Jason Abaluck, Laura H. Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque et al.
Persuading people to mask Even in places where it is obligatory, people tend to optimistically overstate their compliance for mask wearing. How then can we persuade more of the population at large to act for the greater good? Abaluck et al . undertook a large, cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh ...
Firoz Ahmed, Md. Aminul Islam, Manish Kumar, Maqsud Hossain et al.
We made the first and successful attempt to detect SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in the vicinity wastewaters of an isolation centre i.e. Shaheed Bhulu Stadium, situated at Noakhali, Southeastern Bangladesh. Owing to the fact that isolation centre, in general, always contained a constant number of 200 ...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Edward Miguel, Jason Abaluck, Amrita Ahuja et al.
Vaccines are changing the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in grossly uneven ways. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face considerable obstacles in both receiving and distributing doses. To limit virus transmission, its devastating impacts, and opportunities for further mutations, this mu...
Md. Jakariya, Firoz Ahmed, Md. Aminul Islam, Abdullah Al Marzan et al.
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a valuable approach for forecasting disease outbreaks in developed countries with a centralized sewage infrastructure. On the other hand, due to the absence of well-defined and systematic sewage networks, WBE is challenging to implement in developin...
Preeti Jain, Asim Kumar Bepari, Prosengit Kumer Sen, Tanzir Rafe et al.
Abstract Multi-drug-resistance (MDR) is a severe public health concern worldwide, and its containment is more challenging in developing countries due to poor antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance and irrational use of antibiotics. The current study investigated 100 clinical E. coli isolates an...
Jason Abaluck, Laura H. Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque et al.
Background: A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that face masks can slow the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, but mask usage remains low across many parts of the world, and strategies to increase mask usage remain untested and unclear.
Khairun Nessa, Shama-A Waris, Zafar Sultan, Shirajum Monira et al.
The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and reproductive tract infections (RTIs) among hotel-based sex workers (HBSWs) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was studied. A total of 400 HBSWs were enrolled in the study during April to July 2002. Endocervical swabs, high vaginal swabs, and blood samp...
Tahmina Yasmin, Md Mizanur Rahman, Ferdous Khan, Fariha Kabir et al.
PURPOSE: This current study investigated the effect of metformin treatment on hepatic oxidative stress and inflammation associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NADLD) in high fat diet (HFD) fed rats. METHOD: Wistar rats were fed with a HFD or laboratory chow diet for 8 weeks. Metformin was...
Samir K. Saha, Gary L. Darmstadt, Abdullah H Baqui, Derrick W. Crook et al.
Highly ciprofloxacin-resistant (MIC, 512 microg/ml) strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi were isolated from the blood of typhoid patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The strains were indistinguishable by their antibiograms, biotypes, and variable-number tandem repeat types and had matching point m...
Tawsifur Rahman, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar, Zaid Bin Mahbub et al.
Abstract Nowadays, quick, and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 is a pressing need. This study presents a multimodal system to meet this need. The presented system employs a machine learning module that learns the required knowledge from the datasets collected from 930 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in...
Prosun Bhattacharya, Manish Kumar, Md. Tahmidul Islam, Rehnuma Haque et al.
The episodic outbreak of COVID-19 due to SARS-CoV-2 is severely affecting the economy, and the global count of infected patients is increasing. The actual number of patients had been underestimated due to limited facilities for testing as well as asymptomatic nature of the expression of COVID-19 on ...
Farhan Fuad Abir, Khalid Alyafei, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar et al.
While the advanced diagnostic tools and healthcare management protocols have been struggling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of the contagious viral pathogen before the symptom onset acted as the Achilles’ heel. Although reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been ...
Md Shafayet Hossain, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Mamun Bin Ibne Reaz, Sawal Hamid Md Ali et al.
The electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals, highly non-stationary in nature, greatly suffers from motion artifacts while recorded using wearable sensors. Since successful detection of various neurological and neuromuscular disorders is greatly dependent ...
Md. Sakib Abrar Hossain, Sidra Gul, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Muhammad Salman Khan et al.
The human liver exhibits variable characteristics and anatomical information, which is often ambiguous in radiological images. Machine learning can be of great assistance in automatically segmenting the liver in radiological images, which can be further processed for computer-aided diagnosis. Magnet...
Firoz Ahmed, Md. Aminul Islam, Manish Kumar, Maqsud Hossain et al.
ABSTRACT In the course of a COVID-19 pandemic, 0.33 million people got infected in Bangladesh, we made the first and successful attempt to detect SARS-CoV-2 viruses’ genetic material in the vicinity wastewaters of an isolation centre i.e. Shaheed Bhulu Stadium, situated at Noakhali. The idea was to ...