INTRODUCTION Infectious diarrhoea particularly due to pathogenic bacteria is a major health problem in developing countries, including India. Despite significant reports of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) pathotypes around the globe, studies which address genetic relatedness, antibiogram profile and their correlation with respect to their isolation from different sources are sparse. The p...

Hemangiomas are benign skin lesions of infancy and childhood, occurring in 1012% of children at 1 year of age. Commonly located in head and neck region (60% of cases) and occur more frequently in the lips, tongue, and palate. 50% of hemangiomas have complete resolution up to 1 year of age. Complications occur only in 20% of the cases; most common is ulceration. Many treatment modalities exist i...

* Correspondence: [email protected] Bovine papillomatosis (BP) is distributed worldwide among cattle but is relatively less common in buffaloes. Prevalence of this disease is established in buffaloes from India (1,2) and Italy (3) caused by bovine papilloma virus (BPV). BPV is a nonenveloped double stranded DNA virus with icosahedral symmetry that infects the cutaneous and mucosal epithel...

Studies of non-metric cranial variants have been a field of considerable interest to research workers especially because of their racial and regional importance. Twenty eight north Indian skulls of U.P. were studied for the auditory torus a cranial variant in the present study. Findings are discussed and compared with other global studies and are found to be of considerable regional and racial ...

In this study we have measured size and area of posterior fontanelle and have studied its relations with gestational age in human fetuses. This study is aimed to provide a range of normal posterior fontanelle dimensions and to provide base for further research in Asian population on morphology of posterior fontanelle and see if there exists any significant difference when compared to European &...

Ketan Desai, the former president of the Medical Council of India who was charged by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation with several cases of corruption in 2010, has been exonerated in all but one of the cases. On 21 September a Lucknow special court dropped charges that Desai, in collusion with other members of the council, had granted permission for Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Med...

Background: Most of the medical colleges in India follow the Conventional Practical Examination (CPE) system for evaluation of practical or clinical skills. This method has several flaws such as inter-examiner marks variation, favouritism, varying difficulty level of different experiments etc. which prevents uniform marking. Objective Structured Practical Examination (OSPE), conceptualised by H...

The medical curriculum leads to increased burden and stress among medical students. The consistent failure may result in depression or vice-versa. Since early diagnosis of depression could help to improve work performance, this study evaluated the association of depression with academic performance among medical students. Total 100 first year medical students (54 males and 46 females) participa...

III. Report, Sect. 1 .?Circumstances of outbreak. A. Particulars of earliest cases.?The first case occurred in the person of a man Bhola, who was almost totally blind,?^a wretchedly ill-nourished creature who generally lay wrapped up in a blanket, moving only when disturbed, or occasionally when excited. He was admitted into the asylum on the 26th December 1877 ; was kept in the hospital for a ...