Abul Hasnat Milton, Ziaul Hasan, S. M. Shahidullah, Sinthia Sharmin et al.
The role of nutritional factors in arsenic metabolism and toxicity is not clear. Provision of certain low protein diets resulted in decreased excretion of DMA and increased tissue retention of arsenic in experimental studies. This paper reports a prevalence comparison study conducted in Bangladesh t...
Erica R. Fuhrmeister, Ayşe Ercümen, Amy J. Pickering, Kaitlyn M. Jeanis et al.
increase in the concentration of the animal fecal marker (BacCow) on mothers' hands. Thus, domestic animals were important contributors to enteric pathogens in these households.
Erica R. Fuhrmeister, Ayşe Ercümen, Amy J. Pickering, Kaitlyn M. Jeanis et al.
genes on child hands was lower in the sanitation arm. Incomplete removal of child and animal feces or the compound (versus community-wide) scale of intervention could explain the limited impacts of improved sanitation.
Kaniz Fatema, A. Sharmin, Jinat Fatema Sharna, Md. Anamul Haque et al.
Flemingia macrophylla has traditionally been applied to relieve inflammation, diabetes, and circulatory complications. The leaf extract of F. macrophylla and its fractions were investigated for their in-vitro antioxidant and anti-diabetic properties. The phytochemical screening showed valuable phyto...
Jesse D. Contreras, Mahfuza Islam, Andrew Mertens, Amy J. Pickering et al.
BACKGROUND: Household-level sanitation interventions have had limited effects on child health or environmental contamination, potentially due to low community coverage. Higher community-level coverage with safely managed sanitation can reduce opportunities for disease transmission. METHODS: We estim...
Sharmin Reza Chowdhury, Mahfuza Maleque, Mahbubul H. Shihan
The present study was undertaken to develop a validated, rapid, simple and economic HPLC method for estimating caffeine in pharmaceutical preparations. Chromatographic determination was performed on a reversed phase C18 column (4.5 mm x 250 mm; 5 μm particle size) using a mixture of water and methan...
Jesse D. Contreras, Mahfuza Islam, Andrew Mertens, Amy J. Pickering et al.
and fecal coliforms in samples of stored drinking water, child hands, mother hands, soil, and food among a random sample of households from the sanitation and control arms of the trial. Samples were collected during eight quarterly visits approximately 1-3.5 years after intervention initiation. Over...
Mahfuza Islam, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Mohammad Abdullah Heel Kafi et al.
Child open defecation is common in low-income countries and can lead to fecal exposure in the domestic environment. We assessed associations between child feces management practices vs. measures of contamination and child diarrhea among households with children <5 years in rural Bangladesh. We visit...
Laura H. Kwong, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Sunny Shahriar et al.
Improved sanitation has been hypothesized to reduce soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections by reducing the prevalence and concentration of STH eggs/larvae in soil. We evaluated the effect of a randomized sanitation program (providing households with an improved dual-pit latrine, tools for child/...
Caitlin Niven, Mahfuza Islam, Anna Nguyen, Jessica A. Grembi et al.
BACKGROUND: Weather extremes are predicted to influence pathogen exposure but their effects on specific faecal-oral transmission pathways are not well investigated. We evaluated associations between extreme rain and temperature during different antecedent periods (0-14 days) and Escherichia coli alo...
Mahfuza Sharmin, Rukhsana Yeasmin, Masud Hasan, Atif Rahman et al.
In this paper, we give approximation algorithms for several variations of the pancake flipping problem, which is also well known as the problem of sorting by prefix reversals. We consider the variations in the sorting process by adding prefix transpositions, prefix transreversals etc. along with the...
Md Ashiqur Rahman, Abdullah Aman Tutul, Mahfuza Sharmin, Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid
MOTIVATION: Analyzing large-scale single-cell transcriptomic datasets generated using different technologies is challenging due to the presence of batch-specific systematic variations known as batch effects. Since biological and technological differences are often interspersed, detecting and account...
Md Shariful Islam, Haifaa AlWajeah, Md Golam Rabbani, Md Ferdous et al.
OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence of and risk factors associated with tobacco smoking in the Gambia. DESIGN: A nationwide cross-sectional study. SETTING: The Gambia. PARTICIPANTS: The study participants were both women and men aged between 15 and 49 years old. We included 16,066 men and women in...
Nihad Adnan, Mohib Ullah Khondoker, M. Shaminur Rahman, Firoz Ahmed et al.
Here, we report the coding-complete genome sequences of nine clinical severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants and their mutations. The samples were collected from nine Bangladeshi coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. We have identified the E484K escape mutation...
Nashid Shahriar, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Mahfuza Sharmin, Reaz Ahmed et al.
Despite their tremendous success, centrally controlled cloud based solutions for social media networking have inherent issues related to privacy and user control. Alternatively, a decentralized approach can be used, but ensuring content availability will be the major challenge. In this work, we prop...