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...
Tracy H. Hazen, Michael S. Donnenberg, Sandra Panchalingam, Martín Antonio et al.
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are diarrhoeagenic E. coli, and are a significant cause of gastrointestinal illness among young children in developing countries. Typical EPEC are identified by the presence of the bundle-forming pilus encoded by a virulence plasmid, which has been linked to ...
Roberto Vidal, Khitam Muhsen, Sharon M. Tennant, Ann‐Mari Svennerholm et al.
BACKGROUND: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) encoding heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) alone or with heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) cause moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) in developing country children. The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) identified ETEC encoding ST among the top four ente...
Md. Anowar Hossain, Md. Masud Rana, Yoshinobu Kimura, Hairul Azman Roslan
As a part of the study to explore the possible strategy for enhancing the shelf life of mango fruits, we investigated the changes in biochemical parameters and activities of ripening associated enzymes of Ashwina hybrid mangoes at 4-day regular intervals during storage at -10°C, 4°C, and 30 ± 1°C. T...
Md Anowar Hossain, Yoji Onaka, Hasan M.M. Afroz, Akio Miyara
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 ...
Shahedur Rahman, Md. Anowar Khasru Parvez, Rezuanul Islam, Mahboob Hossain Khan
BACKGROUND: Spices traditionally have been used as coloring agents, flavoring agents, preservatives, food additives and medicine in Bangladesh. The present work aimed to find out the antimicrobial activity of natural spices on multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli isolates. METHODS: Anti-bacterial p...
W. Abdullah Brooks, Robert F. Breiman, Doli Goswami, Anowar Hossain et al.
We undertook active population-based surveillance in 5,000 urban households among children < 5 years old to determine invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) incidence, serotype distribution, clinical presentation, and antimicrobial resistance, which have not been previously described in population-base...
Danielle J. Ingle, Marija Tauschek, David Edwards, Dianna M. Hocking et al.
Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (aEPEC) is an umbrella term given to E. coli that possess a type III secretion system encoded in the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), but lack the virulence factors (stx, bfpA) that characterize enterohaemorrhagic E. coli and typical EPEC, respectively...
Tamer H. Farag, Abu S. G. Faruque, Yukun Wu, Sumon Kumar Das et al.
BACKGROUND: Shigella infections are a public health problem in developing and transitional countries because of high transmissibility, severity of clinical disease, widespread antibiotic resistance and lack of a licensed vaccine. Whereas Shigellae are known to be transmitted primarily by direct feca...
Abdullah Siddique, Abdullah H Baqui, A Eusof, K Haider et al.
During the present cholera pandemic the El Tor biotype of Vibrio cholerae has completely displaced the classic biotype, except in Bangladesh. We studied the distribution of these two biotypes in twenty-four rural districts during epidemics in 1988-89; there was clustering of the classic biotype in t...
Suraia Nusrin, Gulzar Khan, N. A. Bhuiyan, M. Ansaruzzaman et al.
PCR surveillance of the rstR genes of CTX phages in Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 showed no relationship between the incidence of disease and changes in the rstR but showed variations in their presence in O1 and O139 strains and the occurrence of multiple types in a few strains.