2012-135-5 Archives - Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volume 135 | Issue 5 | May 2012

Editorial

You can control your asthma if appropriately managed

Zhi-Hua Chen, Hua-Hao Shen

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p.573-575

Commentary

‘See-and-treat’ works for cervical cancer prevention: What about controlling the high burden in India?

R. Sankaranarayanan

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p.576-579

Review Article

Plant extracts as potential mosquito larvicides

Anupam Ghosh, Nandita Chowdhury, Goutam Chandra

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p.581-598

Review Article

Implication of microsatellite instability in human gastric cancers

Upasana Shokal, Prakash C. Sharma

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p.599-613

Original Article

Single visit approach for management of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia by visual inspection & loop electrosurgical excision procedure

Shilpa Singla, Sandeep Mathur, Alka Kriplani, Nutan Agarwal, Pradeep Garg, Neerja Bhatla

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p.614-620

Original Article

Rare manifestations of sarcoidosis in modern era of new diagnostic tools

Surendra K Sharma, Manish Soneja, Abhishek Sharma, Mehar C. Sharma, Smriti Hari

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p.621-629

Original Article

Antinociceptive effects of gabapentin & its mechanism of action in experimental animal studies

Fatma Sultan Kilic, Basar Sirmagul, Engin Yildirim, Setenay Oner, Kevser Erol

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p.630-635

Original Article

Immunostimulant, cerebroprotective & nootropic activities of Andrographis paniculata leaves extract in normal & type 2 diabetic rats

P. Radhika, A. Annapurna, S. Nageswara Rao

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p.636-641

Original Article

Functional polymorphisms in CYP2C19 & CYP3A5 genes associated with decreased susceptibility for paediatric tuberculosis

Wei-Xing Feng, Fang Liu, Yi Gu, Wei-Wei Jiao, Lin Sun, Jing Xiao, Xi-Rong Wu, Qing Miao, Chen Shen, Dan Shen, Adong Shen

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p.642-649

Original Article

IgG subclass responses to proinflammatory fraction of Brugia malayi in human filariasis

S.K. Joseph, S.K. Verma, M.K. Sahoo, A. Sharma, M. Srivastava, M.V.R. Reddy, P.K. Murthy

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p.650-655

Original Article

Effects of infliximab on bacterial translocation in experimental acute necrotizing pancreatitis

Sezai Aydin, A. Turan Isik, Bulent Unal, Bilgin Comert, Mustafa Ozyurt, Salih Deveci, Gokhan Ozgur, Omer Cengiz, Ilker Tasci, M. Refik Mas

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p.656-661

Original Article

Enhanced ferritin/iron ratio in psoriasis

R. Rashmi, A.M. Yuti, K.H. Basavaraj

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p.662-665

Original Article

Heat stable antimicrobial activity of Burkholderia gladioli OR1 against clinical drug resistant isolates

Pratibha Bharti, Vivek Anand, Jagdish Chander, Inder Pal Singh, Tej Vir Singh, Rupinder Tewari

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p.666-671

Original Article

Consistency of standard laboratory strain Mycobacterium tuberculosis H₃₇Rv with ethionamide susceptibility testing

R. Lakshmi, Vanaja Kumar, Fathima Rahman, Ranjani Ramachandran

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p.672-674

Correspondence

Monitoring an interventional programme of drug utilization in a health facility of Delhi

Uma Tekur, Bhupinder Singh Kalra

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p.675-677

Correspondence

An outbreak of cholera among a rural population in south India: Is it time to vaccinate the children in endemic areas?

Ramalingam Sekar, Murugesan Amudhan, Moorthy Sivashankar, Nagasundaram Mythily, Manoharan Mythreyee

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p.678-679

Correspondence

Japanese encephalitis in Tamil Nadu (2007-2009)

P. Gunasekaran, K. Kaveri, Kavita Arunagiri, S. Mohana, R. Kiruba, V. Senthil Kumar, P. Padmapriya, B. V. Suresh Babu, A. Khaleefathullah Sheriff

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p.680-682

Review Article

Why India should become a global leader in high-quality, affordable TB diagnostics

Peter Small

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p.685-689

Review Article

New Vision for Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP): Universal access – “Reaching the un-reached”

Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Ashok Kumar, Puneet Dewan, Ajay Kumar, Srinath Satyanarayana

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p.690-694

Review Article

Serological tests for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis: relevance for India

Karen R. Steingart, Andrew Ramsay, David W. Dowdy, Madhukar Pai

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p.695-702

Review Article

Challenges in the diagnosis & treatment of miliary tuberculosis

Surendra K. Sharma, Alladi Mohan, Abhishek Sharma

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p.703-730

Review Article

Current tuberculosis diagnostic tools & role of urease breath test

Mamoudou Maiga, Ahmed Abaza, William R. Bishai

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p.731-736

Original Article

The potential impact of new diagnostic tests on tuberculosis epidemics

Christopher Dye

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p.737-744

Original Article

Whole cell & culture filtrate proteins from prevalent genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis provoke better antibody & T cell response than laboratory strain H₃₇Rv

Gavish Kumar, Hari Shankar, Mamta Chahar, Pragya Sharma, Virendra Singh Yadav, Devendra Singh Chauhan, Vishwa Mohan Katoch, Beenu Joshi

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p.745-755

Original Article

Variations in the occurrence of specific rpoB mutations in rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients of different ethnic groups in Kuwait

Suhail Ahmad, Noura M. Al-Mutairi, Eiman Mokaddas

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p.756-762

Original Article

Footprints of genetic susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis: Cytokine gene variants in north Indians

Abhimanyu, Mridula Bose, Pankaj Jha,

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p.763-770

Original Article

Diagnostic potential of 16 kDa (HspX, α-crystalline) antigen for serodiagnosis of tuberculosis

Amit Kaushik, Urvashi B. Singh, Chhavi Porwal, Shwetha J. Venugopal, Anant Mohan, Anand Krishnan, Vinay Goyal, Jayant N. Banavaliker

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p.771-777

Original Article

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum specimens & phenotypic drug resistance pattern of M. tuberculosis isolates from suspected tuberculosis patients in Chennai

K. Lily Therese, R. Gayathri, L. Dhanurekha, R. Sridhar, N. Meenakshi, H. N. Madhavan, S. Edwin Manoj, A. Kamala Vinayagam

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p.778-782

Original Article

In-house, simple & economical phage technique for rapid detection of rifampicin, isoniazid, ethambutol, streptomycin & ciprofloxacin drug resistance using Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates

Nanda Hemvani, Vikas Patidar, D.S. Chitnis

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p.783-787

Original Article

An in-house multiplex PCR test for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, its validation & comparison with a single target TB-PCR kit

Savita Kulkarni, P. Singh, Aafreen Memon, Gita Nataraj, Swapna Kanade, Rohini Kelkar, M.G.R. Rajan

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p.788-794