Lisa M. Bates, Sidney Ruth Schuler, Farzana Islam, N Islam
CONTEXT: Although the pervasiveness of domestic violence against women in Bangladesh is well documented, specific risk factors, particularly those that can be affected by policies and programs, are not well understood. METHODS: In 2001-2002, surveys, in-depth interviews and small group discussions w...
Marium Khatun, Sumi Sarkar, Farzana Mustafa Era, A. K. M. Mominul Islam et al.
Grain legumes are important sources of proteins, essential micronutrients and vitamins and for human nutrition. Climate change, including drought, is a severe threat to grain legume production throughout the world. In this review, the morpho-physiological, physio-biochemical and molecular levels of ...
Md. Mominur Rahman, Fahadul Islam, Md. Harun- Or-Rashid, Abdullah Al Mamun et al.
In the last two decades, considerable interest has been shown in understanding the development of the gut microbiota and its internal and external effects on the intestine, as well as the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) such as metabolic syndrome. The intestinal microbiota plays a pi...
Ahasanul Haque, Abdullah Sarwar, Farzana Yasmin, Arun Kumar Tarofder et al.
Purpose – This study aims to identify the factors that influence Malaysian non-Muslim consumers’ perception towards buying halal food products. Design/methodology/approach – A structured close-ended questionnaire was used for data collection through a random distribution to 500 non-Muslim consumers ...
Brandon L. Pierce, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Tong Lin, Farzana Jasmine et al.
Arsenic contamination of drinking water is a major public health issue in many countries, increasing risk for a wide array of diseases, including cancer. There is inter-individual variation in arsenic metabolism efficiency and susceptibility to arsenic toxicity; however, the basis of this variation ...
Mohammad Amirul Islam, Abdullah Al‐Mamun, Faisal Hossain, Shamshad B. Quraishi et al.
In this study, total concentrations of 16 trace elements (Al, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Sb, Hg, Pb, Th and U) in sediments of the rivers of the Sundarban mangrove forest, after the catastrophic oil spill accident in the Sela river of Sundarban, were determined. The overall mean concentr...
Allan W. Taylor, Dianna M. Blau, Quique Bassat, Dickens Onyango et al.
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia contributed 81% of 5·9 million under-5 deaths and 77% of 2·6 million stillbirths worldwide in 2015. Vital registration and verbal autopsy data are mainstays for the estimation of leading causes of death, but both are non-specific and focus on a single un...
Sayem Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Mary MacLennan, Farzana Dorin et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to estimate the technical efficiency of health systems in Asia. SETTINGS: The study was conducted in Asian countries. METHODS: We applied an output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to estimate the technical efficiency of the health systems in Asian countri...
Md Robiul Karim, Rongjun Wang, Haiju Dong, Longxian Zhang et al.
Enterocytozoon bieneusi is an important zoonotic pathogen. To assess the human-infective potential of E. bieneusi in nonhuman primates (NHPs), we examined the prevalence and genotype distribution of E. bieneusi in 23 NHP species by PCR and sequence analysis of the ribosomal internal transcribed spac...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Fahima Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Background Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the f...
Kathryn Thomson, Calie Dyer, Feiyan Liu, Kirsty Sands et al.
BACKGROUND: Sepsis is a major contributor to neonatal mortality, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). WHO advocates ampicillin-gentamicin as first-line therapy for the management of neonatal sepsis. In the BARNARDS observational cohort study of neonatal sepsis and antimicr...
Navit T. Salzberg, Kasthuri Sivalogan, Quique Bassat, Allan W. Taylor et al.
Despite reductions over the past 2 decades, childhood mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In these settings, children often die at home, without contact with the health system, and are neither accounted for, nor attributed with a cause of ...
Md. Burhan Kabir Suhan, Md. Rashid Al-Mamun, Nawshin Farzana, Sirazam Munira Aishee et al.
Rapid industrialization and urbanization emphasized water purification and the production of carbon-neutral fuels. State-of-the-art technology that is low-cost, long-lasting, and easy to implement is required to address these issues. In this context, substantial developments in green synthesis techn...
Christine Marie George, Shirajum Monira, David A. Sack, Mahamud‐ur Rashid et al.
The risk for cholera infection is >100 times higher for household contacts of cholera patients during the week after the index patient seeks hospital care than it is for the general population. To initiate a standard of care for this high-risk population, we developed Cholera-Hospital-Based-Interven...
Md Robiul Karim, Haiju Dong, Fuchang Yu, Fuchun Jian et al.
To explore the genetic diversity, host specificity, and zoonotic potential of Enterocytozoon bieneusi, feces from 348 stray and pet dogs and 96 pet cats from different locations in China were examined by internal transcribed spacer (ITS)-based PCR. E. bieneusi was detected in 15.5% of the dogs, incl...