9 articles in this issue
Medhavi Agarwal, Hari Shanker Joshi, Ajeet Pal Singh, Deepak Upadhyay
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern worldwide. It has been seen that TB control efforts worldwide are although impressive, but not sufficient. Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) are an integral and important strateg... see more
Abdalla Abdelrahman Ahmed Elnour, Mahdi H.A. Abdalla
Breakpoint cluster region-abelson (BCR-ABL) leukemic fusion gene types in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) correlate with the disease clinical course and outcome. There are variations in the reports of previous studies about the frequencies and distribution... see more
Sanjay Maharjan, Rita Khadka, Bishnu Hari Poudel, Nisha Ghimire, Kopila Agrawal, Vikash Gautam, Nirmala Limbu
Background: Male and female brain develops differently. Gender is one of biological variables that influence visual evoked potentials (VEP). Some previous studies support the existence of sex related VEP difference while others not. This study is an attem... see more
Yogendra V. Bansod, Swapnil G. Bhedodkar
Background and Objectives: Organophosphorus (OP) poisoning is an important global health problem. Estimation of erythrocyte cholinesterase (EChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) as an evidence of OP poisoning is costly and not regularly performed. There ... see more
Satyajeet K. Pawar, Rajvardhan R. Patil, R. V. Shinde, G. S. Karande
Background : Hospital infection is one of the leading cause of public health related issue throughout the world. Hand hygiene is one of the leading measure used to prevent cross-transmission and thus to reduce health care associated infections. Aims and O... see more
Anoop Kumar, Dr. Archana, Shweta Sachan, Akash Gupta
Objectives: Proteinuria is a hallmark of glomerular diseases. Uncontrolled high blood pressure increases the risk of glomerular disease leading to proteinuria and high urinary creatinine. So an attempt was made to validate the PCI of a random urine sample... see more
Sodipo Olutomi Y., Gwomson Dauda, Lar Luret A.
Background: The first reported Yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria occurred in 1931.The latest outbreak in Nigeria, commenced in September 2017. It is active in seven states and suspected cases have been reported in sixteen states, inclusive of Plateau state... see more
Dauda Gwomson, Sodipo Olutomi Y., Lar Luret A.
Background: Since the first reported case of Lassa fever (LF) in Jos, Plateau state Nigeria in the early 70 , the state has been plagued with increasing number of cases. This could be due to poor environmental practices, food and personal hygiene. By the ... see more
Fayaz W Memon, Hemant Patankar, Abdul Malik Nagori
Background: Fifth metacarpal neck fractures, also known as Boxer fractures, commonly occur as a result of axial impact on a clenched fist. There is no agreement over the optimum management of undisplaced boxers fracture. We present the results of treatmen... see more