AIM OF THE STUDY This study aims to evaluate the prevalence and to make a comparison between the ocular morbidity pattern in school going children of urban and rural areas of West Uttar Pradesh. MATERIALS AND METHODS A school-based cross-sectional study design was adopted to examine children aged 5-15 years in randomly selected urban and rural schools of West Uttar Pradesh from June 2012 to A...

BACKGROUND A cultural preference for sons has been well documented in India, resulting in skewed sex ratios, especially exhibited in northwest India. Previous research has shown that family sex composition is associated with family planning (FP) use and couples' desire for more children. This study examines family sex composition and fertility and FP behaviors in urban Uttar Pradesh, India; lit...

Nanotechnology Application Centre, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211002, India Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India Department of Physics and Astronomy, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383, USA Department of Chemistry, University of Pune, Pune 411007, India ...

Vinay Kumar , Sanjay B. Dhok , Rajeev Tripathi and Sudarshan Tiwari &4 Department of Electronics Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India [email protected] [email protected] Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India [email protected] National Institute of T...

Praveen Dahiya, Subhash Chand and Neeraj Dilbaghi* Department of Bioand Nanotechnology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar-125001, Haryana, India Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India Present address: Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Sector 125, Gautam Buddha Nagar,...

Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Rungta College of Dental Sciences, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India Department of Pedodontics, Kothiwal Dental College and Research Centre, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sinhgad Dental College and Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Sinhgad Dental College and Hospital, Pune, M...

Outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) have been occurring in Gorakhpur Division, Uttar Pradesh, India, for several years. In 2016, we conducted a case-control study. Our findings revealed a high proportion of AES cases with Orientia tsutsugamushi IgM and IgG, indicating that scrub typhus is a cause of AES.

Background: Leishmaniasis is a major public health problem causing significant morbidity and mortality in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It presents mainly in three clinical forms, of which visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the most severe form. Recent outbreaks of VL in India and the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) make VL a re-emerging problem in India1. Outbreaks and epidemics o...

Nitish Kumar Mishra1,2*and Mamta Shukla3 1Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA 2University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (CBCB), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 3Immunobilogy Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Luc...

Division of Veterinary Public Health, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. Pin– 243 122; Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, PA, U.S.A. Pin–16801; National Institute of Biotic Stress Management, Raipur, Chhatisgarh, India. Pin– 492 012; Department of Veterinary Public Health, Nagpur Veterinary College, Nagpur, Mahara...