17 Papers
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Arun Sachu is an academic researcher from Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 7 publications.
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Antimicrobial activity of plumbagin, a naturally occurring naphthoquinone from Plumbago rosea, against Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans.
Sweatha V. Nair,Gaurav Baranwal,Maitrayee Chatterjee,Arun Sachu,Anil Kumar Vasudevan,Chinchu Bose,Asoke Banerji,Raja Biswas +7 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that plumbagin, a phytochemical from Plumbago species, possesses an excellent antimicrobial activity which should be explored further for the treatment of S. aureus and C. albicans infections.
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Comparison of PCR and phenotypic methods for the detection of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Anitha Madhavan,Arun Sachu,Anukumar Balakrishnan,Anu Vasudevan,Sobha Balakrishnan,Jayalakshmi Vasudevapanicker +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared three different methods for detection of MRSA namely cefoxitin disc diffusion, CHROM agar MRSA and VITEK-2 susceptibility with PCR.
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A prospective cross sectional study of detection of Clostridium difficile toxin in patients with antibiotic associated diarrhoea.
TL;DR: Diabetes, hypertension, use of proton pump inhibitors, previous hospitalization, malignancy and chemotherapy were found to be the risk factors in patients with AAD and analyzing the antibiotic use and presence of other risk Factors in these patients.
Chromobacterium violaceum causing deadly sepsis.
TL;DR: A 76 year old female who presented with pustules in the skin and later developed into septicemia and succumbed to the illness despite escalating the antibiotic therapy to meropenem.
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Prevalence of Anti-HBc Antibodies among HBsAg Negative Individuals and Its Association with Occult Hepatitis B.
Anitha Madhavan,Arun Sachu,Anu Kumar Balakrishnan,Sobha Balakrishnan,Jayalakshmi Vasudevapanicker +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the prevalence of anti-HBc total antibodies among the HB surface antigen (HBsAg) negative individuals by way of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and detect the presence of HBV DNA among the antiHBc seropositives by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).