Ecological indices of freshwater copepods and cladocerans from Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu

Ethnomedicinal Plants Used as Medicine by the Kurumba Tribals in Pennagaram Region, Dharmapuri District of Tamil Nadu, India

Additions to the Flora of Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu

Nilgiri District, Tamil Nadu is one of the most botanised areas of southern India. In spite of it a number of wild plants had been missed by previous collectors. In addition a number of exotics and ornamentals having importance in alternative systems of medicine like Homoeopathy and Unani have not been collected and preserved as herbarium records. The present paper lists 36 species of wild plan...

Japanese encephalitis vectors in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic pathogen. JEV is transmitted by paddy field breeding mosquitoes of the Culex vishnui subgroup, primarily by Culex tritaeniorhynchus vectors and amplified by pigs / Ardeidae birds in nature. Mosquitoes were sampled from identified villages during different season intervals from 2011 to 2014. Adult mosquitoes were collected which were...

Isolation and characterization of UTI pathogens from HIV positive patients of Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India

Urinary tract infection is one of the most common infectious disease which has been extremely studied in the field of clinical practice (Dulawa, 2003). UTI is defined as the microbial invasion of any of the tissues of the urinary tract extending from the renal cortex to the urethral meatus (Kunin, 1979) and occurs in all age groups and in both genders (Orret and Davis, 2006, Omoregie et al., 20...

Isolation and Characterization of Azospirillum sp. from Paddy Field Soil, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu

The present study focused on isolation and characterization of Azospirillum sp. from paddy field soils of Thanjavur (Dt), Tamil Nadu. The physico-chemical characteristics of the soil samples were analysed by using standard methods. Totally nine native strains of Azospirillum were isolated. Among the nine isolated strains three strains were belonging to Azospirillum amazonense and six strains be...