Lorenz von Seidlein, Deok Ryun Kim, Mohammad Ali, Hyejon Lee et al.
BACKGROUND: The burden of shigellosis is greatest in resource-poor countries. Although this diarrheal disease has been thought to cause considerable morbidity and mortality in excess of 1,000,000 deaths globally per year, little recent data are available to guide intervention strategies in Asia. We ...
Abdullah Al Mamun Sohag, Md. Tahjib‐Ul‐Arif, Marián Brestič, Sonya Afrin et al.
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and salicylic acid (SA) exhibit protective effects against a wide array of stresses. In this study, we investigated the relative efficacy of exogenous H2O2 and SA in conferring drought tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.). The experiment was repeated two times, firstly in a h...
Michael L. Bennish, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Mohammad Anowar Hossain, Jacques Myaux et al.
The susceptibility to ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ) was determined for 15,824 isolates of Shigella obtained from patients attending a treatment center in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1983 through 1990 and for 520 isolates obtained during community surveys from 1988 through 1990. ...
Md. Atiqur Rahman Khokon, M. Sarwar Jahan, Taniya Rahman, Mohammad Anowar Hossain et al.
Isothiocyanates (ITCs) are degradation products of glucosinolates in crucifer plants and have repellent effect on insects, pathogens and herbivores. In this study, we report that exogenously applied allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) induced stomatal closure in Arabidopsis via production of reactive oxygen...
Abu Iftiaf Md Salah Ud-Din, Syeda Umme Habiba Wahid, Hasan A. Latif, Mohammad Shahnaij et al.
Shigellosis, caused by Shigella species, is a major public health problem in Bangladesh. To determine the prevalence and distribution of different Shigella species, we analyzed 10,827 Shigella isolates from patients between 2001 and 2011. S. flexneri was the predominant species isolated throughout t...
Shanewaz Hossan, S. Hossain, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Mir Himayet Kabir et al.
Chromium (Cr) (VI) has long been known as an environmental hazard that can be reduced from aqueous solutions through bioremediation by living cells. In this study, we investigated the efficiency of reduction and biosorption of Cr(VI) by chromate resistant bacteria isolated from tannery effluent. Fro...
Md. Anowar Khasru Parvez, Karabi Saha, Juairia Rahman, Rahath Ara Munmun et al.
. Strong synergistic relation (FICI 0.325) was found against pathogens in the combination of EGCG with gentamycin. The purified EGCG compound of green tea has great synergistic effect against MDR pathogens. More investigation is needed to know the inhibitory effect of these plant extracts and their ...
Alain Labrique, Khalequ Zaman, Mohammad Zahid Hossain, Parimalendu Saha et al.
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) causes a substantial burden of sporadic and epidemic disease worldwide. HEV infections result in serious morbidity and mortality, especially among pregnant women, and have significant economic costs. Few population-based studies have characterized the epidemiology of HEV. A r...
Ishrat J. Azmi, Bijay K. Khajanchi, Fatema Akter, Trisheeta N. Hasan et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence and mechanisms of fluoroquinolone resistance in Shigella species isolated in Bangladesh and to compare with similar strains isolated in China. METHODS: A total of 3789 Shigella isolates collected from Clinical Microbiology Laboratory of icddr,b, during 2004-2...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Bijay K. Khajanchi, Mohammed Aminul Islam, Dilip Dutta et al.
<I>Objectives</I>: The aim of the present study was to determine the clonal relationships of ciprofloxacin-resistant <I>Shigella dysenteriae</I> type 1 strains isolated from south Asia, and <I>S. dysenteriae</I> 1 strains associated with epidemics in 1978, 1984 an...
Mohammad Anowar Hossain, Mahmuda Khatun, Farzana Arjumand, Ananda Nisaluk et al.
Dengue fever emerged in Bangladesh in 2000. We tested 225 serum samples from febrile patients and 184 blood donors in 1996 and 1997 for dengue antibodies; 55 (24.4% ) febrile patients had dengue antibodies ( 65.5% with secondary infection pattern), compared with one (0.54%) donor (p <0.001), suggest...
Dilruba Ahmed, Liton T. D'Costa, Khorshed Alam, G. Balakrish Nair et al.
Typhoid fever due to multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a global public health problem, with an estimated 30 million cases and 600,000 deaths annually (7). Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been an increasing prevalence of multidrug resistance to the first-line antimi...
Syed Rashel Kabir, Md. Abu Zubair, Md. Nurujjaman, Md. Azizul Haque et al.
A lectin (termed NNTL) was purified from the extracts of Nymphaea nouchali tuber followed by anion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, hydrophobic chromatography on HiTrap Phenyl HP and by repeated anion-exchange chromatography on HiTrap Q FF column. The molecular mass of the purified lectin ...
S. M. Mostafa Kamal, Md Anowar Hossain, Salma Sultana, Vikarunnessa Begum et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance in Bangladesh. DESIGN: Weighted cluster sampling among smear-positive cases, and standard culture and drug susceptibility testing on solid medium were used. RESULTS: Of 1480 patients enrolled during 2011, 12 falsified multid...
Anowar Hossain, Mohammad Kamal Hossain
This paper examines co-integration and the causal relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the economic output or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the both short and long run of Bangladesh, Pakistan and India over the period of 1972-2008. Three econometric models, viz. Augmented Dicke...
Alain Labrique, Khalequ Zaman, Mohammad Zahid Hossain, Parimalendu Saha et al.
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the major cause of epidemic and sporadic hepatitis globally. Outbreaks are associated with fecal contamination of drinking water, yet the environmental reservoir of HEV between epidemics remains unclear. In contrast to neighboring countries, where epidemics and sporadic di...
Ashfaqul Hoque, Tahmeed Ahmed, Mohammad Shahidullah, Anowar Hossain et al.
Cronobacter spp. formerly known as Enterobacter sakazakii is an occasional contaminant of powdered infant formula (PIF). This pathogen has been associated with out-breaks of a rare form of infant meningitis, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), bacteremia and neonate deaths. The organism is ranked by th...
Nayeeb Rashid, Md Adnan Faisal Hossain, Mohammad Ali, Mumtahina Islam Sukanya et al.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the automated diagnosis has become one of the most trending topics of research for faster mass screening. Deep learning-based approaches have been established as the most promising methods in this regard. However, the limitation of the labeled data is the mai...
M. John Albert, Iqbal Kabir, Tasnim Azim, Anowar Hossain et al.
A spherical acid-fast organism measuring approximately 10 microns in diameter (Cyclospora sp.) has recently been implicated in diarrheal diseases in many parts of the world. We detected this organism in the stools of six Bangladeshi patients with diarrhea. Four patients had chronic diarrhea and two ...
Mohammad Hossain Shariare, Md. Anowar Khasru Parvez, George A. Karikas, Mohsin Kazi
COVID-19 has nowadays affected almost all our societies and global health systems. The latest deadly pandemic has heavily influenced both life and livelihood worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 is the causative organism of COVID-19, that is spreading and infecting significantly higher compared to other coronaviru...