Primary Amoebic (Naegleria fowleri) Meningoencephalitis Presenting as Status Epilepticus

Primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a rare entity. Usual presenting features are fever, headache and seizures with meningeal signs and this disease carries high mortality rate. We present a case report of PAM presenting as status epilepticus

Trends in marine fish production in Tamil Nadu using regression and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model

Tamil Nadu is situated in the south eastern coast of the Indian peninsula with a coastal line of 1076 km (13% of the country’s coast line), 0.19 million sq.km of EEZ (9.4 % of total national EEZ) and a continental shelf of about 41,412 sq. km. This is one of the country’s leading state in marine fish production and ranks third in marine fish production. In Tamil Nadu, Ramanathapuram district is a leading maritime district followed by Nagapattinam and Thoothukudi. The objective of this study was to investigate the trends in marine fish production in Tamil Nadu. Yearly fish production data for the period of 1988-1989 to 2012-2013 were analyzed using time-series method called Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model and Regression analysis (curve estimation). In our study, the developed best ARIMA model for Tamil Nadu marine fish production was found to be ARIMA (1, 1, 1) which have the minimum BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion). ARIMA model had got a slightly higher forecasting accuracy rate for forecasting marine fish production of Tamil Nadu than Regression trend analysis. The independent sample test showed there was no significant difference between the two models. The limitations of ARIMA model include its requirement of a long time series data for better forecast. It is basically linear model assuming that data are stationary and have a limited ability to capture non-stationarities and nonlinearities in series data. Both the models indicated that Tamil Nadu marine fish production has plateaued and fishermen should be encouraged to adopt sustainable fishing practices

A Lightweight and Efficient Scheme for e-Health Care System using Blockchain Technology

We are witnessed to the huge amount of health care information is processed via Internet and uploaded to the servers. Hence, the network content suffers from various challenges in handling this wide range of information such as privacy-preservation, message requests, and sharing of information with the entities. Protection of health care information with less communication overhead and avoid signaling congestion among entities is the biggest concern. We suggest a simple and effective blockchain-based system for ehealth care in order to address these problems. We attempt to show the collective trust between receiver/ users and key generation center (KGC). Due to the characteristics such as tamper-resistant of transactions and responsiveness, the blockchain technology maintains the data access policy and privacy of each receiver/ users. In addition, we provide the public transactions apparently with the help of miners. Also, the performance analysis shows that the protocol is free from all the security attacks and avoid the signaling congestion with less overhead

Marine fish landings in Odisha during 2016 - An overview

The state of Odisha has a long coast line of 480 km with numerous fisheries harbours and fish landing centres like Paradeep, Bahabalapur, Dhamra, Atharabanki, Nuagarh, Bada Arjipally etc. According to Marine Fisheries Census 2010, there are 1.14 lakh fishermen families with 3.95 lakh fisherfolk engaged in actual fishing activities. In 2016, the marine fish production in Odisha was 1.17 lakh tonnes (t) showing a decrease of 17% over the previous year

Rhodovulum aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from a brackish water body

A yellowish brown, phototrophic, purple non-sulfur bacterium, strain JA924r, was isolated in pure culture from a brackish water sample collected from an estuary. Single cells were oval to rod-shaped, non-motile and Gram-stain-negative and had a vesicu!ar architecture of intracellular photosynthetic membranes. Bacteriochlorophyll-a and carotenoids of the spheroidene series were present as photosynthetic pigments. Photolithoautotrophy, chemo-organoheterotrophy and photo-organoheterotrophy were the growth modes observed. Strain JA924T had complex growth requ1rements. Strain JA924 T was mesophilic and moderate!y halophilic. The DNA G -t- C content was 64 mal% (HPLC). The major cellular fatty acids were C18 1f·)7c/C 18 : 11·)6c, Ct 6 0 and C 18 . 0 . The major quinone was ubiquinone-1 0 (0-1 0). Phosphatidylg!ycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, sulfolipid and an aminolipid were the main polar Iipids of strain JA924r. EzTaxon-e BLAST searches based on the 168 rRNA gene sequence of JA924T revealed highest similarity with Rhodovulum mangrovi AK41 T (98.19 %) and other members of the genus Rhodovulum (5 oc). Phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular differences indicate that strain JA924 T represents a novel species of the genus Rhodovulum, for which the name Rhodovulum aestuarii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JA924 T ( = LMG 29031 T = KCTC 15485 T)

CLOZAPINE INDUCED PARALYTIC ILEUS

Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic drug used for the treatment of schizophrenia in patient not responding to other antipsychotics. Dry mouth, constipation, loss of accommodation and urinary retention are the common side effects encountered with this drug. Here we are reporting a case of paralytic ileus secondary to clozapin

केरल तट पर मद बैंक मात्स्यिकी का अध्ययन

केरल तट पर मद बैंक मात्स्यिकी का अध्यय

Mud bank fisheries at Chettuva

A survey was conducted at Chettuva, Thrissur District, Kerala to observe the mud bank fishery in July 2016. Very low fish catch was recorded at Chettuva Fisheries harbour prior to the formation of mud bank. A sudden increase in catch after onset of mud bank formation prompted many fishers from nearby fishing villages such as Kalamukku (Ernakulam district); Chettuva, Azhikode and Thalikulam (Thrissur district) and Ponnani (Malappuram district) to temporarily migrate to these fishing grounds during the period reported.Ring seiners, motorised mini trawlers and non-motorised crafts were operated. Motorised wooden mini trawlers with either double or single outboard motor, with each boat having 9.9 hp power were also employed for fishing. Since mini trawl was operated with two attached crafts, it was locally known as double net

Clinicoepidemiological study of fixed drug eruption in tertiary care hospital

Background: Adverse cutaneous drug reactions pose diagnostic difficulties due to a varied clinical manifestations and broad categories of causative agents. Fixed drug eruptions (FDE) are one of them. Present study aims i) to record various clinical features of FDE, their causative agents and ii) to study the pattern of morbidity in patients with FDE in a tertiary care hospital, Rajkot, Gujarat, India.Methods: The 88 patients with FDEs attending department of dermatology, venereology and leprosy at PDU govt. medical college and hospital, Rajkot, Gujarat from September 2018 to September 2020 were included after informed consent. After taking thorough history, complete blood count and biochemical tests were done. HIV testing was done in severe reactions with generalised involvement. Appropriate treatment was given with counselling regarding the offending drug for prevention of reaction in future.Results: The male patients were more affected than female patients with M: F ratio of 1.3:1. The most common age group affected was 21-30 years (22.7%). Antimicrobials were the most common offending drugs (43.2%). None of the patients were HIV reactive in our study. No mortality was reported in our study.Conclusions: The patterns of FDE and the causative drugs are remarkably different in our study. Knowledge of patterns and the causative agents helps in prevention of same reactions in future in patients