The paper deals with plants used as a traditional system of medicine by the Poumai tribe Manipur, India. is one among major tribes mostly resides in Senapati District, Manipur. Agriculture main source livelihood and also sector for employment although it highly unorganized unskilled. An ethno-medicinal investigation was conducted to understand knowledge medicinal being local healers tribe, Some...

INTRODUCTION The association between infection and growth delay is not well documented in school-age children in developing countries. We conducted a prospective cohort study to examine the association between infectious disease and weight and height gains among Bangladeshi children. METHODS A one-year follow-up study was performed to elucidate the determinants and consequences of physical gr...

AIMS To determine whether in Trichuris trichiura dysentery there is (1) evidence of a systemic inflammatory response, (2) evidence that the plasma protein disturbance has special characteristics compared with uninfected children in the endemic environment. METHODS Three groups of children (age 1.6 to 11.4 years) were studied: 53 cases of trichuris dysentery syndrome (TDS), 16 cases of chronic...

My attention was first called to the subject, some years ago, by a brother officer when I was stationed in a very damp district where diarrhoea and dysentery wero not uncommon complaints. I was myself then attacked with the latter form of disease, which rapidly disappeared under bael treatment. Since then I have been frequently in localities where European medical offieera were not always prese...

Shigellosis, a bacillary dysentery, is closely associated with diarrhoea in human and causes infection of 165 million people worldwide per year. Casein-degrading serine protease autotransporter of enterobacteriaceae (SPATE) subfamily protein SigA, an outer membrane protein, exerts both cytopathic and enterotoxic effects especially cytopathic to human epithelial cell type-2 (HEp-2) and is shown ...

BACKGROUND The potential benefits of installing excreta disposal facilities on the burden of paediatric diarrhoea in less-developed settings remain controversial. We conducted a longitudinal study to evaluate whether family latrines are associated with interruption of the transmission of shigellosis to younger children in rural Bangladesh. METHODS We prospectively studied 1529 children under ...

Military personnel are often subjected to physical exertion, sleep deprivation, deficient diets, overcrowding, and stress. All of these influences capable compromising the immune system’s ability ward off disease-causing bacteria, thus explaining why historical narrative war is frequently accompanied by reports death suffering due epidemics infectious diseases. Historically some most common inf...

Plants possess very important phytochemical constituents and are rich in nutritional medicinal contents. Current studies were performed to review the phytochemistry, pharmaceutical value of Asparagus racemosus (shatavari). This plant contains numerous steroidal saponins, steroids, alkaloids, flavonoids, cyclic hydrocarbons, tannins, anthraquinones, polysaccharides, oligospirostanoside, trace mi...

The bark of Lophira lanceolata (Ochnaceae) has been used traditionally for the treatment many disease conditions such as dysentery, headaches, diarrhoea, cough, abdominal pains, fungal infections, nociception and cardiovascular diseases. However, no specific work on its anti-inflammatory or antipyretic effect reported which forms basis this study. This study evaluates in-vivo activities aqueous...