Prabhat K. Talukdar, Md Mizanur Rahman, Mahdia Rahman, Ashikun Nabi et al.
BACKGROUND: Unsafe water supplies continue to raise public health concerns, especially in urban areas in low resource countries. To understand the extent of public health risk attributed to supply water in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, Escherichia coli isolated from tap water samples collected from differ...
Mohammad Aminul Islam, Moydul Islam, Rashedul Hasan, Muhammed Iqbal Hossain et al.
ABSTRACT Resistance to carbapenem antibiotics through the production of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) constitutes an emerging challenge in the treatment of bacterial infections. To monitor the possible source of the spread of these organisms in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we conducted a comparative...
Mohammad Aminul Islam, Sahana Parveen, Mahdia Rahman, M. I. Huq et al.
Infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are gradually increasing in the community. In this study, we investigated a total of 162 food samples including 112 ready-to-eat (RTE) foods and 40 processed raw meat and fish samples collected from retail vendors in Dhaka, Bangladesh ...
Mohammad Aminul Islam, Subarna Roy, Ashikun Nabi, Sultana Solaiman et al.
The main objective of the study was to assess the microbiological quality of milk at different stages of the dairy value chain from farm to the factory in Bangladesh. A total of 438 raw milk samples (387 from primary producers, 32 from collectors, 15 from chilling plants, 4 from local restaurants) a...
Mohammad Aminul Islam, M. I. Huq, Ashikun Nabi, Prabhat K. Talukdar et al.
The purpose of this study was to screen for reduced susceptibility against imipenem and the presence of the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) gene in a collection of Enterobacteriaceae (Escherichia coli, Shigella spp. and Klebsiella pneumoniae) from different surveillance studies between 2003 ...
Mahdia Rahman, Ashikun Nabi, Md Asadulghani, Shah M. Faruque et al.
In many Asian countries including Bangladesh E. coli O157 are prevalent in animal reservoirs and in the food chain, but the incidence of human infection due to E. coli O157 is rare. One of the reasons could be inability of the organism from animal origin to produce sufficient amount of Shiga toxin (...
Mohammad Aminul Islam, Ashikun Nabi, Mahdia Rahman, Moydul Islam et al.
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Fazle Rabbi, Yasmin Mahmuda, Nessa Jamalun, Nabi Ashikun et al.
Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a predominant serotype of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and is responsible for many outbreaks worldwide. Until recently, there is no comparative study on the bovine and clinical isolates as no STEC O157:H7 has been isolated from patients in Bangladesh. In the prese...
Zeenat Jahan, Iztiba Mallik Deeba, Shahina Akter, Tasmina Rahman et al.
Immunogenicity of a pneumococcal 74 kDa surface protein in the rabbit model was investigated in this study. For this, Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 7F was collected and water extraction procedure was applied for the preparation of surface materials, which was used for further isolation of the 74...
Aman Ullah Bhuiyan, Ashikun Nabi, Raqeebir Rab, Abderrahmane Leshob et al.
Ashikun Nabi, Fatema Moni Chowdhury, Zeenat Jahan, Md. Murshed Hasan Sarkar et al.
Surface proteins of Escherichia coli O157:H7, those that are prominent in antigen-antibody reactions among different strains, were found to provide protection against E. coli O157 challenge in mice. Three strains such as E. coli O157:H7 NCTC reference strain and two other environmentally isolated st...