17th International Congress on Infectious Diseases

<strong>17th</strong> INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Poster Presentations ~ Friday, March 4, 2016
FRIDAY • March 4, 2016
42.132 DC-SIGN and L-SIGN repeat-region
polymorphisms influence HIV-1 disease
progression in slow and rapid progressors
among perinatally-infected children in India
N. Rajnala, B. P. Gopalan, R. D’Souza,
A. Shet
Bangalore (India)
42.133 CD4 Levels >350 cell/µl at initiation of
option B+ Predict retention in care amongst
mothers in urban health facilities in Uganda
D. Senjovu, P. Mugabe, U. Ssekabira
Kampala (Uganda)
42.134 An analysis of global HIV prevalence among
refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, using
the US Bureau of the Census databank
W. Shandera
Houston, TX (USA)
42.135 Mitochondrial dysfunction among HIV-1
infected patients of South India and
evaluation of mitochondrial DNA as a
biomarker of mitochondrial toxicity
D. Subashini 1 , T. R. Dinesha 1 , S. Gomathi 1 ,
J. Boobalan 1 , C. Swathirajan 1 , L. Samuel 1 ,
S. Poongulali 1 , D. Chitra 1 , R. Srirama 2 ,
S. Mothi 2 , S. S. Solomon 1 , S. Solomon 1 ,
S. Saravanan 1 , P. Balakrishnan 1
1
Chennai (India), 2 Mysore (India)
42.136 Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Attitudes,
preferences and risk compensation behavior
among men who have sex with other men
(MSM) in India
C. K. Uthappa 1 , S. Pal 2 , R. Panth 2 , R. Allam 1 ,
V. Yeldandi 3
1
Hyderabad (India), 2 New Delhi (India),
3
Chicago, IL (USA)
42.137 Health related quality of life of HIV/AIDS
patients on highly active antiretroviral
therapy in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching
Hospital
S. S. Yahaya 1 , A. A. Olorukooba 2 , R. Yusuf 2 ,
H. Abdulrahman 2 , L. Amadu 2
1
Katsina (Nigeria), 2 Zaria (Nigeria)
42.138 Current problems in serologically based
diagnostic algorithm of HIV 1/2: The
re-evaluation of immunodot blot assays
in HIV 1/2 verification in Turkey
P. Yuksel, R. Caliskan, M. Kuskucu, S. Islak
Mutcali, E. Kosan, H. Kırkoyun Uysal,
Z. Habip, A. Abdelkerem, B. Mete,
S. Saribas, E. Bonabi, I. Birinci,
O. Dinc, K. Midilli, B. Kocazeybek
Istanbul (Turkey)
Infection Control
42.139 Uptake of intermittent preventive therapy
among pregnant women attending antenatal
clinics in public and registered private health
facilities in Oyo State, Nigeria
A. O. Akpasa 1 , A. Adebayo 1 , J. Onyilo 1 ,
B. Ahmed 1 , T. O. Ladipo 1 , Y. Oke 2 ,
A. Karim-Mohammed 1 , O. Adeusi 2 ,
B. Aiyenigba 2
1
Ibadan (Nigeria), 2 Abuja (Nigeria)
42.140 Prospective cohort study on rectal
colonization with Carbapenem Resistant
Enterobactericeae in patients admitted in
a tertiary care hospital
R. Arjun, P. Patil, P. Gupta, P. Wagle
Trivandrum (India)
42.141 Evaluation of antimicrobial and disinfectant
resistant bacteria isolated from the
environment of a University Health Centre
O. O. Ayepola, L. O. Egwari,
G. I. Olasehinde
Ota (Nigeria)
42.142 Tetanus and use of magnesium in resource
limited country
A. Basher
Mymensingh (Bangladesh)
42.143 The role of toxin-antitoxin systems in the
survival of multidrug tolerant pathogens and
designing of new approaches to treat them
R. K. Chaudhary 1 , R. Narain 2 , G. Singh 3 ,
A. Kumar 1 , S. Ram 1
1
Greater Noida (India), 2 Jaunpur (India),
3
New Delhi (India),
42.144 Impact of antimicrobial stewardship in
collaboration with infection control on
hospital-acquired infection rates in a
subspecialty cancer treatment facility
M. Chowdhury, D. Miller, M. Lewis,
M. Niesley, T. Patel
Philadelphia, PA (USA)
42.145 Inhibition of Japanese encephalitis virus
infection by biogenic catechin silver
nanoparticles: An in-vitro study
P. Chowdhury 1 , T. Bora 2 , S. A. Khan 2 ,
B. Chakraborty 3 , K. Senapati 4 , M. Sengupta 3 ,
S. Borchetia 1 , T. Bandyopadhyay 1
1
Jorhat (India), 2 Dibrugarh (India),
3
Silchar (India), 4 Guwahati (India)
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