Dilip Mathai

TL;DR: Emerging variables such as diabetes, indoor air pollution, alcohol, use of immunosuppressive drugs, and tobacco smoke play a significant role at both the individual and population level and specific groups such as health care workers and indigenous population are at an increased risk of TB infection and disease.

TL;DR: Among 39 carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolated in 2006 and 2007 in India, 15 strains carried bla NDM-1 and 10 harbored a gene encoding a variant of the carbapENemase OXA-48, named bla OXa-181, which was disseminated in Indian health care facilities as early as 2006.

TL;DR: Data indicate that scrub typhus is a reemerging infectious disease in India with a possibility of drug resistance, and the need for further prospective studies to design effective control measures is emphasized.

TL;DR: In developing countries with limited diagnostic facilities, it is prudent to recommend empiric therapy in patients with undifferentiated febrile illness having evidence of multiple system involvement especially if there is transaminase elevation and elevated creatinine may predict bad outcome.

TL;DR: The high mortality observed in heatstroke is secondary to multi-organ dysfunction, and among the various parameters assessed, high levels of CPK, metabolic acidosis, and elevated liver enzymes are predictive.