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Background: One-third of India’s population is infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis; there are 12 million active tuberculosis cases in India. One person dies of Tuberculosis every minute in India. No other disease has so much sociological, economic and health significance as Tuberculosis has. In 2005 there were an estimated 8.8 million new cases of Tuberculosis worldwide, with 1.9 million of those occurring in India. In India in 2000, there were an estimated 481,573,000 people over the age of 25 years. Among these, 4.3% i.e. around 20,707,639 had diabetes, 19 and 939,064 developed. Subjects and Methods: The study conducted over a period of 2 yrs. Adult patients with diabetes mellitus with pulmonary Tuberculosis were included, while Diabetic patients with extrapulmonary Tuberculosis were excluded from the study. Results: The maximum incidence of pulmonary Tuberculosis was noted above the age of 30yrs were 13(26.0%). The peak incidence was in the age group of 31 – 40 and 41 – 50 yrs. The mean age is 52.62. As Shown in [Figgure 1], the total numbers of males were 64% and females were 36%. The male to female ratio was 2.11:1 As Shown in [Table 3], the distribution of patient according to their occupation noted were Skilled (18%), Unskilled (38%), Business (16%), Service (2%), Housewife (22%), and Student (4%). As shown in [Table 4], the socio-economic status among 50 patients was distributed into: Upper (2%), Upper Middle (22%), Upper lower (32%), Lower (12%), Lower middle (32%), and Lower-middle (32%). Conclusion: Early diagnosis and properly monitored treatment regimen is the only time tested answer to this problem. All diabetics at the initial diagnosis and every year must have an x-ray chest done. All diabetics with abnormal weight loss, unexplained cough, or sudden increase of insulin requirement should have sputum examination and chest x-ray done.

Background: Around the world dengue incidence has dramatically grown with a large number of asymptomatic cases. Worldwide about 390 million dengue infections were occurring per year, among them 96 million people were developing clinical manifestations with varied severity. About 3.9 billion people residing in 128 countries, were at-risk of dengue virus infection. Dengue fever (DF) is one of the common causes of acute febrile illness. In half the patients with dengue fever skin involvement occurs. Aim & Objectives: To study the socio-demographic parameters, clinical features and laboratory parameters among the patients with and without skin rash in dengue infection. Also determine outcome among the patients with dengue fever and its association with skin rash. Subjects and Methods: A hospital-based, analytical prospective study was conducted in the Department of General Medicine, Sapthagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Bangalore. Patients older than 16 years of age with clinical features and laboratory reports suggestive of dengue infection were included. The study was conducted for a period of 12 months from 1st December 2014 to 30th November 2015. These patients were further divided based on the skin rash presence and absence. The data obtained was entered in Microsoft Excel and analyzed in SPSS version-22 trial. Analysis was done using unpaired students t-test, ANOVA. Results: In total 97 patients with dengue fever were enrolled into the study. About 14.4 p.c (14) patients were with skin rash. The patients with skin rash were found to have lower platelet levels during the disease course. Patients with skin rash had higher percentage of platelet transfusion which was statistically significant. Conclusion: A cutaneous involvement may facilitate clinical diagnosis but it may not be present among all the patients.