Aim of the Study Scrub typhus has been globally recognized as an emerging infectious disease contributing significantly to pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) and a potential cause of multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS). We studied the incidence of scrub typhus as a cause of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission and MODS in our hospital and its clinical and laboratory characteristics to...

Objective(s): Acute pyelonephritis presents with high-grade fever, dysuria, flank pain, leukocytosis, and microscopic hematuria. Urine culture aids in the diagnosis of this infection. It can be complicated or uncomplicated. Complicated pyelonephritis includes uncontrolled diabetes, transplant, pregnancy, acute or chronic renal failure, structural abnormality of the uri...

Human sera with the history of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) received from physicians of various hospitals and laboratories in Namakkal of Tamilnadu were screened a developed IHA test kit and the results were compared with that of MAT. Out of a total of 176 sera screened by the developed kit, 95 samples (54.0 per cent) were positive. The sensitivity and specificity of IHA with reference to MA...

This study was undertaken to look for evidence of acid fast bacilli (AFB) in bone marrow (BM) in patients of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Fifty cases suspected of extrapulmonary tuberculosis underwent bone marrow aspiration from sternum/illiac crest and were put on a therapeutic trial of antituberculosis therapy. All cases taken in the study responded to the therapy. The pattern of involvement ...

Nuclear powder targets for neutron-induced cross section measurements were prepared by pressing. The choice of the production technique was related to type nuclear experiment and quality powder. This paper describes process unsintered compacts 94 Mo, 95 96 Mo metal powders 239 PuO 2 with a thickness as low possible uniaxial pressing powders. Special attention goes difficulties encountered durin...

This paper studies a model in which Puo payers contract with one hospital. True costs per patient are not a possible basis for payment, and contracts can only be zuritten on the basis of allocated cost. Payers choose a contract that is fully prospective or fully based on cost allocation, or n paynient scheme that zuould give some weight to eack of these two. We ckaracterize the payers‘ equilibr...

The results of a computational study with multiconfigurational quantum chemical methods on actinide monoxides (AnO) and dioxides (AnO(2)) for An = Th, Pa, U, Np, Pu, Am, and Cm, are presented. First and second ionization energies were determined and compared with experimental values, when available. The trend along the series is analyzed in terms of the electronic configurations of the various ...