Disseminated Cutaneous Rhinosporidiosis: Varied Morphological Appearances on the Skin (2009)
Kumari, Rashmi, Nath, Amiya Kumar, Rajalakshmi, R., Adityan, Balaji, Thappa, Devinder Mohan
Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous disorder caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi . It frequently involves the nasopharynx and occasionally affects the skin. We report a case of 45-year-old man...
Jayashree, B, Reddy, Praveen T, Leeladevi, Y, Crouch, Jonathan H, Mahalakshmi, V, Buhariwalla, Hutokshi K, ...
Abstract Background With the advances in DNA sequencer-based technologies, it has become possible to automate several steps of the genotyping process leading to increased throughput. To efficiently...
Jayashree, B., Reddy, P.T., Leeladevi, Y., Crouch, J.H., Mahalakshmi, V., Buhariwalla, H.K., ...
Background: With the advances in DNA sequencer-based technologies, it has become possible to automate several steps of the genotyping process leading to increased throughput. To efficiently handle...
Jayashree, B., Reddy, P.T., Leeladevi, Y., Crouch, J.H., Mahalakshmi, V., Buhariwalla, H.K., ...
Background: With the advances in DNA sequencer-based technologies, it has become possible to automate several steps of the genotyping process leading to increased throughput. To efficiently handle...
Jayashree, B., Reddy, P.T., Leeladevi, Y., Crouch, J.H., Mahalakshmi, V., Buhariwalla, H.K., ...
Background: With the advances in DNA sequencer-based technologies, it has become possible to automate several steps of the genotyping process leading to increased throughput. To efficiently handle...
Performance of National Tuberculosis Programme during 1996: a report (1999)
Suryanarayana, L., Rajalakshmi, R., Jaigopal, M.V., Radhakrishna, S.G.
The National Tuberculosis Institute (NTI), Bangalore has been monitoring the National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) performance since 1978. District Tuberculosis Programmes (DTP) in 395 districts are...
Rajalakshmi, R., Jaigopal, M.V.
Analysis of the functioning of peripheral health institutions in DTPs has revealed that the X-ray Centres are functioning more satisfactorily in respect of quality of case-finding compared to...
Value of sputum examination in predicting prognosis during short course chemotherapy (1993)
Chandrasekaran, Sujatha, Rajalakshmi, R., Jagota, P.
Bacteriological examination of sputum is known to be the best tool for monitoring the efficacy of chemotherapy for pulmonary tuberculosis: mycobacterial culture being the ideal with its ability to...
Behaviour of a South Indian varient of M. tuberculosis during eight years of animal passage (1993)
Challu, Vijay K., Chandrasekaran, Sujatha, Mahdev, B., Jones, B., Rajalakshmi, R.
A south Indian variant of M. tuberculosis, found to be less virulent in albino guinea pigs compared with known highly virulent strains, was isolated in a high proportion of pulmonary tuberculosis...
Role of nontuberculuos infection in immunization against tuberculosis (1992)
Challu, Vijay K., Chandrasekaran, Sujatha, Sreenivas, T.R., Chauhan, M.M., Jones, B., Rajalakshmi, R., ...
Whether Mycobacterium aviumintracellulare (MAI), the most common of all nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from south India interferes with protective effect of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) was...
Ziehl-Neelsen staining of sputum smears avoiding the step of decolourisation with alchol (1990)
Chauhan, M.M., Mahadev, B., Chandrasekaran, Sujatha, Rajalakshmi, R., Chaudhuri, K.
There has been a lot of constraints for the availability of alcohol in Peripheral Health Institutions (PHIs) and this is the reason often given for not doing the smear examination in the PHIs. In...
Chandrasekaran, Sujatha, Chauhan, M.M., Rajalakshmi, R., Chaudhuri, K., Mahadev, B.
A study was conducted to find out the prevalence of initial drug resistance to anti-TB drugs among patients attending the urban DTC in Bangalore. Total initial resistance to any drug was21.1%....
Challu, V.K., Mahadev, B., Rajalakshmi, R., Chaudhuri, K.
Urine specimens from 236 pulmonary tuberculosis patients were cultured by routine centrifugation method and by a method depending on filtration through a membrance filter. Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
Virulence of tubercule bacill isolated from patients with tuberculosis in Bangalore, India (1986)
Naganathan, N., Mahadev, B., Challu, V.K., Rajalakshmi, R., Jones, B., Smith, D.W.
This is a study of the virulence of cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from pulmonary and extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis in patients living in or near Bangalore, India.
Chakraborty, A.K., Ganpathi, K.T., Rajalakshmi, R.
Prevalence of tuberculosis infection in young children is an important surveillance measure. However, the hypersensitivity may be depressed by malnutrition and thus interfere with the interpretation...
Evaluation of sputum smears prepared by different methods (1979)
Naganathan, N., Ganapathy, K.T., Rajalakshmi, R.
A study was conducted to compare the sensitivity of 4 methods of sputum smear preparation viz., direct smear prepared (i) blindly without making any selection of portions of sputum specimen, (ii)...
Chakraborty, A.K., Gothi, G.D., Isaac, Benjamin, Rangaswamy, K.R., Krishnamurthy, M.S., Rajalakshmi, R.
Considerable ill health and deaths in the community are caused by respiratory diseases, especially acute infectious. Aside from this reason, the problem of respiratory diseases needs more attention...
Tuberculosis in children in a slum community (1977)
Gothi, G.D., Benjamin, Isaac, Chakraborty, A.K., Rajalakshmi, R., Singh, Sukant
Precision of estimates of prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis (1976)
Nair, S.S., Gothi, G.D., Naganathan, N., Rao, K.P., Banerjee, G.C., Rajalakshmi, R.
A study based on the examination of eight sputum specimens from the eligible using uniform techniques was conducted with the following objectives: 1. To estimate the yield of cases from additional...
Examination of only one sample of sputum cannot detect all the sputum positive cases in the community or among out patients attending health institutions. Number of studies have reported addition of...
Cost of establishing and operating a tuberculosis bacteriolocal laboratory (1974)
Naganathan, N., Padmanabha Rao, K., Rajalakshmi, R.
The cost of establishing and running a Tuberculosis Bacteriological Laboratory in the State Tuberculosis Centres under the National Tuberculosis Programme, and the cost of various examinations to be...