You Li, Rachel M Reeves, Xin Wang, Quique Bassat et al.
BACKGROUND: Influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus are the most common viruses associated with acute lower respiratory infections in young children (<5 years) and older people (≥65 years). A global report of the monthly activity of these viruses is nee...
Arun K. Bose, Arthur Geßler, Andreas Bolte, Alessandra Bottero et al.
Global climate change is expected to further raise the frequency and severity of extreme events, such as droughts. The effects of extreme droughts on trees are difficult to disentangle given the inherent complexity of drought events (frequency, severity, duration, and timing during the growing seaso...
Peter J. Webster, Carlos D. Hoyos
Most attempts at predicting south Asian monsoon variability have concentrated on seasonally averaged rainfall over the Indian subcontinent some months in advance using regional and remote boundary effects as predictors. Overall, about 30% of the variance of mean seasonal monsoon rainfall can be expl...
Wasif Ali Khan, Carlos Seas, Ujjwal Dhar, Mohammed Abdus Salam et al.
BACKGROUND: Treatment of shigellosis is currently limited by the high prevalence of multidrug-resistant strains of Shigella. OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy of azithromycin in the treatment of shigellosis. DESIGN: Randomized, double-blind clinical trial. SETTING: Diarrhea treatment center in Dh...
Durval Dourado Neto, D. S. Powlson, Rosenani Abu Bakar, Osny Oliveira Santos Bacchi et al.
In tropical agroecosystems, limited N availability remains a major impediment to increasing yield. A 15 N‐recovery experiment was conducted in 13 diverse tropical agroecosystems. The objectives were to determine the total recovery of one single 15 N application of inorganic or organic N during three...
WasifAli Khan, Michael L. Bennish, Carlos Seas, Eradul Haq Khan et al.
Background Effective antimicrobial therapy can reduce the duration and volume of cholera diarrhoea by half. However, such treatment is currently limited by Vibrio cholerae resistance to the drugs commonly prescribed for cholera, and by the difficulties involved in the administration of multi-drug do...
Jun Jian, Peter J. Webster, Carlos D. Hoyos
Abstract Reliable water supply from the Ganges and Brahmaputra is of critical importance to the sustainability of the agricultural societies of India and Bangladesh. But, the flow in both basins is highly variable on time‐scales ranging from days to years, creating challenges for the optimization of...
Md. Yamin Kabir, Savithri U. Nambeesan, Jesús Bautista, Juan Carlos Dı́az-Pérez
The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of drip irrigation level on plant growth, physiology, and fruit yield and quality in bell pepper. Bell pepper (‘Aristotle’) was grown on plastic film mulch in a sandy-loam soil in the spring of 2017 and 2018 in Tifton, GA. Four treatments wit...
Mohammed Abdus Salam, Carlos Seas, Wasif Ali Khan, Michael L. Bennish
OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of cefixime with that of pivamdinocillin in the treatment of adults with acute dysentery caused by Shigella infection. DESIGN: Randomized, double-blind clinical trial. SETTING: A diarrhea treatment center in Dhaka, Bangladesh. PATIENTS: 30 men with dysentery lastin...
Carlos Seas, Eduardo Gotuzzo
Abstract Cholera still represents a major public health problem in developing countries, and it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in spite of the fact that more is known about its epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment than is known concerning any other diarrheal illness. ...
Annette K. Regan, Carmen Sofia Arriola, Paula Couto, Lindsey M. Duca et al.
Background Although several studies have reported attenuated influenza illness following influenza vaccination, results have been inconsistent and have focused predominantly on adults in the USA. This study aimed to evaluate the severity of influenza illness by vaccination status in a broad range of...
Gabriel Enrique De-la-Torre, Carlos Ivan Pizarro-Ortega, Diana Carolina Dioses-Salinas, Victor Vasques Ribeiro et al.
Peru suffers from poor solid waste and coastal management, as well as evidenced plastic pollution in various forms. However, studies in Peru focusing on small plastic debris (i.e., meso- and microplastics) are still limited and inconclusive. Thus, the present study investigated the abundance, charac...
Ujjwal Dhar, Michael L. Bennish, Wasif Ali Khan, Carlos Seas et al.
We prospectively compared the clinical features of cholera due to Vibrio cholerae O1 and V. cholerae O139 in 242 men 18-60 years of age, with a history of diarrhoea of 24 h or less, and moderate or severe dehydration. The antimicrobial susceptibility of all of the V. cholerae strains isolated from t...
Jonathan H. Epstein, Simon J. Anthony, Ariful Islam, A. Marm Kilpatrick et al.
Purpose: Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging zoonotic virus that causes seasonal outbreaks of encephalitis in Bangladesh with >75% mortality. Little is known about NiV dynamics in Pteropus medius, the putative bat reservoir in Bangladesh. Date palm sap consumption is the primary route of transmission t...
David A. Ramírez, Md. Monower Hossain, Ebna Habib Md Shofiur Rahaman, Carlos Mestanza et al.
Extreme precipitations that promote flooding, salinity, and soils with low drainage and aeration are challenges that affect food production in the Southwest of Bangladesh. After rice cultivation, most lands are kept fallow, emphasizing the urgency of research on techniques that allow crop diversific...