Ahmmed A. Rifat, Firoz Haider, Rajib Ahmed, Ghafour Amouzad Mahdiraji et al.
Highly sensitive and miniaturized sensors are highly desirable for real-time analyte/sample detection. In this Letter, we propose a highly sensitive plasmonic sensing scheme with the miniaturized photonic crystal fiber (PCF) attributes. A large cavity is introduced in the first ring of the PCFs for ...
Firdausi Qadri, Farhana Khanam, Xinxue Liu, Katherine Theiss-Nyland et al.
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries. Vi-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine (Vi-TT) is recommended by WHO for implementation in high-burden countries, but there is little evidence about its ability to protect against clini...
Kazuyo Machiyama, Fauzia Akhter Huda, Faisal Ahmmed, George Odwe et al.
BACKGROUND: Missing from the huge literature on women's attitudes and beliefs concerning specific contraceptive methods is any detailed quantitative documentation for all major methods in low- and middle-income countries. The objectives are to provide such a documentation for women living in Matlab ...
M. Tasdik Hasan, Sahadat Hossain, Rajat Das Gupta, Vivek Podder et al.
Afroza Akter, Tasnuva Ahmed, Imam Tauheed, Marjahan Akhtar et al.
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 ranges from asymptomatic to severe disease and can cause fatal and devastating outcome in many cases. In this study, we have compared the clinical, biochemical and immunological parameters across the different disease spectrum of COVID-19 in Bangladeshi pati...
Mohammad Ali, Firdausi Qadri, Deok Ryun Kim, Md Taufiqul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) are widely used for prevention of cholera in developing countries. However, few studies have evaluated the protection conferred by internationally recommended OCVs for durations beyond 2 years of follow-up. METHODS: In this study, we followe...
Justin Im, Md Taufiqul Islam, Faisal Ahmmed, Deok Ryun Kim et al.
BACKGROUND: Sustained investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) have lagged in resource-poor settings; incremental WASH improvements may, nonetheless, prevent diseases such as typhoid in disease-endemic populations. METHODS: Using prospective data from a large cohort in urban Kolkata, Ind...
Mirja Kaizer Ahmmed, Fatema Ahmmed, Kazi Ahmed Kabir, Md. Faisal et al.
Although a stenohaline freshwater fish, the stinging catfish Heteropneustes fossilis, is also available in the freshwater fringes of the coastal areas of Bangladesh, the tolerance of this species to variable environmental salinity has not been thoroughly investigated. Based on median lethal salinity...
Marjahan Akhtar, Md. Rashedul Islam, Fatema Khaton, Umma Hany Soltana et al.
Background: Understanding the characteristics of the humoral immune responses following COVID-19 vaccinations is crucial for refining vaccination strategies and predicting immune responses to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Methods: A longitudinal analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain (...
Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Farhana Khanam, Faisal Ahmmed, Justin Im et al.
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever contributes to approximately 135 000 deaths annually. Achievable improvements in household water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) combined with vaccination using typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) may be an effective preventive strategy. However, little is known about how imp...
Fauzia Akhter Huda, Hassan Rushekh Mahmood, Anadil Alam, Faisal Ahmmed et al.
OBJECTIVE: The objective was to assess the provision of the combination of mifepristone-misoprostol for menstrual regulation (MR) in randomly selected urban pharmacies in Bangladesh. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 553 pharmacy workers followed by 548 mystery client visits ...
Faisal Ahmmed, Mohammad Shahjahan Chowdhury, Sharif Mostafa Helal
Participatory research was conducted with adolescent girls and women in three isolated rural communities of Bangladesh to assess their perspectives and the role of social and gender norms on the construction of knowledge regarding menstruation, pregnancy and abortion. Norms of privacy and silence, l...
Imam Tauheed, Tasnuva Ahmed, Afroza Akter, Md Golam Firoj et al.
Background Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and Vibrio cholerae O1 are most common bacterial causes of diarrheal diseases in Bangladesh. This analysis projected distribution of ETEC and V. cholerae O1 among diarrheal patients of icddr,b, Dhaka hospital in two diarrheal peaks of 2022. Methodol...
Khalequ Zaman, Deok Ryun Kim, Mohammad Ali, Faisal Ahmmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Cholera remains a major public health threat in low- and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently launched a global initiative to end preventable cholera by 2030. Key to the success of this initiative will be the elimination of cholera transmission in cho...
Jahangir Hossain, Anne Laterra, Rina Rani Paul, Ahsanul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: In Sunamganj there are fewer than four skilled providers per 10,000 population and just 27% of births are assisted by a skilled attendant. We evaluate a private community skilled birth attendant (P-CSBA) model, developed through the GSK-CARE Frontline Health Worker Programme, designed to...