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...
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...
Motiur Rahman, Zafar Sultan, Shirajum Monira, Md Ashraful Alam et al.
Periodic monitoring of antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is essential for early detection of emergence of drug resistance. A total of 343 gonococcal strains isolated from high-risk and general populations in Bangladesh from 1997 to 1999 were studied. The MICs of penicillin, tetra...
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...
Shirajum Monira, Md. Mozammel Hoq, A K A Chowdhury, Antonia Suau et al.
Background Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) liberated by fermentation of complex carbohydrates might stimulate water and salt absorption, and provide energy. The aim of the study was to assess the number and proportion of faecal bacteria and the concentration of SCFAs of severely malnourished childre...
Nazmul Alam, Motiur Rahman, Kaniz Gausia, Mohd. Yunus et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of selected sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their risk factors among workers in and near a truck stand in Dhaka, Bangladesh. STUDY DESIGN: A random sample of 696 men and 206 women were recruited into a cross-sectional study u...
Md Mamun Monir, Talal Hossain, Masatomo Morita, Makoto Ohnishi et al.
Cholera is a global disease with specific reference to the Bay of Bengal Ganges Delta where Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor, the causative agent of the disease showed two circulating lineages, one dominant in Bangladesh and the other in India. Results of an in-depth genomic study of V. cholerae associated...
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...
Shirajum Monira, Syeda Antara Shabnam, Nur Alam, Hubert P. Endtz et al.
The human gut microbiota play a vital role in health and nutrition but are greatly modified during severe diarrhoea due to purging and pathogenic colonization. To understand the extent of loss during and after diarrhoea, faecal samples collected from children (n=21) suffering from acute diarrhoea an...
Zillur Rahman, Aminul Islam, Mahamud‐ur Rashid, Fatema‐Tuz Johura et al.
Of 19 environmental Escherichia coli (n = 12) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (n = 7) tested for quinolone resistance-related genes qnrA, qnrB, qnrC, qnrS and qepA, four each of E. coli and K. pneumoniae possessed qnrS, and another E. coli isolate possessed a new variant of qepA. This is the first detecti...
Christine Marie George, Jamie Perin, Tahmina Parvin, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian et al.
Millions of young children annually are not meeting their developmental potential in low- and middle-income countries. Previous studies have shown that diarrheal diseases during early life are associated with subsequent malnutrition. This prospective cohort study of 576 children under 5 years was co...
Elizabeth Thomas, Fatema Zohura, M. Tasdik Hasan, Md. Sohel Rana et al.
BACKGROUND: During the time a diarrhea patient presents at a health facility, the household members of the patient are at higher risk of developing diarrheal diseases (> 100 times for cholera) than the general population. The Cholera-Hospital-based-Intervention-for-7-Days (CHoBI7) is a health facili...
Christine Marie George, Mahamud‐ur Rashid, Mathieu Almeida, KM Saif‐Ur‐Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Household contacts of cholera patients have a 100 times higher risk of developing a cholera infection than the general population. To compare the genetic relatedness of clinical and water source Vibrio cholerae isolates from cholera patients' households across three outbreaks, we analyze...
Nureza Hafiz, Shirajum Monira Adity, Sadia Farah Mitu, Atikur Rahman
Manure application changes the phosphorus (P) sorption behavior of soil, which may help release P to surface water. Excess P may result in degradation of quality of receiving water. In this study, effects of dairy, poultry, and goat manure applications on various soil phosphorus sorption indices wer...