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Biodiversity , Refugees/statistics & numerical data , Staphylococcal Infections/microbiology , Staphylococcus/classification , Adolescent , Adult , Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Bhutan , Cross-Sectional Studies , Drug Resistance, Bacterial , Humans , Nepal/epidemiology , Nose/microbiology , Ohio/epidemiology , Pharynx/microbiology , Prevalence , Risk Factors , Staphylococcal Infections/epidemiology , Staphylococcus/drug effects , Staphylococcus/enzymology , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Children spend around 25% of their time of 260 days in a year in school. Hence early detection of abnormalities in health enables timely corrective measures to be taken. A descriptive study related to health of primary class students was carried out from June to September 2013 in a village which lies inside Kathmandu valley. Health status and related behavior was assessed in 69 students from a public school and 125 students from a private school who belonged to class 1 to 5. The results did not show significant difference between the variables in private and public school.
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Health Behavior , Health Status , Schools , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Cross-Sectional Studies , Female , Humans , Male , Nepal/epidemiology , Private Sector , Public SectorABSTRACT
A combination of antiprogesterone mifepristone and prostaglandin analogue misoprostol provides an effective non surgical method for termination of pregnancy up to gestational age of 63 days. The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of this medical regimen for termination of pregnancy up to 63 days of pregnancy. A hospital based prospective study was carried out in department of obstetrics and gynecology at Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital (NMCTH) for a period of one year where 100 women requesting for medical abortion were enrolled. The medical regimen used was mifepristone 200 mg orally followed 24 hours later by misoprostol 800 micrograms administered buccally. Most of the women were in age group 20-29 years (50%), were nulliparous (81%) and were within 42 days of pregnancy (47%). The overall success rate of this regimen was 93.6%. Where success was defined as achieving complete abortion without needing surgical evacuation. Surgical evacuation was needed in 6 (6.4%) patients i.e. 5 for incomplete abortion and one for continued viable pregnancy. The combination of oral mifepristone 200mg followed 24 hours later by buccal misoprostol 800mcg is effective method of medical termination of pregnancy.
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Abortifacient Agents , Abortion, Induced , Hospitals, Teaching , Mifepristone , Misoprostol , Adult , Female , Gestational Age , Humans , Mifepristone/administration & dosage , Misoprostol/administration & dosage , Nepal , Pregnancy , Prospective Studies , Time Factors , Young AdultABSTRACT
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) or Streptococcus pyogenes is estimated to be present in 5.0-15.0% of norma individual in the respiratory tract, vagina, skin and anus without any sign of disease. This study was carried out to find out the rate of asymptomatic throat carriage of S. pyogenes and antibiotic susceptibility of the isolates in school children of Pokhara, Western Nepal. A total of 487 randomly selected children younger than 16 years were included in the study. Throat swabs collected were subjected to 5.0% Sheep blood agar supplemented with crystal violet (CVBA).GAS was identified by a-haemolytic colonies, bacitracin sensitivity, cotrimoxazole resistivity, catalase negativity and PYR positivity. Antibiotic susceptibility test was performed on Muller Hinton agar (MHA) containing 5% sheep blood by modified Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. Out of total 487 throat swabs, GAS was isolated in 9.2% (n = 45). Among the isolates, 46.6% (n = 21) were from male children where as 53.4% (n = 24) from female children. There was no significant sex difference in colonization of GAS (p > 0.05). Out of 45 isolates, 100.0% isolates were sensitive to antibiotic penicillin-G and amoxycillin where as 15.6%, 6.6%, and 2.2% isolates were resistant to antibiotic erythromycin, tetracycline and azithromycin respectively.