Sir—Salmonella typhi, the agent that causes enteric fever, continues to be the isolate most frequently associated with community-acquired bacteremia at our institute (a tertiary care center in Mumbai, India). For decades, chloramphenicol was the antibiotic of choice for treatment of enteric fever, but the widespread emergence of S. typhi with plasmid-mediated resistance to multiple drugs, inclu...

S C Dutta , Sudha Singh and D K Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad-828123, India. [email protected] Professor, Department of Electrocics and communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Patna-800005, India. [email protected], [email protected] Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, MGM college of Engg...

B. R. Sutherland1,2,†, S. Keating1 and I. Shrivastava3,4 1Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2E1, Canada 2Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2E6, Canada 3Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India 4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, M...

College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. School of Microelectronic Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Arau Perlis, Malaysia. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India. Faculty of Electronic and Comp...

1Department of Anatomy, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. 2Department of Radiology, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. 3Department of Anatomy, Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College, Nanded, Maharashtra, India. 4Department of Anatomy, Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Correspondence to: N...

Vernet Lasrado Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816, U.S.A. Devendra Alhat Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science Indian Institute of TechnologyBombay, Mumbai 400076, India Yan Wang Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816, U.S.A. Email: wang...

Thanikachalam Subramanyan1, Rakesh Singh2, Karunanidhi Manickam1, Jagadeeswaran Vadivel Udayakumaran1, Neeta pal1*, Namrata Pal3 and Govind Pal4 1Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital and Postgraduate Institute, Pondicherry, India 2Jawaharlal Institute of Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India 3Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India 4Miraj Medical ...

Background: Tobacco use among school children is a serious problem in India. This study aims to understand the perception of parents, pan shop vendor’s and teachers about tobacco school-going students South Mumbai. Methods: Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted Mumbai vendors, reason for going children. Results: analysis revealed that consume because their family background, peer pre...

Mumbai's 6.7 million slum dwellers, for whom toilets are seen as a luxury, are ushering in a quiet sanitation revolution. They are building, planning and managing their own community toilets, in a 2 billion rupee (US$ 40 million) project supported by a World Bank loan to the federal government. The project covers around a quarter of the slums. All agree it could become a turning point in the ci...

objective: to study the in vitro color changes of three dental resin veneering materials when immersed in tea, coffee and tamarind extracts. materials and methods: the color changes of heat polymerized tooth colored acrylic resin (stellondetrey, b, f14, dpi dental products of india ltd, mumbai), auto polymerized tooth colored acrylic resin (dpi, b, qv5, dpi dental products of india ltd, mumbai)...