lar C?ntention that the high ascaris rate in the island and the low ascaris rate in the small island are solely due to differences in degree of water contamination, is not so definite as at first sight appears. Another fact remarked by Chandler (1928) in the tea gardens of Assam, Northern Bengal, and South-West India where both hookworm and ascaris infections are very common, was that the ascar...

Malik Muhammad Abdullah, 2, 3 Anurag, 1 Zoltan Jurek, 2 Sang-Kil Son, 2 and Robin Santra 2, 3 Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstrasse 9, 20355 Hamburg, Germany Department of Physics, Indian Insitute of T...

Department of Environment and Sustainable Development, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 2 Laboratory of Applied Stress Biology, Department of Botany, University of GourBanga, Malda, West Bengal, India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Society for Higher Education and Practical ...

Shigella dysenteriae type 1 is known to cause epidemics of bacillary dysentery worldwide. In 1984, an extensive outbreak of bacillary dysentery swept through several districts of West Bengal, including the state capital Kolkata, and subsequently, spread to other parts of India (1). Multidrug-resistant S. dysenteriae type 1 was identified as the sole aetiological agent in this outbreak. In the l...

1 (Demonstrator, Department of Pathology, Medical College, Kolkata-73, WBUHS, India) 2 (Professor, Department of Pathology, Malda Medical College, Malda, WBUHS, India) 3 (Assistant Director of Medical Education, Swasthya Bhawan, Kolkata-91, India) 4 (Senior Resident, Chittaranjan National cancer Institute, Kolkata-26, India) 5 (Assistant Professor, Department of Obstretics & Gynaecology, KPC Me...

The present work was conducted to compare the occurrence of Escherichia coli possessing virulence and ESBL genes in backyard and farmed poultry. Three hundred and sixty samples from the poultry kept in backyard system and 120 samples from the farmed birds were collected from West Bengal, India. Among the E. coli isolates of backyard poultry (O2, O10, O25, O55, O60, O106, UT), none of them posse...

1 Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4 Raja, S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata-32, West Bengal Kolkata 700032, India 2Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, P. O. Box 28017-1000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 3Departamento de Bioloǵıa Molecular Centro de Bioloǵıa Molecular “Severo Ochoa” C/ Nicolás Cabrera, 1 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, ...

METHOD: In the present study 18 Indian district level soccer players age between 18-25 years were conveniently selected from Birbhum district of West Bengal as subjects. To measure aerobic fitness, two different indirect methods of measuring VO2max were employed; these were Queens College test and 12 minutes Run-Walk test (Cooper Test). The data were analyzed by applying independent t-test to d...

Anjay, S.C. Das, A. Kumar, P. Kaushik & Savita Kumari Eastern Regional Station, IVRI, Belgachia, Kolkata-700 037, India. Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bihar Veterinary College, Patna800 014, Bihar, India Division of Veterinary Public Health, E.R.S., I.V.R.I., Belgachia, Kolkata700 037, West Bengal, India Division of Veterinary Public Health, I.V.R.I., Izatnagar, Bareilly243 122, Uttar...

A case history of acute copper toxicity in a flock of Garole sheep has been presented. The animals which suffered from the toxicity were fed solely on leaves of mahogany plant for two days prior to the onset of the symptoms. The soil in the region of West Bengal is deficient in both zinc and molybdenum, which may have caused copper imbalance in the animals. Serum biochemical and postmortem find...