Abstract Endobronchial hamartoma is a rare benign tumour of the lung that may present with bronchial obstruction. We present a case of endobronchial hamartoma that was resected and…
Abstract BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the CFTR gene. The most severe, DeltaF508, mutation accounts for nearly 70% of CF…
Abstract PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The tuberculin skin test, now over a century old, is prone to reader variability, and outcomes are influenced by cross-reactivity with environmental mycobacteria, previous…
Abstract OBJECTIVE: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is believed to be rare in the developing world and no large prospective Indian series have been reported to date. The present…
Abstract We report a high frequency (35%) of the Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant isolates recovered in and around Mumbai, India. Further restriction fragment-length polymorphism typing showed that these…
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Abstract No data are available on the prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) in Indians. We conducted a two-phase cross-sectional prevalence study for…
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Abstract We compared the incidence of multidrug resistance in 150 consecutive Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained from a rural center (in Sakawar, India) and an urban tertiary care center…