Volume 12 Supplement 1

Abstracts from the First International Science Symposium on HIV and Infectious Diseases (HIV SCIENCE 2012)

Meeting abstracts

Edited by Suniti Solomon, Sunil S Solomon, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Kailapuri G Murugavel, Shanmugam Saravanan, Hussain S Iqbal and Ramachandran Vignesh

Publication of this supplement has been supported by the NIH/Office of AIDS Research, ICMR, DBT and CSIR.

First International Science Symposium on HIV and Infectious Diseases (HIV SCIENCE 2012). Go to conference site.

Chennai, India20-22 January 2012

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Engineering chemokines to develop putative anti HIV-1 agents

Authors: A Deepu, A Aravind and K Santhosh Kumar

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O1

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Genotype-specific incidence and clearance rates of human papilloma virus (HPV) infection in HIV-infected women from Pune, India

Authors: Arati Mane, Amit Nirmalkar, Arun R Risbud, Sten H Vermund, Sanjay M Mehendale and Vikrant V Sahasrabuddhe

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O2

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Immunodynamics of Th17 cells in HIV-1 subtype ‘C’ infection

Authors: Madhu Vajpayee, Alpana Singh, Sharique A Ali, Neeraj Kumar Chauhan and Ravinder Singh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O3

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Influence of CD38/PD1 co-expression on T cell subsets in HIV-TB co-infection

Authors: Sharada Ramaseri Sunder, Surekha Rani Hanumanth, Anuradha Bandaru, Satya Sudheer Pydi, Sumanlatha Gaddam, Subbanna Jonnalagada and Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O4

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Studies on HIV integrase-LEDGF/p75 interaction inhibitory activity of isatine derivative using the alpha screen luminescent proximity assay

Authors: Periyasamy Selvam

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O5

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Transcriptional modulation of HIV-1C LTR promoter

Authors: Anand Singh, Pradeep Ramalingam, Jayanth Kumar Palanichamy, Mohita Bhagat, Muzaffer Ahmad Kassab, Subrata Sinha and Parthaprasad Chattopadhyay

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O6

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Analysis of drug resistance to HIV-1 protease using fitness function in genetic algorithm

Authors: A Harishchander, S Senapati and D Alex Anand

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O7

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Characterization of gene family that mediates the adhesion of biofilms formed by Candida tropicalis isolated from HIV and non-HIV patients

Authors: PM Punithavathy and Thangam Menon

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O8

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Spectrum of adverse cutaneous eruptions to nevirapine – a cross sectional study

Authors: Leelavathy Budamakuntla, Prabhakar Basappa, DM Basavarajaiah, N Vidyashankar, C Madhura, N Shilpa, P Namitha and C Lalitha

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O9

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Detection of norovirus in stool samples by RT-PCR in 5 disease centers in Iran

Authors: Saadat Adabian, Fatemeh Fallah, Latif Gachkar, Farzaneh Jadali, S Rafiei Tabatabaei and Narges Esmaeilnejad

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O10

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Renal manifestations and associated factors among HIV infected children at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Authors: Francis Fredrick, Paschal Ruggajo, Eden E Maro, Bjarne Magnus Iversen and Gopel Basu

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O11

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Porcine endogenous retroviruses: an obstacle to cross during xenotransplantation

Authors: Subramaniam Senthilkumar, Soma Guharthakurta and Kotturathu Mammen Cherian

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O12

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PVL positive methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus breast abscess infection among post-partum women in Chennai, South India

Authors: Nagarajan Abimanyu, K Arunkumar, M Saravanan, G Sivakumar and Padma Krishnan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O13

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Segmentation of sputum smear images for detection of tuberculosis bacilli

Authors: Feminna Sheeba, Robinson Thamburaj, Joy Sarojini Michael, P Maqlin and Joy John Mammen

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O14

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HLA-A*0201-specific epitopes of Indian HIV-1C as candidates for vaccine design

Authors: Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi and Luke Elizabeth Hanna

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O15

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The global distribution of CCR5 delta 32 polymorphism: role in HIV-1 protection

Authors: Anuroopa Gupta and Harish Padh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O16

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Inter-ethnic differences in efavirenz CNS toxicity – role of cytochrome P450 2B6 polymorphisms

Authors: Lawrence S Lee, Gaik Hong Soon and Yik Ying Teo

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O17

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Molecular determinants analysis and co receptor tropism prediction of V3 loop of HIV-1 “C” clade sequences isolated from India using insilico approach

Authors: H Jemmy Christy, D Alex Anand and Renuka Pasupuleti

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O18

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Neutralization of tier-2 viruses and epitope profiling of plasma antibodies from subtype-C HIV-1 infected north Indians; implications for MPER directed HIV-1 neutralization

Authors: Raiees Andrabi, Manju Bala, Rajesh Kumar, Anjali Hazarika and Kalpana Luthra

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O19

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Relative reduction of plasmacytoid dendritic cells with shift in TH₁ to TH₂ response in HIV-1 infected patients as compared to high risk and healthy north Indians

Authors: Omkar Chaudhary, Manju Bala, Jasbir Singh, Anjali Hazarika, Rajesh Kumar and Kalpana Luthra

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O20

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Antimalarial chloroquine metamorphosed into antiviral agent against HIV with four modes of actions

Authors: M Chandramohan, P Selvam, SC Vivekananthan, D Sivakumar and E De Clercq

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O21

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HIV-TB the deadly duo, the biggest health challenge in Fiji

Authors: Santhakumari Muller and Vinod Narayan Sami

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):O22

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Co-infectivity of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis E virus

Authors: Akanksha Singh, Shiwani Singh, M Ahmad Ansari and M Irshad

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P1

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Opportunistic protozoa in HIV seropositive cases and best stool concentration technique for detection

Authors: P Sreenivasulu Reddy, P Madhurima and P Vasundhara Devi

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P2

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In-silico designing of acyclic nucleoside phosphonates and their anti-HIV potential

Authors: Dipti Yadav, Anuradha Singh, Madhu Yadav and Ramendra K Singh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P3

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Study of pulmonary involvement in HIV-seropositive patients

Authors: Girija Nair, Hafiz Deshmukh, TK Jayalakshmi, Abhay Uppe and Kavita Modi

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P4

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Polyester dendrimers: a versatile nanocarrier for target specific drug delivery

Authors: A Aravind, A Deepu and K Santhosh Kumar

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P5

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Evidence for the roles of oxidative stress, nitrosative stress and Nf-Kb activation in Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (TDF) induced renal damage in rats

Authors: Hemalatha Ramamoorthy, Bina Issac and Premila Abraham

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P6

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Development of Efavirenz nanoparticle for enhanced efficiency of anti-retroviral therapy against HIV and AIDS

Authors: BN Vedha Hari, K Dhevendaran and N Narayanan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P7

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Characterization of natural HIV-1 Tat and Vpr variants from Northern India

Authors: Sneh Lata, Vikas Sood, Sajad A Dar, Akhil C Banerjea, Shukla Das and VG Ramachandran

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P8

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Development of a vaccine delivery system using hepatitis B core antigen based VLPs to deliver mycobacterial antigens

Authors: Dhananjayan Dhanasooraj, R Ajay Kumar and Sathish Mundayoor

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P9

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In vitro anti-HIV activity of crude extracts from Tinospora cordifolia

Authors: Mamidala Estari, Lunavath Venkanna and Annem Srinivas Reddy

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P10

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Generation and characterization of human monoclonal single chain variable fragments (scFvs) against envelope third variable region (V3) of HIV-1 clade C

Authors: Rajesh Kumar, Raiees Andrabi, Ashutosh Tiwari, Somi Sankaran Prakash, Naveet Wig, Durgashree Dutta, Anurag Sankhyan, Lubina Khan, Subrata Sinha and Kalpana Luthra

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P11

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Association of GT microsatellite polymorphism in TLR 2 gene with leprosy

Authors: NC Suryadevara, NV Sanjeev, Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri, Suman Jain and MPJS Anandraj

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P12

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Effect of nanoencapsulation on the phenomenon of drug interaction between anti-M.avium drug, rifabutin and anti-HIV drug, ritonavir by employing poly (lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles

Authors: Tapinder Grewal and Sadhna Sharma

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P13

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Evaluation of anti-viral activity of Jatropha curcas leaf extracts against potentially drug-resistant HIV isolates

Authors: Ritwik Dahake, Soumen Roy, Deepak Patil, Abhay Chowdhary and Ranjana A Deshmukh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P14

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Role of Mycobacterium avium catalase-peroxidase (KatG) in the pathogenesis of MAC disease in HIV patients

Authors: Romica Latawa, Ajay Wanchu and Indu Verma

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P15

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Familial study revealed the association of Vitamin D receptor gene haplotype with Hansen’s disease

Authors: NV Sanjeev, NC Suryadevara, Suman Jain, Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri and MPJS Anandraj

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P16

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Rapid and inexpensive drug susceptibility testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis by a nitrate reductase assay (NRA) from western India

Authors: Chanda R Vyawahare, RN Misra, NR Gandham, KM Angadi, Mangala Ghatole and Sarita Kothadia

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P17

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The study of hepatitis B surface antigen and anti-HCV in HIV infected patients

Authors: N Girish, T Nagarathnamma, K Saileela, B Sreekanth and D Venkatesha

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P18

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A study on speciation and antifungal susceptibility pattern of Candida isolates from HIV patients with oropharyngeal candidiasis and correlation with CD4 count

Authors: V Kalpanadevi, S Geethalakshmi and G Sumathi

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P19

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Comparative evaluation of rapid tests, HIV specific peptide EIA and Western Blot test for diagnosis of HIV-2 and HIV 1&2 infection

Authors: Jayanthi Shastri, Sachee Agrawal, Sandhya Sawant, Manish Pathak and Bharat Parekh

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P20

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Incidence of bla genes among uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates from HIV and non-HIV patients in South India

Authors: Kesavaram Padmavathy, Padma Krishnan and Sikhamani Rajasekaran

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P21

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Occurrence of Porphyromonas gingivalis fimA type II and prtC genotype among periodontitis patients

Authors: Mahalakshmi Krishnan, Padma Krishnan and Subashini Natarajan

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P22

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Enhanced frequency of neutrophils and inflammatory monocytes and diminished numbers of T and B cells in active pulmonary tuberculosis

Authors: N Pavan Kumar, Luke Elizabeth Hanna, MS Jawahar, VV Banu Rekha, R Sridhar, Thomas B Nutman and S Subash Babu

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P23

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Cross clade reactive plasma anti-V3 antibodies in human immunodeficiency virus type-1 infected individuals develop with time

Authors: Raiees Andrabi, Manju Bala and Kalpana Luthra

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P24

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A prospective analysis of viral immune escape in the chronic phase of the subtype C HIV-1 infections of India

Authors: Shilpee Sharma, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Suniti Solomon and Udaykumar Ranga

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P25

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Seroprevalence of transfusion transmissible viral infections among blood donors in a tertiary care hospital

Authors: C Dhinesh Kumar, VK Panicker, RS Febe and R Krishnamoorthy

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P26

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Association of IFN-γ gene polymorphism and levels in HBV related disease chronicity in India

Authors: Roli Saxena, YK Chawla and Jyotdeep Kaur

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P27

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Emergence of multi drug resistant nonfermentative Acinetobacter spp in a tertiary care hospital

Authors: Shyamkuwar Amol, Deogade Narendra, Wadher Bharat and Roychoudhury Kunal

Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12(Suppl 1):P28

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