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Aging is among the phenomena more commonly discussed in world health in recent years. Disability is a good indicator to measure health status in the aging population. Accordingly, the primary objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of disability and its relationship with demographic characteristics of the elderly in Zahedan city in Iran in 2016. This is a cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study. Using two-stage random sampling, 400 seniors were selected in Zahedan and were studied. A researcher made questionnaire was used to collect demographic information and disability study instruments included WHODAS – 36 items without time code. Collected data were analyzed using the SPSS version 16 software using the chi-square test. Of 400, 218 individuals were female and182ones were male and the mean age of the participant’s was 73.21 ± 6.82 years old. The overall prevalence of disability among the elderly in Zahedan was 62.3%. The prevalence of disability had a significant relationship with age, education, occupation and income level (p < 0.05), whereas no relationship was observed...
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Murrels are very often affected by Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS) and it causes huge loss to the capture and culture sector. The principal infectious agent of this infestation is a fungal species, Aphanomyces invadans. Different fungal species were isolated from EUS infected Channa punctatus fish from Hasanparthy Lake of Warangal, Telangana, India. Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium solani, Rhizophus stolenifer, Aspergillus fumigatus, Penicillium chrysogenum, Aspergillus niger and Trichoderma viridae were most isolated groups. Isolates have been obtained and ability to induce dermal lesions in infectivity studies make fungi is one of the likely primary aetiological agents that could be triggering the initiation to EUS. Fungi was observed as persistent infections in fishes evidenced by their presence in cell culture also require further investigations for their role in predisposing the freshwater fish of C. punctatus. The environmental conditions were also found in fluctuation during the winter season. In the present study isolation of fungal pathogens from infected fish like Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium solani, Rhizophus stolenifer, Aspergillus fumigatus, Penicillium chrysogenum, Aspergillus niger and...
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Molecular docking studies of 102 newly designed N-substituted imidazoles was performed in the non nucleoside inhibitory binding pocket of reverse transcriptase enzyme of wild type as well as resistant strains of HIV-1 virus with PDB ID 1RT2, 1JLB, 3BGR and 1FK9 respectively by using Glide 5.0 to carry out a binding mode analysis of the designed imidazoles. Results generated from this study indicate that most of the compounds dock into the active site of different enzymes such as 1RT2, 1JLB, 3BGR and 1FK9 showing excellent Docking scores comparable to the standard TNK 651. Compounds SRS 21, SRS 34, SRS 45, SRS 46, SRS 73, SRS 76 and SRS 77 exhibited the highest docking scores and were found to be most effective as compared to standard TNK...
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Objectives: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most substantial infectious causes of death in the world. Studies focusing on the quality of life (QOL) among TB patients are limited and the effect of counselling on patients QOL has not been well-studied. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of patient counselling on QOL among patients with Tuberculosis. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted over 6 months at a tertiary care hospital after permission from the Institutional Ethics Committee. Tuberculosis patients between 18 and 65 years and were taking anti-tubercular therapy were included. Their physical component scoring (PCS) and mental component scoring (MCS) were assessed using SF-12®questionnaire. Counselling was provided to all the patients and PCS and MCS were assessed again after 14 days. Results: A total of 109 patients were taken for the study. There was an improvement in physical and mental status of TB patients. Conclusion: Improved physical and mental status implies the positive impact of patient...
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Recently, biological synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) has attracted attention because of the need to develop new cost-effective and efficient synthesis protocol. In this paper, we account for the use of cell-free extract of Spirulina platensis in the biosynthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) of dimensions 30 – 40 nm. The biosynthesised CuO NPs were confirmed visually by appearance of dark brown colour formation in mixture and surface plasmon resonance band observed at 259 nm by using UV-Visible Spectroscopy. The size and morphology of the nanoparticles were confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis. Furthermore, these NPs were found to exhibit high antibacterial activity against pathogenic gram-negative i.e. Escherichia coli – MTCC-9721, Proteus vulgaris – MTCC-7299, Klebsiella pneumonia – MTCC-9751 and gram-positive i.e. Staphylococcus aureus – MTCC-9542, S. epidermidid -MTCC- 2639, Bacillus cereus – MTCC-9017 bacteria. The CuO NPs had shown maximum zone of inhibition (ZOI) i.e. 28.0 ± 0.41 mm in P....
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