This paper reviews the concepts and methodological strategies that have shaped the monitoring of the AIDS pandemic, today in its third decade. A deliberate effort was made to highlight aspects usually forgotten by the canon. The paper aims to track the footsteps of the evolving strategies in the field of surveillance & monitoring, with the help of disciplines such as epidemiology, molecular bio...

BACKGROUND Hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKp) causes severe community acquired infections, predominantly in Asia. Though initially isolated from liver abscesses, they are now prevalent among invasive infections such as bacteraemia. There have been no studies reported till date on the prevalence and characterisation of hvKp in India. The objective of this study is to characterise the hypervirule...

We study the soft limit of one-photon radiation at next-to-leading power (NLP) in framework heavy-quark effective theory (HQET) to all orders perturbation theory. establish theorem that for unpolarised scattering radiative contribution up NLP is entirely determined by non-radiative amplitude. This generalises Low-Burnett-Kroll (LBK) QED orders. All hard matching corrections can be calculated ap...

BACKGROUND The global accumulation of Escherichia coli with CTX-M extended-spectrum β-lactamases partly reflects the dissemination of clonal lineages, notably ST131 and ST405. More recently, E. coli have emerged that produce NDM carbapenemase. We sought to determine the clonal diversity of E. coli with this enzyme from English hospitals, and to compare them with isolates from Pakistan and India...

A Gram-negative, rod-shaped, motile and halophilic bacterium identified as Vibrio harveyi was isolated from hatchery-reared larval of Iran Shrimp Research Centerfollowing mass mortality . Seven isolates of Vibrio spp.were collected from nauplii of Litopenaeus vannamei and then were evaluated for characteristics including morphology, physiology and biochemistry. The results indicated that the is...

This is a further report from the National Children's Bureau, of the National Child Development Study (1958, Cohort), and, as the title suggests, it is concerned with the inter-relationships between various aspects of childbirth and infancy on the one hand and scholastic adjustment and attainment on the other when children have been attending infant schools for two years. It is a known difficul...