Skip to content Menu
Science Chronicle

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Sidebar
  • Home
  • PODCASTS
  • About
  • ARCHIVES
  • Award for R. Prasad

Category: Sputum samples

Posted on January 19, 2016October 4, 2016

Chennai city’s new strategy to eliminate TB

Thanks to the Zero TB Cities project, if everything works to plan, Chennai may drastically reduce TB mortality, shrink the number of new cases annually and impact TB prevalence in…

Continue Reading
Posted on January 18, 2016June 11, 2016

TB: India study confirms Xpert diagnostic test’s superiority

For the first time in India, the superiority of Xpert MTB/RIF over smear microscopy for bacteriological confirmation of pulmonary TB and in diagnosing MDR-TB (Multi Drug Resistant-TB) patients before initiating…

Continue Reading
Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

TB in children

  Childhood TB has been neglected for decades, but in the past few years the WHO has begun to realise its real impact in terms of incidence, prevalence and mortality.…

Continue Reading
Posted on January 14, 2016December 8, 2016

Sentinel Project gives a fillip to managing MDR-TB in children

  The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis is a collective power of a global partnership by experts and others who share the same vision of ensuring that no child…

Continue Reading
Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

‘In 80-90 %, TB bacilli in children same as in MDR-TB index case’

  Prof. H. Simon Schaaf, a clinical researcher from the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, South Africa has worked…

Continue Reading
Posted on January 14, 2016December 8, 2016

‘Age has a significant effect on the immune system in childhood TB’

Prof Peter R. Donald, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa was awarded the highest honour,…

Continue Reading
Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

TB: ‘There is a clearly higher risk of mortality in children of 0-4 years’

With 8.6 million people across the world developing tuberculosis in 2012 and nearly 1.3 million succumbing to the disease, and with the number of people with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB)…

Continue Reading
Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

Paediatric TB: should Xpert molecular test replace smear microscopy?

Unlike adults, children under five years of age are particularly vulnerable to getting infected with TB and may develop the disease very soon after infection. This is all the more…

Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 Next Page
Follow Science Chronicle on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 10,850 other followers

Archives

Social

  • View Prasad.Ravindranath’s profile on Facebook
  • View @RPrasad12’s profile on Twitter
  • View Prasad.Ravindranath@gmail.com’s profile on Google+

Recent Posts

  • Booster doses only mitigate disease severity, do not fully prevent infection January 11, 2022
  • Are there clinical trial data to support a homologous vaccine booster? January 9, 2022
  • Conflicting signals from drug regulator, COVID-19 national task force January 9, 2022
  • Even if mild, Omicron variant can overwhelming health-care settings January 9, 2022
  • Does Covaxin have WHO’s approval for use in children? January 5, 2022

Most Read Posts

  • 65 papers from India retracted for image falsification/fabrication, errors
  • UGC’s revised white list has 71 active predatory journals
  • Loosening the vice-like grip of chewing tobacco
  • How to get rid of beer foam fast
  • IIT Bombay team removes heavy metals from water with greater efficiency
  • 127 papers from India retracted for image duplication, manipulation
  • Department of Applied Chemistry, IIT Dhanbad has 45 papers with duplicated, manipulated images
  • Home
  • PODCASTS
  • About
  • ARCHIVES
  • Award for R. Prasad
  • Home
  • PODCASTS
  • About
  • ARCHIVES
  • Award for R. Prasad
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
Top
Follow Science Chronicle on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 10,850 other followers

Archives

  • Follow Following
    • Science Chronicle
    • Join 10,850 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Science Chronicle
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...