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The study indicates that the three BA.2 sublineages are causing mild disease in India. However, BA.2.75 has key mutations that are notable for accelerated growth and transmission and require close and effective monitoring.

An Early and Preliminary Assessment of the Clinical Severity of the Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants in Maharashtra, India Background: The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants BA.2.74, BA.2.75, and BA.2.76 have appeared recently in India and have already spread to over 40 countries. They have acquired additional mutations in their spike protein compared to BA.2, branching away on the SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree. These added mut...

The Department of Microbiology, B J Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune, is hosting, “MAHAMICROCON-2020”, the XXVI Maharashtra Chapter Conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists on 12th and 13th September, 2020, with a pre-conference CME. Kindly visit http://www.xxvimahamicrocon2020.in for detail.
Kindly associate with us for this academic feast.
Dr Rajesh Karyakarte
Organizing Secretary,
Deputy Dean, BJGMC, Pune.

XXVI Maharashtra Chapter Conference of IAMM

Issue no. 5, November 2019.

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A gain in the neck Unique conditions in a tapeworm’s neck enable stem cells to rapidly grow new body segments.

New antimicrobial... New hope......."This series of compounds were named “nusbiarylins” based on their target protein NusB and the biaryl structure and were expected to be further developed towards novel antimicrobial drug candidates in the near future.".....

Nusbiarylins, a new class of antimicrobial agents: Rational design of bacterial transcription inhibitors targeting the interaction between the NusB and NusE proteins Discovery of antibiotics of a novel mode of action is highly required in the fierce battlefield with multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. Previo…