Performance Evaluation of Chickpea Varieties under Rainfed Condition of Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu, India

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

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...

Outbreak of dengue in Tamil Nadu, India

Dengue is known in India since 1940s, but the disease is very limited in its spread. Dengue is becoming rampant in many states of southern India. As of now, no specific treatments (therapies) or vaccines are available against the disease. The people of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, where the dengue incidences are increasing, perceive this spurt as due to poor rainfall and power supply. We attempte...

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...

The Estimation of Body Weight from Body Measurements in Kilakarsal Sheep of Tamil Nadu, India

Data on body weight and body measurements (body length, height at withers, chest girth and paunch girth) of adult Kilakarsal sheep have been collected from 124 adult animals managed at the farmers filed in Tirunelveli districts of Tami Nadu, India to estimate the body weight from body measurements. The data were subjected to standard statistical analysis using SPSS software and linear regressio...