844. Nusrath Unissa A, Selvakumar N, Narayanan S, Narayanan PR. Molecular analysis of isoniazid-resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from India. Int J Antimicrob Agents.2008;31:71–75.

845. Gopalaswamy R, Narayanan S, Jacobs WR Jr, Av-Gay Y. Mycobacterium smegmatis biofilm formation and sliding motility are affected by the serine/threonine protein kinase PknF. FEMS Microbiol Lett.2008;278:121–127.

846. Kolappan C, Subramani R, Kumaraswami V, Santha T, Narayanan PR. Excess mortality and risk factors for mortality among a cohort of TB patients from rural south India. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis.2008;12:81–86.

847. Raghu B, Venkatesan P. Effect of n-3 fatty acid supplementation on blood glucose, lipid profile and cytokines in humans: a pilot study. Indian J Clin Biochem.2008;23:85-88.

848. Tuberculosis Research Centre. Limitations of conducting community surveys to assess the epidemiological impact of TB control programmes on the incidence of TB. Indian J Tuberc.2008;55:1-4.**

849. Ganapathy S, Thomas BE, Jawahar MS, Josephine K, Sivasubramaniam, Weiss M. Perceptions of gender and tuberculosis in a south Indian urban community. Indian J Tuberc.2008;55:9-14.

850. Gopi PG, Subramani R, Chandrasekaran V, Santha T, Narayanan PR. Impact of improved treatment success on the prevalence of TB in a rural community based on active surveillance. Indian J Tuberc.2008;55:22-27.

851. Jayakumar D, Jacobs WR Jr, Narayanan S. Protein kinase E of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a role in the nitric oxide stress response and apoptosis in a human macrophage model of infection. Cell Microbiol.2008; 10 :365–374.

852. Swaminathan S, Subbaraman R, Venkatesan P, Subramanyam S, Kumar SR, Mayer KH, Narayanan PR. Tuberculin skin test results in HIV-infected patients in India: implications for latent tuberculosis treatment. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2008;12:168–173.

853. Swaminathan S, Deivanayagam CN, Rajsekaran S, Venkatesan P, Padmapriyadarsini C, Menon PA, Ponnuraja C, Dilip M. Long term follow up of HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis treated with 6-month intermittent short course chemotherapy. Natl Med J India.2008;21(1):3-8.

854. Swaminathan S, Padmapriyadarsini C, Sukumar B, Iliyas S, Ramesh Kumar S, Triveni C, Gomathy P, Thomas B, Mathew M, Narayanan PR. Nutritional status of persons with HIV infection, persons with HIV infection and tuberculosis, and HIV-negative individuals from southern India. Clin Infect Dis.2008;46:946-949.

855. Lakshminarayan H , Narayanan S , Bach H , Sundaram KG , Av-Gay Y . Molecular cloning and biochemical characterization of a serine threonine protein kinase, PknL, from Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Protein Expr Purif.2008;58:309-317.

856. Pokkali S, Das SD, Logamurthy R. Expression of CXC and CC type of chemokines and its receptors in tuberculous and non-tuberculous effusions. Cytokine.2008;41:307-314.

857. Prabha C, Rajashree P, Das SD. TLR2 and TLR4 expression on the immune cells of tuberculous pleural fluid. Immunol Lett.2008;117:26-34.

858. Raja A, Ranganathan UD, Bethunaickan R. Improved diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by detection of antibodies against multiple Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis.2008;60: 361-368.

859. Dusthackeer A, Kumar V, Subbian S, Sivaramakrishnan G, Zhu G, Subramanyam B, Hassan S, Nagamaiah S, Chan J, Narayanan PR. Construction and evaluation of luciferase reporter phages for the detection of active and non-replicating tubercle bacilli. J Microbiol Methods.2008;73: 18-25.

860. Vasantha M, Gopi PG, Subramani R. Survival of tuberculosis patients treated under DOTS in a rural tuberculosis unit (TU), south India. Indian J Tuberc.2008;55:64-69.

861. Thomas A, Chandrasekaran V, Joseph P, Rao VB, Patil AB, Jain DK, Chowdhary D, Saibabu, Mahapatra S, Devi S, Wares F, Narayanan PR. Increased yield of smear positive pulmonary TB cases by screening patients with > 2 weeks cough, compared to > 3 weeks and adequacy of 2 sputum smear examinations for diagnosis. Indian J Tuberc.2008;55:77-83.

862. Rajavelu P, Das SD. Expression of co-stimulatory molecules B7.1 & B7.2 on macrophages infected with various strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis & its influence on T-cell apoptosis. Indian J Med Res.2008;127:388-394.

863. Rajashree P, Das SD . Infection with prevalent clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis leads to differential maturation of monocyte derived dendritic cells. Immunol Lett.2008;117:174-180.

864. Bakshi S, Ramachandran G, Ramesh K, Hemanthkumar AK, Anitha S, Padmapriyadarsini C, Narendran G, Menon PA, Rajasekaran S, Swaminathan S. Study of ABCB1 polymorphism (C3435T) in HIV-1-infected individuals from South India. Br J Clin Pharmacol.2008;65:791-792. **

865. Ramakrishnan K, Shenbagarathai R, Kavitha K, Uma A, Balasubramaniam R, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian P. Serum Zinc and Albumin Levels in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients with and without HIV. Jpn J Infect Dis. 2008; 61: 202-204 .

866. Selvaraj P, Alagarasu K, Harishankar M, Vidyarani M, Narayanan PR. Regulatory region polymrophisms of vitamin D receptor gene in pulmonary tuberculosis patients and normal healthy subjects of south India. Int J Immunogenet.2008;35:251-254.

867. Narayanan S , Gagneux S , Hari L , Tsolaki AG , Rajasekhar S , Narayanan PR , Small PM , Holmes S , Deriemer K . Genomic interrogation of ancestral Mycobacterium tuberculosis from south India. Infect Genet Evol.2008;8:474-483.

868. Weiss MG, Somma D, Karim F, Abouihia A, Auer C, Kemp J, Jawahar MS. Cultural epidemiology of TB with reference to gender in Bangladesh, India and Malawi. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis.2008;12:837–847.

869. Gosoniu GD, Ganapathy S, Kemp J, Auer C, Somma D, Karim F, Weiss MG. Gender and socio-cultural determinants of delay to diagnosis of TB in Bangladesh, India and Malawi. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis.2008;12:848–855.

870. Somma D, Thomas BE, Karim F, Kemp J, Arias N, Auer C, Gosoniu GD, Abouihia A, Weiss MG. Gender and socio-cultural determinants of TB-related stigma in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Colombia. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis;2008;12:856-866.

871. Senbagavalli R, Geetha ST, Karunakaran K, Banu Rekha VV, Venkatesan P, Ramanathan VD. Reduced erythrocyte CR1 levels in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis is an acquired phenomenon. Clin Immunol.2008;128:109-115.

872. Selvaraj P, Alagarasu K, Harishankar M, Vidyarani M, Rajeswari DN, Narayanan PR. Cytokine gene polymorphisms and cytokine levels in pulmonary tuberculosis. Cytokine.2008; 43:26-33.

873. Muniyandi M, Ramachandran R. Socioeconomic inequalities of tuberculosis in India. Expert Opin Pharmacother.2008;9:1623-1628.

874. Selvaraj P, Vidyarani M, Alagarasu K, Prabhu Anand S, Narayanan PR. Regulatory role of promoter and 3' UTR variants of vitamin D receptor gene on cytokine response in pulmonary tuberculosis. J Clin Immunol.2008;28: 306-313.

875. Subramani R, Radhakrishna S, Frieden TR, Kolappan C, Gopi PG, Santha T, Wares F, Selvakumar N, Narayanan, PR. Rapid decline in prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis after DOTS implementation in a rural area of South India. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis.2008;12:916–920.

** - Abstracts not available