Neonatal tetanus continues to be a cause of neonatal death in the lowand middle-income countries. Recently we managed two cases of neonatal tetanus at our institute. Both the families were migrants, one from Bihar and other from Jharkhand. Both the pregnancies were unsupervised and delivery was conducted at home. There was history of application of cowdung on umbilical stump in first case and o...

Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of nuclear ribosomal DNA from 16 populations of Persicaria barbata (L.) H. Hara (Polygonaceae) belonging to five geographical locations of India (Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka and Andaman Island) was sequenced. Analysis of nucleotide sequences reveals polymorphism among the populations. UPGMA analysis conducted on the ITS datasets...

Guava (Psidium guajava L.) is an important fruit crop of subtropical countries and cultivated extensively throughout India, it is grown almost in all the states. Bihar has the largest area (24.7 thousand ha.) under guava cultivation followed by Uttar Pradesh (18.5 thousand ha.) and Maharastra (14.8 thousand ha.). Various pathogens have been reported from the wilt affected plants from guava orch...

M. ABDUL HAMID, m.d. (Lucknow), m.r.c.p. (Lond.) Reader in Pathology, King George's Medical College, Lucknow University The attack.?S. L., Hindu male, aged 23, was admitted to hospital on 7th March, 1934, with the complaint of continuous palpitation of four days' duration. He gave no history of any previous disease other than occasional fever; he denied venereal infection. He had been subjected...

The feasibility of global polio eradication is being questioned as a result of continued transmission in a few localities that act as sources for outbreaks elsewhere. Perhaps the greatest challenge is in India, where transmission has persisted in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar despite high coverage with multiple doses of vaccine. We estimate key parameters governing the seasonal epidemics in these are...

are only 34 cases more reported from different parts of India and one from Burma. Out of the 34 cases 12 were seen in Southern India (Guntur 4, Vizagapatam 8), one in Poona, 16 in the Punjab (Lahore 1, Kangra District 15) and 5 in Calcutta. Napier (1939) reports that they encounter 6 to 12 cases a year in the outdoor clinic of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. No cases have yet been rep...

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic known as COVID 19 has placed an overwhelming burden on health systems and authorities to respond with effective appropriate interventions, policies message. , it is important for doctors working the population have adequate knowledge related which should be of great help in dealing emerging situation. This survey was aimed find out level SARS-Cov-2 among doctors, interns...

Greater adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubios) is the largest and rarest belonging to order Ciconiformes. It one of threatened bird species world widely considered be endangered. The present investigation was carried out study nest site selection, tree other breeding behaviours on flood plains Kosi river in district Bhagalpur, Bihar, India three seasons from 2019 2021. Total 12 colonies were recor...