Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Gourab Dewan, Vasundhara Verma, Duleeka Knipe et al.
Background: Pesticide self-poisoning is a major problem in Bangladesh. Over the past 20-years, the Bangladesh government has introduced pesticide legislation and banned highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) from agricultural use. We aimed to assess the impacts of pesticide bans on suicide and on agricu...
Gourab Dewan
Background: Pesticide poisoning is a common method of suicide attempt and less commonly accidental poisoning in Bangladesh. This review for the first time estimated the extent and characteristics of pesticide poisoning in Bangladesh and explored existing limitations in methodologies of studies done ...
Gourab Dewan
Allelic distribution of major blood groups (ABO and rhesus) has not been defined in Bangladeshi population. Determinants of blood group frequency in this region have not been studied properly. To determine ABO and rhesus blood group frequency and allelic distribution in a multiethnic area of Banglad...
Adnan Mannan, Kallyan Chakma, Gourab Dewan, Ayan Saha et al.
OBJECTIVES: Self-medication with antibiotics (SMA) contributes significantly to the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), especially in low-income countries including Bangladesh. This study aimed to generate evidence on the self-reported prevalence of antibiotic self-medication and its determ...
Gourab Dewan, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury
Background: This review was performed to evaluate the trend of alcohol use, characteristics of consumers, alcohol use disorders and toxic alcohol intoxications in Bangladesh. In addition, sources and sales figures of alcoholic beverages, and number of legal permits issued for alcohol consumption are...
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Sarmistha Biswas, Syed Zakir Hossain, Nafizul Islam et al.
Objective: Acute poisoning is a common cause of hospital admission in Bangladesh. But, risk factors and characteristics of victims of different modes of poisoning have not been evaluated for possible intervention strategies. So, in this study we aimed to describe the pattern of acute poisoning in ce...
Arittra Bhattacharjee, Tabassum Binte Jamal, Ishtiaque Ahammad, Zeshan Mahmud Chowdhury et al.
Abstract Antibiotic resistance management is a challenging task in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) such as Bangladesh. Improper regulation and uncontrolled spreading of Antibiotic Resistant Genes (ARGs) from LIMCs pose a great threat to global public health. The human gut microbiome is a mas...
Ishtiaque Ahammad, Arittra Bhattacharjee, Zeshan Mahmud Chowdhury, Anisur Rahman et al.
Ethnicity has a significant role in shaping the composition of the gut microbiome, which has implications in human physiology. This study intends to investigate the gut microbiome of Bengali people as well as several indigenous ethnicities (Chakma, Marma, Khyang, and Tripura) residing in the Chittag...
Gourab Dewan
INTRODUCTION: Prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus seropositivity is not defined among blood donors of Rangamati district of Bangladesh. This region is mainly inhabited by tribal population of multiethnic stocks. Government policy formulation for tribal health is lacking data on this issue among tr...
Ishtiaque Ahammad, Anisur Rahman, Zeshan Mahmud Chowdhury, Arittra Bhattacharjee et al.
Abstract Human gut microbiome is influenced by ethnicity and other factors. In this study, we have explored the gut microbiome of Bengali population (n=13) and four Tibeto-Burman indigenous communities-Chakma (n=15), Marma (n=6), Khyang (n=10), and Tripura (n=11) using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. ...
Mohammed Abdur Razzaque, Gourab Dewan, Rajat Sanker Roy Biswas, Mahmuda Karim et al.
Background Patients suffering from generalised aches and pains, not adequately responding to treatment are usually considered as fibromyalgia, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome etc. But those patients need further evaluation and low vitamin D is often the underlying cause. Both clinical and subcl...
Gourab Dewan, Sarmista Biswas, Md Ridwanur Rahman
Background: Frequency of transfusion transmitted diseases is unknown among tribal population of Rangamati. This study was undertaken to obtain data about burden of transfusion related diseases among tribal voluntary blood donors in Rangamati and to observe if there was any significant risk associate...
Matiur Rahman, Nurul Islam, Sarmistha Biswas, H A Zaved et al.
Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized bystructural and functional abnormalities of different organ and tissues. Renal involvement is the single most feature of prognostic importance. We report a case with end stage kidney disease. The diagnosis was ...
Pompy Dey, Uhtsa Khisa, Sudip Kumar Chowdhury, Gourab Dewan et al.
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the prevalence of carbapenem and colistin resistance among Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) isolated from clinical specimens in Rangamati, Bangladesh, and characterized major carbapenemase genes (blaNDM, blaVIM, blaKPC, blaOXA-48, blaIMP) and colistin resistance determ...
Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Tabiha Binte Hannan, Abu Shahin Mohammed Mahbubur Rahman, Gourab Dewan et al.
Fatal self-poisoning with the herbicide paraquat has been reported for decades as an important toxicological and public health concern in several countries, including China and Sri Lanka, and regulatory bans have been associated with subsequent reductions in cases. It is now becoming an emerging tox...