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Climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels have forced the developed world to look for clean energy alternatives. Solar cooking is developing in Asian and African countries blessed with ample sun, but is still at an early stage. A portable autoclave was developed in India using this technology. The Prince-40 Concentrator provided adequate capacity to autoclave culture media and treat biomedical waste in a small laboratory set-up, and could save electricity worth Rs. 15,000 (188.10 GBP)/year or LPG worth Rs. 37,500 (470.25 GBP)/year. This technology would be of immense use in health centres in rural areas with frequent power cuts or no power supply.
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Equipment and Supplies , Solar Energy , Sterilization/methods , Humans , IndiaSubject(s)
Diphtheria/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Diphtheria/prevention & control , Diphtheria Toxoid/administration & dosage , Female , Humans , India/epidemiology , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Time FactorsABSTRACT
A total of 619 clinical specimens from cases of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis were processed by smear, culture and biochemical tests. Acid fast bacilli could be demonstrated in 93 samples (15.02%) by Z.N. staining method. Culture yielded positive growth in 95 samples (15.35%) M. tuberculosis human type was the most predominient pathogen obtained from 82 cultures (13.40%) M tuberculosis bovine type was isolated from 2 cases of ascitic fluids (0.32%). Atypical Mycobacteria were isolated from 11 samples (1.73%). 5 turned out to be M. scrofulacium, 4 were M. Kansasii, 1 was M. phlei and 1 was M. smegmatis.
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Bacteriological Techniques , Developing Countries , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification , Tuberculosis/diagnosis , Humans , India , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/diagnosis , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/microbiology , Nontuberculous Mycobacteria/isolation & purification , Tuberculosis/microbiologyABSTRACT
A case of chronic osteomyelitis is rare complication of salmonella senftenberg infection and is reported.
