Atiqur Rahman, Tania S. Bonny, Siriporn Stonsaovapak, Chiraporn Ananchaipattana
Yersinia enterocolitica is the most common bacteriological cause of gastrointestinal disease in many developed and developing countries. Although contaminated food is the main source of human infection due to Y. enterocolitica, animal reservoir and contaminated environment are also considered as oth...
Noraini Philip, Norliza Bahtiar Affendy, Siti Nur Alia Ramli, Muhamad Arif et al.
BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis, commonly known as rat-urine disease, is a global but endemic zoonotic disease in the tropics. Despite the historical report of leptospirosis in Malaysia, the information on human-infecting species is limited. Determining the circulating species is important to understand i...
Authored by the members of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP), Wanda Markotter, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Wiku Adisasmito et al.
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT : The devastating impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on human health globally has prompted extensive discussions on how to better prepare for and safeguard against the next pandemic. Zoonotic spillover of pathogens from animals to humans is recognized as the predomi...
Vincent C. Tam, Masato Suzuki, Margaret Coughlin, David E. Saslowsky et al.
ABSTRACT Vibrio cholerae , a Gram-negative facultative pathogen, is the etiologic agent for the diarrheal disease cholera. We previously characterized a clinical isolate, AM-19226, that translocates a type III secretion system (T3SS) effector protein with actin-nucleating activity, VopF, into the ho...
Michael M. Jaeger, Emdadul Haque, Parvin Sultana, Richard L. Bruggers
Golden jackals are locally common in Bangladesh despite intensive cultivation and high human densities. We studied the relative importance of seasonal flooding, rodent prey-base, and daytime cover on the occurrence of golden jackals in the two major agro-ecosystems in Bangladesh, one with annual mon...
Pengfei Cai, Kosala Weerakoon, Yi Mu, Remigio M. Olveda et al.
BACKGROUND: Zoonotic schistosomiasis in Asia, caused by Schistosoma japonicum, remains a major public health concern in China and the Philippines. The developing epidemiological and socio-economic picture of the disease in endemic areas necessitates the development of affordable and highly accurate ...
Antonio Fasanella, Giuliano Garofolo, M. J. Hossain, M. Shamsuddin et al.
In Bangladesh from 1 July to 30 September 2010 there were 104 animal cases of anthrax and 607 associated human cases. This investigation was conducted in Sirajganj district in December 2010, on eight farms where animal cases had occurred. Bacillus anthracis was recovered from soil samples and turbin...
Steven R. Belmain, Nyo Me Htwe, N.Q. Kamal, Grant R. Singleton
Context Post-harvest losses by rodents have traditionally been calculated by estimates of consumption determined in the laboratory. Methods for assessing storage losses by rodents under smallholder conditions will help farmers and policy makers understand the impact rodents may have on food security...
Hossein Janati Pirouz, Gholam Reza Mohammadi, Jalil Mehrzad, Mohammad Azizzadeh et al.
Coxiella burnetii, an obligate intracellular bacterium, is the causative agent of important zoonotic Q fever. It is the etiological agent of coxiellosis or Q fever in animals and human. This seroepidemiological survey was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of coxiellosis in increasingly camel...
Rapeephan R. Maude, Richard J. Maude, Aniruddha Ghose, M. Robed Amin et al.
Scrub and murine typhus infections are under-diagnosed causes of febrile illness across the tropics, and it is not known how common they are in Bangladesh. We conducted a prospective seroepidemiologic survey across six major teaching hospitals in Bangladesh by using an IgM enzyme-linked immunosorben...
Be‐Nazir Ahmed, Yasmin Sultana, DSM Fatema, Khorshed Ara et al.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjmm.v4i1.8470BJMM 2011; 4(1): 46-50
Yan Boucher, Fabini D. Orata, Munirul Alam
Cholera is a diarrheal disease that has changed the history of mankind, devastating the world with seven pandemics from 1817 to the present day. Although there is little doubt in the causative agent of these pandemics being Vibrio cholerae of the O1 serogroup, where, when, and how this pathogen emer...
Shah M. Faruque, G. Balakrish Nair, John J. Mekalanos
Vibrio cholerae, a Gram-negative bacterium belonging to the gamma-subdivision of the family Proteobacteriaceae is the etiologic agent of cholera, a devastating diarrheal disease which occurs frequently as epidemics. Any bacterial species encountering a broad spectrum of environments during the cours...
Thomas Butler, Md. Rayhanul Islam, Abul Kalam Azad, M. I. Huq et al.
From three fatal cases of diarrhoeal illness in Bangladesh, Yersinia species were isolated from tissues at post-mortem examination. One patient was infected with Y. enterocolitica serotype 0:7, 8 and two patients were infected with Y. intermedia. These patients were infected also with other enteric ...
David J. Blok, Sake J. de Vlas, Annemieke Geluk, Jan Hendrik Richardus
BACKGROUND: The availability of a diagnostic test to detect subclinical leprosy cases is crucial to interrupt the transmission of M. leprae. In this study we assessed the minimum sensitivity level of such a (hypothetical) diagnostic test and the optimal testing strategy in order to effectively reduc...