The world's worst cholera epidemic in Haiti (2010) coerced to trace the origin and dissemination of the causative agent Vibrio cholerae O1 for proper management of cholera. Sequence analysis of the Haitian strain showed several variations in the genes encoding cholera toxin B subunit (ctxB); toxin-co-regulated pilus (tcpA), repeat in toxins (rtxA), quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR)...

* R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, India, Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprosy † R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, India, Department of Pediatric Medicine Supervising Section Editor: Christopher Kang, MD Submission history: Submitted July 04, 2008; Revision Received October 24, 2008; Accepted October 24, 2008. Reprints available through open access at www.westjem.org [WestJEM....

Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian A Jadavpur, Kolkata-700032, India. E-mail: oc Department of Physical Chemistry, Indian A Jadavpur, Kolkata-700032, India † Electronic supplementary information synthetic procedures, characterization d NMR spectra, FRET melting, TO displ spectra, western blot, dual luciferase, casp ‡ Present address: Department of Ch Education & Research, Bhopal, Bhopal-46...

Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease and a major public health problem in many developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Since the Bay of Bengal is considered the epicenter for the seventh cholera pandemic, it is important to understand the genetic dynamism of Vibrio cholerae from Kolkata, as a representative of the Bengal region. We analyzed whole genome sequence data of V. cho...

Data mining is a popular concept of mined necessary data from a large set of data. Data mining using clustering is a powerful way to analyze data and gives prediction. In this paper non structural time series data is used to forecast daily average temperature, humidity and overall weather conditions of Kolkata city. The air pollution data have been taken from West Bengal Pollution Control Board...

BACKGROUND Kolkata is one of the polluted metropolitan cities in India where health effects of air pollution are raising serious concern. OBJECTIVES Purpose of the present study was to analyze association between levels of air pollutants and pulmonary function of adult males living in two different air pollutant zones of Kolkata. METHODS Air pollution data of two ambient air quality monitor...

Manuscript received January 5, 2015; accepted January 5, 2015. Date of current version March 17, 2015. Asterisk indicates corresponding author. ∗S. Das is with the Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata-108, India (e-mail: [email protected]). M. K. Kundu is with the Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata-108, India (e-mail: [email protected]...

1 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India 2 Laboratory medicine, Manipal hospital, Bangalore, India 3 Department of Microbiology, Fortis hospital, Kolkata, India 4 Department of Pathology, Choithram hospital, Indore, India 5 Department of Pathology, The Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata, India 6 Department of Microbiology, Sanjay Gandhi post gra...

West Bengal, India 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai 600 116, India 3 Department of Human Genetics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530003, India 4 Endocrinology Department, SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, India 5 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute, Kolkata, India 6 Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, 110 007, Delhi, India Original...

The paper aims to reveal the politics of urban governance and associated impact on lives disenfranchised migrants. It critically explores structure nature practices involved in cycle settlement, eviction, resistance resettlement. case Nonadanga, located at margin Kolkata, India, was explored for this purpose. An ethnographic methodology comprising observation, semi-structured interviews oral hi...