3 results match your criteria: "WHO Collaborating Center for Diagnosis[Affiliation]"

Risk factors associated with leptospirosis during an outbreak in Middle Andaman, India.

Indian J Med Res

July 2009

Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), WHO Collaborating Center for Diagnosis, Research Training & Reference in Leptospirosis, Port Blair, India.

Background & Objective: Leptospirosis outbreaks occur frequently in North and South Andaman Islands but not in Middle Andaman. In 2002, an outbreak appeared in Middle Andaman for the first time. Although a study on risk factors was conducted in North Andaman, it used seropositivity to define leptospirosis.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Epidemiological patterns of leptospirosis.

Indian J Med Microbiol

October 2006

Regional Medical Research Center (ICMR), WHO Collaborating Center for Diagnosis, Reference, Research and Training in Leptospirosis, Port Blair andaman and Nicobar Islands, 744101, India.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objectives: To evaluate the discriminatory power and usefulness of arbitrarily primed-polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) characterization of leptospires with M16 primer.

Methods: AP-PCR fingerprints of 20 reference strains of Leptospira representing 20 different serovars belonging to seven genospecies (Leptospira interrogans, 11; L. noguchii, 2; L.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF