March 2010

Clinical and geographical profiles of rpoB gene mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Hyderabad and Koraput in India

Present study aims to study the geographical profile of rpoB mutations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates and their correlation with the therapeutic outcome. All the isolates were tested for drug susceptibility testing on Lowenstein-Jensen medium and PCR and DNA sequencing for rpoB gene mutations. Fifty two out of 101(52%) isolates were pan susceptible of which 79% were...

Author(s): Mercy Aparna L. Lingala, Aparna Srikantam, Suman Jain, K. V. S. M. Rao and P. V. Ranganadha Rao

March 2010

In vitro antibacterial activity of fronds (leaves) of some important pteridophytes

The main objective of this research work is to screen various unexploited plants for their antimicrobial activity as these unexploited or pteridophytic plants are being used ethanomedicinally but, very little work has been done on their antimicrobial aspects. So, to explore the efficacy of these plants, the following research has been carried out. Bacterial strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Escherichia coli,...

Author(s): Pradeep Parihar, Leena Parihar and Achaleshwar Bohra