Brucellosis is caused by various species of the genus Brucella, which is the second most widely spread zoonosis worldwide (Dawood, 2008). It is one of the infectious diseases, which poses major constraint for animal production. The disease is an important public health problem in many parts of the world including India (Pal, 2007; Hadush and Pal, 2013). Brucellosis is burning problem in Gujarat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between measles virus (MV) antibodies (abs) in sera and breast milk of nursing mothers, their contributions in seroconversion of children (0-9 months) post vaccination, prevalence of prevaccination measles abs in sera of children brought for measles vaccination and seroconversion rate in vaccinees from nursing and lactating mothers. Also to determine the p...

The breakthrough infections (BTI) during the Delta wave in general population have been investigated. BTI reported city of Gurugram (Haryana, India) month August, September, and October 2021 were studied. monthly 26%, 41%, 76%, which caused an increase caseload to 167, 150, 206 cases, respectively. Mostly, patients who had comorbidities developed BTI. However, did not cause a surge new cases. w...

Prevalence of antibodies to CMV in the female population of Rawalpindi and Islambad was determined. Twenty six percent children under 2 years of age showed antibodies to CMV increasing to 61% by adolescence. Over 90% of adult and pregnant females were sero positive. Association of development of CMV antibodies to socio-economic conditions and different geographical regions is also discussed. Ne...

This paper presents a method of imputing missing data that combines principalcomponent analysis and neuro-fuzzy (PCA-NF) modeling in conjunction with geneticalgorithms (GA). The ability of the model to impute missing data is tested using the SouthAfrican HIV sero-prevalence dataset. The results indicate an average increase in accuracyfrom 60 % when using the neuro-fuzzy model in...