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Prabu Rajkumar

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Articles 17
Citations 117
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General Medicine
Public Health
Pulmonary Medicine
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Anand Krishnan
Ritvik Amarchand
Yuvaraj Jayaraman
Kathryn E Lafond
Sanjay M Mehendale
Siddhartha Saha
Prashant Mathur
Rakesh Kumar
Binod Kumar Patro
Harshal Ramesh Salve
Published In
BMJ Open
PLoS One
Lung India
Indian J Med Res
J Infect Public Health
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Recent Articles
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Hospital-based sentinel surveillance for bacterial meningitis in under-five children prior to the introduction of the PCV13 in India
Jayaraman Y, Veeraraghavan B, Kumar C, Sukumar B, Rajkumar P, Kangusamy B, et al.
Vaccine . 2021 Jun; 39(28):3737-3744. PMID: 34074545
Introduction: A hospital-based sentinel surveillance network for bacterial meningitis was established in India to estimate the burden of bacterial meningitis, and the proportion of major vaccine-preventable causative organisms. This report...
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National noncommunicable disease monitoring survey (NNMS) in India: Estimating risk factor prevalence in adult population
Mathur P, Kulothungan V, Leburu S, Krishnan A, Chaturvedi H, Salve H, et al.
PLoS One . 2021 Mar; 16(3):e0246712. PMID: 33651825
Background: The primary objective of National NCD monitoring survey (NNMS) was to generate national-level estimates of key NCD indicators identified in the national NCD monitoring framework. This paper describes survey...
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Hospital-based sentinel surveillance for and other invasive bacterial diseases in India (HBSSPIBD): design and methodology
Rajkumar P, Bharathy S, Kumar C, Veeraraghavan B, Verghese V, Gupta N, et al.
BMJ Open . 2020 Apr; 10(4):e034663. PMID: 32273315
Introduction: is one of the frequently isolated organisms and an important aetiological agent of invasive bacterial diseases (IBD) like pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis. As a measure to control the burden...
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Immunochromatography in CSF improves data on surveillance of S. pneumoniae meningitis in India
Jayaraman Y, Mehendale S, Jayaraman R, Varghese R, Chethrapilly Purushothaman G, Rajkumar P, et al.
J Infect Public Health . 2018 Apr; 11(5):735-738. PMID: 29606535
Introduction: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a significant cause of childhood bacterial meningitis in India. The United States Food and Drug Administration has licensed an immunochromatographic (ICT) test, BinaxNOW™, to detect the...
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Barriers to building an effective workforce for respiratory research in India: A survey of American Thoracic Society Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Operations Research India 2017 participants
Dasgupta A, Fernandes L, Chopra V, Rajkumar P
Lung India . 2018 Mar; 35(2):184-186. PMID: 29487263
No abstract available.
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A cross-sectional study on prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in India: rationale and methods
Rajkumar P, Pattabi K, Vadivoo S, Bhome A, Brashier B, Bhattacharya P, et al.
BMJ Open . 2017 May; 7(5):e015211. PMID: 28554925
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common preventable and treatable chronic respiratory disease, which affects 210 million people globally. Global and national guidelines exist for the management of...
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International open trial of uniform multidrug therapy regimen for leprosy patients: Findings & implications for national leprosy programmes
Manickam P, Mehendale S, Nagaraju B, Katoch K, Jamesh A, Kutaiyan R, et al.
Indian J Med Res . 2017 Mar; 144(4):525-535. PMID: 28256460
Background & Objectives: Uniform therapy for all leprosy patients will simplify leprosy treatment. In this context, we evaluated six-month multidrug therapy (MDT) currently recommended for multibacillary (MB) patients as uniform...