Volume 12 Supplement 1

Abstracts from the First International Science Symposium on HIV and Infectious Diseases (HIV SCIENCE 2012)

Meeting abstracts

Edited by Suniti Solomon, Sunil S Solomon, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Kailapuri G Murugavel, Shanmugam Saravanan, Hussain S Iqbal and Ramachandran Vignesh

Publication of this supplement has been supported by the NIH/Office of AIDS Research, ICMR, DBT and CSIR.

First International Science Symposium on HIV and Infectious Diseases (HIV SCIENCE 2012). Go to conference site.

Chennai, India20-22 January 2012

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Prevalence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis at tertiary care hospital

Authors: Madhurima Pothula, P Sreenivasulu Reddy, P Vasundhara and Vedamurthy Reddy

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P29

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Prevalence of HAV and HEV in the patients presenting with acute viral hepatitis

Authors: Pooja Rao, M Suchitra Shenoy, Shrikala Baliga and Annu Joon

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P30

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Serological and molecular diagnosis of hepatitis B virus

Authors: S Durgadevi, Rahul Dhodapkar and Subash Chandra Parija

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P31

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Rapid diagnosis of extra pulmonary tuberculosis by automated Xpert MTB/RIF assay

Authors: Shirly Suzana, Baby Shalini, Priscilla Rupali, K Venkatesh, DJ Christopher and Joy S Michael

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P32

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Occupational transmission and prevention of HBV among health care workers in a tertiary care center

Authors: Ravikumar Mantri, Febe Ranjitha Suman, R Krishnamoorthy and Vinodkumar Panicker

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P33

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Study of changes in lipid profile and fasting blood glucose in protease inhibitor exposed HIV/AIDS patients in School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata

Authors: Ananya Bhowmik, Rajyasree De, Manotosh Mahato, Sujit Kumar Das and Subhasish Kamal Guha

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P34

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A comparative study of Pap smear findings among HIV positive and negative women at Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine (GHTM), Tambaram

Authors: GV Seethalakshmi, D Shoba, KR Mohan, C Sourabh, G Manoharan and C Chandrasekar

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P35

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Tuberculoid Hansen’s – a case report

Authors: Jaisri Anantha Padmanaban

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P36

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A rare combination of disease presentation of HIV positive person, attending Government Hospital, Chennai – a case report

Authors: Jasmine S Sundar, T Uma, S Parameswari, S Sekar, N Kabilan and Mayilvahanan Natarajan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P37

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Optimal timing for initiation of antiretroviral therapy: a prospective study on treatment naive HIV patients

Authors: Jaya Chakravarty, Avinash Singh, Anup Singh, Madhukar Rai, Anoop Gupta, Amit Agarwal and Shyam Sundar

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P38

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Oral lesions among HIV seropositive individuals in an era of generic HAART: markers of HAART efficacy?

Authors: Janani Vasudevan, Vaishnavi Sivasankar, Umadevi K Rao, Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy and Kannan Ranganathan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P39

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Response to second line antiretroviral therapy in India

Authors: Anup Singh, Jaya Chakravarty, Anoop Gupta, Shyam Sundar, Madhukar Rai, Avinash Singh and Amit Agarwal

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P40

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Treatment seeking behavior of people with malaria and households’ expenditure incurred to it in a block in endemic area in Assam, North East India

Authors: Dhruba Jyoti Borah and P Sankara Sarma

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P41

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Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus markers in multi-transfused children with beta-thalassemia

Authors: Kiran Madhusudhan and SP Thyagarajan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P42

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Novel acyclic nucleoside analogues as inhibitors of HIV-1 RT

Authors: Anuradha Singh, Madhu Yadav, Dipti Yadav, Garima Kumari and Ramendra K Singh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P43

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Response of Caenorhabditis elegans during subsequent infections with Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria

Authors: Gnanasekaran Jeba Mercy and Krishnaswamy Balamurugan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P44

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Detection of fusidic acid resistance determinants among Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing skin and soft tissue infections from a tertiary care centre in Chennai, South India

Authors: A Nagarajan, K Arunkumar, M Saravanan, G Sivakumar and Padma Krishnan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P45

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Evaluation of HIV-1 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique using dried blood spots (DBS) for diagnosis of perinatal transmission of HIV

Authors: Saraswati Rajendran, John Kenneth and Anita Shet

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P46

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Therapeutic implications of nanoencapsulated M. avium / HIV drugs against experimental tuberculosis in mice

Authors: Tapinder Grewal and Sadhna Sharma

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P47

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A microbiological study of neonatal conjunctivitis in two hospitals in Tehran, Iran

Authors: Seyed Abolfazl Afjeiee, Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Fatemeh Fallah, Arezou Tavakkoly Fard, Farideh Shiva, Saadat Adabian and Abdollah Karimi

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P48

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Gag-Vpu cross talk modulating HIV-1 envelope incorporation and infectivity in cell-type dependent manner

Authors: Archana Gautam, Ajit Patil and Jayanta Bhattacharya

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P49

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SDF-1 gene polymorphism and CCL3L1 gene copy number and susceptibility to HIV-1 / AIDS among Indians

Authors: Suhani Almal, Anuroopa Gupta and Harish Padh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P50

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Highly conjugated curcumin analog based copper complexes towards tuberculosis: synthesis, characterization and antimycobacterial activity

Authors: J Joseph, G Boomadevi Janaki, K Nagashri, R Selwin Joseyphus and C Justin Dhanaraj

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P51

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Effects of HIV related stigma on the lives of persons living with HIV

Authors: SJ Parameswari and N Jayapoorani

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P52

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Socio-demographic profile of HIV/AIDS patients at ART centres in Chennai

Authors: T Uma, Parameswari Srijayanth, S Valarmathi, S Sekar, N Kabilan and Mayilvahanan Natarajan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P53

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Factors affecting default among pre-ART patients in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

Authors: Sangeeta Kansal, Shyam Sundar, Madhukar Rai, Narendra Kumar Tiwary and Jaya Chakravarty

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P54

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Assessment of hematological adverse drug reactions to antiretroviral therapy in HIV positive patients at Kasturba Hospital Manipal

Authors: Poornima Pulagam, Radhakrishnan Rajesh, Sudha Vidyasagar and Danturulu Muralidhar Varma

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P55

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A confocal microscopic study on biofilm formed by Pseudomonas spp. isolated from lower respiratory tract infection from HIV and non-HIV populations

Authors: C Anitha, A Santhoshkumar, Padma Krishnan, BVR Tata, S Senthamarai, S Sivasankari, V Venugopal, Rajasekharan Sikhamani, M Pushkala and SK Amshavathani

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P56

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Resistance pattern of Acinetobacter spp. isolated from various clinical samples in and around Kanchipuram

Authors: S Senthamarai, S Sivasankari, C Anitha, V Venugopal and SK Amshavathani

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P57

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Hospital based cross sectional study of herpes zoster with reference to HIV seropositivity

Authors: Murugan Sundaram, S Adikrishnan, M Krishnakanth, R Sudha, V Mahalakshmi, S Shobana and S Anandan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P58

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Rare case of multiple brain abscess – Scedosporium apiospermum

Authors: Subin Mathew, Ravi Mohan Rao, S Raghavendra, BA Chandramouli, Ravindra Kamble and Sreedharan Athmanathan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P59

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Silver nanoparticles as an antibacterial agent for endodontic infections

Authors: W Sofi, M Gowri, M Shruthilaya, Suresh Rayala and Ganesh Venkatraman

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P60

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Viral hepatitis amongst Saharia: a primitive tribe of Madhya Pradesh

Authors: VG Rao, J Bhat and R Yadav

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P61

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Streptococcus invasive locus (sil) in Group A Streptococcus causing non-invasive infections in Chennai, South India

Authors: B Divya Bajoria and Thangam Menon

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P62

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Bacterial vaginal infections in diabetic and non-diabetic women

Authors: K Lakshmi, Chitralekha Saikumar, V Illamani and Godfred A Menezes

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P63

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Characterization of Pseudomonas strains from sinusitis patients

Authors: Shanmugam Sasikala and Thangiah Sundararaj

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P64

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Comparative evaluation of screening and supplementary assays used in HCV diagnosis

Authors: Vidya Nerurkar, Prabhupad Rath, Rashmi Khadapkar, Simi Bhatia and Bibhu Ranjan Das

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P65

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Oxidative stress index as a novel biochemical marker in tuberculosis; with therapeutic benefit of antioxidant supplementation

Authors: Suresh Babu Kondaveeti, Vamseedhar Annam and DR Suresh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P66

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Emergence of HIV-1 drug resistance in antiretroviral therapy experienced perinatally infected children in South India

Authors: Ujjwal Neogi, Pravat Nalini Sahoo, Ayesha De Costa and Anita Shet

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P67

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Expression of ORF2 protein of TTV for development of EIA system

Authors: Shiwani Singh, M Ahmad Ansari, Akanksha Singh, Dhananjay Singh Mankotia and M Irshad

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P68

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Protective effect of KIR3DS1 in asymptomatic HIV-1 seroconverters towards AIDS

Authors: M Stalinraja, N Kalyanaraman, P Leishman, M Suresh and M Jayalakshmi

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P69

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Clindamycin resistance among Staphylococcus aureus causing skin and ear infections from Chennai, South India

Authors: Betsy S Dass, A Nagarajan, Padma Krishnan and G Sivakumar

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P70

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Correlation between oxidative stress indices and CD4 counts in HIV infected patients

Authors: Vamseedhar Annam and DR Suresh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P71

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Integrons as surrogate marker for multi drug resistance in gram negative bacilli

Authors: Gopalakrishnan Kaushik, K Arunkumar, G Sivakumar, R Rajasomasundharam and Padma Krishnan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P72

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Comparison of sodA and 16S rDNA sequencing for accurate species-level identification of viridans group streptococci (VGS) isolated from patients with infective endocarditis

Authors: V Naveenkumar, A Nisha and Thangam Menon

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P73

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Prevalence of HCV, HBV and HIV infections in patients and staff of haemodialysis unit

Authors: Saraswathy Palanisamy, Santhosh B Patil, K Baskaran and H Shankar Narayana

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P74

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Topoisomerase II isoforms are required for HIV-1 reverse transcription

Authors: Lokeswara Balakrishna Sunnam, N Satyanarayana and Anand K Kondapi

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P75

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Atypical presentation of opioid withdrawal, an effect of adulteration

Authors: Supriya Kumar Mondal, Biswadeep Borthakur, Kamala Deka, Sabita Dihingia and Dhruba Jyoti Bhuyan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P76

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Scrub typhus-experience from a South Indian tertiary care hospital

Authors: MVS Subbalaxmi, Naval Chandra, VD Teja, Vemu Lakshmi, MN Rao and YSN Raju

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P77

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Evaluation of PCR based DNA sequencing targeting mitochondrial larger subunit (mtLSU) region for the rapid detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in sputum from HIV positive patients

Authors: M Revathy, K Lily Therese, C Chandrasekar, J Suria Kumar, HN Madhavan and A Kamala Vinayagam

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P78

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