A. Huq, E. B. Small, P. A. West, Mohsina Huq et al.
Strains of Vibrio cholerae, both O1 and non-O1 serovars, were found to attach to the surfaces of live copepods maintained in natural water samples collected from the Chesapeake Bay and Bangladesh environs. The specificity of attachment of V. cholerae to live copepods was confirmed by scanning electr...
R. I. Glass, Ann‐Mari Svennerholm, M. R. Khan, S. Huda et al.
In rural Bangladesh, family contacts of patients with cholera were studied prospectively to examine whether protection against colonization and disease due to Vibrio cholerae O1 was associated with circulating antibodies to V. cholerae. Family contacts (1,071) of 370 patients with cholera were visit...
Martin J. Blaser, Roger I. Glass, Mohsina Huq, Barbara J. Stoll et al.
To determine the prevalence of infection with Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni in Bangladesh, culture surveys were conducted among three populations. In Dacca, Campylobacter was isolated from 5.2% of 97 individuals with clinical dysentery and from 12.3% of 204 patients with only diarrhea. This diff...
James M. Hughes, John M. Boyce, Richard J. Levine, Moslemuddin Khan et al.
In order to define the role of water used for drinking, cooking, bathing, and washing in the transmission of Vibrio cholerae biotype eltor infections in an area with endemic cholera, surveillance was initiated in neighbourhoods with a culture-confirmed cholera index case and others with index cases ...
Roger I. Glass, Barbara J. Stoll, Mohsina Huq, Marc Struelens et al.
Epidemiologic and clinical features of infection with Campylobacter jejuni in Bangladesh were examined in (1) diarrheal patients infected with C jejuni, (2) healthy control subjects, and (3) village children who were cultured monthly and at each diarrheal episode during a 10-month period. C jejuni w...
Mohsina Huq, Athar Alam, D J Brenner, George K. Morris
The Vibrio-like organism EF-6 was isolated from more than 500 patients with diarrhea in Bangladesh between October 1976 and June 1977. Bacteriological studies indicate that EF-6 is a member of the family Vibrionaceae and that it should be provisionally placed in the genus Vibrio. EF-6 was isolated f...
Barbara J. Stoll, Roger I. Glass, H. Banu, Mohsina Huq et al.
Findings of stool examinations in 1593 patients with diarrhoea due to a single enteric pathogen--enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli rotavirus, Shigella, Campylobacter jejuni, Vibrio cholerae 0:1, Entamoeba histolytica, or Giardia lamblia--were reviewed to determine how well they predicted the agent as...
Zeaur Rahim, S. C. Sanyal, K M Aziz, Mohsina Huq et al.
Strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from skin infections of common freshwater fish in Bangladesh were tested for enterotoxin production, hemolysin production, and any correlation between these two activities. We also tested the resistance patterns of A. hydrophila to different drugs, especially...
Carol O. Tacket, N. Shahid, Mohsina Huq, A. R. M. A. Alim et al.
We studied the plasmid profiles of 136 Shigella isolates in Bangladesh to determine whether plasmid profiles could be used for differentiation of strains for epidemiological studies. Many different plasmid patterns were observed within each species, indicating that many genetically different strains...
R. I. Glass, Jan Holmgren, M. R. Khan, Kamal Hossain et al.
A randomized, controlled field trial was performed to test the ability of B subunit, the nontoxic, binding portion of cholera toxin, to block the toxin receptors (GM1 ganglioside) in the small intestine and thereby prevent diarrhea in individuals infected with Vibrio cholerae O1. Of 1,922 family con...
R. I. Glass, J. V. Lee, Mohsina Huq, Kamal Hossain et al.
The epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor in rural Bangladesh was examined with a new phage-typing system for characterization of individual strains. During a two-year period, 537 strains were typed with a set of standard and experimental phages. Four major and many minor patterns were identifie...
Mohsina Huq, K M Aziz, R. R. Colwell
Toxigenic Vibrio fluvialis (formerly Group F vibrio) have been isolated from both clinical and environmental sources in Bangladesh and the United States. Phenotypic and toxigenic characteristics of strains isolated from patients and the environment were similar. Ninety percent of the clinical isolat...
Martin J. Blaser, Roger I. Glass, Mohsina Huq
endemic(10); morbidity and mortality due to diarrhealillness is commonamongchildren. Ifthe preva-lenceofinfectionwithaknownentericpathogensuchas Campylobactercanbedefined, it mightbe possible to institute specific measures forbetter control of diarrheal illness. An earliersurvey in Dacca found Campy...