Trend of viral load during the first, second, and third wave of COVID-19 in the Indian Himalayan region: an observational study of the Uttarakhand state

Autor: Shailender Negi, Diksha, Deepjyoti Kalita, Neeraj Ranakoti, Ashish Negi, Diksha Kandwal, Shailesh Kumar Gupta, Yogendra Pratap Mathuria

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 14 (2024)

India had faced three waves throughout the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which had already impacted economic lives and affected the healthcare setting and infrastructure. The widespread impacts have inspired researchers to look for cl

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Post-COVID pulmonary fungal infections: An unanticipated predicament or a ticking time bomb? Clinico-microbiological profile of cases encountered during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic at a teaching hospital in the Himalayas with a brief literature review

Autor: Oshin Puri, Mohit Bhatia, Udayakumar S Rekha, Deepika Chakraborty, Ruchi Dua, Minakshi Dhar, Udit Chauhan, Amber Prasad, Deepjyoti Kalita, Neelam Kaistha

Publikováno v: Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Vol 12, Iss 12, Pp 3228-3235 (2023)

Introduction: This study attempts to generate preliminary data regarding post-COVID pulmonary fungal infections, namely, COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA), COVID-19-associated pulmonary mucormycosis (CAPM), and mixed infections from

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Effectiveness of BBV152/Covaxin and AZD1222/Covishield vaccines against severe COVID-19 and B.1.617.2/Delta variant in India, 2021: a multi-centric hospital-based case-control study

Autor: Tarun Bhatnagar, Sirshendu Chaudhuri, Manickam Ponnaiah, Pragya D Yadav, R Sabarinathan, Rima R Sahay, Faheem Ahmed, S Aswathy, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Anil Bilimale, M Santhosh Kumar, M. Logaraj, Uday Narlawar, C Palanivel, Prakash Patel, Sanjay K Rai, Vartika Saxena, Arvind Singh, Jeromie WV Thangaraj, Ashwini Agarwal, Yasir Alvi, Amoghashree, P Ashok, Dinesh Babu, Yogesh Bahurupi, Sangita Bhalavi, Priyamadhaba Behera, Priyanka Pandit Biswas, Jaykaran Charan, Nishant Kumar Chauhan, KB Chetak, Lalit Dar, Ayan Das, R Deepashree, Minakshi Dhar, Rahul Dhodapkar, TS Dipu, Mridu Dudeja, Manisha Dudhmal, Ravisekhar Gadepalli, Mahendra Kumar Garg, AV Gayathri, Akhil Dhanesh Goel, H Basavana Gowdappa, Randeep Guleria, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Farzana Islam, Mannu Jain, Vineet Jain, M Lanord Stanley Jawahar, Rajendra Joshi, Shashi Kant, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Deepjyoti Kalita, Meenakshi Khapre, Satyendra Khichar, Sarika Prabhakar Kombade, Sunil Kohli, Abhinendra Kumar, Anil Kumar, Deepak Kumar, Kiran G Kulirankal, KV Leela, Triparna Majumdar, Baijayantimala Mishra, Puneet Misra, Sanjeev Misra, Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra, M Narayana Murthy, Dimpal A Nyayanit, Manish Patel, Monika Pathania, Savita Patil, Binod Kumar Patro, Ramniwas Jalandra, Pragati Rathod, Naimesh Shah, Anita Shete, Deepak Shukla, M Shwethashree, Smita Sinha, MN Sumana, Ashish Surana, Anjan Trikha, A Tejashree, Mahalingam Venkateshan, G Vijaykrishnan, Sarita Wadhava, Naveet Wig, Nivedita Gupta, Priya Abraham, Manoj V Murhekar

Publikováno v: International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 122, Iss , Pp 693-702 (2022)

Objectives: India introduced BBV152/Covaxin and AZD1222/Covishield vaccines in January 2021. We estimated the effectiveness of these vaccines against severe COVID-19 among individuals aged ≥45 years. Methods: We did a multi-centric, hospital-based,

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Feasibility of Indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) alone as a screening method for antinuclear antibody in connective diseases in India's sub-Himalayan region

Autor: Deepjyoti Kalita, U Sashi Rekha, Anusha K Raj, Putul Mahanta, Pratima Gupta, Sangeeta Deka

Publikováno v: Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, Vol 65, Iss 4, Pp 873-878 (2022)

Background: For the management of connective tissue disorders (CTDs), antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing is essential, both from diagnostic and prognostic points of view. Usually, patterns obtained by ANA-IIF testing correlates to specific autoantibo

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The mystery of mucormycosis in COVID-19: A multifactorial menace or an enigmatic delta variant associated phenomenon? An exploratory study from a tertiary care centre in North India with a brief literature review

Autor: Deepjyoti Kalita, Mohit Bhatia, Udayakumar Sasi Rekha, Arpana Singh

Publikováno v: Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 46-51 (2022)

Background: There was a global surge in cases of mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients during the second wave of the pandemic in 2021, reported especially from India. Various predisposing factors such as diabetes mellitus, rampant use of corticosteroids,

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