Ashok K Dubey

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What should be the approach towards drug discovery in post-antibiotic era?

There has been a widespread emergence of antibiotic resistance across microbial communities including both pathogens and nonpathogens. Apparently, the ability to develop resistance is in-built in...

05 November 2013 6,600 1 View

Can there be a non-lethal way to deal with pathogenic microbes in an attempt to contain the menace of drug resistance?

Emergence of drug resistance among pathogens is now a well recognized serious problem in medicine today. While several and varied reasons could be assigned to the emergence of drug resistant...

04 September 2013 6,395 9 View

How could the aetiology of consolidation in lung be determined when x-ray, CT scan and branchial endoscopy could not produce a conclusive diagnosis?

An x-ray of a lung suggested consolidation in the right upper lobe and the patient has been put on a broad spectrum antibiotic for two weeks on suspicion of pneumonia. Subsequent to the antibiotic...

01 September 2013 838 7 View

How accurate is the Biolog Microbial Identification system?

We have been trying to identify some of our bacterial isolates using the Biolog Identification system. Two of the isolates, which vary in their physiological fingerprints to an extent, have been...

15 January 2013 9,801 3 View