background: the people residing in coastal areas of visakhapatnam are mostly engaged in fishery, which is always been a physically demanding job, and numerous factors have direct or indirect impact on the health of fishermen; but, the data about their physical fitness or health status is quite scanty. thus, the present study was conducted to assess their cardiorespiratory fitness pattern, as we...

The continual expansion of urbanization and industrial activity has led to the accumulation of a large quantity of lignocellulosic residues throughout the world. In particular, large quantities of paper and bagasse are largely produced in Visakhapatnam. In this work we present the study of the degradability of these substrates with fungi. Three cultures of soil fungi were screened for their abi...

An antimicrobial validatory screening of short nosed tripod fish Triacanthus biaculeatus (Bloch, 1786) collected from the Visakhapatnam coastal waters, India is done in such a way T. biaculeatus muscle extracts were subjected for antimicrobial assay. Antimicrobial screening assay was done in five bacterial pathogens viz., Escherichia coli (MTCC-443), Salmonella typhi (MTCC-421), Pseudomonas aer...

Background: Mucocutaneous lesions are one of the first clinical presentations immunosuppression in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) seropositive patients that manifest at different stages infection requires early diagnosis along with prompt treatment(1). Objectives: (1) To study prevalence mucocutaneous manifestations HIV‑seropositive attending ART center our hospital Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pr...

Many investigations on the species of Polysiphonia reveal only the general growth and reproductive periodicity (Conover 1964; Edwards 1970; Coleman and Mathieson 1975; Reynolds and Mathieson 1975; Agadi and Untawale 1978; Kapraun 1978; Mathieson et al. 1981; Yarish and Edwards 1982). No detailed studies were made on the spore producing capacity of Polysiphonia species. Detailed investigations w...

1 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Southampton, UK 2 Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologı́a, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria Coyoacan, Mexico, Mexico 3 Biological Oceanography Division, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India 4 Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA 5 Marine Biologi...