Cohort profile of the largest health & demographic surveillance system (Dibrugarh-HDSS) from North-East India.

Dibrugarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Dibrugarh-HDSS), was started in the year 2019 with the objective to create the health and demographic database of a population from a defined geographical area and a surveillance system for providing technical assistance for the implementation of programmes and formulating intervention strategies for reducing disease morbidities and mortalities in the population. Dibrugarh-HDSS adopted a panel design and covered 60 contiguous villages and 20 tea gardens. Line listing of all the households was conducted and a unique identification number detailing State, district, village/tea garden and serial number was provided along with geotagging.

Enablers and barriers towards ensuring routine immunization services during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from a qualitative study across five different states in India.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to disruption in delivering routine healthcare services including routine immunization (RI) worldwide. Understanding the enablers and barriers for RI services during a pandemic is critically important to develop context-appropriate strategies to ensure uninterrupted routine services.

Methods: A community-based, cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in five different states of India, nested within an ongoing multicentric study on RI.

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septic arthritis in Type-2 diabetes mellitus patients: Report of two cases.

Two cases of Burkholderia pseudomallei septic arthritis are presented with a brief review of the literature. B. pseudomallei septic arthritis most commonly occurs in diabetics and other immunocompromised patients and may prove fatal despite appropriate therapy.

Prevalence of enteritis in children under 5 years hospitalised for diarrhoea in two cities of Northeast India.

Background: Campylobacter enteritis is the major cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. In recent years, there has been a rise in global incidence of campylobacteriosis. There are no available data on prevalence of Campylobacter diarrhoea from Northeast India.

Distribution of blood pressure & correlates of hypertension in school children aged 5-14 years from North East India.

Background & Objectives: Elevated blood pressure (BP) in the young predicts serious cardiovascular events in the adults. High prevalence of adult hypertension reported from Assam, North East (NE) India may be linked with elevated blood pressure in the childhood. The present study was an attempt to describe the distribution of BP and correlates of hypertension in children aged 5-14 yr.

Sneathia species in a case of neonatal meningitis from Northeast India.

Here we report the detection of Sneathia species most closely related to Sneathia sanguinegens, an infrequently reported bacterium, in the cerebrospinal fluid of a neonate by a culture independent method. Even though on rare occasions, this bacterium was isolated previously from the blood of neonatal bacteraemia cases. To the best of our knowledge there exists no previous report of detection of S.

Emergence of classical ctxB genotype 1 and tetracycline resistant strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor in Assam, India.

Cholera epidemics with moderately high case fatality rates in Assam, northeast India were investigated in 2007, 2008 and 2010. Based on mismatch amplification mutation assay PCR for detection of ctxB allele, 40 isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor collected from the epidemics were found to harbour the classical ctxB gene allele of cholera toxin (CT). DNA sequencing of ctxB gene confirmed the isolates to be genotype 1 of ctxB.

The prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of beta-hemolytic streptococci colonizing the throats of schoolchildren in Assam, India.

Introduction: Studies on the carriage rate of beta-hemolytic streptococci among children form an important component of public health practice to prevent disease complications such as rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease, nephritis, and other local or systemic infections.

Methodology: Throat swabs collected from asymptomatic schoolchildren were inoculated into appropriate media for isolation of beta-hemolytic streptococci. They were identified by standard biochemical methods and sero-grouped.

Strongyloidiasis in Assam, India: A community-based study.

Background: Strongyloidiasis is endemic in many tropical and subtropical countries and reports from northeast India are very few.

Aim: A community-based study was carried out in Assam, India, to find out the occurrence of Strongyloides stercoralis.

Materials And Methods: Stool samples were obtained from 198 randomly selected individuals from the community.