Chloroquine (CQ) is highly effective against P. vivax, due to the rapid spread of CQ resistance in P. falciparum parasites; it is no longer the drug of choice against P. falciparum. This study elucidates the scenario of chloroquine efficacy at times that coincided with a new drug policy and especially assessed the chloroquine resistant molecular markers after withdrawal of chloroquine in Kolkat...

OBJECTIVE To generate community-based estimates of the public (paid by the government) and private (paid by households) costs of blood culture-confirmed typhoid fever in Hechi, China; North Jakarta, Indonesia; Kolkata, India; Karachi, Pakistan and Hue, Vietnam. METHODS To measure out-of-pocket costs of illness and lost earnings, families with culture-proven cases were surveyed 7, 14 and 90 da...

BACKGROUND Entamoeba histolytica infection is found almost all over the world and is highly endemic and a major cause of parasitic diarrhoea particularly in the developing countries. METHODS A systemic surveillance was set up at the Infectious Disease hospital, Kolkata, India between November 2007 and October 2009 for understanding the trend of E. histolytica infection in Kolkata. Fecal sampl...

X iv :c on dm at /0 21 05 38 v1 [ co nd -m at .d is -n n] 2 4 O ct 2 00 2 An Ele tri al Network Model of Plant Intelligen e∗ Bikas K. Chakrabarti(1) and Omjyoti Dutta(2) (1)Saha Institute of Nu lear Physi s, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata-700064. (2)Ele tri al Engineering Dept. (4th Yr.), Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032. Abstra t A simple ele tri al network model, having logi al gate apa ities,...

The CLIA (Cross Lingual Information Access) Project is a mission mode project funded by Government of India, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Department of Information Technology vide its approval No. 14(5)/2006 – HCC (TDIL), Dated 29-08-2006. It is being executed by a consortium of 11 academic and research institutions and industry partners, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIIT ...

Since July 2002, bacteriologically confirmed shigellosis cases have increased, and multidrug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 strains have reemerged in patients hospitalized with diarrhea in Kolkata, India. The isolated strains of S. dysenteriae 1 showed resistance to chloramphenicol (80%), ampicillin (100%), tetracycline (100%), co-trimoxazole (100%), nalidixic acid (100%), norfloxaci...

The Information Technology (IT) industry has played a major role in India’s recent economic growth. However, the pattern of growth and cluster formation is not uniform across the country. While Bangalore emerged as a natural cluster, the governments in Hyderabad and Kolkata had to demonstrate entrepreneurial leadership qualities to create clusters there. This paper identifies the factors that c...

Varying proportions of binary mixtures of aqueous extracts of jackfruit wood (JFW) with other natural dyes like manjistha (MJ), red sandalwood (RSW), marigold (MG), sappan wood (SW) and babool (BL) were used by the scientists at Institute of Jute Technology, Kolkata and Department of Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India to dye bleached cotton fabric premordanted with 20% my...