Moslem Uddin Khan
High attack rates, increasing resistance to antibiotics and high mortality make shigellosis a serious problem. As Shigella is associated with poor hygiene we examined the effectiveness of a simple intervention, washing hands with soap and water, in checking the spread of the disease. The study popul...
W. Abdullah Brooks, Anowar Hossain, Doli Goswami, Amina Tahia Sharmeen et al.
We confirmed a bacteremic typhoid fever incidence of 3.9 episodes/1,000 person-years during fever surveillance in a Dhaka urban slum. The relative risk for preschool children compared with older persons was 8.9. Our regression model showed that these children were clinically ill, which suggests a ro...
Shafiqul Alam Sarker, Shawna McCallin, Caroline Barretto, Bernard Berger et al.
The genomic diversity of 99 T4-like coliphages was investigated by sequencing an equimolar mixture with Illumina technology and screening them against different databases for horizontal gene transfer and undesired genes. A 9-phage cocktail was given to 15 healthy adults from Bangladesh at a dose of ...
Sandra Chibani-Chennoufi, J Sidoti, Anne Bruttin, Elizabeth Kutter et al.
Four T4-like coliphages with broad host ranges for diarrhea-associated Escherichia coli serotypes were isolated from stool specimens from pediatric diarrhea patients and from environmental water samples. All four phages showed a highly efficient gastrointestinal passage in adult mice when added to d...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Mustafizur Rahman, Vito Martella, Yang Xuelei et al.
The Belgian rotavirus strain B4106, isolated from a child with gastroenteritis, was previously found to have VP7 (G3), VP4 (P[14]), and NSP4 (A genotype) genes closely related to those of lapine rotaviruses, suggesting a possible lapine origin or natural reassortment of strain B4106. To investigate ...
Robert E. Black
In a 1 year study of diarrhoea in a village in rural Bangladesh, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) were the most frequently detected enteropathogens; shigellae were the second most commonly detected enteropathogens and rotaviruses the third. ETEC and rotavirus were found in 31% of diarrhoea ep...
Mark Zeller, Mustafizur Rahman, Elisabeth Heylen, Sarah De Coster et al.
Rotarix™ was introduced into the Belgian market in 2006 and RotaTeq™ in 2007, quickly reaching more than 85% vaccine coverage of all newborns in Belgium. The incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis has been monitored in the Gasthuisberg University Hospital (GUH), Belgium since 1986, and since 1999 th...
Firdausi Qadri, Amit Saha, Tanvir Ahmed, Abdullah A. Tarique et al.
A cohort of 321 children was followed from birth up to 2 years of age to determine the incidence of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) in Bangladesh. The average number of diarrheal days and incidence rates were 6.6 and 2.3/child/year, respectively. ETEC was the most common pathogen and was iso...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Christiaan A. Potgieter, Max Ciarlet, Viviana Parreño et al.
A limited number of human G6P[14] rotavirus strains that cause gastroenteritis in humans have been isolated in Europe and Australia. The complete genome sequences were determined for five of these human strains--B10925-97 (isolated in Belgium in 1997), 111/05-27 (Italy, 2005), PA169 (Italy, 1987), M...
Abdullah H Baqui, Robert E. Black, Mohammad Yunus, Ashfaqul Hoque et al.
Baqui A H (Community Health Division, International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) (ICDDR, B) GPO Box 128, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh), Black R E, Yunus Md, Hoque A R A, Chowhury H R and Sack R B. Methodological issues in diarrhoeal diseases epidemiology: definition of diarrhoeal ep...
Leanne Unicomb, Goutam Podder, Jon R. Gentsch, Patricia Woods et al.
We characterized 1,534 rotavirus (RV) strains collected in Bangladesh from 1992 to 1997 to assess temporal changes in G type and to study the most common G and P types using reverse transcription-PCR, oligonucleotide probe hybridization, and monoclonal antibody-based enzyme immunoassay. Results from...
M. Steven Oberste, Kaija Maher, A. J. Williams, Naomi Dybdahl-Sissoko et al.
The 65 serotypes of human enteroviruses are classified into four species, Human enterovirus (HEV) A to D, based largely on phylogenetic relationships in multiple genome regions. The 3'-non-translated region of enteroviruses is highly conserved within a species but highly divergent between species. F...
Md. Iqbal Hossain, Mohammad Sadekuzzaman, Sang‐Do Ha
Pathogenic microorganisms are a potential threat to the agriculture and food industries. Food contamination can be happened in the production levels at any point in the chain by pathogenic microorganisms. Conventional methods, such as those involving antibiotics, disinfectants, and physical methods,...
Myron M. Levine, Dilruba Nasrin, Sozinho Acácio, Quique Bassat et al.
BACKGROUND: The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) was a 3-year case-control study that measured the burden, aetiology, and consequences of moderate-to-severe diarrhoea (MSD) in children aged 0-59 months. GEMS-1A, a 12-month follow-on study, comprised two parallel case-control studies, one asse...
Barbara J. Stoll, Roger I. Glass, Mohammad Imdadul Huq, Muhammad Umer Khan et al.
In October 1979 a surveillance system was set up at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Hospital at Dacca to study a 4% systematic sample of the 100 000 patients with diarrhoea who come to the hospital for care each year. From December 1979 to November 1980 inclusiv...