Md. Hasan Al Banna, Tasnim Rahman Disu, Satyajit Kundu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah et al.
BACKGROUND: Food handlers can play a vital role into reducing foodborne diseases by adopting appropriate food handling and sanitation practices in working plants. This study aimed to assess the factors associated with food safety knowledge and practices among meat handlers who work at butcher shops ...
Md. Shafiqul Islam, Kamruzzaman Khan, M. Ali Akbar, Antonio Mastroberardino
The purpose of this article is to present an analytical method, namely the improved F-expansion method combined with the Riccati equation, for finding exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. The present method is capable of calculating all branches of solutions simultaneously, even if mult...
Mahmudul Hasan, Mohammed Mafizul Islam, Md. Mukhlesur Rahman Khan, Mohammad Shafiqul Alam et al.
To survey the diversity of anuran species in Bangladesh, we compared mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene sequences (approximately 1.4 kbp) from 107 Bangladesh frog specimens. The results of genetic divergence and phylogenetic analyses incorporating data from related species revealed the occurrence of at lea...
Abu Sayeed, Satyajit Kundu, Md. Hasan Al Banna, M. Tasdik Hasan et al.
Highlights • This is the first few studies exploring the perceptions of Bangladeshi students towards the COVID-19 pandemic.• Female students showed higher stress levels, greater anxiety symptoms and, depressive symptoms.• Younger students had a greater psychological impact due to COVID-19 than senio...
Silas Kieser, Shafiqul Alam Sarker, Olga Sakwińska, Francis Foata et al.
We report streptococcal dysbiosis in acute diarrhoea irrespective of aetiology. Compared with 20 healthy local controls, 71 Bangladeshi children hospitalized with acute diarrhoea (AD) of viral, mixed viral/bacterial, bacterial and unknown aetiology showed a significantly decreased bacterial diversit...
Md. Abdus Sattar Bag, Md. Shahidur Rahman Khan, Md.Deluar Hossain Sami, Ferdousi Begum et al.
E. coli is one of the major significant pathogens causing mastitis, the most complex and costly diseases in the dairy industry worldwide. Present study was undertaken to isolate, detect the virulence factors, phylogroup, antimicrobial susceptibility and antimicrobial resistance genes in E. coli from...
M. Nazmul Hoque, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar, M. Shaminur Rahman, Shahina Akter et al.
The microbiota of the nasopharyngeal tract (NT) play a role in host immunity against respiratory infectious diseases. However, scant information is available on interactions of SARS-CoV-2 with the nasopharyngeal microbiome. This study characterizes the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on human nasoph...
Munirul Alam, Atiqul Islam, NurulA. Bhuiyan, Md Niaz Rahim et al.
Vibrio cholerae is an estuarine bacterium associated with a single peak of cholera (March-May) in coastal villages of Bangladesh. For an unknown reason, however, cholera occurs in a unique dual peak (March-May and September-November) pattern in the city of Dhaka that is bordered by a heavily pollute...
M A Wahed, Dulaly Chowdhury, Barbro Nermell, Shafiqul Islam Khan et al.
The high prevalence of elevated levels of arsenic in drinking-water in many countries, including Bangladesh, has necessitated the development of reliable and rapid methods for the determination of a wide range of arsenic concentrations in water. A simple hydride generation-atomic absorption spectrom...
Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed, Satyajit Kundu, Enryka Christopher et al.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has imposed threats on both physical andmental health since its outbreak. This study aimed to explore the impactof the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among a representativesample of home-quarantined Bangladeshi adults. A cross-sectional designwas used with an online ...
Mohammad Azizul Karim, Abdullah Al Shafi Majumder, Khandaker Qamrul Islam, Muhammad Badrul Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: South Asians have a higher overall incidence rate and younger age of onset for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) compared to Western populations. However, limited information is available on the association of preventable risk factors and outcomes of AMI among young individuals in Bangla...
Ahmed Shafiqur Rahman, Kazi M. Jamil, P K Bardhan, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia remain as major health concerns for children in Bangladesh. Among the micronutrient interventions, supplementation with vitamin A to children aged less than five years has been the most successful, especially after distribution of vitamin A was combined with Na...
Mohammad Shafiqul Alam, Takeshi Igawa, Md. Mukhlesur Rahman Khan, Mohammed Mafizul Islam et al.
To elucidate the species composition, genetic divergence, evolutionary relationships, and divergence time of Hoplobatrachus and Euphlyctis frogs (subfamily Dicroglossinae, family Ranidae) in Bangladesh and other Asian countries, we analyzed the mitochondrial Cyt b, 12S, and 16S rRNA genes of 252 spe...
R.W. Bell, Mohammed Mainuddin, E.G. Barrett-Lennard, S. K. Sarangi et al.
The coastal zone of the Ganges delta has many constraints and threats that have hampered development. However, recent research indicates that there are numerous viable options for cropping systems intensification in the coastal zone that have yet to be fully exploited. The main opportunity involves ...
Satyajit Kundu, Jhantu Bakchi, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed et al.
In low-resource settings like Bangladesh, there is a dearth of research on the mental health of university students. This pilot study aimed to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms, loneliness, and physical activities as well as the associated factors of depressive symptoms among graduate s...