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COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) is a matter of concern since the end of the year 2019, when China informed WHO that there is some pneumonia-like disease with unknown causes in Wuhan.Corona disease is related to the SARS-CoV-2 i.e. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2. SARS CoV-2 is the strain of coronavirus that causes the disease. Coronaviruses are a group of single-stranded viral RNA genome.WHO has declared COVID-19 as pandemic. Among the various varieties of coronavirus, six are known to infect the human host and cause respiratory diseases. Belonging to the family "Coronaviridae", coronavirus causes a broad spectrum of human and animal diseases. In this review, we have worked to possibly cover all the information about coronavirus.Copyright © 2020 Ubiquity Press. All rights reserved.
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Candidemia is the most common recorded invasive fungal infection worldwide. During the last couple of years, the world has been struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2), during which an increase in the incidence of candidemia and Candida auris cases were reported by several researchers. This study aimed to address how the entire landscape evolved during the downslide of the COVID-19 pandemic over the study period that spanned five years, including the pre-pandemic, peak, and waning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This retrospective observational study was conducted on a cohort of 1450 tertiary care cases in a University hospital in Jaipur, India, from July, 2017 to November, 2021. During the study period, all blood cultures of the suspected sepsis cases were screened for candidemia. Identification and antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida isolates were carried out using the standard assays. A consistent increase in the prevalence of candidemia has been observed during the current study period. Despite this, the prevalence of Non albicans Candida has remained almost steady. A sharp increase in C. auris candidemia during the COVID-19 pandemic was observed. The waning of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the epidemiology of candidemia back to the pre-pandemic times, and C. tropicalis has become the predominant clinical isolate again. There is a slight fall in resistance to fluconazole. Echinocandins, which is considered as a remedy till few years back, has also showed first signs of emerging resistance in patients attending to Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology (MGUMST), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Due to the extreme overlapping of the associated disease/ risk factors observed between COVID-19 and candidemia, these two disease entities have definitely influenced the epidemiology of each other's. However, how the landscape will evolve in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic is yet to be detected. © 2022, Egyptian Association for Medical Mycologists (EAMM). All rights reserved.
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Mucormycosis, commonly known as black fungus, is a life-threatening fungal infection be-longing to the order Mucorales. It affects individuals with an impaired immune response or immune disorders such as diabetes mellitus, induced immunosuppression, hematological cancers, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or who have undergone organ transplantation. The symptoms of black fungus in-clude difficulty in breathing, blurred vision, coughing out blood, chest pain, and blackening over the area of the nose. Tissue necrosis is the main symptom of this infection. Its prevalence is increasing day by day and has been observed in vulnerable patients, including patients suffering from COVID-19 (corona-virus) and those who have been recovered. It has been observed that black fungus cases are increasing in recovered COVID patients, and various cases of white and yellow fungus are also reported. The treatment approach includes the use of antifungal agents, triazoles, surgery, combination therapy, etc. This review describes the clinical manifestation, predisposing factors, and treatment strategies of mucormycosis.Copyright © 2022 Bentham Science Publishers.
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This research paper is an initiative to provide insight into the health and quality of life (QoL) benefits of yoga. The investigation aims to study the ancient therapy for de-stressing occupational stress and improving employees' quality of life by examining the intervention of yoga exercise on physiological health and quality of life (QoL). To find the impact of yoga and light aerobic exercise on the flexibility of the body muscles and quality of life intervention of yoga, light aerobic exercise was conducted on employees of PPS International at Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh), India, a manufacturer of high-tech equipment for Indian railway and metro trains and related industries. After seeking permission for the study from the founder and promoter, the research team randomly selected 120 subjects of age group 35-45 years, all males. To establish the result, a computational analysis of the recorded data was done. The t-test was applied to analyse descriptive statistics, pre-test, post-test, mean scores, and standard deviation of three different groups with N=40 in each group. © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain.
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Cardiovascular inclusion has been accounted for in patients with serious intense respiratory condition Covid 2 contamination, which might be reflected by electrocardiographic changes. Cardiovascular injury is additionally connected with humanity, need for intensive care, and seriousness of illness in patients due to Coronavirus. Some case features cardiovascular contribution as an intricacy related with Coronavirus, even without indications and indications of interstitial pneumonia. Two Coronavirus incidents in our report displayed diverse ECG indications by means of the sickness caused decay. The main case introduced brief SI QIII TIII sound structure followed by changeable almost whole atrioventricular square, and the second exhibited ST-section height joined by choroidal ventricular tachycardiac. The hidden systems of these ECGs irregularities in the serious phase of Coronavirus might be ascribed to hypoxia and incendiary harm brought about by the infection. Since the scourge of Coronavirus pulled in the consideration, hearsays were encompassing ECG variations in the contaminated people. We pointed toward indicative dissimilar noticed ECG discoveries and talking about their experimental importance. This deliberate audit recommends that recognizing ECG designs that may be connected with Coronavirus is fundamental. Given that doctors don't perceive these examples, they may mistakenly hazard the existences of their patients. Moreover, significant medication instigated ECG changes give attention to the medical care laborers on the dangers of potential treatments. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.
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This research paper is an initiative to provide insight associated with the physiological health of employees by examining the interventions of yogic exercise on physiological health. The investigation was done to study the impact of Yoga and Pranayama on functioning of lungs (vital capacity) and functioning of heart (resting heart rate) as an ancient therapy. The study found the effect of aerobic exercise and yogic practices on resting pulse rate and vital capacity among employees of a private organization engaged in production of technical equipment for Indian railway and metro trains and other related industries. After taking due consent from the promoter and founder of PPS International, the researchers randomly selected 120 subjects, all males of age group 25-35 years. Yoga helps to improve the lives of all age groups irrespective of gender. It can be adopted at any stage of life or started at any age;yoga has shown excellent results on the physiological health-related variable of stressed working professionals. Copyright © 2022, IGI Global.
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When the Indian government declared the first lockdown on 25 March 2020 to control the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, people were forced to stay and work from home. The aim of this study is to quantify the impact of stay-at-home orders on residential Air Conditioning (AC) energy and household electricity consumption (excluding AC energy). This was done using monitored data from 380 homes in a group of five buildings in Hyderabad, India. We gathered AC energy and household electricity consumption data at a 30-min interval for each home individually in April 2019 and April 2020. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was done on this data. To offset the difference in temperatures for the month of April in 2019 and 2020, only those weekdays were selected where the average temperature in 2019 was same as the average temperature in 2020. The study establishes that the average number of hours the AC was used per day in each home increased in the range 4.90–7.45% depending on the temperature for the year 2020. Correspondingly, the overall AC consumption increased in the range 3.60–4.5%, however the daytime (8:00 AM to 8:00 PM) AC energy consumption increased in the range 22–26% and nighttime (8:00 PM to 8:00 AM) AC energy consumption decreased by 5–7% in the year 2020. The study showed a rise in household electricity consumption of about 15% for the entire day in the year 2020. The household electricity consumption increased during daytime by 22- 27.50% and 1.90- 6.6% during the nighttime. It was observed that the morning household electricity peak demand shifted from 7:00 AM in 2019 to 9:00 AM in 2020. Conversely, the evening peak demand shifted from 9:00 PM in 2019 to 7:00 PM in 2020. An additional peak was observed during afternoon hours in the lockdown. © 2022, The Author(s).
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The Coronavirus pandemic has mostly affected all the operations that demanded physical presence. In the process of encouraging social distancing, the education sector has also undergone huge transformation by shifting online. Parents are the basic building blocks of a child's life and future, therefore understanding a parent's degree of happiness is essential. The study tries to comprehend how satisfied parents are with the online courses provided by schools to their children during the corona pandemic lockdown in India. It was discovered that parents whose children attend upper and upper secondary schools were happier than those whose children attend elementary classes. Copyright © 2022, Anka Publishers. All rights reserved.
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SESSION TITLE: Pulmonary Involvement in Critical Care Case Posters SESSION TYPE: Case Report Posters PRESENTED ON: 10/17/2022 12:15 pm - 01:15 pm INTRODUCTION: Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP), also known as bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP), is one of the idiopathic interstitial lung diseases that affects the alveolar epithelium and surrounding interstitium. Its diagnosis is usually delayed due to similar clinical presentation as other illnesses (e.g. pneumonia) [1]. CASE PRESENTATION: A 65-year-old male presented with rapidly progressive respiratory failure. Computed tomography (CT) of chest showed multifocal ground glass opacities. He had suboptimal response to antibiotics and had to be intubated on day 9 due to worsening respiratory failure. Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage was performed, cytology of which revealed severe acute inflammation and mononuclear infiltration. Decision was made to perform open lung biopsy which showed polypoid plugs of organizing fibroblasts and myofibroblasts in the distal airways and alveoli with focal hyaline membrane and alveolar damage, consistent with acute onset fulminant COP. As expected, the patient responded fairly well to high-dose corticosteroids and was extubated on day 9 of intubation. DISCUSSION: Even though it is very rare, COP should be kept in differentials especially when initial interventions fail (as in our patient). There is no single laboratory study or intervention to diagnose this condition. Hence it is imperative to rule out other causes of similar presentation like pneumonia (using cultures, urine antigen testing, and viral polymerase chain reaction tests). The clinical picture is combined with supportive evidence like elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, leukocytosis, imaging findings, and bronchoscopic and histopathology evaluation [2]. Once diagnosed, it is important to rule out any associated CTD, for it can change management and prevent additional complications. The majority of patients with COP exhibit rapid response to glucocorticoid treatment. For fulminant disease, intravenous glucocorticoids (e.g. methylprednisolone 125-250 mg every six hours) should be initiated based on the clinical experience and case reports [3]. CONCLUSIONS: Diagnoses of interstitial lung diseases should be pursued in a systemic fashion from more common to less common. However, anchoring to common diagnoses should be avoided to negate delay in diagnoses and allow timely management. If initial workup is unrevealing, bronchoscopy and open lung biopsies should be performed while the patient is stable enough to undergo the interventions to avoid antibiotic resistance, morbidity and mortality associated with rapidly progressive noninfectious illnesses like fulminant COP. Reference #1: Drakopanagiotakis F, Polychronopoulos V, Judson MA. Organizing pneumonia. The American journal of the medical sciences. 2008 Jan 1;335(1):34-9. Reference #2: Cordier JF. Cryptogenic organising pneumonia. European Respiratory Journal. 2006 Aug 1;28(2):422-46. Reference #3: Nizami IY, Kissner DG, Visscher DW, Dubaybo BA. Idiopathic bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia: an acute and life-threatening syndrome. Chest. 1995 Jul 1;108(1):271-7 DISCLOSURES: No relevant relationships by Fareeha Abid No relevant relationships by Vipin Garg No relevant relationships by Qirat Jawed No relevant relationships by Asnia Latif No relevant relationships by Ahmed Mowafy No relevant relationships by Muniba Naqi No relevant relationships by Muhammad Atif Masood Noori No relevant relationships by Hasham Saeed
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The aim of the paper is to introduce an overall depiction of crimes in India. This paper examines the overall effect of financial factors (NSDP as an intermediary of monetarydevelopment, neediness, joblessness, sexual orientation proportion and instruction) on crime percentages in India. Information of few significant states are taken for the years from 1990 to 2020 over the period of decade. This contains the investigation of composition of crimes, comparing the data of various states for different years with respect to total crime rates and contribution of chosen crime heads such as murder, rape, burglary and many more. Murder describes the killing of a person deliberately. In the same way, rape is unlawful sexual activity. Crimes against property incorporates dacoity, thievery, burglary and dacoity. These gain significance for their prevalence in the absolute pace of crime at any instant of time.Comparative graphs have been made for the state wise contribution of different states/UT, line graph of the crime rate in the interval of two years and relative visualization of states with highest and lowest crime have been done. Comparison of few major crimes have also been made between before and during Covid-19.
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The recent developments in the field of deep learning have enabled the efficient diagnosis of medical imaging for determining a broad set of diseases. To reduce the spread and impact of the pandemic (COVID virus), machine learning techniques can be used to diagnose and predict the disease using chest X-ray images. In this research, we present an approach using Siamese Convolutional Neural Network (SCNN) to classify chest x-ray images into four classes, namely pandemic, Severe-COVID, Pneumonia and Normal. We present a comparative study between the performance of our Siamese network and other pre-trained CNN architectures i.e. VGG-16 and ResNet50 in this research. The model performance is tested by merging two publicly available datasets: COVID-Chest-Xray dataset and Chest X-Ray Images (Pneumonia). We achieved an accuracy of 98% on Siamese ResNet50 which gives the best performance in contrast to 95% on VGG-16, 93% on ResNet50 and 96% on Siamese VGG-16. © 2022, International Organization on 'Technical and Physical Problems of Engineering'. All rights reserved.
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This paper analyses air quality data from megacity Delhi, India, during different periods related to the COVID-19, including pre-lockdown, lockdown and unlocked (post-lockdown) (2018-2020) to determine what baseline levels of air pollutants might be and the level of impact that could be anticipated under the COVID-19 lockdown emission scenario. The results show that air quality improved significantly during the lockdown phases, with the most significant changes occurring in the transportation and industrially dominated areas. A pronounced decline in PM2.5 and PM10 up to 63% and 58%, respectively, was observed during the lockdown compared to the pre-lockdown period in 2020. When compared to 2018 and 2019, they were lower by up to 51% and 61%, respectively, dropping by 56% during unlock. Some pollutants (NOx and CO) dropped significantly during lockdown, while SO2 and O3 declined only slightly. Moreover, when compared between the different phases of lockdown, the maximum decline for most of the pollutants and air quality index occurred during the lockdown phase 1; thus, this period was used to report the COVID-19 baseline threshold values (CBT; threshold value is the upper limit of baseline variation). Of the various statistical methods used median + 2 median absolute deviation (mMAD) was most suitable, indicating CBT values of 143 and 75 ug/m3 for PM10 and PM2.5, respectively. This results although preliminary, but it gives a positive indication that temporary lockdown can be considered as a boon to mitigate the damage we have done to the environment. Also, this baseline levels can be helpful as a first line of information to set future target limits or to develop effiective management policies for achieving better air quality in urban centres like Delhi. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13762-021-03142-3.
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An echocardiographic investigation is one of the key modalities of diagnosis in cardiology. There has been a rising presence of cardiological comorbidities in patients positive for COVID-19. Hence, it is becoming extremely essential to look into the correct safety precautions, healthcare professionals must take while conducting an echo investigation. The decision matrix formulated for conducting an echocardiographic evaluation is based on presence or absence of cardiological comorbidity vis-à-vis positive, suspected or negative for COVID-19. The safety measures have been constructed keeping in mind the current safety precautions by WHO, CDC and MoHFW, India.