Md. Mominur Rahman, Fahadul Islam, Md. Harun- Or-Rashid, Abdullah Al Mamun et al.
In the last two decades, considerable interest has been shown in understanding the development of the gut microbiota and its internal and external effects on the intestine, as well as the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) such as metabolic syndrome. The intestinal microbiota plays a pi...
Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Diana Romero, Christopher J. Kopka, Salim S. Abdool Karim et al.
Abstract Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic 1,2 . Here we convened, as part of this Delphi study, a diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 academic, health, non-governme...
Arjun S. Raman, Jeanette L. Gehrig, Siddarth Venkatesh, Hao-Wei Chang et al.
Characterizing the organization of the human gut microbiota is a formidable challenge given the number of possible interactions between its components. Using a statistical approach initially applied to financial markets, we measured temporally conserved covariance among bacterial taxa in the microbi...
Motohiro Iseki, Ibne Karim M. Ali, Momammad B. Hossain, Viqar Zaman et al.
Since the genotype of human Blastocystis hominis isolates is highly polymorphic, PCR-based genotype classification using known sequenced-tagged site (STS) primers would allow the identification or classification of different genotypes. Five populations of human B. hominis isolates obtained from Japa...
S.M. Abdul Kader, Md. Rashid Al-Mamun, Md. Burhan Kabir Suhan, Sanzeeda Baig Shuchi et al.
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) semiconductor-based photocatalysts have been widely utilized in the last few decades for water treatment because of their higher photocatalytic performance. Recently, most researchers have focused on the improvement of TiO2 semiconductors’ photocatalytic performance through d...
Ramakrishnan M. Nair, Abhay K. Pandey, Abdul Rashid War, Bindumadhava HanumanthaRao et al.
] is an important food and cash legume crop in Asia. Development of short duration varieties has paved the way for the expansion of mungbean into other regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. Mungbean productivity is constrained by biotic and abiotic factors. Bruchids, whitefly, thrips...
Emma Fulu, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Tim Roselli, Sarah McCook et al.
BACKGROUND: Although childhood trauma and violence against women are global public health issues, few population-based data from low-income and middle-income countries exist about the links between them. We present data from the UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific, exp...
Caryn Bern, Allen W. Hightower, Rajib Chowdhury, Mustakim Ali et al.
Since 1990, South Asia has experienced a resurgence of kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis). To determine risk factors for kala-azar, we performed cross-sectional surveys over a 3-year period in a Bangladeshi community. By history, active case detection, and serologic screening, 155 of 2,356 residents...
Ibne Karin M. Ali, Mohammad Bakhtiar Hossain, Shantanu Roy, Patrick F. Ayeh‐Kumi et al.
Entamoeba moshkovskii cysts are morphologically indistinguishable from those of the disease-causing species E. histolytica and the nonpathogenic E. dispar. Although sporadic cases of human infection with E. moshkovskii have been reported, the organism is considered primarily a free-living amoeba. No...
T El-Khoby, N Galal, A Fenwick, Rashida Barakat et al.
Health questionnaires and parasitologic examinations of urine and stool were evaluated from a stratified random sample of 89,180 individuals from 17,172 households in 251 rural communities in 9 governorates of Egypt to investigate the prevalence of, risk factors for, and changing pattern of infectio...
Maimuna Akter, Maitry Bhattacharjee, Avik Kumar Dhar, Fahim Bin Abdur Rahman et al.
Finding affordable and environment-friendly options to decontaminate wastewater generated with heavy metals and dyes to prevent the depletion of accessible freshwater resources is one of the indispensable challenges of the 21st century. Adsorption is yet to be the most effective and low-cost wastewa...
Sumit Kane, Maryse Kok, Hermen Ormel, Lilian Otiso et al.
BACKGROUND: In LMICs, Community Health Workers (CHW) increasingly play health promotion related roles involving 'Empowerment of communities'. To be able to empower the communities they serve, we argue, it is essential that CHWs themselves be, and feel, empowered. We present here a critique of how di...
Md. Zaved Hossain Khan, Mithila Sultana, Md. Rashid Al-Mamun, Md. Rafiul Hasan
The authors introduced waste plastic pyrolysis oil (WPPO) as an alternative fuel characterized in detail and compared with conventional diesel. High density polyethylene, HDPE, was pyrolyzed in a self-designed stainless steel laboratory reactor to produce useful fuel products. HDPE waste was complet...
Rashidul Haque, Shantanu Roy, Mamun Kabir, Suzanne Stroup et al.
Giardia lamblia is the most prevalent human intestinal protozoan worldwide, but only a minority of infections result in diarrhea. We tested here whether the 2 major G. lamblia genotypes, assemblages A and B, differ in their propensity to cause disease. To determine whether an association exists betw...
Rashidul Haque, Dinesh Mondal, Beth D. Kirkpatrick, Selim Akther et al.
The epidemiology, clinical features, nutritional status, and causative agents of diarrhea were studied in 289 Bangladeshi children (147 boys and 142 girls) 2-5 years old. The use of improved diagnostic tests for amebiasis enabled for the first time analysis of the contribution of Entamoeba histolyti...