Jelle Matthijnssens, Max Ciarlet, Mustafizur Rahman, Houssam Attoui et al.
Recently, a classification system was proposed for rotaviruses in which all the 11 genomic RNA segments are used (Matthijnssens et al. in J Virol 82:3204-3219, 2008). Based on nucleotide identity cut-off percentages, different genotypes were defined for each genome segment. A nomenclature for the co...
Mustafizur Rahman, Jelle Matthijnssens, Xuelei Yang, Thomas Delbeke et al.
G12 rotaviruses were first detected in diarrheic children in the Philippines in 1987, but no further cases were reported until 1998. However, G12 rotaviruses have been detected all over the world in recent years. Here, we report the worldwide variations of G12 rotaviruses to investigate the evolutio...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Mustafizur Rahman, Max Ciarlet, Mark Zeller et al.
G11 rotaviruses are believed to be of porcine origin. However, a limited number of G11 rotaviruses have been recently isolated from humans in combination with P[25], P[8], P[6], and P[4]. To investigate the evolutionary relationships of these strains, we analyzed the complete genomes of 2 human G11P...
Katharine D. Wenstrom, Stephen R. Carr
Since the first human fetal surgery was reported in 1965, several different fetal surgical procedures have been developed and perfected, resulting in significantly improved outcomes for many fetuses. The currently accepted list of fetal conditions for which antenatal surgery is considered include lo...
Jose F. Diaz, Manuela Verástegui, Robert H. Gilman, Victor C. W. Tsang et al.
We compared results of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and an enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) assay for the diagnosis of cysticercosis in sera and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Sera from 34 patients with confirmed cysticercosis were tested by both ELISA and EITB assays. Cer...
Nicholas M. Kiulia, Nynke Hofstra, Lucie C. Vermeulen, Maureen Obara et al.
Group A rotaviruses (RV) are the major cause of acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children globally. Waterborne transmission of RV and the presence of RV in water sources are of major public health importance. In this paper, we present the Global Waterborne Pathogen model for RV (GloWPa-Rot...
Mustafizur Rahman, Sukalyani Banik, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Koki Taniguchi et al.
Group C rotaviruses were detected by reverse transcription-PCR in 14 (2.3%) of 611 group A rotavirus-negative stool specimens from the patients admitted to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh, during July to December 2003. The low rate of ...
Robyn L. Ward, Osamu Nakagomi, D R Knowlton, Monica McNeal et al.
Of 335 rotavirus isolates associated with diarrheal disease in Bangladesh that were culture adapted and subsequently characterized for electropherotype, subgroup, and serotype, 9 had properties that suggested they may be natural reassortants between human rotaviruses belonging to different "genogrou...
Rashidul Haque, Cynthia J. Snider, Yue Liu, Z. Jennie et al.
Oral vaccines for polio (OPV) and rotavirus are less effective in children in the developing world. The reasons for this are not well understood. We tested for risk factors for poor response to OPV in infants from an urban slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Diminished serum neutralizing response to OPV, but...
Judith G. Hall, Susan D. Reed, Barbara McGillivray, Jeremy L. Herrmann et al.
We report on 11 cases of amyoplasia in one of identical twins. In total, 135 patients with amyoplasia were ascertained from a study of 350 patients with multiple congenital joint contractures (arthrogryposis). These 11 cases of identical twins with amyoplasia represent 8% of our patients with amyopl...
Minhaz Ahmed, Shozo Urasawa, K. Taniguchi, Tomoko Urasawa et al.
The virologic character of human rotavirus strains prevailing in Bangladesh was investigated in relation to the devastating nationwide floods brought by the 1988 monsoon. Human rotaviruses contained in stool specimens that were collected from inpatients with infantile and adult diarrhea in two hospi...
Sakirul Khan, Hiroaki Nabeka, Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar, Mamun Al Mahtab et al.
SARS-CoV-2 infection during conception or early pregnancy may have increased risk to develop neurodevelopmental defects in the developing fetus.
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Tahmeed Ahmed, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Mohammed Abdus Salam
We described clinical and laboratory features of infants having radiologic pneumonia with (cases) and without severe malnutrition (controls). Case fatality rate was greater in cases than controls (23% vs. 0%, P = 0.04). The sensitivity and specificity of fast breathing, lower chest wall indrawing, a...
D. Yamamoto, Souvik Ghosh, Masafumi Kuzuya, Yuan‐Hong Wang et al.
Group C rotavirus (GCRV) is distributed worldwide as an enteric pathogen in humans and animals. However, to date, whole-genome sequences are available only for a human strain (Bristol) and a porcine strain (Cowden). To investigate the genetic diversity of human GCRVs, nearly full-length sequences of...
Athanasios Gouliamos, A. Kalovidouris, John Papailiou, L. Vlahos et al.
The principal features of computed tomography in hydatid disease of the lungs were reviewed in ten patients with surgically verified hydatid disease of the lungs. On the basis of localization and multiplicity, hydatid cysts of the lungs can be classified in three distinct categories: single unilater...