Chen-Shan Chin, Jon M. Sorenson, Jason B. Harris, William P. Robins et al.
BACKGROUND: Although cholera has been present in Latin America since 1991, it had not been epidemic in Haiti for at least 100 years. Recently, however, there has been a severe outbreak of cholera in Haiti. METHODS: We used third-generation single-molecule real-time DNA sequencing to determine the ge...
Md Atiqul Haque, Yihui Wang, Zhiqiang Shen, Xiaohui Li et al.
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced mainly by fungi belonging to the genera Aspergillus, Fusarium, Penicillium, Claviceps, and Alternaria that contaminate basic food products throughout the world, whether developing countries becoming predominantly affected. Currently, more than 500 mycoto...
Sujit Bhattacharya, Dipika Sur, Mohammad Ali, Suman Kanungo et al.
Background Efficacy and safety of a two-dose regimen of bivalent killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccine (Shantha Biotechnics, Hyderabad, India) to 3 years is established, but long-term efficacy is not. We aimed to assess protective efficacy up to 5 years in a slum area of Kolkata, India. Methods In ...
Paritosh Kumar Malaker, NCD Barma, T. P. Tiwari, W. J. Collis et al.
Md. Fakruddin, Khanjada Shahnewaj Bin Mannan, Stewart Andrews
The viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state is a unique survival strategy of many bacteria in the environment in response to adverse environmental conditions. VBNC bacteria cannot be cultured on routine microbiological media, but they remain viable and retain virulence. The VBNC bacteria can be resusc...
Michael L. Bennish
Complications that can lead to death during shigellosis include intestinal as well as systemic manifestations. The former include intestinal perforation, toxic megacolon, and dehydration, and the latter include sepsis, hyponatremia, hypoglycemia, seizures and encephalopathy, hemolyticuremic syndrome...
Debasish Saha, Mohammad Mahbubul Karim, Wasif Ali Khan, Sabeena Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Single-dose azithromycin is effective in the treatment of severe cholera in children, but its effectiveness in adults has not been evaluated. METHODS: We conducted a double-blind, randomized trial comparing the equivalence of azithromycin and ciprofloxacin (each given in a single 1-g dos...
Masahiro Hashizume, Ben Armstrong, Shakoor Hajat, Yukiko Wagatsuma et al.
BACKGROUND: The incidence of cholera in Bangladesh shows clear seasonality, suggesting that weather factors could play a role in its epidemiology. We estimated the effects of rainfall on the incidence of cholera in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: We examined time-series patterns of the weekly number of ...
Firdausi Qadri, Thomas F. Wierzba, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: A single-dose regimen of the current killed oral cholera vaccines that have been prequalified by the World Health Organization would make them more attractive for use against endemic and epidemic cholera. We conducted an efficacy trial of a single dose of the killed oral cholera vaccine ...
Harapan Harapan, Youdiil Ophinni, Dewi Megawati, Andri Frediansyah et al.
The 2022 multi-country monkeypox outbreak in humans has brought new public health adversity on top of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The disease has spread to 104 countries throughout six continents of the world, with the highest burden in North America and Europe. The eti...
R P Kitching
Sheep pox, goat pox and lumpy skin disease (Neethling) are diseases of sheep, goats and cattle respectively, caused by strains of poxvirus, within the genus Capripoxvirus. Strains affecting sheep and goats are not totally host-specific; some cause disease in both sheep and goats while others may cau...
Ananda Tiwari, Sangeet Adhikari, Devrim Kaya, Md. Aminul Islam et al.
Monkeypox disease (MPXD), a viral disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), is an emerging zoonotic disease endemic in some countries of Central and Western Africa but seldom reported outside the affected region. Since May 2022, MPXD has been reported at least in 74 countries globally, prompting...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Background Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the f...
Md Manjurul Ahsan, Muhammad Ramiz Uddin, Md Shahin Ali, Md Khairul Islam et al.
Monkeypox has become a significant global challenge as the number of cases increases daily. Those infected with the disease often display various skin symptoms and can spread the infection through contamination. Recently, Machine Learning (ML) has shown potential in image-based diagnoses, such as de...
Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Zannatun Nur, Nazia Hassan, Lorenz von Seidlein et al.
BACKGROUND: Vibrio cholerae, a Gram-negative, non-spore forming curved rod is found in diverse aquatic ecosystems around the planet. It is classified according to its major surface antigen into around 206 serogroups, of which O1 and O139 cause epidemic cholera. A recent spatial modelling technique e...