Journal of Tropical Diseases & Public Health

Department of Microbiology, BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal

Biography

Basudha Khanal is a Medical Doctor at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences Department of Microbiology. She has done many research works in the field of Tropical Diseases, Antimicrobials, Antibiotic Resistance, Parasitic Diseases, Infection, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Bacteriology, Applied Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology, Infectious Disease Control, and Prevention.

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Outcome of Inpatient Acute Febrile Illness in A Referral Tropical Health Center in Nepal
  Author(s): Vivek Kattel*, Yamuna Agrawal, Naveen Kumar Pandey, Semanta Dahal and Basudha Khanal
  
  Introduction: Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) is a common clinical syndrome presenting at tropical health centers. The challenges in resource-limited set up are an undifferentiated clinical manifestation with wide differentials and inadequate laboratory diagnostic support. With this background, we conducted a study to look at the outcome of AFI spectrum presented at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), a referral medical school hospital in eastern Nepal. Objective: To determine the etiological diagnosis and hospital-based outcome of AFI. Methods: It was a prospective observational study of the AFI inpatient cases in the Department of Internal Medicine from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2013. Considering a 15% prevalence of acute febrile in patients with a 95% confidence interval and 9.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2329-891X.19.7.328

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