Md. Abdus Salam, Md. Yusuf Al-Amin, Moushumi Tabassoom Salam, Jogendra Singh Pawar et al.
Antibiotics are among the most important discoveries of the 20th century, having saved millions of lives from infectious diseases. Microbes have developed acquired antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to many drugs due to high selection pressure from increasing use and misuse of antibiotics over the years...
Katia Iskandar, Laurent Molinier, Souheil Hallit, Massimo Sartelli et al.
Data on comprehensive population-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance is lacking. In low- and middle-income countries, the challenges are high due to weak laboratory capacity, poor health systems governance, lack of health information systems, and limited resources. Developing countries st...
Naznin Alam, Nadia Saffoon, Riaz Uddin
BACKGROUND: This cross-sectional survey examined the pattern of self-medication and factors associated with this practice among medical and pharmacy students in context to Bangladesh. METHODS: The study used a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 500; 250 medical and 250 pharmacy, students pa...
HV Hogerzeil, Bimo, Dennis Ross‐Degnan, Richard Laing et al.
Increasing efforts are being made to improve drug-use practices and prescribing behaviour in developing countries. An essential tool for such work is an objective and standard method of assessment. We present here a set of drug-use indicators produced and tested in twelve developing countries. We de...
Sameer Dhingra, Nor Azlina A. Rahman, Ed Peile, Motiur Rahman et al.
Antibiotics changed medical practice by significantly decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with bacterial infection. However, infectious diseases remain the leading cause of death in the world. There is global concern about the rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which affects both ...
Nga Thi Thuy, Huong T L Vu, Chuc T K Nguyen, Sureeporn Punpuing et al.
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial misuse is common in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and this practice is a driver of antibiotic resistance. We compared community-based antibiotic access and use practices across communities in LMICs to identify contextually specific targets for intervention...
Iftekhar Ahmed, Md. Bodiuzzaman Rabbi, Sakina Sultana
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a worldwide problem and Bangladesh is a major contributor to this owing to its poor healthcare standards, along with the misuse and overuse of antibiotics. This systematic review was conducted to summarize the present scenario of ABR in Bangladesh, to ident...
Brian Godman, Abiodun Egwuenu, Mainul Haque, Oliver Ombeva Malande et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a high priority across countries as it increases morbidity, mortality and costs. Concerns with AMR have resulted in multiple initiatives internationally, nationally and regionally to enhance appropriate antibiotic utilization across sectors to reduce AMR, with the o...
Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade, James A Platts-Mills, Jessica C. Seidman, Sushil John et al.
Antibiotics can be a lifesaving treatment for children with bacterial infections and are the most commonly prescribed therapy among all medications given to children. Furthermore, both at the individual and population levels, antibiotic overuse drives the development and transmission of antimicrobia...
Maya Nadimpalli, Sara Marks, María Camila Montealegre, Robert H. Gilman et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health challenge that is expected to disproportionately burden lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the coming decades. Although the contributions of human and veterinary antibiotic misuse to this crisis are well-recognized, environmental t...
Roksana Hoque, Syed Masud Ahmed, Nahitun Naher, Mohammad Aminul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become an emerging issue in the developing countries as well as in Bangladesh. AMR is aggravated by irrational use of antimicrobials in a largely unregulated pluralistic health system. This review presents a 'snap shot' of the current situation includin...
Joseph A. Lewnard, Esmita Charani, Alec Gleason, Li Yang Hsu et al.
National action plans enumerate many interventions as potential strategies to reduce the burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, knowledge of the benefits achievable by specific approaches is needed to inform policy making, especially in low-income and middle-income countries (L...
Mohitosh Biswas, Manobendro Nath Roy, Md. Imran Nur Manik, Md Shahid Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic self medication is highly prevalent in the developing countries due to easy availability and poor regulatory controls for selling these drugs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics for the treatment of various diseases by ...
Mahmud Hossain, Roger I. Glass, M. R. Khan
Hossain M M (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, GPO Box 128, Dacca-2, Bangladesh), Glass R I and Khan M R. Antibiotic use in a rural community in Bangladesh. International Journal of Epidemiology 1982, 11: 402–405. Antibiotic use by 175 000 people in the Matlab rural surveillance ...
Morshed Nasir, M S Chowdhury, Tahmina Zahan
Background: Self-medication is a common practice in Bangladesh as it provides a low-cost alternative for people, which involves inappropriate and injudicious use of medicines treat self-recognized symptoms by the people.Methods: A cross sectional online survey was conducted on 626 citizens by struct...