Browsing by Author "N.R. Agrawal"

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Clinicoepidemiological study of drug resistance in Indian kala - azar
(1994) S. Sundar; B.B. Thakur; A.K. Tandon; N.R. Agrawal; C.P. Mishra; T.M. Mahaptra; V.P. Singh
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False positive HIV -1 DNA PCR in infancy
(2008) D. Agarwal; N.R. Agrawal
[No abstract available]
Study on clinico-epidemiological profile of HIV patients in Eastern India
(2006) J. Chakravarty; H. Mehta; A. Parekh; S.V.S. Attili; N.R. Agrawal; S.P. Singh; S. Sundar
In this study, 438 HIV positive patients attending the HIV clinic of Sir Sundar Lal Hospital, IMS, BHU were enrolled. Of these 354 were males (mean CD4 count 179 ± 9.3 cells/μl) and 84 were females (mean CD4 count 323 ± 28.26 cells/μl). The mean age of the study subjects at the time of diagnosis was 32.6 years. Heterosexual contact was the commonest mode of transmission in 352 (80.4%) patients followed by blood transfusion in 2.5%.History suggestive of a risk factor for HIV transmission could not be elicited in 62 (14.1%) patients. Among male patients, 71.5% were migrant workers. Fever (70.6%), weight loss (53.3%), chronic diarrhea (43.9%) and cough (40.3%) were the common presenting symptoms. Out of the 438 patients, 66.4% had opportunistic infections at the time of reporting to the hospital. The most common opportunistic infection was tuberculosis (38.8%) followed by oropharyngeal candidiasis (20.3%) and diarrhea (12.7%). CD4 counts of the patients were significantly inversely correlated with the number of symptoms and the number of opportunistic infections (correlation coefficient were -.289 and -.236 respectively). © JAPI 2006.