Indian Antibiotic Resistance Scenario - 2009 (by A.J. Tamhankar)

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Indian Antibiotic Resistance Scenario - 2009 (by A.J. Tamhankar)

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Scientific Journals ........Human - 2009

Assessing clonality of Vibrio cholerae strains isolated during four consecutive years (2004 - 2007) in Iran.

Recent experience with fungaemia: change in species distribution and azole resistance.

Multidrug resistant enteroaggregative Escherichia coli diarrhoea in rural southern Indian population.

Re-emerging chloramphenicol sensitivity and emerging low level ciprofloxacin resistance among Salmonella enterica serotype typhi isolates in North India.

Detection of virulence genes in Vibrio cholerae isolated from aquatic environment in Kerala, Southern India.

Increasing invasive disease due to penicillin resistant S. pneumoniae in India.

Penicillin-resistant viridans group streptococci from blood cultures of infective endocarditis patients in South India.

Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates producing VEB-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in the United Kingdom.

Determination of antimicrobial resistance and virulence gene signatures in surface water isolates of Escherichia coli.

Antibiotic prescribing practices in primary and secondary health care facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Prevalence of extended spectrum beta-lactamases producing clinical isolates from patients of urinary tract infection in a tertiary care hospital in Delhi.

Paediatric tuberculosis and DOTS strategy under RNTCP.

Emerging Gram-negative antibiotic resistance: daunting challenges, declining sensitivities, and dire consequences.

The cost-effectiveness of typhoid Vi vaccination programs: calculations for four urban sites in four Asian countries.

Class 1 integrons and SXT elements conferring multidrug resistance in Vibrio cholerae O1 strains associated with a recent large cholera outbreak in Orissa, Eastern India.

Multidrug-resistant to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis: what is next?

Emerging antibiotic resistance in bacteria with special reference to India.

Emerging and re-emerging bacterial diseases in India.

HIV and tuberculosis in India.

Indo - Asian Antibiotic News 2009 - Dr.A.J.Tamhankar

In Media----Eating frequently may keep fungi at bay- (NewKerala.com); Washing hands can save 400 children everyday: Unicef- (Times of India); Online course in tuberculosis treatment launched-(Samachar.in); Diarrhoea kills 1.5 mn children annually: UN- (South Asia News)

Indian Antibiotic Resistance Scenario - 2009 (by A.J. Tamhankar)

Scientific Journals------Human-2009

Diversity of arsenate reductase genes (arsC Genes) from arsenic-resistant environmental isolates of E. coli.
Increasing rates and clinical consequences of nalidixic acid-resistant isolates causing enteric fever in returned travellers: an 18-year experience.

Evaluation of two human immunodeficiency virus-1 genotyping systems: ViroSeq 2.0 and an in-house method.

Low frequency of moaA3 gene among the clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry--south eastern coastal states of India.

Enterococci in river Ganga surface waters: propensity of species distribution, dissemination of antimicrobial-resistance and virulence-markers among species along landscape.

Clustering analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates in Korea by PFGE, ribotying, and phage typing.

Ciprofloxacin breakpoints in enteric fever: time to revise our susceptibility criteria.

Drug resistant mutations detected by genotypic drug resistance testing in patients failing therapy in clade C HIV-1 infected individuals from India.

Molecular characteristics of travel-related extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolates from the Calgary Health Region.

Risk factors for antibiotic-resistant E. coli in children in a rural area.

Analysis of antimicrobial resistance and plasmid profiles in Salmonella serovars associated with tropical seafood of India.

In vitro drug resistance and response to therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis patients under a DOTS programme in south India.

Role of embCAB gene mutations in ethambutol resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from India.

Outbreak of meningococcal disease in and around New Delhi, India, 2005-2006: a report from a tertiary care hospital.

Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from tuberculosis patients in Kerala, India.

Phenotypic and genotypic assays for detecting the prevalence of metallo-beta-lactamases in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii from a South Indian tertiary care hospital.

Carbapenem resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from India: evidence for nationwide endemicity of multiple metallo-beta-lactamase clones (VIM-2, -5, -6, and -11 and the newly characterized VIM-18).

Surveillance of invasive pneumococcal disease in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

In vitro activity of gentamicin and amikacin against Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi: a search for a treatment regimen for typhoid fever.

High-level aminoglycoside resistance and beta-lactamase production in enterococci at a tertiary care hospital in India.

Surface water of a perennial river exhibits multi-antimicrobial resistant shiga toxin and enterotoxin producing Escherichia coli.

Outbreaks caused by new variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, India.

XDR Tuberculosis: a report from the New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre, India.

Molecular characterization of Vibrio cholerae isolates from cholera outbreaks in North India.

Activity of antibiotics against Fusarium and Aspergillus.

Self-purificatory Ganga water facilitates death of pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7.

An increase in enteric fever cases due to Salmonella Paratyphi A in & around Chandigarh.

Gradual filling up of TB drug pipeline: how can we play our role better?

Increasing incidence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mumbai, India.

Acquired drug resistance pattern in tuberculosis cases at the State Tuberculosis Centre, Delhi, India.

Molecular epidemiological characteristics of Shigella spp. isolated from river Narmada during 2005-2006.

HIV-1 with predicted CXCR4 genotype identified in clade C from India.

A prospective, descriptive study to identify the microbiological profile of chronic wounds in outpatients.

In-depth molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from New Delhi--predominance of drug resistant isolates of the 'modern' (TbD1) type.

Indo - Asian Antibiotic News 2009 - Dr.A.J.Tamhankar

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