Nicholas J. White, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Tran Tinh Hien, M. Abul Faiz et al.
Although global morbidity and mortality have decreased substantially, malaria, a parasite infection of red blood cells, still kills roughly 2000 people per day, most of whom are children in Africa. Two factors largely account for these decreases; increased deployment of insecticide-treated bednets a...
Firdausi Qadri, Ann–Mari Svennerholm, Shah M. Faruque, R. Bradley Sack
ETEC is an underrecognized but extremely important cause of diarrhea in the developing world where there is inadequate clean water and poor sanitation. It is the most frequent bacterial cause of diarrhea in children and adults living in these areas and also the most common cause of traveler's diarrh...
Ali Ahmed, Kah S. Lee, Allah Bukhsh, Yaser Mohammed Al‐Worafi et al.
The increase in Muslim parents' refusal and hesitancy to accept childhood vaccination was identified as one of the contributing factors in the increase of vaccine-preventable diseases cases in countries such as Afghanistan, Malaysia and Pakistan. The spread of inaccurate and irresponsible informatio...
Bilal Ahmad Rahimi, Ammarin Thakkinstian, Nicholas J. White, Chukiat Sirivichayakul et al.
BACKGROUND: Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax was long considered to have a low mortality, but recent reports from some geographical areas suggest that severe and complicated vivax malaria may be more common than previously thought. METHODS: The primary objective of this systematic review and meta-...
Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Quazi Shihab Uddin Ibrahim, Md Shafiqul Bari, Md Mahidul Alam et al.
Bangladesh is one of the world's most vulnerable countries for climate change. This observational study examined the association of temperature, humidity and rainfall with six common climate-sensitive infectious diseases in adults (malaria, diarrheal disease, enteric fever, encephalitis, pneumonia a...
Seeromanie Harding, Michael Rosato, Alison Teyhan
OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in coronary heart disease and stroke mortality in migrants to England and Wales. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. OUTCOME MEASURES: Age-standardised and sex-specific death rates and rate ratios 1979-83, 1989-93 and 1999-2003. RESULTS: Coronary mortality fell among migrants, more...
Michael L. Bennish, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Wasif Ali Khan, Ali Miraj Khan
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a single dose, or 2 doses, of ciprofloxacin are as effective as 5-day, 10-dose therapy for the treatment of shigellosis in adult men who are moderately to severely ill. DESIGN: Randomized, double-blind clinical trial. SETTING: A diarrhea treatment center in the capita...
David N. Taylor, P Echeverria
Travelers' diarrhea in Asia has been studied among Peace Corps volunteers in Thailand, Japanese travelers, foreign residents in Bangladesh, guests in hotels, and members of various tour groups. Rates of diarrheal attack of greater than 50% during four- to six-week sojourns were reported for these gr...
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...
Kamran Khan, Jennifer Sears, Vivian Wei Hu, John S. Brownstein et al.
BACKGROUND: A novel coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causing severe, life-threatening respiratory disease has emerged in the Middle East at a time when two international mass gatherings in Saudi Arabia are imminent. While MERS-CoV has already spread to and within other countries, these mass gatherings could f...
Tanvir Ahmed, Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, Khalequ Zaman, David Sinclair et al.
BACKGROUND: Infection with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria is a common cause of diarrhoea in adults and children in developing countries and is a major cause of 'travellers' diarrhoea' in people visiting or returning from endemic regions. A killed whole cell vaccine (Dukoral®), prim...
Kamran Khan, Ziad A. Memish, Aneesh Chabbra, Jessica Liauw et al.
BACKGROUND: Every year millions of pilgrims from around the world gather under extremely crowded conditions in Mecca, Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj. In 2009, the Hajj coincided with influenza season during the midst of an influenza A (H1N1) pandemic. After the Hajj, resource-limited countries wit...
Mohammad Shahidul Islam, M. A. Yushuf Sharker, Shafiq Rheman, Shahadat Hossain et al.
Cholera is considered as a model for climate-related infectious diseases. In Bangladesh, cholera epidemics occur during summer and winter seasons, but it is not known how climate variability influences the seasonality of cholera. Therefore, the variability pattern of cholera events was studied in re...
Heidi Reid, Ubydul Haque, Shyamal K. Roy, Nazrul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Malaria remains a significant health problem in Bangladesh affecting 13 of 64 districts. The risk of malaria is variable across the endemic areas and throughout the year. A better understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns in malaria risk and the determinants driving the variatio...
Jacques Izopet, Alain Labrique, Buddha Basnyat, Harry R. Dalton et al.
Background Hepatitis E causes a significant burden of disease in developing countries and has recently been increasingly recognized in developed countries. Comparing population anti-hepatitis E virus (HEV) seroprevalence across populations has been difficult. Objectives The aim of this study was to ...