Anna C. Seale, Fiorella Bianchi-Jassir, Neal Russell, Maya Kohli-Lynch et al.
BACKGROUND: We aimed to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the burden of group B Streptococcus (GBS), including invasive disease in pregnant and postpartum women, fetal infection/stillbirth, and infants. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis is the current mainstay of prevention, reducing ear...
Maya Kohli-Lynch, Neal Russell, Anna C. Seale, Ziyaad Dangor et al.
BACKGROUND: Survivors of infant group B streptococcal (GBS) disease are at risk of neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI), a burden not previously systematically quantified. This is the 10th of 11 articles estimating the burden of GBS disease. Here we aimed to estimate NDI in survivors of infant GBS di...
Kirsty Le Doaré, Megan O’Driscoll, Kim Turner, Farah Seedat et al.
BACKGROUND: Intrapartum antibiotic chemoprophylaxis (IAP) prevents most early-onset group B streptococcal (GBS) disease. However, there is no description of how IAP is used around the world. This article is the sixth in a series estimating the burden of GBS disease. Here we aimed to review GBS scree...
Ridwanur Rahman, Maryam Faiz, Shahjada Selim, Bayzidur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in the world and one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in many areas, particularly in the rural tropics. It also poses substantial economic burdens on the snake bite victims due to treatment related expenditure and loss of prod...
Gyanendra Gongal, A. E. Wright
There are eleven Member States in the WHO southeast Asia region (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste) of which eight are endemic for rabies. More than 1.4 billion people in the Region are at risk of r...
Anna C. Seale, Hannah Blencowe, Fiorella Bianchi-Jassir, Nicholas D. Embleton et al.
BACKGROUND: There are an estimated 2.6 million stillbirths each year, many of which are due to infections, especially in low- and middle-income contexts. This paper, the eighth in a series on the burden of group B streptococcal (GBS) disease, aims to estimate the percentage of stillbirths associated...
Martin J. Blaser, Roger I. Glass, Mohsina Huq, Barbara J. Stoll et al.
To determine the prevalence of infection with Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni in Bangladesh, culture surveys were conducted among three populations. In Dacca, Campylobacter was isolated from 5.2% of 97 individuals with clinical dysentery and from 12.3% of 204 patients with only diarrhea. This diff...
Jennifer Hall, Nadine Hack Adams, Linda Bartlett, Anna C. Seale et al.
Background. Infections such as group B Streptococcus (GBS) are an important cause of maternal sepsis, yet limited data on epidemiology exist. This article, the third of 11, estimates the incidence of maternal GBS disease worldwide.
Joy E Lawn, Fiorella Bianchi-Jassir, Neal Russell, Maya Kohli-Lynch et al.
Improving maternal, newborn, and child health is central to Sustainable Development Goal targets for 2030, requiring acceleration especially to prevent 5.6 million deaths around the time of birth. Infections contribute to this burden, but etiological data are limited. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is ...
ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, M. A. K. Azad Chowdhury, Mahbul Hoque, Gary L. Darmstadt
The present article is a descriptive analysis of clinical and bacteriological profile of neonatal septicemia in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh. Eighty six neonates with suspected sepsis were enrolled, out of which 30 were culture positive. Clinical presentation was non-specific. Majority (70...
James A Platts-Mills, Jie Liu, Jean Gratz, Esto Mduma et al.
Campylobacter is a common bacterial enteropathogen that can be detected in stool by culture, enzyme immunoassay (EIA), or PCR. We compared culture for C. jejuni/C. coli, EIA (ProSpecT), and duplex PCR to distinguish Campylobacter jejuni/C. coli and non-jejuni/coli Campylobacter on 432 diarrheal and ...
Betty Dodet, Amlan Goswami, Amila Gunasekera, Ferdinand De Guzman et al.
Rabies is a deadly zoonotic disease most often transmitted to humans through a dog bite. Human mortality from endemic canine rabies is estimated by WHO to be around 55,000 deaths annually, with over 31,000 deaths in Asia alone, mostly children. Most of these deaths could be prevented through post-ex...
Davidson H. Hamer, Gary L. Darmstadt, John B. Carlin, Anita Zaidi et al.
Neonatal illness is a leading cause of death worldwide; sepsis is one of the main contributors. The etiologies of community-acquired neonatal bacteremia in developing countries have not been well characterized.
Colin Fischbacher, Raj Bhopal, Nigel Unwin, Martin White et al.
BACKGROUND: The Rose angina questionnaire has been extensively used in different cultural settings, but may not perform consistently in different ethnic groups. We set out to assess the performance of the Rose angina questionnaire in UK South Asians compared with Europeans. METHODS: Data on major EC...
Johan Vekemans, Vasee Moorthy, Martin Friede, Mark R. Alderson et al.
Group B streptococcus, found in the vagina or lower gastrointestinal tract of about 10-40% of women of reproductive age, is a leading cause of early life invasive bacterial disease, potentially amenable to prevention through maternal immunization during pregnancy. Following a consultation process wi...