Mohammad Mehedy Hassan, Audrey Culver Smith, Katherine Walker, Munshi Khaledur Rahman et al.
Following a targeted campaign of violence by Myanmar military, police, and local militias, more than half a million Rohingya refugees have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017, joining thousands of others living in overcrowded settlement camps in Teknaf. To accommodate this mass influx o...
Amarachi Paschaline Onyena, Donald Aniche, Bright Ogbolu, Md. Refat Jahan Rakib et al.
Threats emerging from microplastic pollution in the marine environment have received much global attention. This review assessed sources, fate, and impacts of microplastics in marine ecosystems and identified gaps. Most studies document the ubiquity of microplastics and associated environmental effe...
A. Louis Bourgeois, Thomas F. Wierzba, Richard I. Walker
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is one of the most common bacterial causes of diarrhea-associated morbidity and mortality, particularly among infants and young children in developing countries. Still, the true impact on child and traveler health is likely underestimated. There are currently ...
Robert E. Black, Olivier Fontaine, Laura Lamberti, Maharaj Kishan Bhan et al.
BACKGROUND: Childhood diarrhea deaths have declined more than 80% from 1980 to 2015, in spite of an increase in the number of children in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Possible drivers of this remarkable accomplishment can guide the further reduction of the half million annual child death...
Roberto Pecoits‐Filho, Ikechi G. Okpechi, Jo‐Ann Donner, David C.H. Harris et al.
A large gap between the number of people with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who received kidney replacement therapy (KRT) and those who needed it has been recently identified, and it is estimated that approximately one-half to three-quarters of all people with ESKD in the world may have died prema...
Anna Lundgren, Louis Bourgeois, Nils Carlin, John D. Clements et al.
BACKGROUND: We have developed a new oral vaccine against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), which is the most common cause of bacterial diarrhea in children in developing countries and in travelers. METHODS: The vaccine was tested for safety and immunogenicity alone and together with double-mu...
the ARIA Study Group, J. Jean Bousquet, the MASK Study Group, Holger J. Schünemann et al.
BACKGROUND: In all societies, the burden and cost of allergic and chronic respiratory diseases are increasing rapidly. Most economies are struggling to deliver modern health care effectively. There is a need to support the transformation of the health care system into integrated care with organizati...
Ibrahim Khalil, Richard I. Walker, Chad K. Porter, Farzana Muhib et al.
Diarrhoeal disease attributable to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) causes substantial morbidity and mortality predominantly in paediatric populations in low- and middle-income countries. In addition to acute illness, there is an increasing appreciation of the long-term consequences of enteri...
Graeme N. Smith, Jessica Pudwell, Mark Walker, Shi Wu Wen
Objective To calculate the cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk estimates for women following a pregnancy with or without preeclampsia. Methods We calculated 10-year, 30-year, and lifetime CVD risk estimates at one year postpartum for women recruited into the Pre-Eclampsia New Emerging Team's prospecti...
Dilruba Nasrin, Yukun Wu, William C. Blackwelder, Tamer H. Farag et al.
We performed serial Health Care Utilization and Attitudes Surveys (HUASs) among caretakers of children ages 0-59 months randomly selected from demographically defined populations participating in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS), a case-control study of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) i...
J. N. Islam
This book provides a concise introduction to the mathematical aspects of the origin, structure and evolution of the universe. The book begins with a brief overview of observational and theoretical cosmology, along with a short introduction to general relativity. It then goes on to discuss Friedmann ...
Firdausi Qadri, Marjahan Akhtar, Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, Mohiul Islam Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli causes diarrhoea, leading to substantial mortality and morbidity in children, but no specific vaccine exists. This trial tested an oral, inactivated, enterotoxigenic E coli vaccine (ETVAX), which has been previously shown to be safe and highly immuongenic...
Jasmine Turner, Mohammed M. Feeroz, Mahmudul Hasan, Sharmin Akhtar et al.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 and low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) H9N2 viruses have been recognized as threats to public health in Bangladesh since 2007. Although live bird markets (LBMs) have been implicated in the transmission, dissemination, and circulation of these viruses,...
Moin Uddin, C. Emdad Haque, David J. Walker, Mahed-Ul-Islam Choudhury
In this study, we posit that in determining the underpinnings and attributes of community resilience to disaster-shocks, an analysis of actual and potential disaster victims' emic perspectives, that is the views of cultural insiders, on recovery processes and community resilience is crucial. We argu...
Nicholas J. Negovetich, Mohammed M. Feeroz, Lisa Jones‐Engel, David Walker et al.
Avian influenza surveillance in Bangladesh has been passive, relying on poultry farmers to report suspected outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza. Here, the results of an active surveillance effort focusing on the live-bird markets are presented. Prevalence of influenza infection in the bird...