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Smita Asthana
Researcher at Indian Council of Medical Research
Publications - 50
Citations - 1261
Smita Asthana is an academic researcher from Indian Council of Medical Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cervical cancer. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 46 publications receiving 743 citations. Previous affiliations of Smita Asthana include All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
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Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in India: Findings from the national serosurvey, May-June 2020
Manoj V Murhekar,Tarun Bhatnagar,Sriram Selvaraju,Kiran Rade,V. Saravanakumar,Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj,Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar,Naman K. Shah,R. Sabarinathan,Alka Turuk,P. K. Anand,Smita Asthana,Rakesh Balachandar,Sampada Dipak Bangar,Avi Kumar Bansal,Jyothi Bhat,Debjit Chakraborty,Chethana Rangaraju,Vishal Chopra,Dasarathi Das,Alok Kumar Deb,Kangjam Rekha Devi,Gaurav Raj Dwivedi,S. Muhammad Salim Khan,Inaamul Haq,M. Sunil Kumar,Avula Laxmaiah,Madhuka,Amarendra Mahapatra,Anindya Mitra,A.R. Nirmala,Avinash Pagdhune,Mariya Amin Qurieshi,Tekumalla Ramarao,Seema Sahay,Y.K. Sharma,Marinaik Basavegowdanadoddi Shrinivasa,Vijay K. Shukla,Prashant Singh,Ankit Viramgami,Vimith Cheruvathoor Wilson,Rajiv Yadav,C. P. Girish Kumar,Hanna Elizabeth Luke,Uma Devi Ranganathan,Subash Babu,Krithikaa Sekar,Pragya D Yadav,Gajanan N. Sapkal,Aparup Das,Pradeep Das,Shanta Dutta,Rajkumar Hemalatha,Ashwani Kumar,Kanwar Narain,Somashekar Narasimhaiah,Samiran Panda,Sanghamitra Pati,Shripad A. Patil,Kamalesh Sarkar,Shalini Singh,Rajni Kant,Srikanth Tripathy,G S Toteja,Giridhara R Babu,Shashi Kant,J P Muliyil,Ravindra Mohan Pandey,Swarup Sarkar,Sujeet Kumar Singh,Sanjay Zodpey,Raman R. Gangakhedkar,Devarajulu Reddy,Balram Bhargava +73 more
TL;DR: Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 was low among the adult population in India around the beginning of May 2020, and males, living in urban slums and occupation with high risk of exposure to potentially infected persons were associated with seropositivity.
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A multicountry evaluation of careHPV testing, visual inspection with acetic acid, and papanicolaou testing for the detection of cervical cancer.
Jose Jeronimo,Pooja Bansil,Jeanette Lim,Roger Peck,Proma Paul,Juan Jose Amador,Florence Mirembe,Josaphat Byamugisha,Usha Rani Poli,L Satyanarayana,Smita Asthana +10 more
TL;DR: CareHPV performed well in large multicountry demonstration studies conducted in resource-limited settings that have not previously been conducted this type of testing; its sensitivity using cervical samples or vaginal self-collected samples was better than VIA or Papanicolaou test.
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SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence in India, August-September, 2020: findings from the second nationwide household serosurvey.
Manoj V Murhekar,Tarun Bhatnagar,Sriram Selvaraju,V. Saravanakumar,Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj,Naman Shah,Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar,Kiran Rade,R. Sabarinathan,Smita Asthana,Rakesh Balachandar,Sampada Dipak Bangar,Avi Kumar Bansal,Jyothi Bhat,Vishal Chopra,Dasarathi Das,Alok Kumar Deb,Kangjam Rekha Devi,Gaurav Raj Dwivedi,S. Muhammad Salim Khan,C. P. Girish Kumar,M. Sunil Kumar,Avula Laxmaiah,Major Madhukar,Amarendra Mahapatra,Suman Sundar Mohanty,Chethana Rangaraju,Alka Turuk,Dinesh Kumar Baradwaj,Ashrafjit S. Chahal,Falguni Debnath,Inaamul Haq,Arshad Kalliath,Srikanta Kanungo,Jaya Singh Kshatri,G G J Naga Lakshmi,Anindya Mitra,A.R. Nirmala,Ganta Venkata Prasad,Mariya Amin Qurieshi,Seema Sahay,Ramesh Kumar Sangwan,Krithikaa Sekar,Vijay K. Shukla,Prashant Singh,Pushpendra Singh,Rajeev K. Singh,Dantuluri Sheethal Varma,Ankit Viramgami,Samiran Panda,D C S Reddy,Balram Bhargava,Rushikesh Andhalkar,Anshuman Chaudhury,Hirawati Deval,Sarang Dhatrak,Rajeev Gupta,Ezhilarasan Ilayaperumal,Babu Jagjeevan,Ramesh Chandra Jha,K Kiran,Nivethitha N Krishnan,Alok Kumar,VG Vinoth Kumar,K. Nagbhushanam,Arlappa Nimmathota,Ashok Kumar Pandey,Harpreet Singh Pawar,Kushal Singh Rathore,Aby Robinson,Hari Bhan Singh,Vimith Cheruvathoor Wilson,Ashwini Yadav,Rajiv Yadav,T Karunakaran,Josephine Pradhan,T Sivakumar,Annamma Jose,K Kalaiyarasi,Sauvik Dasgupta,R Anusha,Tanu Anand,Giridhara R Babu,Himanshu Chauhan,Tanzin Dikid,Raman R. Gangakhedkar,Shashi Kant,Sanket Kulkarni,J P Muliyil,Ravindra Mohan Pandey,Swarup Sarkar,Aakash Shrivastava,Sujeet Kumar Singh,Sanjay Zodpey,Aparup Das,Pradeep Das,Shanta Dutta,Rajni Kant,Kanwar Narain,Somashekar Narasimhaiah,Sanghamitra Pati,Shripad A. Patil,Hemalatha Rajkumar,Tekumalla Ramarao,Kamalesh Sarkar,Shalini Singh,Gurudayal S Toteja,Kamran Zaman +107 more
TL;DR: A second household serosurvey among individuals aged 10 years or older in the same 700 villages or wards within 70 districts in India that were included in the first sero-survey was conducted in this article.
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Association of Smokeless Tobacco Use and Oral Cancer: A Systematic Global Review and Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: A significant positive association was observed between SLT use and the risk of oral cancer, in SEAR, EMRs, and among women users, and the results fulfil the gap in the data on independent effect of individual SLT product use on the outcome of Oral cancer at global level, conclusively.
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SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among the general population and healthcare workers in India, December 2020-January 2021.
Manoj V Murhekar,Tarun Bhatnagar,Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj,Saravanakumar,Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar,Sriram Selvaraju,Kiran Rade,C. P. Girish Kumar,R. Sabarinathan,Alka Turuk,Smita Asthana,Rakesh Balachandar,Sampada Dipak Bangar,Avi Kumar Bansal,Vishal Chopra,Dasarathi Das,Alok Kumar Deb,Kangjam Rekha Devi,Vikas Dhikav,Gaurav Raj Dwivedi,S. Muhammad Salim Khan,M. Sunil Kumar,Avula Laxmaiah,Major Madhukar,Amarendra Mahapatra,Chethana Rangaraju,Jyotirmayee Turuk,Rajiv Yadav,Rushikesh Andhalkar,K Arunraj,Dinesh Kumar Bharadwaj,Pravin Bharti,Debdutta Bhattacharya,Jyothi Bhat,Ashrafjit S. Chahal,Debjit Chakraborty,Anshuman Chaudhury,Hirawati Deval,Sarang Dhatrak,Rakesh Dayal,D Elantamilan,Prathiksha Giridharan,Inaamul Haq,Ramesh Kumar Hudda,Babu Jagjeevan,Arshad Kalliath,Srikanta Kanungo,Nivethitha N Krishnan,Jaya Singh Kshatri,Alok Kumar +49 more
TL;DR: A third serosurvey was conducted between December 2020 and January 2021 to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among the general population and healthcare workers (HCWs) in India as mentioned in this paper.