Khalequz Zaman, Eliza Roy, Shams El Arifeen, Mahbubur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Young infants and pregnant women are at increased risk for serious consequences of influenza infection. Inactivated influenza vaccine is recommended for pregnant women but is not licensed for infants younger than 6 months of age. We assessed the clinical effectiveness of inactivated infl...
Nigar S. Shahid, Sadid Hoque, Tahmina Begum, M. C. Steinhoff et al.
Pneumococci are a leading cause of severe bacterial disease in infants and children world wide. A possible means of protecting infants in the first few months of life is immunisation of the mother during pregnancy. We prospectively assessed pneumococcal immunisation of pregnant women to determine th...
StevenK Obaro, M. C. Steinhoff, Nigar S. Shahid, George R. Siber
Pneumococci are a leading cause of severe bacterial disease in infants and children world wide. A possible means of protecting infants in the first few months of life is immunisation of the mother during pregnancy. We prospectively assessed pneumococcal immunisation of pregnant women to determine th...
Nigar S. Shahid, W. B. Greenough, A R Samadi, M. I. Huq et al.
Hand washing with soap and water can prevent the spread of diarrhoeal diseases in areas where comparatively costly interventions, such as supply of safe water and improved sanitation, are not possible. In this study, the practice of hand washing with soap and water was instituted in a periurban slum...
John D. Clemens, Bonita Stanton, Barbara J. Stoll, Nigar S. Shahid et al.
Little is known about the effect of breast feeding upon the severity of illness due to specific diarrheal pathogens. Using a systematically sampled and evaluated population of children aged less than 3 years, who attended a diarrheal disease hospital in Bangladesh, the authors performed a case-contr...
Nigar S. Shahid, Margubur Rahaman, K Haider, H. Banu et al.
Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Shiga bacillus) has made a dramatic comeback in Bangladesh after 10 years when Shigella flexneri was the dominant serogroup. Whereas S. flexneri showed little increase in resistance to the commonly used antimicrobial agents--namely, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX...
Nigar S. Shahid, Mark C. Steinhoff, Eliza Roy, Tahmina Begum et al.
We evaluated the strategy of maternal immunization with Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) vaccine in Asian mothers, to assess potential protection of infants, including by breast milk. One hundred and fifty-seven women in the third trimester were randomized to receive a single dose of the polysaccharide N...
Nigar S. Shahid, Atiqur Rahman, Bruce C. Anderson, Leonardo Mata et al.
Articulo cientifico -- Universidad de Costa Rica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud, 1985
Nigar S. Shahid, David A. Sack, Mahbubur Rahman, A. N. Alam et al.
With a systematically sampled population of children aged under 5 attending this centre for diarrhoeal disease research during 1983-5 a retrospective analysis of persistent diarrhoea (defined as greater than 14 days' duration) was performed to identify the possible risk factors for this syndrome. Of...
Mahbubur Rahman, Nigar S. Shahid, Hamidur Rahman, David A. Sack et al.
Fecal samples from diarrheal patients and non-diarrheal controls were examined for Cryptosporidium oocysts in a year-long prospective study at a diarrhea treatment center in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Cryptosporidium oocysts were detected in 42 (3%) of 1,382 diarrheal patients but in none of 235 non-diarrhe...
Nigar S. Shahid, Atiqur Rahman, Suhas C. Sanyal
Cryptosporidiosis, a zoonosis caused by Cryptosporidium species is a newly recognized coccidial protozoan infection causing diarrhoea in humans. Using a modified acid fast technique, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) has been screening a 4% sample of diar...
P K Neogi, Nigar S. Shahid
The serotypes of strains of Campylobacter jejuni isolated from patients attending the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Dhaka, and from animals were ascertained by Penner and Hennessy's (1980) serotyping scheme. Of 102 isolates from man, 74% were typable an...
Md Saiful Islam, Nigar S. Shahid
Records of all patients who were admitted to or who died in Dhaka hospital of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) between July 1980 and 30th June 1981 were reviewed to identify epidemiological characters associated with in-hospital diarrhoeal diseases-relat...
A R Samadi, A. I. Chowdhury, M. I. Huq, Nigar S. Shahid
A total of 1330 children with complicated diarrhoea who were admitted to the general ward of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh Health Complex, during 1979 were examined. The risk of death by complication of diarrhoea, aetiology, age, and nutritional state was anal...
WHO ACTION Trials Collaborators, Temitope Adesiji Adegboyega, Ebunoluwa A. Adejuyigbe, Olubukola Adesina et al.
BACKGROUND: Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of newborn and under-5 mortality. Over 85% of all preterm births occur in the late preterm period, i.e. between 34 and < 37 weeks of gestation. Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) prevent mortality and respiratory morbidity when administered ...