Muhammad Torequl Islam, Eunüs S. Ali, Shaikh Jamal Uddin, Md. Amirul Islam et al.
The diterpene lactone andrographolide, isolated from Andrographis paniculata, has been proven to possess several important protective biological activities, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, antiseptic, antimicrobial, cytotoxic, hypolipidemic, cardioprotective, hepatoprotec...
Asis Khan, Suresh Chandra Das, T. Ramamurthy, A. Sikdar et al.
Antibiotic resistance, virulence gene, and molecular profiles of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) non-O157 strains isolated from human stool samples, cow stool samples, and beef samples over a period of 2 years in Calcutta, India, were determined. Resistance to one or more antibiotics w...
Asis Khan, Shinji Yamasaki, Toshio Sato, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy et al.
We investigated the prevalence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in hospitalized diarrhea patients in Calcutta, India, as well as in healthy domestic cattle and raw beef samples collected from the city's abattoir. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction using primers specific for stx1 and...
Shamsun Nahar, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Rasel Khan, Mian Mashhud Ahmad et al.
Antimicrobial susceptibility of 120 Helicobacter pylori isolates to metronidazole, tetracycline, clarithromycin, and amoxicillin was determined, and 77.5, 15, 10, and 6.6% of the isolates, respectively, were resistant. Only rdxA inactivation and both rdxA and frxA inactivation were responsible for m...
Katherine Benfer, Iona Novak, Catherine Morgan, Koa Whittingham et al.
INTRODUCTION: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common childhood physical disability, with 80% estimated to be in low-middle-income countries. This study aims to (1) determine the accuracy of General Movements (GMs)/Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE) for detecting CP at 18 months corre...
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...
Mritunjay Pandey, Asis Khan, Suresh Chandra Das, Bhaswati Sarkar et al.
Among Escherichia coli strains isolated from stool specimens from patients with acute diarrhea, 1.4% were found to harbor cdtB by use of enrichment cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) PCR. These isolates were identified as being enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC). In a retrospective study using a probe h...
Sudhir Yadav, Manoranjan K. Mondal, Aaron M. Shew, S. V. Krishna Jagadish et al.
Simanti Datta, Santanu Chattopadhyay, G. Balakrish Nair, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay et al.
Virulence-associated genes and neutral DNA markers of Helicobacter pylori strains from the Santhal and Oroan ethnic minorities of West Bengal, India, were studied. These people have traditionally been quite separate from other Indians and differ culturally, genetically, and linguistically from mains...
Sutapa Sinha, Rupa Chakraborty, Keya De, Asis Khan et al.
Between December 1999 and December 2000, teams from the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, India, examined eight outbreaks of cholera, which occurred in different parts of the country distant from each other. In two of these outbreaks each, only V. cholerae O1 biotype ElTo...
Antônio Lima Braga, Ag‐Anne Pereira Melo de Menezes, José Victor de Oliveira Santos, Antonielly Campinho dos Reis et al.
Omeprazole (OME) is a proton pump inhibitor used for the treatment of various gastric and intestinal disease; however, studies on its effects on the genetic materials are still restricted. The present study aimed to evaluate possible toxicogenic effects of OME in Allium cepa meristems with the appli...
Aktar Uzzaman Chouduri, Mohitosh Biswas, Md Haque, Md Saiful et al.
The study aims to assess the prescribing practices of antibiotics to outpatients attending public-private hospitals in Bangladesh and to investigate how the irrational uses of antibiotics influence the development of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens over time. A cross-sectional survey was condu...
Constancio A. Asis, Tasuku Shimizu, Monowar Karim Khan, Shoichiro Akao
Abstract We have identified aconitate, malate, and citrate organic acids as well as sucrose, glucose, and fructose sugar compounds from the apoplast solution of the stem of the sugarcane cultivars NiF-8 and RK86-129. The content of all the compounds varied with the cultivars, growth stages, and inte...
Suresh Chandra Das, Asis Khan, Prabir Panja, Subhojit Datta et al.
An investigation was conducted to determine the distribution, virulence gene profile and phenotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains within a dairy farm in Kolkata, India by characterizing the STEC strains isolated from healthy dairy cow and calf stool samples, raw milk and f...
Muhammad Torequl Islam, Eunüs S. Ali, Ishaq Khan, Subrata Shaw et al.
BACKGROUND: Cancer is a dreadful disease causing thousands of deaths per year worldwide, which requires precision diagnostics and therapy. Although the selection of therapeutic regimens depends on the cancer type, chemotherapy remains a sustainable treatment strategy despite some of its known side-e...