Ram, A.S.P., Nair, S., Chandramohan, D.
Bacterial growth efficiency (BGE) is a key factor in understanding bacterial influence on carbon flow in aquatic ecosystems. Intra-annual variability in BGE, and bacteria-mediated carbon flow in the...
LokaBharathi, P.A., Nair, S., Chandramohan, D.
The present study examines the metal and antibiotic resistant bacteria in ice and water from lakes east and west of the Indian base camp (Maitri) in Antarctica. The isolates from western and eastern...
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy (2007)
Baiden, F., Bawah, A., Biai, S., Binka, F., Boerma, T., Byass, P., ...
Metal and antibiotic-resistance in psychrotrophic bacteria from Antarctic marine waters (2006)
Nair, S., LokaBharathi, P.A., Chandramohan, D.
In the wake of the findings that Antarctic krills concentrate heavy metals at ppm level, (Yamamoto et al., 1987), the Antarctic waters from the Indian side were examined for the incidence of metal...
Role of bacteria in DMS(P) cycle (2006)
Kumar, S.S., Chinchkar, U., Nair, S., LokaBharathi, P.A., Chandramohan, D.
Dimethyl sulphide (DMS) was reported in oceanic waters by Lovelock et al., (1972). Its precursor Dimethyl sulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is ubiquitous in the euphotic zone especially in regions dominated...
Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania (2006)
Setel, P. W., Whiting, D. R., Hemed, Y., Chandramohan, D., Wolfson, L. J., Alberti, K. G., ...
Objectives: To validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration. Verbal autopsy is an important method for deriving cause-specific mortality estimates where disease...
Whiting, D. R., Setel, P. W., Chandramohan, D., Wolfson, L. J., Hemed, Y., Lopez, A. D.
Objective To compare mortality burden estimates based on direct measurement of levels and causes in communities with indirect estimates based on combining health facility cause-specific mortality...
Whiting, D. R., Setel, P. W., Chandramohan, D., Wolfson, L. J., Hemed, Y., Lopez, A. D.
OBJECTIVE: To compare mortality burden estimates based on direct measurement of levels and causes in communities with indirect estimates based on combining health facility cause-specific mortality...
Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries (2006)
Setel, P. W., Rao, C., Hemed, Y., Whiting, D. R., Yang, G., Chandramohan, D., ...
BACKGROUND: Cause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, where the highest disease burdens are experienced. Neither facility-based information systems...
Jain, R., Raghukumar, S., Chandramohan, D.
The polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an important requirement in the human diet. It is also essential in the nutrition of crustaceans and aquaculture animals. Of the sources...
LokaBharathi, P.A., PradeepRam, A.S., Nair, S., Nath, B.N., Chandramohan, D.
The abundance of baroduric, culturable nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria in the deep-sea cores of Central Indian Basin (CIB) at ca 5000 m depth was investigated. Analysis of 8 cores, sampled...
Particle-associated bacterial dynamics in a tropical tidal plain (Zuari estuary, India) (2003)
Nair, S., LokaBharathi, P.A., Chandramohan, D.
The dynamics of particle-associated bacteria (PAB) in a tropical estuary, Zuari, in Goa on the west coast of India, was studied for a year from September 1997 to October 1998. Bacterial abundance,...
Ram, A., Nair, S., Chandramohan, D.
Bacterial growth efficiency (BGE) is an index of organic carbon passing through bacteria in an aquatic system. BGE values of natural bacterioplankton assemblages were measured in tropical estuarine...
Seasonal shift in net ecosystem production in a tropical estuary (2003)
Ram, A.S.P., Nair, S., Chandramohan, D.
Net ecosystem production was examined in the Mandovi and Zuari estuaries (southwestern India) and the adjoining coastal waters for a period of 1 yr (January to December 1998). The study period...
A deep-sea bacterium with unique nitrifying property (2001)
Ram, A., LokaBharathi, P.A., Nair, S., Chandramohan, D.
Sediment cores collected from the Central Indian Basin (10°1¢–10°2¢S, 75°59¢–76°2¢E) harboured a high population of nitrifying bacteria which ranged from 103 to 107 cfu per gram dry...
UV radiation and natural fluorescence linked primary production in Antarctic waters (2001)
LokaBharathi, P.A., KrishnaKumari, L., Bhattathiri, P.M.A., Chandramohan, D.
Primary productivity and chlorophyll values have been measured using an underwater profiling radiometer for the first time in the waters around Indian Antarctic Station (70°46'S & 11°44'E) in the...
Thraustochytrid protists degrade hydrocarbons (2001)
Raikar, M.T., Raghukumar, S., Vani, V., David, J.J., Chandramohan, D.
Although thraustochytrid protists are known to be of widespread occurrence in the sea, their hydrocarbon-degrading abilities have never been investigated. We isolated thraustochytrids from coastal...
Phosphate solubilizing bacteria around Indian peninsula (2000)
The occurrence and physiological characteristics of marine phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) around the Indian peninsula were studied. A higher percentage of phosphate solubilizing bacteria was...
LokaBharathi, P.A., Chandramohan, D.
The occurrence and characterisation of photosynthetic sulphur bacteria in the tropical waters is reported. These were found with decaying beds of seagrass at Agatti Island, Lakshadweep, India. These...
Seasonal variation of microbial population from sediments of Vellar Estuary, South India. (1984)
LAKSHMANAPERUMALSAMY, P, CHANDRAMOHAN, D, NATARAJAN, R
A seasonal study on the occurrence and distribution of total aerobic microbial population (TMP), total aerobic heterotrophic bacteria (THB), actinomycetes and fungi in the sediments of Vellar...
Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania
Setel, PW, Whiting, DR, Hemed, Y, Chandramohan, D, Wolfson, LJ, Alberti, KGMM, ...
Objectives: To validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration. Verbal autopsy is an important method for deriving cause-specific mortality estimates where disease...
Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries
Setel, PW, Rao, C, Hemed, Y, Whiting, DR, Yang, GH, Chandramohan, D, ...
Background Cause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, where the highest disease burdens are experienced. Neither facility-based information systems...
Estimates of the duration of the early and late stage of gambiense sleeping sickness
Checchi, F., Filipe, J.A., Haydon, D.T., Chandramohan, D., Chappuis, F.
Background: The durations of untreated stage 1 (early stage, haemo-lymphatic) and stage 2 (late stage, meningo-encephalitic) human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) due to Trypanosoma...