Harsimran Kaur, Shreya Singh, Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy, Anup Kumar Ghosh, Muralidharan Jayashree, Yaddanapudi Narayana, Pallab Ray, Arunaloke ChakrabartiIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):110-116 Purpose: Candidaemia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality of hospitalised patients, especially in developing countries. This study was conducted to monitor any change in species distribution and antifungal susceptibility pattern of Candida species causing candidaemia over the...
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Deepak Kumar Mishra, Gaurav Goel, Neeraj Arora, Shekhar Krishnan, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Purva Mathur, Kamini Walia, Mammen ChandyIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):9-17 High-throughput, accurate, cost-effective and rapid testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) is the need of the hour in face of the global coronavirus disease pandemic. This target is achievable, within a relatively short time through capacity building of reverse transcription polymerase...
Sat Jul 25, 2020 00:00
Shefali Jain, Bimal Kumar Das, Neeraj Mahajan, Arti Kapil, Rama Chaudhry, Seema Sood, Sushil Kumar Kabra, Sada Nand DwivediIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):78-86 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern, serotype distribution and sequence type (ST) of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from invasive and non-invasive infection and correlate it with isolates from commensal nasopharyngeal flora to ascertain their role in infection....
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Arvind Khodare, Abhishek Padhi, Ekta Gupta, Reshu Agarwal, Shantanu Dubey, Shiv Kumar SarinIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):18-23 Background and Objectives: Timely diagnosis is essential for the containment of the disease and breaks in the chain of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The present situation demands the countries to scale up their testing and design innovative strategies to conserve diagnostic kits and reagents. The pooling...
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Anita Chakravarti, Shalini Upadhyay, Tanisha Bharara, Shobha BroorIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):1-8 A novel coronavirus infection, which began as an outbreak of unusual viral pneumonia in Wuhan, a central city in China, has evolved into a global health crisis. The outbreak is an unembellished reminder of the hazard coronaviruses pose to public health. Government and researchers around the world have been taking swift measures to control the outbreak and conduct aetiological...
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Ajoy Oommen John, Hema Paul, Saranya Vijayakumar, Shalini Anandan, Thomas Sudarsan, Ooriyapadickal Cherian Abraham, Veeraraghavan BalajiIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):24-31 Background: Acinetobacter baumannii has become a common pathogen causing hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). Although acquiring any nosocomial infection is associated with increased mortality, we do not know if the acquisition of Acinetobacter infection confers a worse prognosis as compared to non-Acinetobacter-related...
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Emad M Eed, Yousry A Hawash, Amany S Khalifa, Khalaf F Alsharif, Saleh A Alghamdi, Abdulraheem A Almalki, Mazen M Almehmadi, Khadiga A Ismail, Azza A Taha, Taisir SaberIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):94-100 Purpose: Helicobacter pylori is one of the most prevalent human pathogens worldwide. However, the outcomes of H. pylori infection are markedly variable from asymptomatic mild lesion to malignant transformation. Many factors are suggested to influence these infection outcomes,...
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Biswajyoti Borkakoty, Aniruddha Jakharia, Mandakini Das Sarmah, Rahul Hazarika, Pranjal Jyoti Baruah, Chandra Jyoti Bora, T Temsu, Munmun Gohain, Utpala Devi, Dipankar BiswasIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):32-36 Background: Campylobacter enteritis is the major cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. In recent years, there has been a rise in global incidence of campylobacteriosis. There are no available data on prevalence of Campylobacter diarrhoea from Northeast India....
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Ranganathan N Iyer, Jangam Rekha Rao, Shivaprakash M Rudramurthy, Dharmesh KapoorIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):124-127 Nocardiosis is an opportunistic infection occurring in immunosuppressed patients. While disseminated nocardiosis is common in immunosuppressed patients, Nocardia bacteraemia is rare. There are few reports of Nocardia bacteraemia following solid organ transplantation. We report two cases of Nocardia bacteraemia in solid organ transplant recipients-Nocardia...
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Sumarno Reto Prawiro, Sri Poeranto, Aisyah Amalia, Elsa Larissa Widyani, Genitri Indraswari, Merika Soraya, Septha Rully Dwi Pradipto, Adrian Prasetya, Guntur Rizal Hidayat, Safira Nur Alitha PutriIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):37-45 Introduction: Previous studies have shown 37.8 kDa pili subunit protein of Vibrio cholerae and 49.8 kDa pili subunit protein of Shigella flexneri can act as an adhesion molecule to initiate infection. These molecules also have the ability to agglutinate...
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Girisha Pindi, Vijendra Kawle, Rajeshwar Rao Sunkara, Murty Satyanarayana Darbha, Sasikala GarikaparthiIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):72-77 Context: Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is now a preferred mode of the treatment in patients with end-stage renal disease, but peritonitis remains to be a shortcoming of CAPD. High-culture negativity, emerging drug resistance and peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related morbidity and mortality have been a challenge to tackle....
Sat Jul 25, 2020 00:00
Bharti Malhotra, Farah Deba, Pratibha Sharma, Khushbu Trivedi, Jitendra Tiwari, Aradhana Chouhan, Ruchi Singh, Deepa Meena, HN VermaIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):46-51 Purpose: Suddenly, many cases of fever with jaundice were reported from Sodala area at Jaipur. This outbreak of acute hepatitis at Jaipur Rajasthan was investigated for aetiology and subsequent phylogenetic analysis. Methods: Blood samples were collected from 106 symptomatic patients of acute hepatitis and 39...
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Xuemei Liu, Jie Lv, Lin Gan, Ying Zhang, Feng Sun, Bo Meng, Andrew Jheon, Fang Yan, Bin Li, Zhou Xuan, Xiumin Ma, Muhuyati WulasihanaIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):87-93 Objective: This study aims to provide scientific basis for rapid screening and early diagnosis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) through analysing the clinical characteristics and early imaging/laboratory findings of the inpatients. Methods: Three hundred and three patients with laboratory-confirmed...
Sat Jul 25, 2020 00:00
Sunil Kumar, Lipika Singhal, Pallab Ray, Vikas GautamIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):52-57 Context: Acinetobacter baumannii is one among the leading nosocomial pathogens in the healthcare settings worldwide. Limited data on relative fitness and virulence of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii (CRAB) are known. New methods are required to curb the rapidly rising antimicrobial resistance of this bug. Aims: We aimed to study the comparative in vitro and in vivo fitness of clinical...
Sat Jul 25, 2020 00:00
Pavithra Amrath Jain, RD Kulkarni, S Dutta, Ajanta S Ganavali, Anuradha S Kalabhavi, Praveen C Shetty, C Shubhada, Manjunath A Hosamani, Suma B Appannanavar, Deepa R HanamaraddiIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):101-108 Context: Shigella is a common cause of bacillary dysentery. Although it is reported worldwide, the majority of the infections are seen in developing countries with Shigella flexneri being the most common isolate. Prevalence of Shigella species and their antibiotic...
Sat Jul 25, 2020 00:00
Surojit Das, Subhanita Roy, Samadrita Roy, Gaurav Goelv, Subir Sinha, Purva Mathur, Kamini Walia, Sanjay BhattacharyaIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):58-65 Introduction: Unavailability of optimal susceptibility testing (ST) challenges the clinical use of colistin. Broth microdilution (BMD), which is the reference for colistin ST, is inconvenient for diagnostics. Vitek2 and E-test although technically easier, are no longer recommended. Materials and Methods: For the evaluation...
Sat Jul 25, 2020 00:00
Atul Patel, Kinjal Shah, Mitkumar Dharsandiya, Ketan Patel, Tushar Patel, Mukesh Patel, Tea Reljic, Ambuj KumarIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):117-123 Background: Cytokine release storm (CRS) in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2) is thought to be the cause for organ damage and death which is independent of the actual viral burden. Tocilizumab (TCZ), an interleukin-6 receptor antagonist, is approved for the treatment of CRS. We describe the efficacy...
Sat Jul 25, 2020 00:00
Guiqian Z, Ziqin D, Ya X, Qiong W, Xin F, Limei B, Hongyan Z, Yi SIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):66-71 Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the population in Kunming, Yunnan, China, before and after the introduction of HPV preventive vaccines. Materials and Methods: In total, 28,959 patients were enrolled in this study between 1 January 2016 and 31 August 2019. HPVs were genotyped using a flow-through hybridisation...
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Poonam Loomba, Chand Wattal, Anita Chakravarti, Sanghmitra Dutta, Mala Chabbra, Pratibha Kale, Devjani De, Shobha Broor, Ekta GuptaIndian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2020 38(1):128-133
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