Indian J Med Res 133, March 133, pp 243-360

CONTENTS

   

Editorials 

Adaptive design – An innovative tool in drug development
Ballari Brahmachari & Arun Bhatt 

Mental Health Act (1987): Need for a paradigm shift from custodial to community care
Suresh Bada Math, Pratima Murthy & Channapatna R. Chandrashekar 

Commentaries

Vitamin D deficiency in breastfed infants & the need for routine vitamin D supplementation
S. Balasubramanian 

Towards personalized medicine – the role of methotrexate
Sita Naik 

Review Article

Recent developments in treatment of latent tuberculosis infection
Dick Menzies, Hamdan Al Jahdali & Badriah Al Otaibi 

Original Articles

Vitamin D deficiency in healthy breastfed term infants at 3 months & their mothers in India: Seasonal variation & determinants
Vandana Jain, Nandita Gupta, Mani Kalaivani, Anurag Jain, Aditi Sinha & Ramesh Agarwal 

Profiling single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across intracellular folate metabolic pathway in healthy Indians
Yogita Ghodke, Arvind Chopra, Pooja Shintre, Amrutesh Puranik,
Kalpana Joshi & Bhushan Patwardhan 

Immune status & enzymes activity in blood lymphocytes in adult patients at different stages of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Olga V. Smirnova, Valery T. Manchouk & Andrey A. Savchenko 

Association of hypertension with risk factors & hypertension related behaviour among the aboriginal Nicobarese tribe living in Car Nicobar Island, India
Sathya Prakash Manimunda, Attayuru Purushottaman Sugunan, Vivek Benegal, Nagalla Balakrishna, Mendu Vishnuvardhana Rao & Kasturi S. Pesala 

Screening with OGTT alone or in combination with the Indian diabetes risk score or genotyping of TCF7L2 to detect undiagnosed type 2 diabetes in Asian Indians
V. Mohan, Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, V. Radha & K. Gokulakrishnan 

Age at initiation & prevalence of tobacco use among school children in Noida, India: A cross-sectional questionnaire based survey
Raj Narain, Sarita Sardana, Sanjay Gupta & Ashok Sehgal 

Prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among newly diagnosed cases of sputum-positive pulmonary tuberculosis
Surendra K. Sharma, Gaurav Kaushik, Brajesh Jha, Ninoo George, S.K. Arora, Deepak Gupta, Urvashi Singh, Mahmud Hanif & R.P. Vashisht 

Prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among Category II pulmonary tuberculosis patients
Surendra K. Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar, P.K. Saha, Ninoo George, S.K. Arora, Deepak Gupta, Urvashi Singh, M. Hanif & R.P. Vashisht 

Rapid spread of Chikungunya virus infection in Orissa: India
B. Dwibedi, J. Sabat, N. Mahapatra, S.K. Kar, A.S. Kerketta, R.K. Hazra, S.K. Parida, N.S. Marai & M.K. Beuria 

Dengue disease status in Chennai (2006-2008): A retrospective analysis
P. Gunasekaran, K. Kaveri, S. Mohana, Kavita Arunagiri, B.V. Suresh Babu, P. Padma Priya, R. Kiruba, V. Senthil Kumar & A. Khaleefathullah Sheriff 

Distribution pattern of HCV genotypes & its association with viral load
Anita Chakravarti, Gaurav Dogra, Vikas Verma & Amit Parkash Srivastava 

Analysis of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) in carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Jitendra Vashist, Vishvanath Tiwari,
Rituparna Das, Arti Kapil & Moganty R. Rajeswari 

Correspondences

Strengthening ethics in clinical research
Arvind Pandey, Abha Aggarwal, S.D. Seth, Mohua Maulik & Atul Juneja 

Anti-nucleosome antibody in sclerodema patients
Francisco Gustavo Mendes e Ferreira de Araújo, Thelma Larocca Skare, Renato M. Nisihara & Shirley R. Utiyama

High levels of antimicrobial resistance at a tertiary trauma care centre of India
Bijayini Behera & Purva Mathur 

Gonorrhoea & its co-infection with other ulcerative, non-ulcerative sexually transmitted & HIV infection in a Regional STD Centre
Manju Bala, Jhinuk Basu Mullick, Sumathi Muralidhar, Joginder Kumar & V. Ramesh 

Book Reviews

Alcohol and injuries: Emergency department studies in an international perspective 
Antimicrobial resistance: Beyond the breakpoint 
The mystery of yawning in physiology and disease 
Clinical update on inflammatory disorders of gastrointestinal tract
(Frontiers of gastrointestinal research) 

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