Md Saiful Islam, Tonmoy Sarkar, Sazzad Hossain Khan, Abu-Hena Mostofa Kamal et al.
Infodemics, often including rumors, stigma, and conspiracy theories, have been common during the COVID-19 pandemic. Monitoring social media data has been identified as the best method for tracking rumors in real time and as a possible way to dispel misinformation and reduce stigma. However, the dete...
Abid Hossain Mollah, Nazmun Nahar, Md Abu Siddique, Kazi Selim Anwar et al.
Transfusion-dependent children are more prone to acquiring various transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs), such as hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), HIV, and others. Since the magnitude of these infections among thalassaemic children in Bangladesh is not well-known, this study was conducted t...
Andrew Hall, David J. Conway, Kazi Selim Anwar, Md Lutfar Rahman
Stool samples from 880 residents in an urban slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, were collected on 3 occasions over one year, and examined for intestinal parasites. Information on many potential risk factors for infection was obtained by questionnaire from a respondent in each household studied. In a crude u...
Andrew Hall, Kazi Selim Anwar, Andrew Tomkins, Lutfar Rahman
The Ascaris lumbricoides expelled by 1765 people in a poor urban community in Bangladesh were recovered and counted after the subjects had been treated with pyrantel pamoate. The subjects were divided into 22 classes by age and sex (mean n = 80) to examine how prevalence, mean worm burdens and measu...
Samir K. Saha, Naila Zaman Khan, ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, M. Ruhul Amin et al.
BACKGROUND: Evaluation of the long-term impact of pneumococcal meningitis on surviving children and their families is critical to fully comprehending the burden of pneumococcal disease and to facilitating an evidence-based decision for the introduction of pneumococcal vaccine. This study was an inve...
Sheikh Ariful Hoque, Masaaki Kobayashi, Sayaka Takanashi, Kazi Selim Anwar et al.
Background In this study, we examined the effectiveness of RV1 and RV5 vaccines during an outbreak of G8P[8] rotavirus group A strain (G8P[8]-RVA). These vaccines were originally designed to provide protection against severe diseases caused by common circulating strains, whereas G8P[8]-RVA remains e...
Md Abid Hossain Mollah, Sudesh Chandra Rakshit, Kazi Selim Anwar, MI Arslan et al.
OBJECTIVE: Since the underlying mechanisms of febrile seizure (FS) having multi-factorial aetiology yet remains unclear, we conducted this prospectively designed cross-sectional study to determine if there was any simultaneous change in zinc (Zn) concentration (conc.) in serum and cerebrospinal flui...
Muhammad Afsar Siddiqui, Md Azraf Hossain Khan, Sk Shamim Ahmed, Kazi Selim Anwar et al.
Abstract Background Human cutaneous anthrax results from skin exposure to B. anthracis , primarily due to occupational exposure. Bangladesh has experienced a number of outbreaks of cutaneous anthrax in recent years. The last episode occurred from April to August, 2011 and created mass havoc due to i...
Md Nazmul Karim, Kazi Rumana Ahmed, Mohammad Sadaat Bukht, Jesmin Akter et al.
Dyslipidemia is a major risk factor for macro-vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Present study explored pattern and predictors of dyslipidemia in Bangladeshi T2DM patients. The cross-sectional study is conducted among 366 consecutive eligible T2DM patients aged ...
ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, Humaira Muslima, Kazi Selim Anwar, Naila Zaman Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a potentially blinding eye disorder that primarily affects premature infants. Increased survival of extremely low birth weight infants following advances in antenatal and neonatal care has resulted in a population of infants at high risk of developing ...
Sheikh Ariful Hoque, Aksara Thongprachum, Sayaka Takanashi, Salwa Mohd Mostafa et al.
Global burden of acute viral gastroenteritis remains high, particularly in developing countries including Bangladesh. Sewage water (SW) is an important node to monitor enteric pathogens both in the environment and among the population. Analysis of SW in Dhaka city deems crucially important because a...
Nihar Ranjan Sarkar, Kazi Selim Anwar, Kanan Bala Biswas, Mohammad Abdul Mannan
This randomized double blind community trial was conducted on Ascaris infested children (n = 85) aged 2 to 12 years and was aimed to study the impact of deworming on nutritional status, in an urban slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The change of weight gain was significantly higher in children given anthel...
Taslima Khatun, Dilara Maqbool, Ferdous Ara, Manika Rani Sarker et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Globally, coronary artery disease (CAD) remains one of the leading causes of death, both in developed and less economically developed countries (LEDC) including Bangladesh. Diet plays a key role in the pathogenesis processes of atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease (...
Amin Lutful Kabir, Sudipta Roy, R Habib, Kazi Selim Anwar et al.
Due to lack of robust data on childhood cystic fibrosis (CF) in Bangladesh we sought to evaluate their clinico-epidemiology. A cross-sectional observation was conducted adopting CF-foundation consensus-panel-diagnostic criteria in 3 tertiary-care-hospitals in Bangladesh from 2000 to 2017. Clinically...
Sheikh Ariful Hoque, Mohammad Tajul Islam, M. Kobayashi, Sayaka Takanashi et al.