To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette." ?5IR,?1 have received a letter from Mons. Vesnilof the Inp.ut Pasteur, Paris, to the effect that a protozoan very like lroplasma Donovani, Laveran and Mesnil, has been found in tropical ulcer. I give Mons. Mesnil's words in original:?" Un Americain, V; "? Wright, vient de decrire [The Journal of Medical Research, ovember 1903. Journal of Cutaneous...

In this paper we investigate the effect of the Delhi Metro, an intra-city mass rail transit system, on air pollution within Delhi. To identify effects on pollution, we exploit the discontinuous jumps in metro ridership, each time the network is extended. Our identifying assumption is that in the absence of the extension there would be a smooth transition in pollution levels. We find strong evid...

report the results of a time-series study of the impact of particulate air pollution on daily mortality in Delhi. They find: • A positive, significant relationship between particulate pollution and daily nontraumatic deaths, as well as deaths from certain causes (respiratory and cardiovascular problems) and for certain age groups. • In general, these impacts are smaller than those estimated for...

Deteriorating air quality is one of the major problems faced worldwide and in particular in Asia. The world's most polluted megacities are located in Asia highlighting the urgent need for efforts to improve the air quality. New Delhi (India), one of the world's most polluted cities, was the host of the Common Wealth Games during the period of 4-14 October 2010. This high profile event provided ...

Dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever continue to be major infectious diseases of public health importance in countries of the western Pacific and Southeast Asia regions. These regions are experiencing a geographical spread, both in terms of distribution of the virus and the mosquito vector, with an increase in the frequency of epidemics. Since 1963, outbreaks of dengue/DHF have been recorded in...

In the study from Delhi, all the 1626 triaged patients are not accounted for. If one adds the excluded patients (n=487) to the ones enrolled (n=878), it totals to 1365. It is not clear what happened to the remaining 261 patients. Despite the fact that the 2 studies followed an identical protocol, the Chandigarh site excluded a large number of subjects under headings that do not even figure in t...

Since 1991, the city of Delhi in India has become a focal point of economic liberalization. Economic liberalization has been accompanied by local government efforts to attract both foreign and domestic investment, particularly in the service sectors of the economy. The attraction of investment has been achieved by spatial reconfiguration, pitting the interest of global and domestic capital agai...

Bijay Kumar Behera,a Priyanka Das,a Jitendra Maharana,a Prasenjit Paria,a Shambhu Nath Mandal,a Dharmendra Kumar Meena,a Anil Prakash Sharma,b Rijith Jayarajan,c Vishal Dixit,c Ankit Verma,c Shamsudheen Karuthedath Vellarikkal,c,e Vinod Scaria,d,e Sridhar Sivasubbu,c,e Atmakuri Ramakrishna Rao,f Trilochan Mohapatrag Biotechnology Laboratory, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kol...

Previous studies have established the risky behaviors of IDUs in India, and that IDUs are sexually active; however, there is a need to better understand the nature of sexual partnerships of IDUs. A total of 783 (Delhi) and 766 (Imphal) male IDUs were recruited into the study through respondent-driven sampling. We examined characteristics of sex partners of male IDUs and individual and sexual pa...