Purposive sampling surveys were conducted in homestead gardens and ornamental nurseries at different localities of Thrissur Ernakulam districts during 2017-19 to study the diversity spider mites associated with plants. Mite samples collected from rose, adenium, gerbera, marigold, chrysanthemum, balsam, cock’s comb, orchid, cassia, cairo morning glory, zinnia, bauhinia, crape jasmine pinto peanu...

Extrapolation of data from two national nutritional surveys in India--the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and surveys conducted by the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB)--enabled the ranking of states on the basis of criteria such as nutritional status of children under 5 years of age. The most recent NNMB survey report (1988-90) indicates that between 42.5% (Kerala) and 69.5% (O...

Author for correspondence: Professor A. Subramoniam Former Director, Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram-695562, Kerala, India Residence: Vininivas, T.C. 14/80, Anyara (P.O.), Near KIMS Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram-695029, Kerala, India E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +91-09496093609 ANNALS OF PHYTOMEDICINE An International Journal Annals of Phytomedicine 2(1...

The way you grow up in India, it has long been known, depends on where you grow up. The average child growing up in Orissa in the 1980s was seven times more likely to die in infancy than his or her equivalent in Kerala. His or her mother is four and half times more likely to die in giving birth if she were in Assam than she would be had she been in Kerala? And if she happens to be a girl and bo...

The way you grow up in India, it has long been known, depends on where you grow up. The average child growing up in Orissa in the 1980s was seven times more likely to die in infancy than his or her equivalent in Kerala. His or her mother is four and half times more likely to die in giving birth if she were in Assam than she would be had she been in Kerala. And if she happens to be a girl and bo...

Government Departments are increasingly using websites as a tool to reach out to the citizens. Through Government websites, the Government can improve the standard of information and ensure maximum reach of government information and services to citizens through different government services published on the web. The objective of Government web services is to reach to all sections of society wi...

International Journal of Medicine and Public Health,2021,11,2,124-125.DOI:10.5530/ijmedph.2021.2.22Published:May 2021Type:Case Report“Immune Response in SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection- A Friend or a Foe”- Case Study from Kerala, IndiaRaman Swathy Vaman, Rajendra Pilankatta, Adarsh MB Raman Vaman1,*, Pilankatta2, MB3 1District Programme Manager, National Health Mission, Kasaragod, INDIA. 2Department Bio...

We characterized a Vibrio cholerae O139 strain isolated from a diarrheal patient admitted to Taluk Hospital, Cherthala, Alleppey, Kerala, India, on 9 June 2000. The V. cholerae O139 strain possesses the core of the CTX genetic element, colonization toxin-coregulated pilus, the adherence outer membrane protein, and the central regulatory protein encoded by toxR and produces cholera toxin (200 pg...