BACKGROUND India aims to reduce the infant mortality rate (IMR) to below 60 per 1000 live births by 2000. IMR is higher in northern India as compared with south Indian states like Kerala. Any further reduction in IMR needs identification of new strategies. The Ballabgarh project with an IMR of 36 in 1997 can help identify such strategies. OBJECTIVE To see the trend in reduction of neonatal mo...

When a pandemic outbreak, it affects the people, business and hence economy. It is very important to understand how different industry in various ways as impact of Covid eventually reflects This study an attempt investigate affected economy marketing value-added products manufactured by spice Kerala, focusing seasoning oleoresin Kerala. In India, value addition spices into oleoresins seasonings...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is endemic to developing countries like India. Though the whole genome sequences of the type strain M. tuberculosis H37Rv and the clinical strain M. tuberculosis CDC1551 are available, the clinical isolates from India have not been studied extensively at the genome level. This study was carried out in order to have a better understanding of isolates from Kerala, a state ...

schismatogobius deraniyagalai is recorded from the seethanathi river of karnataka state in the southern part of india. previous records of these species were from the streams in kerala of india and from freshwater habitats of sri lanka. herein we report the occurrence of this species in seethanathi river showing its distribution extended further north along the west coast of peninsular india.

water samples were collected from five selected mangrove ecosystems along kerala coast, north of cochin, on seasonal basis and analysed for various hydrographic parameters. to explain spatiotemporalvariations and the processes controlling their distribution, anova (two factor without replication),correlation and principal component analysis were carried out. concentration of total nitrogen vari...

background: hypertension is one of the most important determinants of death due to vascular damage and is fast emerging as a high burden disease in india. however, its documentation is poor in the country. this study aims to estimate the rate and the causal pattern of mortality in a cohort of people with high blood pressure as compared to normotensives. methods: the study setting is varkkala, a...

Aedes albopictus has been shown to be a vector for diseases which have been on the increase, such as dengue fever and chikungunya infection. We conducted a study of 100 homes from 2006-2009 to determine the breeding sites for Ae. albopictus mosquitoes in Calicut, Kerala, India. We found the larvae of Ae. albopictus mosquitoes most often in coconut shells and plastic waste, followed by tires, fl...