A plague episode in Surat in 1994, and its spread to other cities in India, lasted only a little over 2 weeks, but it created an unprecedented panic that had global repercussions. At first, the Surat hospital doctors could not diagnose the disease, but when they did, immediate intervention, in the form of preventation and treatment (administration of antibodies) prevented the disease from sprea...

The Fifth Annual National Conference of the Indian Leptospirosis Society was held at Surat from January 20 to 22, 2005 to disseminate the information regarding capacity building to control this disease and policies were decided regarding the activities of the concerned departments. A grant of Rs. 65 lakhs from CRF was allotted to the Government Medical College, Surat to strengthen the Microbiol...

Vishnu Narayan Mishra1,2, M. Mursaleen 3,∗ and Preeti Sharma 1 1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Humanities, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Ichchhanath Mahadev Dumas Road, Surat, Surat-395 007 (Gujarat), India 2 L.1627 Awadh Puri Colony Beniganj, Phase -III, Opposite Industrial Training Institute (I.T.I.), Ayodhya Main Road, Faizabad-224 001, (Uttar Pradesh), India 3...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to estimate for the first time the prevalence and determinants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among male migrants in India. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We conducted a multi-stage stratified probability sample survey of migrant (defined as not born in Surat city) men aged 18 to 49 years working in the di...

Background As per the vaccine management policy of the Government of India all vaccine vials opened for an immunization session were discarded at the end of that session, irrespective of the type of vaccine or the number of doses remaining in the vial prior to 2013. Subsequently, open vial policy (OVP) was introduced in 2013 and should reduce both vaccine wastage as well as governmental healthc...

surat is a highly developed, thickly populated cosmopolitan character city with full of various activities going on day and night. any natural calamity which causes loss of lives to property and infrastructure along with effects on industrial processes going on has serious impact on economy of the state. therefore, it becomes highly necessary that flood events are studied and analyzed properly ...

Brackish-water mollusks inhabiting the mangrove areas along the Gulf of Thailand of Surat Thani Province were investigated for distribution, abundance and natural infections. Nine families and 32 species of brackish-water snails were recovered from 14 sampling stations. Species belonging to the genus Ceritidea of the family Potamididae were mainly examined and Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) Cing...

Aim: Seroepidemiological study of leptospirosis in cattle of various South Gujarat district (Navsari, Tapi, Surat, Valsad). Materials and Methods: Whole blood samples were collected randomly from different age groups, and breeds of cattle of either sex reared in different districts (Navsari, Surat, Tapi, Valsad) of South Gujarat. To obtain serum, whole blood was kept in slanting position in 9.0...

Background: Incidence of obesity is increasing day by day because of various factors. It is important to assess the trend of obesity in particular geographical area. Objective: To assess the prevalence of obesity and overweight in affluent schoolgirls aged 13 to 15 years in Surat, India. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from July 2009 to April 2010. From a list of all private s...

Infectious diseases are still persisting as a major health problem in India in spite of having national programmes for the control of most of these diseases for almost half a century now. One of the major problems, which we are still facing, is that of malaria. Malaria kills more than one million people each year in the world, especially children1. In India, there were approximately 1.1 million...