David A. Sack, Amanda K. Debes, Jérôme Ateudjieu, Godfrey Bwire et al.
In Bangladesh and West Bengal cholera is seasonal, transmission occurs consistently annually. By contrast, in most African countries, cholera has inconsistent seasonal patterns and long periods without obvious transmission. Transmission patterns in Africa occur during intermittent outbreaks followed...
Christine Marie George, Alexander van Geen, Vesna Slavkovich, Ashit Singha et al.
OBJECTIVE: To reduce arsenic (As) exposure, we evaluated the effectiveness of training community members to perform water arsenic (WAs) testing and provide As education compared to sending representatives from outside communities to conduct these tasks. METHODS: We conducted a cluster based randomiz...
Raisa Rafique, Mahamud‐ur Rashid, Shirajum Monira, Zillur Rahman et al.
Recurrent cholera causes significant morbidity and mortality among the growing population of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Previous studies have demonstrated that household contacts of cholera patients are at >100 times higher risk of cholera during the week after the presentation of the in...
Christine Marie George, Shirajum Monira, Fatema Zohura, Elizabeth Thomas et al.
BACKGROUND: The Cholera Hospital-Based Intervention for 7 Days (CHoBI7) mobile health (mHealth) program was a cluster-randomized controlled trial of diarrhea patient households conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHODS: Patients were block-randomized to 3 arms: standard message on oral rehydration sol...
Aminul Islam, Zillur Rahman, Shirajum Monira, Md. Anisur Rahman et al.
Of 48 bacteria belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae tested from urban sludge samples, one Escherichia coli isolate was resistant to colistin and possessed the resistance marker gene mcr-1 found for the first time from Bangladesh. The colistin resistant E. coli was multidrug resistant showing r...
Christine Marie George, Danielle Jung, KM Saif‐Ur‐Rahman, Shirajum Monira et al.
Diarrhea is the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age globally. The time patients and caregivers spend at a health facility for severe diarrhea presents the opportunity to deliver water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions. We recently developed Cholera-Hospital-Bas...
Christine Marie George, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Kaisar A. Talukder, Ishrat J. Azmi et al.
To examine rates of Shigella infections in household contacts of pediatric shigellosis patients, we followed contacts and controls prospectively for 1 week after the index patient obtained care. Household contacts of patients were 44 times more likely to develop a Shigella infection than were contro...
Christine Marie George, Fatema Zohura, Alana Teman, Elizabeth Thomas et al.
BACKGROUND: The Cholera-Hospital-Based-Intervention-for-7-Days (CHoBI7) is a handwashing with soap and water treatment intervention program delivered by a health promoter bedside in a health facility and through home visits to diarrhea patients and their household members during the 7 days after adm...
Christine Marie George, Khaled Hasan, Shirajum Monira, Zillur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Household contacts of cholera patients are at a 100 times higher risk of developing cholera than the general population. The objective of this study was to examine the incidence of V. cholerae infections among household contacts of cholera patients in a rural setting in Bangladesh, to id...
Vanessa Burrowes, Jamie Perin, Shirajum Monira, David A. Sack et al.
Household contacts of cholera patients are at a 100 times higher risk of a Vibrio cholerae infection than the general population. To examine risk factors for V. cholerae infections and investigate intervention strategies among this population, we followed household contacts of cholera patients for t...
Jamie Perin, Alvin G. Thomas, Lauren Oldja, Shahnawaz Ahmed et al.
Objective To determine the relationship between geophagy (mouthing of dirt, sand, clay, or mud) and growth faltering in young children. Study design We examined linear growth as height and weight standardized by age and sex, and weight standardized by height, in a cohort of children aged 6-36 months...
Mahamud‐ur Rashid, Christine Marie George, Shirajum Monira, Toslim Mahmud et al.
Abstract Household members of cholera patients are at a 100 times higher risk of cholera infections than the general population because of shared contaminated drinking water sources and secondary transmission through poor household hygiene practices. In this study, we investigated the bactericidal c...
Jamie Perin, Vanessa Burrowes, Mathieu Almeida, Shahnawaz Ahmed et al.
The microbial communities residing in the child gut are thought to play an important role in child growth, although the relationship is not well understood. We examined a cohort of young children from Mirzapur, Bangladesh, prospectively over 18 months. Four fecal markers of environmental enteropathy...
Christine Marie George, Jennifer Inauen, Sheikh Masudur Rahman, Yan Zheng
Arsenic (As) testing could help 22 million people, using drinking water sources that exceed the Bangladesh As standard, to identify safe sources. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of household education and local media in the increasing demand for fee-...
Christine Marie George, Pam Factor‐Litvak, Khalid Khan, Tariqul Islam et al.
The objective of this study was to design and evaluate a household-level arsenic education and well water arsenic testing intervention to increase arsenic awareness in Bangladesh. The authors randomly selected 1,000 study respondents located in 20 villages in Singair, Bangladesh. The main outcome wa...