Rhinosporiodiosis is a cosmopolitan disease of man and animals, endemic in India and Sri Lanka with main focus of infection in Southern Tamil Nadu. Uttar Pradesh (UP) is not known to be an endemic zone for this disease .We present here the first case of nasal Rhinosporiodiosis from this non-endemic zone.

Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 (F.A.F., H.P.S., H.C.L., S.R.S., A.H.P.); Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad 224264, Uttar Pradesh, India (H.P.S.); University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishinagar, Dharwad 580005, India (H.C.L.); and Department of Plant Sciences, University of Colombo, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka (...

Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O’ Ansuandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Kalka Dental College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha O’ Ansuandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, PMS College of Dental Science & Res...

The anamorphic fungus genus Periconia is worldwide in distribution and causes foliar disease on plants mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. This study presents the description and illustration of P. palmivora discovered on leaves of Phoenix dactylifera (Palmae/Arecaceae) from Terai forest region of Uttar Pradesh, India. The taxonomic determination was based on morphological characteristi...

OBJECTIVE To describe the utilization and perceptions of existing neonatal health services in rural Uttar Pradesh, India. DESIGN A prospective observational study. SETTING The study was located in Shivgarh, a rural block of Uttar Pradesh, India. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and fifty-three households that utilized a healthcare provider for their sick neonates. INTERVENTIONS None. MAIN OUT...

The aim of this study is to assess the frequency of both physiological and pathological cutaneous lesions in first seven days of life in a tertiary care hospital of western Uttar Pradesh. Overall 500 neonates either inborn or attending paediatric OPD/ clinic and delivered in the hospital were included in the study. The study took 6 months, consent from parents of those neonates were taken. Clin...

BACKGROUND Families in high mortality settings need regular contact with high quality services, but existing population-based measurements of contacts do not reflect quality. To address this, in 2012, we designed linked household and frontline worker surveys for Gombe State, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Uttar Pradesh, India. Using reported frequency and content of contacts, we present a method for es...

Seasonal prevalence of 5 trematode parasites in the 4 snail species, viz. Lymnaea auricularia, L. luteola, Gyraulus convexiusculus and Indoplanorbis exustus for the years 2012–2014 was studied in 3 districts of Uttar Pradesh and in Jabalpur and Ranchi districts of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand, respectively. Intramolluscan larval stages of Fasciola gigantica, Explanatum explanatum, Paramphistomu...

Brinjal little leaf (BLL) is a widespread disease of phytoplasma etiology in India that induces severe economic losses. Surveys were conducted in eight brinjal-growing states of India during July 2014 to September 2015 and eighteen BLL samples showing little leaf, phyllody and witches' broom symptoms were collected for phytoplasma identification. Presence of phytoplasmas was confirmed in all th...

BACKGROUND Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections often affect the poorest and most deprived communities. In order to generate reliable data for planning a school based deworming program, we conducted a survey among primary school children studying in government schools in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The objectives of our survey were to estimate the prevalence and intensity of STH in...