The BPaL regimen uses only three drugs — bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid — and the treatment lasts only for 26 weeks, in contrast to eight-nine tablets each day for 18 months in the conventional treatment for DR-TB
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In the last 50 years, CHIS studies have been carried out with thousands to accelerate vaccine development against typhoid and cholera
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NICED found nearly 5% of patients with diarrhoea were caused by different Entamoeba species and over 3% of patients were infected with E. moshkovskii
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As long as wild poliovirus is present and any country continues to use the oral vaccine, the risk of polio emergence is real in a globalised village
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Switching from trivalent to bivalent OPV vaccine and introducing one dose of IPV was supposed to eliminate all type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus cases, but such cases only increased sharply
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The intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation events is expected to increase as global warming continues to affect the planet
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It is essential to know the ground condition to be able to forecast floods one or three days in advance. Information culled from tweets provide this information
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A study in Bengaluru city has found how urbanisation affects mosquito ecology and how mosquito species diversity and abundance changes across macro and microhabitats
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Two studies have shed light on the role of the Y chromosome in cancer outcomes, in which males are often more adversely affected than females
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India can continue to be the pharmacy of the global south only if the regulator begins to behave like a watchdog to ensure drug safety, and not as a facilitator for the pharma industry
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Longer space missions and shorter inter-mission recovery time, induce fluid changes in the brain that may not return to normal before subsequent flights
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The increase in relatively cooler regions during the daytime has been from 27% and 40% (2001-2010) to 73% and 63% (2011-2020) in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, respectively
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The researchers have optimised all the parameters so that water electrolyte can directly use photovoltaic-derived voltage and current density to split water and generate hydrogen
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