Vol. 30 No. 1 (2012)

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Published: 2012-07-20

Review Article

Nutrition of Children and Women in Bangladesh: Trends and Directions for the Future

Tahmeed Ahmed, Santhia Ireen, AM Shamsir Ahmed, Sabuktagin Rahman, M Munirul Islam, Nurul Alam, M Iqbal Hossain, SM Mustafizur Rahman, M Mohsin Ali, Fatima Perveen Choudhury, Alejandro Cravioto

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Increasing Antimicrobial Resistance of Vibrio cholerae O1 Biotype El Tor Strains Isolated in a Tertiary-care Centre in India

Jharna Mandal, Dinoop KP, Subhash Chandra Parija

12-16
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Storing Drinking-water in Copper pots Kills Contaminating Diarrhoeagenic Bacteria

VB Preethi Sudha, Sheeba Ganesan, GP Pazhani, T Ramamurthy, GB Nair, Padma Venkatasubramanian

17-21
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Internalized HIV/AIDS-related Stigma in a Sample of HIV-positive People in Bangladesh

Md Tanvir Hasan, Samir Ranjan Nath, Nabilah S Khan, Owasim Akram, Tony Michael Gomes

22-30
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Perceptions about Probiotic Yogurt for Health and Nutrition in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Mwanza, Tanzania

Melissa A Whaling, Isaac Luginaah, Gregor Reid, Sharereh Hekmat, Amardeep Thind, Joseph Mwanga, John Changalucha

31-40
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Profile of Neonatal Septicaemia at a District-level Sick Newborn Care Unit

Rajlakshmi Viswanathan, Arun K Singh, Chiranjib Ghosh, Sudipta Dasgupta, Suchandra Mukherjee, Sulagna Basu

41-48
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Prevalence of Food Insecurity among Women in Northern Jordan

Hiba A Bawadi, Reema F Tayyem, Amal N Dwairy, Nemeh Al Akour

49-55
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Sex Differences Independent of Other Psycho-sociodemographic Factors as a Predictor of Body Mass Index in Black South African Adults

Annamarie Kruger, Maria P Wissing, Gordon W Towers, Colleen M Doak

56-65
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Physical Inactivity Is Correlated with Levels of Quantitative C-reactive Protein in Serum, Independent of Obesity: Results of the National Surveillance of Risk Factors of Non-communicable Diseases in Iran

Alireza Esteghamati, Afsaneh Morteza, Omid Khalilzadeh, Mehdi Anvari, Sina Noshad, Ali Zandieh, Manouchehr Nakhjavani

66-72
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Patterns of Alcohol Consumption among Male Adults at a Slum in Kolkata, India

Santanu Ghosh, Amrita Samanta, Shuvankar Mukherjee

73-81
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Income Is a Stronger Predictor of Mortality than Education in a National Sample of US Adults

Charumathi Sabanayagam, Anoop Shankar

82-86
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Seropositivity of Toxoplasmosis in Antenatal Women with Bad Obstetric History in a Tertiary-care Hospital of Andhra Pradesh, India

Munmun Das Sarkar, B Anuradha, Neelam Sharma, Rabindra Nath Roy

87-92
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Postpartum Amenorrhoea among Manipuri Women: A Survival Analysis

N Sanajaoba Singh, N Sharat Singh, RK Narendra

93-98
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Availability and Rational Use of Drugs in Primary Healthcare Facilities Following the National Drug Policy of 1982: Is Bangladesh on Right Track?

Syed Masud Ahmed, Qazi Shafayetul Islam

99-108
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Short Report

A Rapidly-progressing Outbreak of Cholera in a Shelter-home for Mentally-retarded Females, Amta-II Block, Howrah, West Bengal, India

Subhransu Sekhar Datta, R Ramakrishnan, Manoj V Murhekar

109-112
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Clinical and Epidemiological Profiles of Severe Malaria in Children from Delhi, India

Jaya Shankar Kaushik, Sunil Gomber, Pooja Dewan

113-116
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Case studies

Eosinophilic Fasciitis: What Matters in Management in a Developing CountryA Case Report with Two and a Half-year Follow-up

Md Nazrul Islam, Md Ariful Islam, Syed Jamil Abdal, Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad, Abul Khair Ahmedullah, Syed Atiqul Haq

117-120
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