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Tarun Bhatnagar
Researcher at Indian Council of Medical Research
Publications - 74
Citations - 2128
Tarun Bhatnagar is an academic researcher from Indian Council of Medical Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 54 publications receiving 1302 citations. Previous affiliations of Tarun Bhatnagar include University of California, Los Angeles.
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Risk Factors for Acquiring Scrub Typhus among Children in Deoria and Gorakhpur Districts, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2017.
Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj,Ravi Vasanthapuram,Leonard Machado,Govindakarnavar Arunkumar,Samir V. Sodha,Kamran Zaman,Tarun Bhatnagar,Shafeeq K. Shahul Hameed,Arun Kumar,Jazeel Abdulmajeed,Anoop Velayudhan,Avinash Deoshatwar,Anita Desai,K. Hemanth Kumar,Nivedita Gupta,Kayla F. Laserson,Manoj V Murhekar +16 more
TL;DR: A case-control study indicated that children residing, playing, or visiting fields; living with firewood stored indoors; handling cattle fodder; and practicing open defecation were at increased risk for scrub typhus.
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SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Prevalence in India: Findings from the Second Nationwide Household Serosurvey, August - September 2020
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,Srikanta Kanungo,Jaya Singh Kshatri,Jaya Singh Kshatri,Gangeti Gandhi Jayanthi 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,Devarajulu Reddy,Balram Bhargava +53 more
TL;DR: Seroprevalence was highest in urban slum areas followed by urban non-slum and rural areas and a cumulative 74·3 million infections in the country, with 26 – 32 infections for every reported COVID-19 case by August 2020.
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Strategic planning to augment the testing capacity for COVID-19 in India.
Nivedita Gupta,Tarun Bhatnagar,Kiran Rade,Manoj V Murhekar,Raman R. Gangakhedkar,Anu Nagar,Icmr Covid Team +6 more
TL;DR: Adopting these interventions could help increase public sector's daily testing capacity to nearly 100,000-120,000 tests/day, and it is important to note that utilization of the scaled-up testing capacity will require deployment of additional workforce, procurement of corresponding commodities for testing and scale-up of sample collection and transportation efforts.
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High prevalence of household pesticides and their unsafe use in rural South India.
TL;DR: The use of household pesticides was highly prevalent in this rural community of Tamil Nadu, India and the prevalence of unsafe practices while handling them was high.
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Sexual Behavior, HIV Prevalence and Awareness Among Wives of Migrant Workers: Results from Cross-sectional Survey in Rural North India.
TL;DR: Effective interventions are needed for increasing awareness of HIV among wives of migrant workers in Bihar as HIV awareness of the wives was significantly associated with age-group 15-24 years, literacy status, and possession of television and husbands’ literacy status.