Kaivan Munshi, Jacques Myaux
Michael L. Bennish, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Mohammad Anowar Hossain, Jacques Myaux et al.
The susceptibility to ampicillin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ) was determined for 15,824 isolates of Shigella obtained from patients attending a treatment center in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1983 through 1990 and for 520 isolates obtained during community surveys from 1988 through 1990. ...
Jacques Myaux, Leanne Unicomb, Richard E. Besser, John F. Modlin et al.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of concurrent diarrheal illness on seroconversion to trivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV). METHODS: Six- to 16-week-old infants with acute diarrhea and age-matched controls received single doses of OPV at enrollment, 4 weeks after enrollme...
Jacques Myaux, Mohammad Ali, A. Felsenstein, J. Chakraborty et al.
To assess the geographic variation of acute watery diarrhoea in children 0 to 5 years old in rural Bangladesh, all cases of "cholera-like" diarrhoea were plotted on the map. A clustering pattern was noticed, and validated by a nonparametric clustering test for in-homogeneous population. Several risk...
Jacques Myaux, Mohammad Ali, J. Chakraborty, Andrés de Francisco
Every year, Bangladesh experiences major floods that inundate about one-third of the country. Therefore, flood control projects that comprise earthen dikes and irrigation/drainage systems are built along the major rivers to protect the people living in low-lying areas, stabilize the river banks and ...
Mohammad Ali, Andrés de Francisco, M. Mahmud Khan, Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty et al.
An intensive family planning intervention based on community health workers (CHWs) has been in place in the Matlab area of rural Bangladesh for over a decade. Despite the programme's relative success, considerable variations in the performances of CHWs remain a concern. The purpose of this paper is ...
Jacques Myaux, Joyashree Chakraborty, Mohammad Yunus, Eradul H. Khan et al.
A community-based programme for the treatment of dysentery in children under five years of age was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh. Dysentery cases, identified at home, were referred to a sub-center for standard treatment with nalidixic acid. To assess the response to this intervention, a one year...
Mohammad Ali, Andrés de Francisco, M. Mahmud Khan, Jyotsnamoy Chakraborty et al.
An intensive family planning intervention based on community health workers (CHWs) has been in place in the Matlab area of rural Bangladesh for over a decade. Despite the programme's relative success, considerable variations in the performances of CHWs remain a concern. The purpose of this paper is ...
Michael Emch, Jacques Myaux, Yunus