Publications by authors named "Ranjana Rani"
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- The study aimed to assess the variety of mosquito species in and around Chandigarh, India, due to the significance of understanding mosquito presence for predicting disease outbreaks and vector control.
- Comprehensive surveys were conducted from June 2017 to November 2019 across various habitats, leading to the identification of 34 mosquito species from eight different genera.
- The findings will aid health authorities in developing timely measures to manage mosquito populations and mitigate health risks associated with these vectors.
Exposure to pesticides changes the microbial community structure in contaminated agricultural fields. To analyze the changes in the native microbial composition qRT-PCR, a metagenomic study was conducted. The qRT-PCR results exhibited that the uncontaminated soil has a higher copy number of 16S rDNA relative to the soil contaminated with pesticide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmacy-based sexual health services and clinical governance.
J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care
October 2008
The main aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of a recently introduced rapid diagnostic test, the QuickVue chlamydia test against polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for endocervical samples. Due to concerns surrounding the low specificity of rapid tests for a low prevalence population we assessed its performance for both high and low prevalence populations. The sensitivity and specificity of the QuickVue test compared to PCR were 65% (95% confidence interval [CI] 42-87%) and 100% respectively for the high prevalence population and 25% (95% CI: 5-70%) and 100% respectively for the low prevalence population.
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