Items where Year is 2003

Chandra, G and Selvaraj, P and Reetha, A M and Narayanan, P R (2003) 715. Chandra G, et al. BamH1 polymorphism of Human Cytochrome P450 gene, CYP2D6, in quiescent and relpse patients of pulmonary tuberculosis. Biomedicine, 23 (1&2). pp. 27-32. ISSN 0970-2067

Daisy Vanitha, J and Venkatasubramani, R and Dharmalingam, K and Paramasivan, C N (2003) Large-Restriction-Fragment Polymorphism Analysis of Mycobacterium chelonae and Mycobacterium terrae Isolates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69 (7). pp. 4337-4341. ISSN Print: 0099-2240; Online: 1098-5336

Gopi, P G and Subramani, R and Radhakrishna, S and Kolappan, C and Sadacharam, K and Devi, T S and Frieden, T R and Narayanan, P R (2003) A baseline survey of the prevalence of tuberculosis in a community in south India at the commencement of a DOTS programme. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7 (12). pp. 1154-1162. ISSN Print: 1027-3719; Online: 1815-7920

Immanuel, Chandra and Gurumurthy, Prema and Ramachandran, Geetha and Venkatesan, P and Chandrasekaran, V and Prabhakar, R (2003) Bioavailability of rifampicin following concomitant administration of ethambutol or isoniazid or pyrazinamide or a combination of the three drugs. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 118 (Sep). pp. 109-114. ISSN 0971-5916

Madhuri, S and Vengadesan, N and Aruna, P and Koteeswaran, D and Venkatesan, P and Ganesan, S (2003) Native Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Blood Plasma in the Characterization of Oral Malignancy. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 78 (2). pp. 197-204. ISSN Print: 0031-8655; Online: 1751-1097

Mani, C and Selvakumar, N and Gajendiran, N and Panigrahi, B and Venkatesan, P and Narayanan, P R (2003) Standardisation and evaluation of DNA-lanthanide fluorescence spectroscopy for determining rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7 (9). pp. 873-878. ISSN Print: 1027-3719; Online: 1815-7920

Mani, C and Selvakumar, N and Kumar, V and Narayanan, S and Narayanan, P R (2003) Comparison of DNA sequencing, PCR-SSCP and PhaB assays with indirect sensitivity testing for detection of rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7 (7). pp. 652-659. ISSN Print: 1027-3719; Online: 1815-7920

Narayanan, P R and Garg, R and Santha, T and Paul Kumaran, P (2003) Shifting the focus of tuberculosis research in India. Tuberculosis, 83 (1-3). pp. 135-142. ISSN 1472-9792

Narayanan, P R and Santha, T and Paul Kumaran, P (2003) Tuberculosis control strategies: Challenges to health management research. Health Administrator, 15 (1&2). pp. 113-117. ISSN 0971-5673

O'Bryan, L and Pinkston, P and Kumaraswami, V and Vijayan, V and Yenokida, G and Rosenberg, H F and Crystal, R and Ottesen, E A and Nutman, T B (2003) Localized Eosinophil Degranulation Mediates Disease in Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia. Infection and Immunity, 71 (3). pp. 1337-1342. ISSN Print: 0019-9567; Online: 1098-5522

Paramasivan, C N (2003) Status of drug resistance in tuberculosis after the introduction of rifampicin in India. Journal of Indian Medical Association, 101 (3). pp. 154-156. ISSN 0019-5847

Paramasivan, C N and Venkataraman, P and Vasantham, J S and Rahman, F and Narayanan, P R (2003) Quality assurance studies in eight State tuberculosis laboratories in India. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7 (6). pp. 522-527. ISSN Print: 1027-3719; Online: 1815-7920

Pedulla, M and Ford, M E and Houtz, J M and Karthikeyan, T and Wadsworth, C and Lewis, J A and Jacobs-Sera, D and Falbo, J and Gross, J and Pannunzio, N R and Brucker, W and Kumar, Vanaja and Kandasamy, Jayasankar and Keenan, L and Bardarov, S and Kriakov, J and Lawrence , J G and Jacobs, W R and Hendrix, R W and Hatfull, G F (2003) Origins of Highly Mosaic Mycobacteriophage Genomes. Cell, 113 (2). pp. 171-182. ISSN 0092-8674

Prabha, C and Jalapathy, Kripa V and Matsa, Ram Prasad and Das, Sulochana D (2003) Role of TNF-a in host immune response in tuberculous pleuritis. Current Science, 85 (5). pp. 639-642. ISSN 0011-3891

Rajavelu, Priya and Das, Sulochana D (2003) Cell-Mediated Immune Responses of Healthy Laboratory Volunteers to Sonicate Antigens Prepared from the Most Prevalent Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from South India Harboring a Single Copy of IS6110. Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, 10 (6). pp. 1149-1152. ISSN Print: 1556-6811; Online: 1556-679X

Ramachandran, R and Datta, M and Subramani, R and Baskaran, G and Paramasivan, C N and Swaminathan, S (2003) Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among tuberculosis patients in Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 118 (Oct). pp. 147-151. ISSN 0971-5916

Ramachandran, R and Paramasivan, C N (2003) What is new in the diagnosis of tuberculosis? Part I; Techniques for diagnosis of tuberculosis. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 50 (3). pp. 133-141. ISSN 0019-5705

Ramachandran, R and Paramasivan, C N (2003) What is new in the diagnosis of tuberculosis? Part II: Techniques for drug susceptibility testing. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 50 (4). pp. 197-202. ISSN 0019-5705

Ramachandran, R and Swaminathan, S and Sulochana, S and Paramasivan, C N (2003) Nocardia bacteraemia in an HIV-positive patient - a case report. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 21 (4). pp. 287-288. ISSN Print: 0255-0857; Online: 1998-3646

Ramalingam, B and Uma Devi, K R and Raja, Alamelu (2003) Isotype-specific Anti-38 and 27 kDa (mpt 51) Response in Pulmonary Tuberculosis with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Coinfection. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 35 (4). pp. 234-239. ISSN Print: 0036-5548; Online: 1651-1980

Santha, T and Renu, G and Frieden, T R and Subramani, R and Gopi, P G and Chandrasekaran, V and Selvakumar, N and Thomas, A and Rajeswari, R and Balasubramanian, R and Kolappan, C and Narayanan, P R (2003) Are community surveys to detect tuberculosis in high prevalence areas useful? Results of a comparative study from Tiruvallur District, South India. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7 (3). pp. 258-265. ISSN Print: 1027-3719; Online: 1815-7920

Santhakumaran, A and Nanthakumar, C and Venkatesan, P and Kannan, R (2003) A stochastic model for sero conversion times of HIV transmission. Bio-Science Research Bulletin, 19 (1). pp. 23-29. ISSN Print: 0970-0889; Online 2320-3161

Selvakumar, N (2003) Role of laboratory in RNTCP. Journal of Indian Medical Association, 101 (3). pp. 173-174. ISSN 0019-5847

Selvakumar, N and Govindan, Dakshayani and Chandu, Naik Ashok and Frieden, T R and Narayanan, P R (2003) Processing Sputum Specimens in a Refrigerated Centrifuge Does Not Increase the Rate of Isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (1). pp. 469-471. ISSN Print: 0095-1137; Online: 1098-660X

Selvakumar, N and Prabhakaran, E and Rahman, F and Chandu, C A and Srinivasan, S and Santha, T and Chauhan, L S and Narayanan, P R (2003) Blinded rechecking of sputum smears for acid-fast bacilli to ensure the quality and usefulness of restaining smears to assess false-positive errors. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7 (11). pp. 1077-1082. ISSN Print: 1027-3719; Online: 1815-7920

Selvaraj, P and Chandra, G and Kurian, Sunil Mathan and Reetha, A M and Narayanan, P R (2003) Association of vitamin D receptor gene variants of BsmI, ApaI and FokI polymorphisms with susceptibility or resistance to pulmonary tuberculosis. Current Science, 84 (12). pp. 1564-1563. ISSN 0011-3891

Shenoy, R K and Suma, T K and Kumaraswami, V (2003) A Qualitative Study on the Feasibility and Benefits of Foot Hygiene Measures Practiced by Patients with Brugian Filariasis. Journal of Communicable Diseases, 35 (1). pp. 9-16. ISSN 0019-5138

Sing, R and Rao, V and Shakila, H and Gupta, R and Khera, A and Dhar, N and Singh, A and Koul, A and Singh, Y and Naseema, M and Narayanan, P R and Paramasivan, C N and Ramanathan, V D and Tyagi, A K (2003) Disruption of mptpB impairs the ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to survive in guinea pigs. Molecular Microbiology, 50 (3). pp. 751-762. ISSN Print: 0950-382X; Online: 1365-2958

Sudha, G and Nirupa, C and Rajasakthivel, M and Sivasubramanian, S and Sundaram, V and Bhatt, S and Subramaniam, K and Thiruvalluvan, E and Mathew, R and Renu, G and Santha, T (2003) Factors influencing the care-seeking behaviour of chest symptomatics: a community-based study involving rural and urban population in Tamil Nadu, South India. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 8 (4). pp. 336-341. ISSN Print: 1360-2276; Online: 1365-3156

Suma, T K and Shenoy, R K and Kumaraswami, V (2003) A qualitative study of the perceptions, practices and socio-psychological suffering related to chronic brugian filariasis in Kerala, southern India. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 97 (8). pp. 839-845. ISSN Print: 0003-4983; Online: 1364-8594

Swaminathan, S and Kuppurao, K V and Somu, N and Vijayan, V K (2003) Reduced Exercise Capacity in Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis. Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 70 (7). pp. 553-556. ISSN Print: 0019-5456; Online: 0973-7693

Swaminathan, Soumya and Hanna, L E and Raja, Alamelu and Sankaran, K and Arunkumar, N (2003) Age-related changes in blood lymphocyte subsets of south Indian children. National Medical Journal of India, 16 (5). pp. 249-252. ISSN 0970-258X

Thomas, Aleyamma (2003) People with TB: DOTS cured me, it will cure you too. ICMR Bulletin, 33 (3). pp. 29-33. ISSN 0377-4910

Tuberculosis Research Centre , Chennai (2003) Association of initial tuberculin sensitivity, age and sex with the incidence of tuberculosis in South India: a 15-year follow-up. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 7 (11). pp. 1083-1091. ISSN Print: 1027-3719; Online: 1815-7920

Tuberculosis Research Centre , Chennai (2003) Trends in initial drug resistance over three decades in a rural community in south India. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 50 (2). pp. 75-86. ISSN 0019-5705

Uma Devi, K R and Ramalingam, B and Raja, Alamelu (2003) Antibody response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis 30 and 16kDa antigens in pulmonary tuberculosis with human immunodeficiency virus coinfection. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 46 (3). pp. 205-209. ISSN 0732-8893

Venkataraman, P and Paramasivan, C N (2003) Drug resistance in tuberculosis and issues related to multidrug resistance in planning for TB control in India. Health Administrator, 15 (1-2). pp. 127-136. ISSN 0971-5673