enteric fever is endemic in many parts of the third world. in india, it is the fifth most common infectious disease. with increasing resistance to fluoroquinolones and re-emergence of chloramphenicol , the policy of empirical treatment of tf needs to be rationalized.   to compare the prescription     pattern    for two successive years. to study the change in trend in the prescription pattern. ...

Dengue has been known in the Americas since the 18th century. During the 1960s and 1970s dengue pandemics occurred in the Caribbean, northern South America and Central America, and, during the 1980s and 1990s, virtually every country in the Americas experienced dengue epidemics. Dengue serotypes 1, 2 and 4 circulate widely and, since 1994, DEN-3 has circulated in Central America and Mexico. The...