THE ADVANCE OF SURGERY IN INDIA. In the Caledonian Medical Journal (April 1908) Colonel Kenneth Macleod, f.r.c.s., Hony. Physician to H. M. the King, deals with a subject in which he was much interested during his long tenure of the appointment of Professor of Surgery in the Calcutta Medical College. Under the title Hospitalism in India he describes the advances of antiseptic and aseptic surger...

The present study was conducted with the objective to determine the treatment seeking behavior of parents/caretakers for injuries sustained by children under five years of age in rural Southern India. Out of 325 children, 39.7% were treated by a health personnel, 29% received home remedy while the rest (31.3%) did not receive any treatment. Abrasion (72.6%) was the commonest type of injury obse...

Despite recent research advances in anti-infective agents (achievements), Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and malaria infection are currently considered two main global human health problems. Given the considerable geographical overlap between malaria and HIV, a substantial number of co-infection incidences occur in human. The purpose of this review is to summarize the information on the cl...

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the most common pharmacological group that has three primary therapeutic effects including anti-inflammatory, anti-pyrexia, and analgesia. In this study, seven of NSAIDs were tested against two species of skin pathogenic fungi (dermatophytes). Percentage inhibition was determined for effective agents. Diclofenac, Aspirin and Naproxen showed muc...

Background Culture negative infective endocarditis (CNIE) accounts for 2.5 to 31% of all cases of infective endocarditis and is responsible for delay in diagnosis and treatment with profound impact on clinical outcome. Coxiella burnetii is one of the important etiological agents of culture negative infective endocarditis. The present study was undertaken to determine the role of C burnetii as a...

The larvae and less frequently the pupae of Plutella xylostella (L) are sometimes attacked naturally by pathogens, particularly two fungi of the family Entomophthoraceae, Erynia blunckii and Zoophthora radicans. Other pathogens recorded include one other entomophthoraceous fungus, a granulosis virus, one or possibly two nucleopolyhedrosis viruses and Bacillus thuringiensis var kurstaki. In the ...

Radioactive agents currently available for imaging infection by gamma scintigraphy do so by identifying inflammation in response to the infection, and are therefore non-specific in so far as they are unable to distinguish between infective and non-infective inflammation. The term ‘infection imaging’ is therefore generally synonymous with ‘inflammation imaging’. This article will briefly review ...

Two experimental assays (A and B) evaluated the action of conidia of the nematophagous fungi Duddingtonia flagrans (AC001), Monacrosporium sinense (SF53) and Artrhobotrys robusta (I-31) against infective larvae (L3) of Oesophagostomum spp in 2% water-agar (2%WA) medium and coprocultures. The first assay consisted of three groups of 1000 Oesophagostomum L3 treated with 1000 conidia of isolates A...