Kuldeep Dhama, Firzan Nainu, Andri Frediansyah, Mohd. Iqbal Yatoo et al.
Newly emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are continuously posing high global public health concerns and panic resulting in waves of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Depending on the extent of genomic variations, mutations and adaptation, fe...
Ali A. Rabaan, Shamsah H. Al-Ahmed, Javed Muhammad, Amjad Khan et al.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a severe pandemic of the current century. The vicious tentacles of the disease have been disseminated worldwide with unknown complications and repercussions. Advanced COVID-19 syndrome is ...
Minhazul Abedin, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Farah Naz Rahman, Hasan Mahmud Reza et al.
BACKGROUND: Although the approved COVID-19 vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective, mass vaccination in Bangladeshi people remains a challenge. As a vaccination effort, the study provided an empirical evidence on willingness to vaccinate by sociodemographic, clinical and regional differences...
Nadim Sharif, Khalid J. Alzahrani, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed, Shuvra Kanti Dey
There is a significant research gap in meta-analysis on the efficacy and safety of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. This study analyzed the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. Published phase I, phase II, and phase III trials analyzing safety and immunogenicity and phase III randomized clini...
A.‐M. Svennerholm, Marianne Jertborn, I. e. Gothefors, Amr M. Karim et al.
Mucosal and systemic immune responses to a new oral cholera vaccine, consisting of the B subunit plus killed vibrios, were studied in Bangladeshi volunteers and compared with those to clinical cholera. A single peroral dose of vaccine induced a local IgA antitoxin response in intestinal-lavage fluid...
Ali A. Rabaan, Raghavendra Tirupathi, Anupam Sule, Jehad Aldali et al.
Real-time RT-PCR is considered the gold standard confirmatory test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, many scientists disagree, and it is essential to understand that several factors and variables can cause a false-negative test. In this context, cycle threshold (Ct) values are being ...
Debendra Nath Roy, Mohitosh Biswas, Md. Ekramul Islam, Md. Shah Azam
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Although vaccines are considered the most effective and fundamental therapeutic tools for consistently preventing the COVID-19 disease, worldwide vaccine hesitancy has become a widespread public health issue for successful immunization. The aim of this review was to identify an ...
Md. Saiful Islam, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Rejina Akter, Rafia Tasnim et al.
BACKGROUND: Several vaccines have been approved for use against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and distributed globally in different regions. However, general community knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards COVID-19 vaccinations are poorly understood. Thus, the study aimed to investigate comm...
Vinod Soman Pillai, Gayathri Krishna, Mohanan Valiya Veettil
Viral outbreaks of varying frequencies and severities have caused panic and havoc across the globe throughout history. Influenza, small pox, measles, and yellow fever reverberated for centuries, causing huge burden for economies. The twenty-first century witnessed the most pathogenic and contagious ...
Abdus Samad, Foysal Ahammad, Zulkar Nain, Rahat Alam et al.
K12 resulted in optimal GC content and higher CAI value followed by incorporating it into the cloning vector pET28+(a). Overall, these results suggest that the designed peptide vaccine can serve as an excellent prophylactic candidate against SARS-CoV-2.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
Abram L. Wagner, Nina B. Masters, Gretchen J. Domek, Joseph L. Mathew et al.
Vaccine hesitancy is a continuum of behaviors ranging from delay in receipt to vaccination refusal. Prior studies have typically focused on high-income countries, where vaccine hesitancy is particularly prevalent in more affluent groups, but the relationship between socioeconomic status and vaccine ...
Troy Day, Andrew Park, Neal Madras, Abba B. Gumel et al.
The isolation and treatment of symptomatic individuals, coupled with the quarantining of individuals that have a high risk of having been infected, constitute two commonly used epidemic control measures. Although isolation is probably always a desirable public health measure, quarantine is more cont...
Nusrat Homaira, Md. Abdur Rahman, Jahangir Hossain, Jonathan H. Epstein et al.
In February 2007 an outbreak of Nipah virus (NiV) encephalitis in Thakurgaon District of northwest Bangladesh affected seven people, three of whom died. All subsequent cases developed illness 7-14 days after close physical contact with the index case while he was ill. Cases were more likely than con...
Taimur Islam, Anup Kumar Talukder, Md. Nurealam Siddiqui, Tofazzal Islam
An outbreak of a COVID-19 pandemic disease, caused by a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has posed a serious threat to global human health. Bangladesh has also come under the attack of this viral disease. Here, we aimed to describe the responses of Bangladesh to tackle the COVID-19, particularly on how...
Md. Abdullah‐Al‐Kamran Khan, Md. Rabi Us Sany, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Abul Bashar Mir Md. Khademul Islam
Detailed molecular mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis is still elusive to address its deadlier nature and to design effective theraputics. Here, we present our study elucidating the interplay between the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 viruses’; and host’s miRNAs, an epigenetic regulator, as a mode of pat...