Md Shafiqul Bari, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Reaz Ahmed, Raouf Boutaba et al.
The concept of information-centric networking (ICN) defines a new communication model that focuses on what is being exchanged rather than which network entities are exchanging information. From the ICN perspective, contents are first class network citizens instead of hosts. ICN's primary objective i...
Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Quazi Shihab Uddin Ibrahim, Md Shafiqul Bari, Md Mahidul Alam et al.
Bangladesh is one of the world's most vulnerable countries for climate change. This observational study examined the association of temperature, humidity and rainfall with six common climate-sensitive infectious diseases in adults (malaria, diarrheal disease, enteric fever, encephalitis, pneumonia a...
Stephanie Chang, Shams El Arifeen, Md Shafiqul Bari, M A Wahed et al.
Background/objectives Many children have diets deficient in both iron and zinc, but there has been some evidence of negative interactions when they are supplemented together. The optimal delivery approach would maximize clinical benefits of both nutrients. We studied the effectiveness of different i...
Md. Abu Hanif, Ranjan Mitra Roy, Md Shafiqul Bari, Polash Chandra Ray et al.
Yoonjoung Choi, Shams El Arifeen, Ishtiaq Mannan, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman et al.
Objectives To validate maternal recognition of neonatal illnesses at home compared to assessment by community health workers (CHWs) during routine household surveillance for neonatal illness in rural Bangladesh. Methods Surveillance in the intervention arm of two cluster-randomized, controlled trial...
Gary L. Darmstadt, Shams El Arifeen, Yoonjoung Choi, Md Shafiqul Bari et al.
BACKGROUND: Effective and scalable community-based strategies are needed for identification and management of serious neonatal illness. METHODS: As part of a community-based, cluster-randomized controlled trial of the impact of a package of maternal-neonatal health care, community health workers (CH...
Rapeephan R. Maude, Richard J. Maude, Aniruddha Ghose, M. Robed Amin et al.
Scrub and murine typhus infections are under-diagnosed causes of febrile illness across the tropics, and it is not known how common they are in Bangladesh. We conducted a prospective seroepidemiologic survey across six major teaching hospitals in Bangladesh by using an IgM enzyme-linked immunosorben...
Gary L. Darmstadt, Abdullah H Baqui, Yoonjoung Choi, Md Shafiqul Bari et al.
<h3>Background</h3> To validate a clinical algorithm for community health workers (CHWs) during routine household surveillance for neonatal illness in rural Bangladesh. <h3>Methods</h3> Surveillance was conducted in the intervention arm of a trial of newborn interventions. CHWs assessed 7587 neonate...
Satyajit Kundu, Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed, Sharmin Akter et al.
Street food business provides low-cost ready-made meals and employments for the marginal people in developing countries. But the lack of good hygiene in the street food shops is a major concern for consumer. This research examined the effect of the socio-demography of vendors and other factors on hy...
Ishrat Tahsin Isha, Zahidul Alam, Bidur Kanti Shaha, Md Shafiqul Bari et al.
BACKGROUND: Since Bangladesh government issued a ban on the use of highly toxic WHO Class I pesticides, annual consumption of herbicides like Paraquat have been sharply increasing in the markets. Paraquat poisoning is an emerging public health threat and its high mortality rate is responsible for a ...
Md Shafiqul Bari, M. A. Rahim
An experiment was conducted at the existing multistoried coconut orchard of the Horticulture Farm of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh to investigate the performance of three medicinal plants viz. aloe vera (Aloe indica), asparagus (Asparagus racemosus) and misridana (Kaempferia angusti...
Rapeephan R. Maude, Richard J. Maude, Aniruddha Ghose, Md Robed Amin et al.
Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei infection) has yet to be demonstrated systematically in Bangladesh. A prospective, cross-sectional serological survey was conducted in 2010 at six Bangladeshi hospitals. Age, gender, occupation and residential address were recorded. Of 1244 patients, 359 (28.9%...
Md. Manik Ali, Babor Ahmad, Md Shafiqul Bari, Abinash Chandra Pal et al.
Abstract Agroforestry systems have grown significantly in popularity in Bangladesh during recent years due to their favorable effects on the environment and human health. These systems are essential for supporting sustainable agriculture because they increase diversity, improve food security, and pr...
Md. Abu Hanif, Md Shafiqul Bari, Abiar Rahman
Agroforestry, a land-use system, is receiving wider attention not only in terms of agricultural sustainability but also in issues related to climate change. The potentiality to sequester carbon by agroforestry species in sub-tropical regions like Bangladesh is promising. A field experiment was condu...
Md Badiuzzaman, Fazle Rabbi Mohammed, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Md Shafiqul Bari et al.
Background: An event of stroke can be ignited by a number of risk factors, some of which are nonmodifiable and some are modifiable. Hypertension, diabetes mellitus, different heart diseases, hyperlipidemia and smoking belong to the latter group and their prevalence shows immense diversity worldwide....