Jayaram Chikkerur, Ashis Kumar Samanta, Atul P. Kolte, A. Dhali et al.
Short chain fructo-oligosaccharides (SC-FOS) are the potential prebiotics possessing diverse applications in both food and feed industries. The present study was aimed to extract inulin from chicory roots followed by its conversion into SC-FOS applying endoinulinase from Aspergillus fumigatus. The i...
Joshua C D'Aeth, Mark PG van der Linden, Lesley McGee, Hermı́nia de Lencastre et al.
Multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae emerge through the modification of core genome loci by interspecies homologous recombinations, and acquisition of gene cassettes. Both occurred in the otherwise contrasting histories of the antibiotic-resistant S. pneumoniae lineages PMEN3 and PMEN9. A si...
Carole Chedid, Eka Kokhreidze, Nestani Tukvadze, Sayera Banu et al.
ObjectivesTuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death in the world. Cheaper and more accessible TB treatment monitoring methods are needed. Here, we evaluated white blood cell (WBC) absolute counts, lymphocyte, and monocyte proportions during TB treatment, and characterized their asso...
Samanta Sifat Lamia, Tushar Emran, Jubaida Khatun Rikta, Nowreen Islam Chowdhury et al.
Oxidative stress is one of the key factors in the pathophysiology of liver disease. The present study aimed to evaluate the potential impact of two antioxidants, namely coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and silymarin, on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced oxidative stress and hepatic damage in ovariectomized ra...
Rim Bayaa, Mame Diarra Ndiaye, Carole Chedid, Eka Kokhreidze et al.
There is a crucial need for non-sputum-based TB tests. Here, we evaluate the performance of RISK6, a human-blood transcriptomic signature, for TB screening, triage and treatment monitoring. RISK6 performance was also compared to that of two IGRAs: one based on RD1 antigens (QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus,...
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt, Gopa Samanta
Riverine islands ( chars in Bengali or diaras in middle Gangetic plain) are common in deltaic lower Bengal and have often provided ideal places for the settlement of unauthorized migrants. Many of these chars are shifting, temporary and flood-prone, but some get stabilized with time although their l...
Carole Chedid, Eka Kokhreidze, Nestani Tukvadze, Sayera Banu et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading infectious cause of death. To improve treatment efficacy, quicker monitoring methods are needed. The objective of this study was to monitor the response to a heparin-binding hemagglutinin (HBHA) interferon- γ (IFN- γ ) release assay (IGRA) and QuantiFERON-TB...
Daichi Morita, Masatomo Morita, Munirul Alam, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay et al.
Cholera continues to be a global concern, as large epidemics have occurred recently in Haiti, Yemen, and countries of sub-Saharan Africa. A single lineage of Vibrio cholerae O1 has been considered to be introduced into these regions from South Asia and to cause the spread of cholera. Using genomic e...
Pradip Kumar Das, Indranil Samanta
The potential growth of the poultry industry was halted globally during COVID-19 although poultry birds were not affected directly by the virus. Distress in the poultry industry during the pandemic is primarily due to restriction of movement imposed on various items such as poultry feed, chicks, med...
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt, Gopa Samanta
Abstract Charlands are islands formed in major river systems particularly in the flat deltaic plains such as those in the Bengal delta in eastern India and Bangladesh. The charlands in the lower reaches of the Damodar River in India are prone to frequent floods, shifting river channels and consequen...
Uttam Kumar Chowdhury, Bhajan Kumar Biswas, Ratan Dhar, Gautam Samanta et al.
Manoj Mukherjee, Titan Pal, Debabrata Samanta
In an agriculture field paddy is one of the major staple foods in the Asian countries like China, India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh etc. But paddy disease likes a Blast; Bacterial Leaf Blight; Rice tungro etc. stops the growth of the paddy trees. If the diseases are not detected at an early possible ...
Srinivasa Rao Gundu, Panem Charanarur, Kashinath K. Chandelkar, Debabrata Samanta et al.
The exchange of information from one person to another is called communication. Telecommunication makes it possible with electronic devices and their tools. The scientist Alexander Graham Bell has invented the basic telephone in 1876 in the USA. Telephones now have the new format in the form of mobi...
Lokesh Rukmangadachar, Jitender Kataria, Gururao Hariprasad, J. C. Samantaray et al.
INTRODUCTION: Visceral leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection caused by Lesihmania donovani complex and transmitted by the bite of the phlebotomine sand fly. It is an endemic disease in many developing countries with more than 90% of the cases occurring in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sudan, Ethiopia a...
Md. Nur Kabidul Azam, Mizanur Rahman, Samanta Biswas, Md Nasir Ahmed
Cancer is a group of diseases which is categorized to differentiate into diverse cell types and move around in the body to sites of organogenesis that is key to the process of tumor genesis. All types of cancer fall into the group of malignant neoplastic diseases. In Bangladesh, cancer is now one of...