Beth D. Kirkpatrick, E. Ross Colgate, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Rashidul Haque et al.
Oral vaccines appear less effective in children in the developing world. Proposed biologic reasons include concurrent enteric infections, malnutrition, breast milk interference, and environmental enteropathy (EE). Rigorous study design and careful data management are essential to begin to understand...
Nicola Coppola, Loredana Alessio, Luciano Gualdieri, Mariantonietta Pisaturo et al.
Screening of undocumented migrants or refugees for hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections has been offered free of charge and free from bureaucratic procedures since 2012 at four primary-level clinical centres in Naples and Caserta, Italy. ...
Khalequ Zaman, David A. Sack, Mohammad Yunus, Shams El Arifeen et al.
Co-administration of oral live-attenuated human rotavirus vaccine RIX4414 (Rotarix) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) was assessed. Healthy infants were randomised to receive 2-doses of either: RIX4414 or placebo co-administered with OPV (12 and 16 weeks of age); or RIX4414 or placebo given 15 days after...
Mamun-Al Mahtab, Salimur Rahman, Md. Fazal Karim, Mobin Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is encountered sporadically the year round in Bangladesh. It results in a wide range of liver diseases, with asymptomatic acute hepatitis at one end to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at the other end of the spectrum. METHODS: All 1018 individuals of different age ...
Suzanne Wait, Emily Kell, Saeed Hamid, David Handojo Muljono et al.
In 2015, the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific gathered leading hepatitis experts from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand to discuss common challenges to the burden posed by hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), to lear...
Mamun Al Mahtab, Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar, Julio Aguilar, Gerardo Guillén et al.
CONTEXT: Current drugs for chronic hepatitis B therapy have a poor efficacy in terms of post-treatment sustained viral suppression and generate important side effects during and after therapy. Therapeutic vaccination with HBV antigens is an attractive alternative to test. OBJECTIVE: Evaluating the e...
Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Zhahirul Islam, Quazi Deen Mohammad, Bart C. Jacobs et al.
Marta Fogeda, Ana Avellón, C.G. Cilla, José Manuel Echevarría
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes hepatitis E, an acute liver disease displaying diverse epidemiological patterns that correlate with the genetic diversity of the virus. Only a few strains have been characterized to date from cases of hepatitis E in Spain. Using three sets of new, HEV-specific primers,...
Alain Labrique, Khalequ Zaman, Mohammad Zahid Hossain, Pradip Kumar Saha et al.
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis in the world. Most of South Asia is HEV endemic, with frequent seasonal epidemics of hepatitis E and continuous sporadic cases. This author group's epidemiologic work and clinical reports suggest that Bangladesh is HEV endemic...
Carine Ronsmans, MichaelL. Bennish, Thomas F. Wierzba
To develop guidelines for community health workers in the treatment of patients with diarrhoea, diarrhoea prevalence was actively surveyed for a year in a remote rural community of 915,000 persons, and the enteric pathogens and clinical features associated with diarrhoeal illness were determined in ...
Takeshi Sanekata, Muzahed Uddin Ahmed, Md Abdul Kader, Koki Taniguchi et al.
Human group B rotavirus was detected in 12 of 220 adult patients and 2 of 67 child patients with severe diarrhea in Bangladesh. Group B rotavirus may be virulent in both adults and children, and the virus may be an especially serious diarrheal agent in Bangladesh.
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 ...
Caryn Bern, Leanne Unicomb, Jon R. Gentsch, N Banul et al.
To improve the understanding of the relative importance of serotypes of rotavirus in dehydrating diarrhea, we examined the correlation of clinical characteristics and disease severity with serotype in 2,441 diarrheal episodes among children younger than 2 years of age in rural Bangladesh. Of 764 rot...
Vishal Batra, Amitava Goswami, Sunil Dadhich, Dinesh Kothari et al.
BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The aim of the study was to evaluate HBV immunization status and anti-HBs titer among HCWs. METHODS: AntiHBs titer was prospectively examined in all vaccinated of the 464 HCWs enrolled. A comparison was don...
Emily S. Gurley, Jahangir Hossain, Repon C. Paul, Hossain M. S. Sazzad et al.
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes outbreaks of jaundice associated with maternal mortality. Four deaths among pregnant women with jaundice occurred in an urban community near Dhaka, Bangladesh, in late 2008 and were reported to authorities in January 2009. We investigated the etiology and r...