Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Nazmul Hoque, Sheikh Mohammad Alif, Masudus Salehin et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the personal, professional and social life of Australians with some people more impacted than others. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to identify factors associated with psychological distress, fear and coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austra...
Farhana Sultana
This article seeks to contribute to the emerging debates in gender–water and gender–nature literatures by looking at the ways that gendered subjectivities are simultaneously (re)produced by societal, spatial and natural/ecological factors, as well as materialities of the body and of heterogeneous wa...
Md. Ashraful Islam, Mohammad Nurul Amin, Shafayet Ahmed Siddiqui, Md. Parvez Hossain et al.
Trans Fatty acids (TFAs) have long been used in food manufacturing due in part to their melting point at room temperature between saturated and unsaturated fats. However, increasing epidemiologic and biochemical evidence suggests that excessive trans fats in the diet are a significant risk factor fo...
Mohammad Nurul Amin, Shafayet Ahmed Siddiqui, Md Ibrahim, Md Lukman Hakim et al.
Inflammatory cytokines are highly inducible small glycoproteins or regulatory proteins of low molecular weight secreted by different cell types. They regulate intercellular communication and mediate a number of physiological functions in the human immune system. Numerous prospective studies report t...
Farhana Sultana
Considerable literature exists on floods and weather-related disasters, but limited attention has been given to the varied social implications of hazards in the lives of people, especially from a gender perspective. This is particularly poignant in floodplains and coastal areas, where water is a key...
Farhana Sultana, Manirujjaman Manirujjaman, Md. Imran-Ul- Haque, Mohammad Arafat et al.
Temperature and pH-responsive nanogels as intelligent drug delivery systems: A comprehensive reviewAdrija Jha, Annamalai Rama, Bhautik Ladani, Natasha Verma, Sivakumar Kannan, Anup Naha
Farhana Sultana
Scholars have demonstrated that citizenship is tied to water provision in megacities of the Global South where water crises are extensive and the urban poor often do not have access to public water supplies. Drawing from critical feminist scholarship, this article argues for the importance of analyz...
Farhana Sultana
Community and participation have become popular in development discourse and practice, particularly in the global South and in relation to water resources management. Greater involvement of people in decisionmaking, implementation and evaluation of water management practices is expected to increase ...
Zeeba Zahra Sultana, Farhana Ul Hoque, Joseph Beyene, Md. Akhlak-Ul-Islam et al.
Abstract Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in HIV infected individuals is a serious threat to global efforts to combat tuberculosis. Inconsistent findings on the association between HIV infection and MDR-TB were present in many studies. We aimed to review existing data on the rela...
Afroza Rahman, Md. Anwar Hossen, Mirza Farhana Iqbal Chowdhury, Sadia Bari et al.
Aducanumab is a novel disease-modifying anti-amyloid-beta (Aβ) human monoclonal antibody specifically targeted to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). It was granted for treating AD in June 2021 by the United States Food and Drug Administration. We systematically analyzed available trial...
Ahmed Suparno Bahar Moni, Shalimar Abdullah, Mohammad Farris Iman Leong Bin Abdullah, Mohammed Shahjahan Kabir et al.
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has enormously affected the psychological well-being, social and working life of millions of people across the world. This study aimed to investigate the psychological distress, fear and coping strategies as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated fac...
Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Patraporn Tungpunkom, Farhana Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations globally. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the extent and identify factors associated with psychological distress, fear of COVID-19 and coping. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study across 17 coun...
Mohammad Sorowar Hossain, Mohd S. Iqbal, Mohiuddin Ahmed Khan, Mohammad Golam Rabbani et al.
BACKGROUND: The global burden from cancer is rising, especially as low-income countries like Bangladesh observe rapid aging. So far, there are no comprehensive descriptions reporting diagnosed cancer group that include hematological malignancies in Bangladesh. METHODS: This was a multi-center hospit...
Sathi Zakia Sultana, Farhana Alam Ripa, Kaiser Hamid
Many spices have been shown to impart an antioxidative effect in foods. This study summarized the literature on the antioxidative effects of spices. The term spice is defined as dry plant material that is normally added to food to impart flavor. The methanolic crude extracts of Allium sativum, Coria...
Jessica Y. Islam, Fatema Khatun, Anadil Alam, Farhana Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to assess the level of knowledge of cervical cancer among Bangladeshi women and to assess their willingness to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. METHODS: A population-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted from July to December 2011 in o...
Golam Sarower Bhuyan, Mohammad Amir Hossain, Suprovath Kumar Sarker, Asifuzzaman Rahat et al.
The study aimed to examine for the first time the spectra of viral and bacterial pathogens along with the antibiotic susceptibility of the isolated bacteria in under-5 children with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in hospital settings of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nasal swabs were collected from 200 und...
A. K. M. Muraduzzaman, Ahmed Nawsher Alam, Sharmin Sultana, Mahmuda Siddiqua et al.
To identify the circulating serotype(s) of dengue viruses in Bangladesh, a retrospective molecular identification was performed on stored serum samples of dengue surveillance during the period of 2013-2016. Real time RT-PCR was performed on serum samples collected from the patients with less than 5 ...
Farzana Anowar, Mustakim A. Helal, Saida Afroj, S. Tasneem Sultana et al.
Apurba Sarker Apu, Mahmuda Sultana Liza, A.T.M. Jamaluddin, Md. Amran Howlader et al.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the bioactivities of crude n-hexane, ethyl acetate and methanol extracts of aerial part of Boerhavia diffusa Linn. (B. diffusa) and its phytochemical analysis. METHODS: The identification of phytoconstituents and assay of antioxidant, thrombolytic, cytotoxic, antimicrobial ...
Farhana Khanam, Alaullah Sheikh, Md. Abu Sayeed, Md Saruar Bhuiyan et al.
BACKGROUND: Rapid and reliable diagnostic assays for enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever are urgently needed. We report the characterization of novel approach utilizing lymphocyte secretions, for diagnosing patients with enteric fever by the TPTest procedure. METHODOLOGY: TPTest detects Salmonel...