either evenly-balanced sex ratios or sex ratios in favour of females, as in states like Kerala and Manipur. In the Northwest sex ratios have been far more imbalanced against females among specific land-owning communities (such as Rajputs, Jats, Gujjars) and relatively more balanced among almost all have shifted to a deficit of females and are slowly moving towards the all-India pattern. Lower s...

Animal related injuries are frequently reported in India and other countries, where bulls are used for sporting events as well as in places where farming and livestock rearing is practised. The presentation is, many times, atypical and misleading as well. They have unique mechanics of injury. The patterns of the injury are reviewed. An intra-peritoneal urinary bladder injury which is caused by ...

In the current study an attempt was made for separation of bacteria having nitrogen fixing potential from the rhizosphere of wild leguminous plant Crotolaria pallida. Single spot each from the four valley districts of Manipur viz. Imphal east, Imphal west, Bishnupur and Thoubal was selected for the collection of soil sample. A total of six (6) bacterial isolates were isolated using Burk’s nitro...

Among the three major components of a closed birth interval, waiting time to conception can somehow be managed with effective contraceptives while gestation is universally constant in its duration; the duration of postpartum amenorrhoea (PPA) varies in complex nature. The present study aimed to investigate the proximate factors influencing the duration of PPA. A community-based, cross-sectional...

The hill regions of India include Himachal Pradesh, J&K, Uttarakhand and the North Eastern region (NE) comprising states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, has been identified as a potential area for the development of floriculture owing to its diverse geo-climatic conditions and floral biodiversity. The existing flower crops in NE region inc...

Strongyloides stercoralis, a nematode parasite in human with free living and autoinfective cycles, is often an asymptomatic infection of the upper small intestine. If the host becomes immunocompromised, autoinfection may increase the intestinal worm burden and lead to disseminated strongyloidiasis. We report a case of a 33 year old male HIV positive patient admitted on 2/6/08 in male medical wa...

Paragonimiasis is a food-borne zoonotic disease caused by the genus Paragonimus which usually results from the intake of uncooked or undercooked freshwater crab or crayfish. Manipur is a northeastern state of India which is endemic for paragonimiasis where the first Indo-Japan joint research on Paragonimus and paragonimiasis was conducted to study the life cycle, pathobiology, and morphological...