC in Maharashtra, India, and compares its prevalence among cases infected with Delta and Omicron variants.
Material And Methods: A retrospective observational study included 617 laboratory-confirmed Delta and Omicron variant cases.
Background SARS-CoV-2 has evolved rapidly, resulting in the emergence of lineages with a competitive advantage over one another. Co-infections with different SARS-CoV-2 lineages can give rise to recombinant lineages. To date, the XBB lineage is the most widespread recombinant lineage worldwide, with the recently named XBB.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground SARS-CoV-2 has evolved to produce new variants causing successive waves of infection. Currently, six variants are being monitored by the World Health Organization that are replacing BA.5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHexagonal phase sodium yttrium fluoride activated with lanthanide ions; Tb, Eu and Dy doped NaYF phosphors were synthesized using a simplistic hydrothermal method. The photoluminescence studies demonstrated green, red and blue emission lines corresponding to D → F ( = 6, 5, 4, 3), D → F ( = 1, 2 and 4) and F to H ( = 15/2 and 13/2) transitions, which are characteristic of Tb, Eu and Dy ions, respectively. The as-synthesized samples were subjected to annealing at varying temperatures from 500 °C to 800 °C primarily for the optimization of the thermoluminescence glow curve.
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- The study investigates the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals (HCPs) towards organ donation in a rural town in Maharashtra, India, amidst an ongoing organ shortage.
- While 100% of HCPs were aware of organ donation, understanding varied: 50% recognized brain death as a valid donor state and only 15.6% accepted brain-dead individuals as "legally" dead.
- Despite high awareness of eye donation (87.5%) and general organ donation, nearly 47% of HCPs expressed a need for further education on the topic, particularly regarding the concept of brain death and its significance in organ donation.
Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation today. We aimed to study the attitude and knowledge toward body and organ donation among people in rural India. The present study was conducted in a rural town called Lanja, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra in India.
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