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Background: Dengue is a common arboviral mosquito-transmitted disease. Dengue fever is characterized by high fever of abrupt onset, sometimes with biphasic fever, severe headache, nausea, vomiting, ocular pain, cutaneous rash, muscles & joint pain. Methods: The patients were selected from attending in the Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Safedabad, Barabanki, U.P., India. We included patients suffering from dengue fever & found positive NS1, IgM, IgG from August-2015 to October-2015. Results: Test analyzed by Rapid card test & automated analyzer. 12 patients were NS1, IgM, IgG positive & changes their haematological & biochemical values. Conclusion: We should control the arboviral transmitted mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) which helps to prevent from dengue infection
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from banana field rhizosphere produced different antifungal metabolites like bactriocin, hydrogen cyanide and siderophore. Bacteriocinogenic, siderophoregenic, and HCN rich broth of isolate inhibited the growth of phytopathogen like Aspergilus niger, Aspergilus flavus, Fusarium oxysporum and Alternaria alternata. The isolate exhibited more antifungal activity and comparatively low MIC vis-a-vis commonly used copper based systemic chemical fungicide;bil cop.
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Antifungal Agents/chemistry , Antifungal Agents/isolation & purification , Antifungal Agents/pharmacology , Crops, Agricultural , Fungi/drug effects , Hydrogen Cyanide , Musa , Pest Control, Biological , Pseudomonas/chemistry , Pseudomonas/metabolism , Rhizosphere , Siderophores , Soil MicrobiologyABSTRACT
Background: Population burden, illiteracy, availability of few doctors for larger group of population all these leads to many unanswered questions left in a patient’s mind. Incomplete information results into noncompliance, therapeutic failure, and adverse drug reactions (ADR). It is very important to establish a system which will provide noncommercial, independent, unbiased source of medicine information. Medicines Info OPD is a concept and step towards safe and appropriate use of medicines. Objective: (1) To assess the present status of knowledge about the medicines in the patients and its correlation with education. (2) To assess the medicine information dispensing modalities, their use and sufficiency from the patients view point. (3) To assess the overall need for Medicines Information OPD in present scenario. Materials and Methods: A pre-validated questionnaire based study was conducted amongst 500 patients of tertiary health care hospital. The questionnaire consisted of specific questions regarding understanding of prescription, knowledge about adverse drug reaction, view about self-medication and opinion regarding the need of Medicines Info OPD. Results: Significantly large proportion of patients opined that doctors do not have sufficient time in current Indian healthcare to explain the prescription and they are not aware of adverse drug reactions, expiry date or use the package inserts etc. Conclusion: Clinically relevant, up to date, user specific, independent, objective and unbiased Medicines Info OPD is essential for appropriate drug use and can help in a big way to common public to address many problems faced by them.