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Manipal Journal of Medical Sciences

MANIPAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES - EDITORIAL BOARD 1. Editor-In-Chief Dr. Krishnananda Prabhu R. V. Associate Dean, FAIMER fellow, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, KMC, Manipal, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka, India -576104 Email: krishnananda.prabhu@manipal.edu, Phone - 9844380157 2. Managing Editor Dr Murlimanju B.V. Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, KMC, Mangalore Email: murali.manju@manipal.edu Phone – 9008482904 3. Associate Editor - Medical Dr Sneha Deepak Mallya, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, KMC, Manipal, Email- sneha.kamath@manipal.edu, Phone – 9880893371 4. Associate Editor - Dental Dr Shaswata Karmakar, Reader, Department of Periodontology, MCODS, Manipal, Email -shaswata.karmakar@manipal.edu 5. Section editor – Medical Dr Vinay AV, Professor & Head, Department of Physiology, MTMC, Jamshedpur, Email - vinay.av@manipal.edu, Phone – 9880966679 6. Section editor – Medical Dr Vijay Kautilya D, Associate Dean- Paraclinical, Professor & Head, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, MTMC, Jamshedpur, Email-Vijay.kautilya@manipal.edu, Phone-9448651848 7. Section editor – Medical Dr Ashim Mishra, Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, MTMC, Jamshedpur, Email-ashim.mishra@manipal.edu, Phone- 8391934762 8. Section editor – Medical Dr Sameer Wooly, Professor & Head, Department of Orthopedics, MTMC, Jamshedpur, Email-sameer.wooly@manipal.edu, Phone-7760219100 9. Section editor – Dental Dr P. Kalyan Chakravarthy, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, MCODS, Manipal, Email -kalyan.cp@manipal.edu 10. Section editor – Dental Dr. Ravikiran Ongole, HOD, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, MCODS, Mangalore, Email-ravikiran.ongole@manipal.edu 11. Section editor – Dental Dr. Srikant N, HOD & Co-ordinator - MU Centres, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, MCODS, Mangalore, Email-srikant.n@manipal.edu 12. Section editor – Dental Dr. Nidhin Philip Jose, Associate Professor, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, MCODS, Mangalore, Email- nidhin.philip@manipal.edu 13. Section editor – ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES Dr. Venkataraja Aithal U., Associate Dean, Professor (Dept of Speech and Hearing), MCHP, MAHE, Manipal, Email-vrajaithal@manipal.edu, Phone- 9380495415 /9448824363 14. Section editor – ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES Dr. Shwetha T.S., Associate Professor and Ethicist, Department of Clinical Psychology, Manipal College of Health Professions(MCHP), MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka, India, Email-shwetha.ts@manipal.edu, Phone-9880993080 15. Section editor – PHARMACEUTICAL Usha Yogendra Nayak, Associate Professor - Senior Scale Pharmaceutics, MCOPS, Manipal, Email-usha.nayak@manipal.edu 16. Section editor – PHARMACEUTICAL Dr Srinivas Mutalik, HOD, Department of Pharmaceutics, MCOPS, Manipal, Email-ss.mutalik@manipal.edu 17. External editor – Medical Dr Rajasekharan Warrier, Professor, Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Ochsner Center for Children New Orleans, USA, Email-rwarrier@ochsner.org 18. External editor – Medical Dr Sudhir Prabhu H, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Email-sudhirhaladi@fathermuller.in 19. External editor – Medical Dr Shyam Prakash, Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, Email-drshyam.labmed@aiims.edu 20. External editor – Medical Dr Srinivas H, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical college, Bangalore, Email--srinivas.h81@gov.in 21. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD – Medical Dr Sharath K Rao, Pro Vice Chancellor – Health Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Email-sk.rao@manipal.edu
 

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Current Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1 (2021)

Editorial

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Undergraduate Summer Research under COVID-19
Jeevan K K. Shetty and warren thomas

Short Communications

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Fungi: Are they plants or animals?
Himanshu YN, Sufyan Ibrahim, and Revathi P. Shenoy Dr

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Sensor-based solution for maintaining social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sabah Mohd Zubair Dr, Neelima Chakraborty, and KUMAR SUMIT

Original Article

Review Articles

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Comparison of turnaround times (TAT) in Pathology laboratories from developed and developing countries, and its impact on treatment
Rishikha Jeyapal, SHAJEEDTH SURESH NAIDU, Jeevan K K. Shetty, and Venkatesh Ramaswamy NaIK

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Clinical teaching and learning in the COVID-19 era and beyond: The emergent and emerging scenarios
Shashikala K. Bhat, Veena Manja, Vinutha Shankar, and Shashikiran Umakanth

Case reports

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Absent oblique fissure and lingula in the left lung – a rare anatomical variation
Amit Massand, Mamatha Tonse, Mangala Pai, B.V. Murlimanju, and Latha Prabhu