Medicolegal Consequences of Death due to Stevens Johnson Syndrome: A Case Report

Conditions like Stevens Johnson syndrome are very rare and mortality arising out of it is still a rarest entity. It is immune complex mediated hypersensitivity reaction; most common factors to trigger the immunity are drugs, followed by infection with various organisms, which starts the chain of events in SJS. It sometimes associated with HLA Antigen and 25-50% cases are idiopathic. In present case an emphasis is given on progression of this life threatening condition, mode of death, responsibilities of the physician and legal as well as criminal consequences arise out of it while treating such cases

Glycan based detection and drug susceptibility of influenza virus

ABSTRACT: We have developed a panel of synthetic glycans as receptor mimics for the specific capture of influenza viruses. The glycans were printed onto commercial glass slides using a free amine at the end of a spacer to generate a small focused microarray. The microarray was evaluated for its ability to capture three different strains of influenza A virus, two H1N1, A/Brisbane/59/2007 and A/Solomon Islands/3/2006 and one H3N2, A/Aichi/2/1968. We observed an excellent detection ability with some compounds exhibiting clinically relevant (101 plaque forming units) limit of detection. We also tested the drug susceptibility of current antivirals, Zanamivir and Ostelamivir using this microarray and could determine antiviral resistance for these strains

Epidemiological profile of drowning deaths: a cross sectional study

Abstract Background World Health Organization described, drowning as serious and neglected public health problem. Near about 42 people every hour and 3.7 lakh every year die from drowning in the world. In India out of total cases of unnatural deaths 9.4% were died due to drowning, this was the second most common after road traffic accidents. Method The present study was undertaken at tertiary care hospital government medical college and hospital located in central India on dead bodies brought for postmortem. The study was carried out during the period of December 2013 to November 2015 on 176 cases, to study the various epidemiological parameters of drowning. Result and conclusions We have concluded that 72.02% victims were male and 28.98% were female, with ratio 2.45:1, drowning deaths were most commonly seen in age groups of 21-30 years (27.84%). Married population constitutes 46.59% and remaining 32.95% were unmarried. Maximum number of drowning deaths had occurred in urban region constituting 57.38% cases followed by rural region constituting 42.62% cases. Students were the victim seen in 18.75% cases, Hindu community contributed to maximum number of cases with 60.23% cases, number of victims of drowning deaths belong to upper-lower class with 35.23% cases. In drowning deaths 21.02% of victims had familial and financial problems and depression in 20.45% cases, chronic alcoholism in 18.18% cases. The number of drowning deaths occurred in rainy season was (43.75%). Most of the drowned victims were retrieved from lakes (44.32%), wells (34.66%), rivers (8.52%) and ponds (5.68%)

An unusual pattern of tattooing in the form of body designing: A case report

Tattoos are the designs imprinted on the body surface which may be either temporary or permanent in nature. This may sometimes be associated with personality and behavioral disorders. Literature regarding tattooing and its associated disorders are not documented largely and had very limited references either in western or South-Asian countries like India. In the present case the patient was brought to our hospital for eliciting consumption of alcohol and any other injuries over the body. The person examined had decorated his left arm and forearm by fine designs by a blue ball point pen. He also had multiple fresh incised cuts on the forearms and wrist. Such a presentation with a somewhat risk taking, masochistic behavior and the chronic nature of drawing designs over the body by a ball point pen was very rare and not noted as per best of our knowledge