Dengue: A clinicohaematological profile

Background: Fifty cases of fever, clinically suspected to be dengue were studied.     

Plasmodium falciparum Containment Strategy

World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 1.7–2.5 million deaths and 300–500 million cases of malaria each year globally. As an initiative WHO has announced Roll Back Malaria (RBM) programme aimed at 50% reduction in deaths due to malaria by 2010. The RBM strategy recommends combination approach with prevention, care, creating sustainable demand for insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and efficacious antimalarials in order to achieve sustainable malaria control. Malaria control in India has travelled a long way from National Malaria Control Programme launched in 1953 to National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme in 2003. In India, the malaria eradication concept was based on indoor residual spraying to interrupt transmission and mop up cases by vigilance. This programme was successful in reducing the malaria cases from 75 million in 1953 to 2 million but subsequently resulted in vector and parasite resistance as well as increase in P falciparum from 30–48%. In view of rapidly growing resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to conventional monotherapies and its spread in newer areas, the programme was modified with inclusion of RBM interventions and revision of treatment guidelines for malaria. Early case detection and prompt treatment, selective vector control, promotion of personal protective measures including ITNs and information, education, communication to achieve wider community participation will be the key interventions in the revised programme.     

Trypsin, immobilized on a textile cellulose matrix, in the treatment of suppurative wounds of soft tissue

In the treatment of 328 patients trypsin immobilized on cellulose matrix was used in 110 patients, native enzymes were used in 148 patients and 70 patients were given means of physical antiseptics. The results have shown advantages of immobilized trypsin for the treatment of the wound process.