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Shrivastava J, Shah K, Shah N. Chrysosporium: A rare cause of allergic fungal rhinosinusitis. INDIAN J PATHOL MICR 2023; 66:611-613. [PMID: 37530352 DOI: 10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_555_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/03/2023] Open
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Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS) forms a significant group of patients presenting with the commonest health problem encountered in rhinology. Patients commonly present with typical symptoms of sinusitis, and the diagnosis is often made after imaging and/or intraoperatively. Infections caused by Chrysosporium species are very rare and are very rarely been reported to cause sinusitis in humans. Usually, human chrysosporial infections are mild and unmarked by symptoms. We report a rare case of allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) caused by Chrysosporium species in a 41-year-old male with the history of diabetes mellitus.
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- Juhi Shrivastava
- Department of Microbiology, Smt SMS Multispeciality Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Smt SMS Multispeciality Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Smt SMS Multispeciality Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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Dubey P, Shrivastava J, Choubey BP, Agrawal A, Thakur V. Neurodevelopmental outcome of healthy term newborn with serum bilirubin >15 mg/dl at one year. J Neonatal Perinatal Med 2020; 14:339-344. [PMID: 33337390 DOI: 10.3233/npm-200511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common medical emergency in early neonatal period. Unconjugated bilirubin is neurotoxic and can lead to lifelong neurological sequelae in survivors. OBJECTIVE To find out the association between serum bilirubin and neurodevelopmental outcome at 1 year of age using Development Assessment Scale for Indian Infants (DASII). METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics of a tertiary care institution of Central India between January 2018 and August 2019. Total 108 term healthy neonates, with at least one serum bilirubin value of >15 mg/dl, were included. Subjects were divided into three groups based on the serum bilirubin; group 1: (15-20 mg/dl) -85(78.7%) cases, group 2: (20-25 mg/dl) -17(15.7%), and group 3: (>25 mg/dl) -6(5.5%). Developmental assessment was done using DASII at 3, 6, 9, 12 months of age. RESULTS Out of 108 cases, 101(93.5%) received phototherapy, and 7(6.5%) received double volume exchange transfusion. Severe delay was observed in 5(4.6%) and mild delay in 2(1.9%) cases in the motor domain of DASII at one year. Severe delay in the motor domain was associated with mean TSB of 27.940±2.89 mg/dl and mild delay with mean TSB of 22.75±1.76 mg/dl (p = 0.001). On cluster analysis, delay was observed in locomotion 1 score in 11(13%) cases (p = 0.003) and manipulation score in 6(7.1%) cases in group 1. CONCLUSION Increased serum bilirubin was a significant risk factor for the delayed neurodevelopment in babies with neonatal jaundice. Even a moderate level of bilirubin significantly affects the developmental outcome.
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- P Dubey
- Department of Pediatrics, Gandhi Medical College & Kamla Nehru Hospital, Bhopal, MP, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Gandhi Medical College & Kamla Nehru Hospital, Bhopal, MP, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Gandhi Medical College & Kamla Nehru Hospital, Bhopal, MP, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Gandhi Medical College & Kamla Nehru Hospital, Bhopal, MP, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Gandhi Medical College & Kamla Nehru Hospital, Bhopal, MP, India
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Agrawal A, Shrivastava J, Dwivedi R, Siddiqui M. Assessment of serum apolipoprotein B and apolipoprotein A-1 and their ratio in healthy full term small for gestational age newborns. J Neonatal Perinatal Med 2017; 10:49-53. [PMID: 28304324 DOI: 10.3233/npm-1672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Programmed changes in growth restricted fetuses can increase the risk of adulthood diseases due to elevated serum cholesterol and apolipoprotein-B (Apo-B) concentrations. Increasing evidence demonstrated the role of apoB/apoA-I ratio as a strong risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVE To determine the concentration of cord blood lipoproteins and apolipoproteins as well as their correlation with birth weight. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in a teaching institution in central India. Healthy full-term newborns, born out of normal vaginal deliveries, were recruited. Cases include term small for gestational age (SGA) babies while term appropriate for gestational age (AGA) babies were taken as controls. Their umbilical venous blood was collected and sent for biochemical analysis. RESULTS Out of 126 healthy newborns, 66 were cases and 60 were controls. Mean values of serum triglyceride (141.56±69.67 mg/dl vs. 113.67±33.38 mg/dl; p < 0.006; 95% CI = 8.31 to 47.46) and serum apo-B/apo-A-1 ratio (0.67±0.28 vs. 0.55±0.20; p < 0.007; 95% CI = 0.033 to 0.206) were significantly high and that of serum high density cholesterol (35.84±10.42 mg/dl vs. 40.73±11.70 mg/dl; p < 0.014; 95% CI = -8.79 to -0.98) and Apo-A1 [87.59±12.44 mg/dl vs. 101.87±35.07 mg/dl; p = 0.002; 95% CI = -23.39 to -5.16) were significantly low in SGA newborns. Serum cholesterol, very low-density cholesterol rlow-density cholesterol rand Apo-B did not show any significant difference. Among SGA newborns significant negative correlation was seen between birth weight and apo-B/apo-A1 and serum triglyceride, while birth weight and serum apo-A1 level showed significant positive correlation. There was no statistically significant correlation between birth weight and other parameters. CONCLUSION These findings further support the association of prenatal factors with lipid profile rand can serve as starting point for studying lipid transport system changes during early life in Indian population.
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Singh U, Shrivastava J, Bhat H. Novel monastrol derivatives exert potent anti-breast cancer activity via inhibition of ubiquitin conjugating enzyme Rad6B. Eur J Cancer 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(17)30201-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Kumar B, Shrivastava J, Satyanarayana S, Reid AJ, Ali E, Zodpey S, Agnani M. How effective is the integration of facility and community-based management of severe acute malnutrition in India? Public Health Action 2015; 3:265-70. [PMID: 26393044 DOI: 10.5588/pha.13.0058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2013] [Accepted: 10/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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SETTING All children admitted to two nutritional rehabilitation centres (NRCs) during 2011-2012 in Madhya Pradesh, India. OBJECTIVE To determine 1) adherence to in-patient care and follow-up visits, 2) attainment and maintenance of target weight gain, and 3) association with the children's demographic characteristics. DESIGN A retrospective record review. The 74-day programme included 14 days of in-patient care, with subsequent home-based care and four follow-up visits to the NRC at 15-day intervals. The first three visits were part of the treatment, while the fourth was for assessment of sustained weight gain. RESULTS Of the 1027 children admitted, 900 (88%) completed in-patient care. Of these, 685 (76%) attended the first three follow-up visits, 482 (70%) of whom gained >15% of their admission weight. Of these, 409 (85%) completed four visits, 314 (77%) of whom were able to sustain their weight gain. Those unable to gain >15% weight by the third visit had a significantly lower proportion of sustained weight gain at the fourth visit. Children aged ⩾6 months had significantly higher odds (OR 4.5, 95%CI 3.1-6.2, P < 0.05) of completing in-patient care. CONCLUSION In-patient care combined with community-based follow-up was effective in adherence to follow-up visits; however, there is still room for improvement in attaining and sustaining the target weight.
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- B Kumar
- Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
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- International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, New Delhi, India
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- Medical Department, Operational Research Unit, Operational Centre Brussels, Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF-Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- Medical Department, Operational Research Unit, Operational Centre Brussels, Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF-Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
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- Government of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal, India
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Gower CM, Shrivastava J, Lamberton PHL, Rollinson D, Webster BL, Emery A, Kabatereine NB, Webster JP. Development and application of an ethically and epidemiologically advantageous assay for the multi-locus microsatellite analysis of Schistosoma mansoni. Parasitology 2006; 134:523-36. [PMID: 17096873 PMCID: PMC2613677 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182006001685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2005] [Revised: 04/27/2006] [Accepted: 09/22/2006] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Non-availability of adult worms from living hosts remains a key problem in population genetic studies of schistosomes. Indirect sampling involving passage through laboratory animals presents significant ethical and practical drawbacks, and may result in sampling biases such as bottlenecking processes and/or host-induced selection pressures. The novel techniques reported here for sampling, storage and multi-locus microsatellite analysis of larval Schistosoma mansoni, allowing genotyping of up to 7 microsatellite loci from a single larva, circumvent these problems. The utility of these assays and the potential problems of laboratory passage, were evaluated using 7 S. mansoni population isolates collected from school-children in the Hoima district of Uganda, by comparing the associated field-collected miracidia with adult worms and miracidia obtained from a single generation in laboratory mice. Analyses of laboratory-passaged material erroneously indicated the presence of geographical structuring in the population, emphasizing the dangers of indirect sampling for population genetic studies. Bottlenecking and/or other sampling effects were demonstrated by reduced variability of adult worms compared to their parent field-collected larval samples. Patterns of heterozygote deficiency were apparent in the field-collected samples, which were not evident in laboratory-derived samples, potentially indicative of heterozygote advantage in establishment within laboratory hosts. Genetic distance between life-cycle stages in the majority of isolates revealed that adult worms and laboratory-passaged miracidia clustered together whilst segregating from field miracidia, thereby further highlighting the utility of this assay.
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- C M Gower
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College (St Mary's Campus), Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK.
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Wang TP, Shrivastava J, Johansen MV, Zhang SQ, Wang FF, Webster JP. Does multiple hosts mean multiple parasites? Population genetic structure of Schistosoma japonicum between definitive host species. Int J Parasitol 2006; 36:1317-25. [PMID: 16876170 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2006] [Revised: 06/14/2006] [Accepted: 06/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Multi-host parasites, those capable of infecting more than one species of host, are responsible for the majority of all zoonotic, emerging or persistent human and animal diseases and are considered one of the major challenges for the biomedical sciences in the 21st century. We characterized the population structure of the multi-host parasite Schistosoma japonicum in relation to its definitive host species by genotyping miracidia collected from humans and domestic animals across five villages around the Yangtze River in Anhui Province, mainland China, using microsatellite markers. High levels of polymorphisms were observed and two main genetic clusters were identified which separated water buffalo, cattle and humans from goats, pigs, dogs and cats. We thereby believe that we present the first evidence of definitive host-based genetic variation in Schistosoma japonicum which has important epidemiological, evolutionary, medical and veterinary implications.
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- T P Wang
- Anhui Institute of Parasitic Diseases, 207 Dongjiao Road, Wuhu 241000, Anhui, People's Republic of China
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Shrivastava J, Gower CM, Balolong E, Wang TP, Qian BZ, Webster JP. Population genetics of multi-host parasites – the case for molecular epidemiological studies of Schistosoma japonicum using larval stages from naturally infected hosts. Parasitology 2005; 131:617-26. [PMID: 16255820 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182005008413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2005] [Revised: 05/16/2005] [Accepted: 05/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Population genetics of multi-host pathogens offers great potential for the understanding of their complex epidemiology but care must be taken to ensure that the sampling procedure does not bias estimates of population indices. The transfer of material to laboratory passage, in particular, runs the risk of bottlenecking and imposing non-random host-induced selection pressures according to the hosts used in passage. We present a novel technique allowing single-locus microsatellite genotyping of the naturally sampled larval stages, enabling unbiased population genetic studies of the multi-host zoonotic parasite Schistosoma japonicum. The utility of these larval genotyping methods for molecular epidemiological studies are illustrated in results from 3 separate data sets. In the first data set, potential loss of alleles based on the definitive host species used for laboratory maintenance was identified by comparing adult worm populations derived from mice and rabbits infected with cercarial populations originating from the same set of snails. In the second data set, bottlenecking was demonstrated by the loss of alleles in adult worms derived within a single generation of laboratory maintenance compared to their parent field-collected cercarial samples. In the final data set, comparison of miracidia and adult worms recovered from naturally infected animals demonstrated that larval analyses can provide stage-specific epidemiological information and that population genetics of schistosomes can be well described by analysis of larval stages. Our results thus advocate the use of natural life-cycle stages to obtain an accurate and ethical representation of the population genetic structure of S. japonicum and other multi-host pathogens.
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- J Shrivastava
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College (St Mary's Hospital Campus), Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK.
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Shrivastava J, Barker GC, Johansen MV, Xiaonong Z, Aligui GD, Mcgarvey ST, Webster JP. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic DNA microsatellite markers fromSchistosoma japonicum. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00466.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Bhambal SS, Shrivastava J, Ajmani HS. Continued medical education through telecommunication for field functionaries. Indian Pediatr 2001; 38:1195-6. [PMID: 11677315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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Shrivastava J, Bhambal S, Sudhakar C. Exomphalos. Indian Pediatr 1998; 35:372. [PMID: 9770897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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- J Shrivastava
- Department of Pediatrics, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal
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