Role of Voriconazole in the Management of Invasive Central Nervous System Aspergillosis: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in India by Nitin Gupta, Parul Kodan, Ankit Mittal, Gagandeep Singh, George Netto, Prashant Ramteke, Sundeep Malla, Rohit Kumar, Tirlangi Praveen Kumar, Komal Singh, Anivita Aggarwal, Devashish Desai, Manish Soneja, Immaculata Xess, Naveet Wig

“…We describe a series of nine patients with CNS aspergillosis from a tertiary care teaching institute in North India who were treated with voriconazole alone or in combination with surgery. …”
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Mortality and Clinical Outcomes among Patients with COVID-19 and Diabetes by Viny Kantroo, Manjit S. Kanwar, Piyush Goyal, Deepak Rosha, Nikhil Modi, Avdhesh Bansal, Athar Parvez Ansari, Subhash Kumar Wangnoo, Sanjay Sobti, Sudha Kansal, Rajesh Chawla, Sanjiv Jasuja, Ishan Gupta

“…<b><i>Methods</i></b> This is a retrospective study of COVID-19 infected patients admitted to a tertiary care hospital in north India in the early phase of the pandemic. <b><i>Results</i></b> Of the 1211 cases admitted, 19 were excluded because of incomplete data, and 1192 cases were finally considered for analysis. …”
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S100 Beta as a Marker of Section Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Case-control Study by Manish Chandey, Parminder Singh, Sahiba Kukreja, Gurinder Mohan

“…All diagnosed cases of cirrhosis of liver in the Medicine Department of a tertiary care hospital of North India. A total of 40 age and sex matched healthy controls were recruited after due consent and application of exclusion criteria. …”
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<i>Bifidobacterium</i> Is Enriched in Gut Microbiome of Kashmiri Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Saqib Hassan, Marika A. Kaakinen, Harmen Draisma, Liudmila Zudina, Mohd A. Ganie, Aafia Rashid, Zhanna Balkhiyarova, George S. Kiran, Paris Vogazianos, Christos Shammas, Joseph Selvin, Athos Antoniades, Ayse Demirkan, Inga Prokopenko

“…During the regional PCOS screening program among young women, we recruited 19 drug naive women with PCOS and 20 control women at the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Kashmir, North India. We profiled the gut microbiome in faecal samples by 16S rRNA sequencing and included 40/58 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) detected in at least 1/3 of the subjects with relative abundance (RA) ≥ 0.1%. …”
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Eye care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a report on patients' perceptions and experiences, an Asian perspective by Low, Rebecca, Lee, Jia Min, Lai, Ser Sei, Rousselot, Andrés, Agarwal, Manisha, Agrawal, Rupesh

“…Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted during the reopening of outpatient services at two tertiary eye care centres in Singapore and North India. Consecutive patients were recruited from general and specialist eye clinics in June 2020. …”
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Comparison of Morphometric Data of Upper End of the Tibia between North and East Indian Populations: A Cross-sectional Study by Nidhi Lal, Ankita Saha, Shavi Garg, Prachi Saffar Aneja

“…Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted in the Department of Anatomy at FMHS Medical College, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, North India, involving 41 dry tibias, and at Medical College and Hospital Kolkata in East India, involving 43 dry tibias. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Different Parenteral Agents as Postoperative Analgesics among Patients of Lichtenstein Repair: A Prospective Observational Study by Rohit Srivastava, Shivani Kumari, Sanjay Kumar Bhat, Sunil Kumar Singh, Priyanka Rai, Amarjot Singh

“…Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted in the Department of General Surgery at a Tertiary Care Teaching and Training Institute, North India. The duration of the study was two months, from February 2021 to March 2021. …”
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Prevalence of deep vein thrombosis in symptomatic COVID-19 patients presenting to the Emergency Department: correlation with inflammatory markers and acute respiratory distress syn... by M. Bhatia, S. Sharda, R. Attri, N. Sharma, N. Singla, A. Pannu

“…RESULTS: 70 adult COVID-19 patients (SARS-CoV-2 positive by RT-PCR) presenting to the Emergency Department of a tertiary care hospital in north India were enrolled from April 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021. 3 (4.3%) out 70 patients had DVT; of these, two had severe ARDS and one had moderate ARDS. …”
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Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Response in a Longitudinal Cohort of Healthcare Workers from India by Sonam Singla, Vyoma Singh, Smita Sarma, Charu Yadav, Kamini Vinayak, Teena Wadhwa, Renu Saxena, Yatin Mehta

“…Materials and Methods: This observational longitudinal cohort study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Gurugram, Haryana, North India from June to December 2020. The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee. …”
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Preparation of gelatin/Ag NPs under ultrasound condition: A potent and green bio-nanocomposite for the treatment of pleomorphic hepatocellular carcinoma, morris hepatoma, and novik... by Zukuan Chang, Bikash Karmakar, Huilin Lu, Xuelei Lou, Shadi Salem Alkhayyat, Gomaa Mostafa-Hedeab, Gaber El-Saber Batiha, Attalla F. El-kott, Fahmy G. Elsaid, Mohamed A. Al-Kahtani, Mutasem Z. Bani-Fwaz

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Monitoring of Non-β-Lactam Antibiotic Resistance-Associated Genes in ESBL Producing <i>Enterobacterales</i> Isolates by Pottathil Shinu, Rajesh Bareja, Anroop B. Nair, Vashishth Mishra, Snawar Hussain, Katharigatta N. Venugopala, Nagaraja Sreeharsha, Mahesh Attimarad, Sahibzada Tasleem Rasool

“…Genetic context of extended spectrum β-Lactamase (ESBL) producing <i>Enterobacterales</i> and its association with plasmid mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR), aminoglycoside modifying enzymes (AME) and Trimethoprim/Sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) resistance is little known from North India. Therefore, the current study was aimed to investigate the frequency of Non-β-Lactam antibiotic resistance associated genes in extended spectrum β-Lactamase producing <i>Enterobacterales</i>. …”
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Prevalence of prehypertension, hypertension, stress, anxiety among undergraduate medical students, and its association with cognitive failure: A cross-sectional study by Vineeta Chadha, Swarna Rastogi, Sampa Choudhury, Madhu Chaudhary, Harvir Singh Sodhi, Qazi Rais Ahmad

“…This study aims to provide prevalence of hypertension, prehypertension, anxiety, stress, and its association with cognitive failure among 1st year medical students in a medical college in North India. Materials and Methods: The study is a cross-sectional study conducted in the Department of Physiology of a Medical College on 1st year medical students. …”
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Questionnaire-based Survey on Radiation Treatment Planning using Multimodality Facilities in Radiotherapy Centres across India: A Cross-sectional Study by NK Bhudevi Soubhagya, Mukka Chandrashekhar, B Naveen, Alok Kumar, Vinay Desai, KM Ganesh, Lokesh Vishwanath

“…The percentage of responses found to be from North India 17 (26%), South India 24 (36.9%), West India 7 (10.8%), East India 9 (13.8%) and central India 7 (10.8%) with one centre (1.5%) not disclosed. …”
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COVID-19 cases and their outcome among patients with uncommon co-existing illnesses: A lesson from Northern India by D. Himanshu Reddy, Virendra Atam, Priyanka Rai, Farman Khan, Saurabh Pandey, Hardeep Singh Malhotra, Kamlesh Kumar Gupta, Satyendra Kumar Sonkar, Rajeev Verma, Kauser Usman, Shyam Chand Chaudhary, Satyendra Kumar Sonkar, Vivek Kumar, Kamal Kumar Sawlani, Kamlesh Kumar Gupta, M.L. Patel, D. Himanshu, Ajay Kumar, Sudhir Kr Verma, Medhavi Gautam, Harish Gupta, Satish Kumar, Deepak Baghchandanani, Ambuj Yadav, M. Lamba, Amit Kumar, Suhail, Rati Prabha, Darshan Bajaj, Abhishek Bahadur Singh, Mayank Mahendra, Gaurav Kumar, Narendra Kumar, Bal Krishna Ojha, Rajeev Verma, Dhananjay Kumar Verma, Vinod Kumar, Suresh Singh, Shivam Gupta, Mohammad Hashim, Kuldeep Verma, Akriti Bhardwaj, Anurag Chaudhary, Himanshu Chaudhan, Kaustubh, Kinjalk Dubey, Naveen Kumar, Rituraj, Janmajay Kumar, Somesh Srivastav, Shiv Paratap Singh, Sunita Kumari, Sudham Srivastave, Jyoti Verma, Mohmmad Ahmad Hussain, Ammar Sabir Siddiqui, Azher Rizvi, Chitranshu Pancholi, Deepak Sharma, Deepak Kumar Verma, David Zothansanga, Kuldeep Singh, Prashant Kumar Singh, Rahul Kumar, Vipin Raj Bharti, Shahnawaz Ali Ansari, Vivek Kumar, Monika Kallani, Harish Bharti, Ankita Singh, Avirup Majumdar, Neeraj Verma, Mayank Mishra, Pankaj Kumar Gupta, Shubhanshu Shivhare, Mudit Kotwal, Prashant Mahar, Praduman Mall, Krishnapal Singh Parmar, Guddoo Kumar

“…Method: Single centred study from June 2020 to May 2021 at a tertiary centre in North India. A preformed questionnaire was used to record clinical and laboratory parameters and to identify cases which are in addition to CDC list and Indian data. …”
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Interleukin-6-174G > C (rs1800795) polymorphism distribution and its association with rheumatoid arthritis: A case-control study and meta-analysis by Sajad Ahmad Dar, Shafiul Haque, Raju Kumar Mandal, Taru Singh, Mohd Wahid, Arshad Jawed, Aditya K. Panda, Naseem Akhter, Mohtashim Lohani, Mohammed Yahya Areeshi, Gargi Rai, Shyama Datt, Sambit Nath Bhattacharya, Vishnampettai Ganapathysubramanian Ramachandran, Shukla Das

“…We investigated IL-6-174G > C promoter polymorphism in 34 RA patients, attending a tertiary care hospital in north India. We also performed a meta-analysis, of the previously published studies reporting this genetic relationship, in overall population, and independently in Asian and Caucasian ethnicities to further elucidate this association. …”
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Clinical and serological association of plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels in lupus and the short-term effects of oral vitamin D supplementation by Chengappa Kavadichanda, Pratibha Singh, Supriya Maurya, Sneha Tota, Aberaame Kiroubagarin, Deepika Kounassegarane, Swathi Anand, Vir Singh Negi, Amita Aggarwal

“…Patients from South India had higher vitamin D levels (27.06 ± 20.21 ng/dl) as compared to North India (17.15 ± 16.07 ng/ml) (p < 0.01). Univariate analyses demonstrated weak negative correlation of vitamin D with SLEDAI2K and positive correlation with age. …”
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Unveiling Diversity for Quality Traits in the Indian Landraces of Horsegram [<i>Macrotyloma uniflorum</i> (Lam.) Verdc.] by Manju Kumari, Siddhant Ranjan Padhi, Sushil Kumar Chourey, Vishal Kondal, Swapnil S. Thakare, Ankita Negi, Veena Gupta, Mamta Arya, Jeshima Khan Yasin, Rakesh Singh, Chellapilla Bharadwaj, Atul Kumar, Kailash Chandra Bhatt, Rakesh Bhardwaj, Jai Chand Rana, Tanay Joshi, Amritbir Riar

“…The differential distribution of the accessions from north India into clusters I and III suggested a potential geographical influence on the adaptation and selection of genes. …”
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Pattern recognition receptor CD14 gene polymorphisms in alcohol use disorder patients and its Influence on liver disease susceptibility by Neelanjana Roy, Neeti Nadda, Hem Kumar, Chandreswar Prasad, Jyotish Kumar Jha, Hem Chandra Pandey, Perumal Vanamail, Anoop Saraya, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, Shalimar, Baibaswata Nayak

“…This study investigated the genetic association of CD14 polymorphisms and other mechanisms relevant to altered inflammatory responses leading to ALD.MethodsPatients with alcohol use disorder with ALD (n = 128) and without liver disease (ALC, n = 184) and controls without alcohol use disorder (NALC, n = 152) from North India were enrolled. The CD4 gene polymorphisms in the North Indian population were evaluated by RFLP and sequencing. …”
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Seasonally optimized calibrations improve low-cost sensor performance: long-term field evaluation of PurpleAir sensors in urban and rural India by M. J. Campmier, J. Gingrich, S. Singh, N. Baig, S. Gani, S. Gani, A. Upadhya, P. Agrawal, M. Kushwaha, H. R. Mishra, A. Pillarisetti, S. Vakacherla, R. K. Pathak, R. K. Pathak, J. S. Apte, J. S. Apte

“…We established three distinct sites in India across land use categories and population density extremes (in urban Delhi and rural Hamirpur in north India and urban Bengaluru in south India), where we collocated the PA-II model with reference beta attenuation monitors. …”
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Electrical based cancer therapy for solid tumours - Theranostics approach by Mahalaxmi Iyer, Anila Venugopal, Mamatha Chandrasekhar, Atchaya Suriyanarayanan, Kiruthika Balasubramani, Anand Sinthai Ilangovan, S. Kamalakannan, Rupa Gunaseelan, Niraikulam Ayyadurai, Abilash Valsala Gopalakrishnan, Lohita Rachaiah Balraj, Immanuel Aghil, Sivaprakash Palanisamy, Balachandar Vellingiri, Arul Narayanasamy

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