Tuberculosis is a granulomatous disease caused by mycobacterium.1-3 The lung is the most common site of involvement, and it is very rare to involve the oral cavity.1,2 Most of the tuberculous lesions of oral cavity are secondary to lung disease, usually seen in elderly patients.1 Primary tuberculosis of the oral cavity is rare and is most commonly found in children and adolescents rather than i...

Methods A cross sectional study was carried out to determine the point prevalence of different hepatitis viruses amongst Saharia primitive tribal community of Madhya Pradesh, central India. After obtaining the informed consent, blood samples (5 ml each) were collected from them. Serum was separated on site, aliquoted and transported to the laboratory maintaining the cold chain. The markers of v...

To investigate the aetiology of the 2015 A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza outbreak in India, 1,083 nasopharyngeal swabs from suspect patients were screened for influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Of 412 positive specimens, six were further characterised by phylogenetic analysis of haemagglutinin (HA) sequences revealing that they belonged to genogroup 6B. A new mutation (E164G) was obs...

Bracelet creases among the twins were examined. A total of 42 pairs of twins (monozygotic twins-16 pairs, dizygotic like sex twins-20 pairs and dizygotic unlike sex twins-6 pairs) from the states of West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh of India were studied for this purpose. High discordance value in dizygotic twins in various types of bracelet creases is found to be sufficient to account for the hig...

Life threatening complication of Plasmodium falciparum malaria among those who visit forest villages of Madhya Pradesh (MP) are on the increase. In the earlier communication we reported case study of highly specialized professionals who visited forest villages of MP and had severe Plasmodium falciparum infection which caused high morbidity and mortality. These professionals did not take chemopr...

The aqueous extract of various parts of the plant Tephrosea Purpurea (Sarphanka) has been used in Ayurvedic and Unani medicine for a variety of infective conditions (3). The plant is indigenous to North Eastern Madhya Pradesh where decoction of the root is used by the locals for treating sore throat, upper respiratory infection and infections of the lower urinary tract and is claimed to be very...

A health and nutrition survey was conducted on tribals in three ecological zones of Madhya Pradesh namely Jhabua (West Zone), Bastar (South Zone) and Sarguja (East Zone) taking into consideration the relative contribution of agriculture, forest and a combination of both to the economy, respectively. The consumption of both foods and nutrients appear to be worse among preschool children of Jhabu...

Durga Das's leaf-nosed bat Hipposiderosdurgadasi Khajuria, 1970 is endemic to India, and was known only from Katanga, Katangi, and Richhai villages, in Jabalpur district, Madhya Pradesh. During surveys conducted in Kolar district, Karnataka, India, we successfully mist-netted a few individuals belonging to the bicolor species group which, upon detailed external, craniodental and bacular studies...

It was reported by authors that the prevalence of clinical vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has declined considerably in India, as compared to previous years [2]. However, they found a high prevalence of blood vitamin A deficiency (<20 μg/dL), a criteria for sub-clinical VAD [3]. In their data, 61% preschool children had subclinical VAD, and with this criterion, a public health problem was diagnosed ...

Aim: To examine the quality of life according to their gross motor functional measure in children with Cerebral Palsy of Madhya Pradesh, India. Methodology: 27 subjects were selected randomly. Children with all types of cerebral palsy aged between 4-12 years at any level of motor function were included in study, out of which 25 subjects consent to participate in the study. Result: correlation i...