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Adolescent , Celiac Disease/epidemiology , Child , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Female , Humans , India/epidemiology , Male , Prevalence , SiblingsABSTRACT
Periodontal disease has affected human kind since times unknown. Various parameters are available to determine whether the tissue has been affected by the disease or not. In this study the reliance of subgingival temperature to be one of the parameters to determine the same has been evaluated.
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Adult , Body Temperature/physiology , Dental Plaque Index , Dental Prophylaxis , Dental Scaling , Equipment Design , Follow-Up Studies , Gingiva/physiology , Gingival Hemorrhage/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Oral Hygiene , Periodontal Diseases/physiopathology , Periodontal Index , Reproducibility of Results , Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted/instrumentation , Statistics as Topic , ThermometersABSTRACT
5 cases of pulmonary and 1 case of cerebral nocardiosis in the form of abscess caused by Nocardia asteroides were detected in a study of 498 clinical specimens from 428 patients of suspected tuberculosis and mycoses, giving an overall prevalence of 1.4 percent. Modified Thayer Martin Medium was useful for recovery of two isolates of N. asteroides from 100 patients. These isolates also grew on other media but on MTM, no hampering admixture of commensals occurred.
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Aged , Brain Abscess/epidemiology , Child , Culture Media , Humans , India/epidemiology , Lung Diseases/epidemiology , Male , Nocardia Infections/epidemiology , Nocardia asteroides/isolation & purification , PrevalenceABSTRACT
Swabs from 112 removed intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUCD), endocervical swabs from these women and from 65 women with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) were studied for actinomyces, using direct fluorescent antibody test and culture. Endocervical swabs from 50 control subjects were also studied. Actinomyces species could be detected in 23 (20.5 percent) of IUCD wearers and 8 (12.3 percent) of patients with PID. In control cases, no actinomyces were detected. The isolation rate using a selective medium (Actino Blood Agar) was 71.4 percent. Actinomyces israelii, Actinomyces naeslundii and Actinomyces viscosus were isolated.
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Actinomyces/isolation & purification , Female , Humans , Intrauterine Devices , Pelvic Inflammatory Disease/microbiology , Vaginal SmearsABSTRACT
17 of the 21 clinically diagnosed mycetoma and actinomycosis cases studied yielded positive cultures. Foot, leg, inguinal region, chest wall, jaw and scalp were the affected sites. 15 of the patients were from Bombay, 13 of them had infection due to Nocardia species and 2 had Actinomyces israelii infection. The other two patients from South India had Madurella mycetomi infection. N.brasiliensis was commonest isolate (8). Other isolates were N.asteroides (2), N.pelletieri (2), N.caviae (1) and A.israelii (2). A direct fluorescent antibody test to detect actinomyces was used in selected cases (4). Two of whom gave positive immunofluorescence with A.israelii FITC labeled globulin, in primary smears as well as in cultures.