Pattern of rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) species isolated from clinical samples: A 10-year retrospective study in a tertiary care hospital of Bangladesh.

Purpose: Infections caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are increasing worldwide. The study was conducted in a microbiological laboratory of Bangladesh to determine the pattern of detection of RGM from clinical samples.

Methods: All laboratory culture records of RGM from 2012 to 2022 were collected retrospectively and analyzed.

Pediatric encephaloceles: A series of 20 cases over a period of 3 years.

Background: Encephalocele is the protrusion of the cranial contents beyond the normal confines of the skull through a defect in the calvarium and is far less common than spinal dysraphism. The exact worldwide frequency is not known.

Aims And Objectives: To determine the epidemiological features, patterns of encephalocele, and its postsurgical results.

Prediabetes in South Indian rural adolescent school students.

Prediabetes is a condition with blood glucose levels higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Most people with prediabetes are asymptomatic but are considered to be at a high risk of developing heart disease and stroke. 140 students of both sexes between ages 14-18 years were given a predesigned questionnaire to obtain information on socio-economic status and family history of Diabetes mellitus.

Small molecule modulators in epigenetics: implications in gene expression and therapeutics.

Altered gene expression resulting from changes in the post-translational modification patterns of the histones and DNA is collectively termed epigenetics. Such changes are inherited albeit there are no alterations in the DNA sequence. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression is implemented by a wide repertoire of histone and DNA modifying enzymes including the acetyltransferases and deacetylases, the methyltransferases and kinases among others.

Post-vaccination scenario of measles: a retrospective analysis.

Background: Routine vaccination against measles was introduced in India during 1985-86 through the Universal Immunization Programme. Its effect on the current prevalence of measles is not known.

Methods: Information on the total number of patients admitted and deaths due to measles from January 1982 to December 1997 were obtained from the records of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hyderabad, the only infectious diseases hospital in the city.

An outbreak of poliomyelitis in Andhra Pradesh (South India).

An outbreak of poliomyelitis that occurred in the year 1992 in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, South India was investigated to understand the reasons for persistence of poliomyelitis in the general population and for the outbreak in Andhra Pradesh in particular. The study comprised of a detailed investigation of epidemiological and clinical features, serology and vaccination status and a case control study to calculate vaccine efficacy by matched pair analysis. The outbreak occurred after a relative quiescence of 3 years.