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Partha Sarathi Mandal ¹, Amit Kumar Bandyopadhyay ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Library and Information Science. The University of Burdwan. Golapbag, Burdwan– 713104. West Bengal, IN
2 Departemt of Library and Information Science, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan 713104, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

This paper makes a comparative study of library habit among three types of school students namely, students of Ramakrishna Mission aided schools, Private English medium schools and Govt. aided schools. It is found in the study that the library habit exists among student community, which is a positive sign for a developing nation like India. It will increase the quality of reading and research.

Keywords

Library Habit, Lack of Library Habits, School Student, School Library

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Partha Sarathi Mandal ¹, Sunit Kumar Mukhopadhayay ², Saktipada Pradhan ², Samiran Mondal ², Chandrakanta Jana ³, Nimai Chandra Patra ², Rabindra Nath Hansda ²

Affiliations
1 Block Animal Health Centre, Gorubathan, Darjeeling, West Bengal, IN
2 Department of Veterinary Pathology, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences, Kolkata-700037, West Bengal, IN
3 Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar Campus, Mukteswar, Uttarakhand, IN

Abstract

Aim: The study was undertaken to detect the clinical signs, postmortem lesions of embryonated duck plague (DP) infected eggs, and histopathological changes of chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) in non-descriptive ducks of West Bengal with special reference to standardize nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Materials and Methods: After postmortem of suspected carcasses, samples were collected for virus isolation and identification through specific pathogen free (Khaki Campbell) embryonated duck eggs. PCR was also done as confirmatory test after doing postmortem of duck embryos. DP specific nested PCR was standardized for better confirmation of the disease. Sensitivity of nested primers was also tested for DP virus.
Results: Gross, postmortem and histopathological changes were prominent in dead embryos. First set of primer was able to detect 602 bp fragments of DNA polymerase gene of duck enteritis virus from infected CAM. Subsequently, a DP specific nested PCR which was very much sensitive for very small amount of viral genome was successfully standardized. After NCBI blast nucleotide sequence of nested PCR product (Accession No. HG425076) showed homology with the sequences data available in GenBank.
Conclusion: The study concludes that PCR assay is very much helpful to diagnose DP disease and developed nested PCR is a double confirmatory diagnostic tool for DP.

Keywords

Chorioallantoic Membrane Histopathology, Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction, Polymerase Chain Reaction.

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Arun Vadavi ¹, Vinod Kumar Bhargava ², Ashok Jhingan ³, C. R. Anand Moses ⁴, Partha Sarathi Mandal ⁵, Gunjan Lath ⁶, V. Anand ⁶, Sameer Rao ⁶

Affiliations
1 Sudha The Prevention Centre, No.572, 2nd Main, 6th Block, 2nd Phase, Hoskerahalli Cross, Banashankari 3rd Stage, Bangalore, IN
2 Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, IN
3 Diabetes Education and Research Foundation, J-136, Rajouri Garden, Delhi, IN
4 Moses Diabetes Centre, Department of Diabetology, Chennai, IN
5 AMRI hospital, Salt Lake, Kolkata, IN
6 Department of Scientific and Medical Affairs, Abbott Nutrition International, Mumbai, IN

Abstract

Poor glycemic control in diabetes patients is a major hurdle in the management of disease and its associated comorbidities. Pharmacotherapy alone is not sufficient to curb the risk of associated complications. The role of nutrition along with physical exercise in achieving optimal glycemic con-trol is overlooked for many years in India. Nowadays, medical nutrition therapy (MNT) has evolved as an integral therapy in achieving better gly-cemic control. However, there is a lack of uniformity in health care practitioner’s perception and lack of recommendations in a structured manner regard-ing its use. Through a series of regional advisory board meeting, insights were gained into current practices in diabetes management to uncover the gaps in nutrition for better patient outcomes, and understand patient knowledge, attitude and perceptions towards nutrition in general and diabetes-specific formulas (DSF) in particular. The key viewpoints were as follows: i) Good self-care practice and creating awareness inpatients about glycemic variations is important. ii) Experts highlighted the importance of referring patients to a clinical nutritionist or dietician. Patients should be introduced to diabetic educators and education through charts regarding different foods with low glycemic index is advised. iii) Portion in patients diet plan as a partial if not full meal replacement. Diabetes-specific formulas should be palatable and affordable to ensure patients compliance. These formulas can be taken in combination with meals in proportionate amounts. v) Diabetes-specific nutrition improves multiple health outcomes and the mindset of Indian patients towards nutritious food needs to be changed.

Keywords

Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes Management, Medical Nutrition Therapy, Lifestyle Intervention, Diabetes Nutrition.

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