It is much to be regretted that the question of the dietary of school boarders is not receiving the attention it deserves. An insufficient or unbalanced diet, as we all know, is not only a very serious cause of ill-health but also leads to defective development of the intellect I and is especially detrimental to growing children. The dietary in the hostels attached to the high schools of Bihar ...

Bihar is the state with the third largest number of snakebite deaths per year in India. This prospective, one-year study of 608 snakebites provides the first data from Bihar on determinants of unfavourable outcomes in snakebites. Any delay in reaching hospital raised the risk of a snakebite patient for an unfavourable outcome [OR 8.88, CI 2.04-38.8]. Attending a traditional practitioner prior t...

BACKGROUND Positive deviance is increasingly employed in international development activities to permit the utilization of proven local solutions. Including positive deviance methods in evaluation analysis, particularly in places like Bihar, India, where the rates of child underweight hover at 55%, can help identify project activities and household characteristics that affect key outcomes. Thes...

One of the key immunological characteristics of active visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a profound immunosuppression and impaired production of Interferon-γ (IFN-γ). However, recent studies from Bihar in India showed using a whole blood assay, that whole blood cells have maintained the capacity to produce IFN-γ. Here we tested the hypothesis that a population of low-density granulocytes (LDG) mig...

OBJECTIVES To assess the efficacy and tolerability of aminosidine compared with sodium stibogluconate for treating visceral leishmaniasis. DESIGN Randomised, unblinded, controlled trial with 180 day follow up. SETTING Kala-Azar Research Centre, Brahmpura, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India. SUBJECTS People of either sex aged 6-50 years with symptoms and signs suggestive of visceral leishmaniasis (...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Phlebotomus argentipes is the vector for visceral leishmaniasis in India. The development of resistance in kala-azar vector to DDT has been reported from various parts of India. The main objective of this study was to generate information on insecticides susceptibility status of P. argentipes to DDT, malathion and deltamethrin in different parts in three states of India....

Native diversity is well represented in northern and eastern parts of India for mango. We evaluated three important polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based marker techniques viz., random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) and directed amplified mini satellite DNA (DAMD) and examined their suitability for depicting genetic relationships and discrimination among c...

Climate-smart agriculture targets integrated adaptation and mitigation strategies for delivering food security greenhouse gas emissions reduction. This study outlines a methodology to identify the trade-offs between production, emissions, income under technology demand-shift scenario climate change. The uses Climate Smart Agricultural Prioritization (CSAP) toolkit multi-objective land-use alloc...

While working on the helminth fauna of the vertebrates of Bihar, India the author collected from the proventriculus of a female bird the Megalaima asiatica (Latham) commonly known as Nilkantha basantha here at Patna, Bihar, a large number of males and females of a nematode which on study were found to belong to the genus Dispharynx (Acuridae Seurat, 1919) Railliet, Henry et Sisoff, 1912. The me...

BACKGROUND Quality instillation has its own challenges, facilitators and barriers in various settings. This paper focuses on exploration of quality components related to practices, health system challenges and quality enablers from providers' perspectives with a focus on maternal health studied through a pilot research conducted in 2012-2013 in two states of India-Bihar and Jharkhand-with relat...