Emily K. Rousham, Leanne Unicomb, Mohammad Aminul Islam
Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is recognized as a One Health challenge because of the rapid emergence and dissemination of resistant bacteria and genes among humans, animals and the environment on a global scale. However, there is a paucity of research assessing ABR contemporaneously in humans, animals...
Roksana Hoque, Syed Masud Ahmed, Nahitun Naher, Mohammad Aminul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become an emerging issue in the developing countries as well as in Bangladesh. AMR is aggravated by irrational use of antimicrobials in a largely unregulated pluralistic health system. This review presents a 'snap shot' of the current situation includin...
Abdullah Al Masud, Emily K. Rousham, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Mahbub‐Ul Alam et al.
Background: There is increasing concern around the use of antibiotics in animal food production and the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance within the food chain. In many low and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, the commercial poultry sector comprises small-scale producers...
Papreen Nahar, Leanne Unicomb, Patricia Jane Lucas, Mohammad Rofi Uddin et al.
BACKGROUND: Over-prescribing and inappropriate use of antibiotics contributes to the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Few studies in low and middle-income settings have employed qualitative approaches to examine the drivers of antibiotic sale and dispensing across the full range of healt...
Christine A. Northrop‐Clewes, Emily K. Rousham, CG Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, P. G. Lunn
Background The effect of helminth infestation on the nutrition, growth, and physiology of the host is still poorly understood. Anthelmintic treatment of children in developing countries has had varying success in terms of growth improvements. Objective The objective of this study was to assess the e...
Mahbub‐Ul Alam, Mahbubur Rahman, Abdullah-Al-Masud, Mohammad Aminul Islam et al.
The unregulated use of antibiotics is linked with intensive poultry farming in developing economies. In low-and middle-income countries, the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has also been attributed to contamination, poor public health infrastructure and inadequate waste disposal prac...
Mohammed A. Amin, Ajrin Sultana Sraboni, Muhammed Iqbal Hossain, Subarna Roy et al.
Colistin is one of the last-resort antibiotics for the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacterial infections. We determined the occurrence and characteristics of mcr-1-producing Escherichia coli obtained from live bird markets (LBMs), rural poultry farms (RPFs) and rural househol...
Patricia J Lucas, Mohammad Rofi Uddin, Nirnita Khisa, Shahinoor Akter et al.
BACKGROUND: To understand how to reduce antibiotic use, greater knowledge is needed about the complexities of access in countries with loose regulation or enforcement. This study aimed to explore how households in Bangladesh were accessing antimicrobials for themselves and their domestic animals. ME...
Emily K. Rousham, C. A. Northrop‐Clewes, P. G. Lunn
In a longitudinal study of child growth and nutritional status in Bangladesh, child morbidity was recorded using health interviews with the mother. The aim of the present study was to establish whether maternal reports of child illness were associated with the biochemical health status of the child....
Emily K. Rousham, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Papreen Nahar, Patricia Jane Lucas et al.
INTRODUCTION: Global actions to reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR) include optimising the use of antimicrobial medicines in human and animal health. In countries with weak healthcare regulation, this requires a greater understanding of the drivers of antibiotic use from the perspective of provide...
Mohammed Badrul Amin, Sumita Rani Saha, Md. Rayhanul Islam, Arefeen Haider et al.
Fluro(quinolones) is an important class of antibiotic used widely in both human and veterinary medicine. Resistance to fluro(quinolones) can be acquired by either chromosomal point mutations or plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR). There is a lack of studies on the prevalence of PMQR in orga...
Fosiul Alam Nizame, Dewan Muhammad Shoaib, Emily K. Rousham, Salma Akter et al.
BACKGROUND: The National Drug Policy in Bangladesh prohibits the sale and distribution of antibiotics without prescription from a registered physician. Compliance with this policy is poor; prescribing antibiotics by unqualified practitioners is common and over-the-counter dispensing widespread. In B...
Emily K. Rousham, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, T.I.M. Amin Uddin Mozmader, Mohammed A. Amin et al.
BACKGROUND: Human exposure to intensively farmed livestock is a potential risk for transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) but few studies have assessed the relative role of animal vs. environmental sources of ARB in low-resource community settings. OBJECTIVES: We conducted an observatio...
Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Emily K. Rousham, Leanne Unicomb, Md. Rayhanul Islam et al.
The spatial distribution of clinically important antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and associated genes is important to identify the environmental distribution of contamination and ‘hotspots’ of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We conducted an integrated survey of AMR in drinking water, wastewater ...
Emily K. Rousham, C. G. N. Mascie‐Taylor
An 18-month study was conducted from February 1989 to August 1990 to examine the effect of regular deworming on child growth and nutritional status. A sample of 1402 children, from 2 to 6 years old, were divided into a treatment group and a control group. The 688 children in the treatment group rece...