BACKGROUND Corneal blindness is one of the important types of blindness that can be prevented by proper health care education and conventionally cured by corneal transplantation for which awareness regarding eye donation is essential. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to assess the awareness of eye health care and eye donation among secondary level school students of North Kolkata. METHODS...

Chronological analysis of 125 Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated during 1993-2005 in Kolkata revealed the prevalence of two new genotypes of cholera toxin (CT) and novel combinations of ctxB and rstR alleles resulting in variant CTX prophages. One of the new genotypes of ctxB, which first appeared in 1996 with the re-emerged V. cholerae O139 strains that had CTX Calcutta phage, was designate...

Co-infection of Leptomonas seymouri with Leishmania donovani in Indian Leishmaniasis 1 Running Title: Co-infection of Leptomonas seymouri with Leishmania donovani 2 3 Susmita Ghosh, Priyanka Banerjee, Avijit Sarkar, Sudipto Ganguly, Simanti Datta* 4 and Mitali Chatterjee* 5 6 Dept. of Pharmacology and Centre for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver 7 Diseases, Institute of Post Graduat...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Division of Microbiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (Indian Council of Medical Research), P-33, C.I.T. Road, SchemeXM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India. Tel : +91-332350-0448/5533/4478 (Ext.117), Fax: +91-33-2350-5066, E-mail: [email protected] Typhoid fever occurs both in epidemic and endemic forms and remains a public hea...

Background:Emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis, particularly multi drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug resistant TB (XDR-TB) has become an obstacle to effective TB control in India. Objectives: To study the sociodemographic and clinical profile of MDR/XDR-TB patients in Kolkata. Methodology: A retrospective study was performed on MDR patients admitted in Jadavpur and Boral TB h...

The study was aimed to establish prediction norms for maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) from age, body mass and body surface area (BSA) in young sedentary subjects of Kolkata, India. Students of 20-24 years (male = 40 and female = 40) were recruited by simple random sampling from University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Thirty participants from each sex were further randomly alloted to the "study group" a...

In an urban slum in eastern Kolkata, India, reported diarrhoea rates, healthcare-use patterns, and factors associated with reported diarrhoea episodes were studied as a part of a diarrhoea-surveillance project. Data were collected through a structured interview during a census and healthcare-use survey of an urban slum population in Kolkata. Several variables were analyzed, including (a) indivi...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Subhra Mandal, M.B.B.S., M.D. (Anatomy), Associate Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Contact No.: +919477458100 E-Mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: *1Associate Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. 2Post Graduate Resident in DNB ( PMR...