Publications

multidrug resistant salmonella typhi in rourkela, orissa.	out of 5410 blood samples 715 samples were found positive for salmonella typhi. enteric fever was prevalent for last three years in rourkela. in last two years, a number of multidrug resistant strains of salmonella typhi was isolated which constituted almost 16.1% of the total isolates. in this study, chloramphenicol sensitivity was found quite high (86.5%) and ceftriaxone showed 100% sensitivity. resistance to ciprofloxacin was found 2.5% which due to direct consequence of indiscriminate use of ...	2000	11217269
occurrence of salmonella typhi infection in rourkela, orissa.	between january 1996 and december 1998, the isolation rate of salmonella typhi in rourkela was found to be on a steady rise. of the 7866 samples (blood and bone marrow) tested, 988 were found positive for s. typhi giving an overall per cent positivity of 12.56. enteric fever was found to occur almost throughout the year with a peak from early winter up to the end of summer. in this study, chloramphenicol was found to have an average sensitivity of 87.46 per cent. ceftriaxone showed 100 per cent ...	2000	10937381
a steady decrease in occurrence of salmonella typhi infection in rourkela, orissa.	between january 1999 and december 2001, the isolation rate of salmonella typhi in rourkela was found to be under steady fall as compared to the isolation rate encountered between 1996 and 1998. of 4378 blood samples tested, 254 were found positive for s. typhi giving an over all per cent positivity of 5.8. enteric fever was found to occur almost through out the year. an over all 30.7 per cent of multi drug resistant (mdr) strains of s. typhi have appeared during this period. proper and timely he ...	2003	15025323
a sudden rise in occurrence of salmonella paratyphi a infection in rourkela orissa.		2007	17377367
incidence of bacterial enteropathogens among hospitalized diarrhea patients from orissa, india.	bacteriological analysis of 1,551 stool/rectal swabs from all age groups of diarrhea patients of different hospitals of orissa from january 2004 to december 2006 was carried out using standard procedures. among all enteropathogens isolated in 886 culture-positive samples, escherichia coli constituted 75.5%, including 13.2% pathogenic e. coli; vibrio cholerae o1 constituted 17.3%; v. cholerae o139, 1%; shigella spp., 4.5% (shigella flexneri type 6, 2.9%, s. dysenteriae type i, 0.7%, s. sonnei, 0. ...	2008	18806340
occurrence & antibiogram of salmonella typhi & s. paratyphi a isolated from rourkela, orissa.	background & objectives : almost round-the-year occurrence of salmonella typhi and salmonella paratyphi a has been noticed in rourkela since last 13 and five years respectively. the incidence of infection along with the antibiogram of these two serotypes in this area were carried out. methods: the study was carried out at ispat general hospital, rourkela, india, between january 2005 and december 2008 with 5340 blood samples collected from patients with suspected enteric fever and pyrexia of unkn ...	2011	21537098