Fahima Chowdhury, Allen G. Ross, Md Taufiqul Islam, Nigel A.J. McMillan et al.
Cholera, caused by Vibrio cholerae, persists in developing countries due to inadequate access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. There are approximately 4 million cases and 143,000 deaths each year due to cholera. The disease is transmitted fecally-orally via contaminated food or water. Severe ...
Firdausi Qadri, Mohammad Ali, Julia Lynch, Fahima Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: A single-dose regimen of inactivated whole-cell oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is attractive because it reduces logistical challenges for vaccination and could enable more people to be vaccinated. Previously, we reported the efficacy of a single dose of an OCV vaccine during the 6 months fol...
Ashraful Islam Khan, Md. Mahbubur Rashid, Md Taufiqul Islam, Mokibul Hassan Afrad et al.
BACKGROUND: Despite advances in prevention, detection, and treatment, cholera remains a major public health problem in Bangladesh and little is known about cholera outside of limited historical sentinel surveillance sites. In Bangladesh, a comprehensive national cholera control plan is essential, al...
Md. Taufiqul Haque Khan Tusar, Md. Touhidul Islam
Today's business ecosystem has become very competitive. Customer satisfaction has become a major focus for business growth. Business organizations are spending a lot of money and human resources on various strategies to understand and fulfill their customer's needs. But, because of defective manual ...
Md Taufiqul Islam, Ashraful Islam Khan, Md. Abu Sayeed, Jakia Amin et al.
BACKGROUND: Cholera remains a substantial health burden in Asia and Africa particularly in resource poor settings. The standard procedures to identify the etiological organism V. cholerae are isolation from microbiological culture from stool as well as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Both the proce...
Firdausi Qadri, Abul Kalam Azad, Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Ashraful Islam Khan et al.
Ashraful Islam Khan, Ann Levin, Dennis L. Chao, Denise DeRoeck et al.
BACKGROUND: Cholera remains an important public health problem in major cities in Bangladesh, especially in slum areas. In response to growing interest among local policymakers to control this disease, this study estimated the impact and cost-effectiveness of preventive cholera vaccination over a te...
Hannah E Atlas, Bakary Conteh, Md Taufiqul Islam, Khuzwayo C. Jere et al.
Abstract Background Shigella is a leading cause of acute watery diarrhea, dysentery, and diarrhea-attributed linear growth faltering, a precursor to stunting and lifelong morbidity. Several promising Shigella vaccines are in development and field efficacy trials will require a consortium of potentia...
Md. Azizur Rahman, Syed Asif Iqbal, Md Azizul Islam, Md Kaisar Niaz et al.
Introduction: The whole world is on the brink of collapse due to the outbreak of COVID-19 with no solution to treat these cases with any specific drug. Extensive search for the Vaccine or effective treatment is going on while alarming infection and death toll is rising every day. Aim: The study will...
Mohammad Ali, Firdausi Qadri, Deok Ryun Kim, Md Taufiqul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) are widely used for prevention of cholera in developing countries. However, few studies have evaluated the protection conferred by internationally recommended OCVs for durations beyond 2 years of follow-up. METHODS: In this study, we followe...
Justin Im, Md Taufiqul Islam, Faisal Ahmmed, Deok Ryun Kim et al.
BACKGROUND: Sustained investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) have lagged in resource-poor settings; incremental WASH improvements may, nonetheless, prevent diseases such as typhoid in disease-endemic populations. METHODS: Using prospective data from a large cohort in urban Kolkata, Ind...
Sonia T. Hegde, Ashraful Islam Khan, Javier Perez‐Saez, Ishtiakul Islam Khan et al.
Our understanding of cholera transmission and burden largely relies on clinic-based surveillance, which can obscure trends, bias burden estimates and limit the impact of targeted cholera-prevention measures. Serological surveillance provides a complementary approach to monitoring infections, althoug...
Marjahan Akhtar, Md. Rashedul Islam, Fatema Khaton, Umma Hany Soltana et al.
Background: Understanding the characteristics of the humoral immune responses following COVID-19 vaccinations is crucial for refining vaccination strategies and predicting immune responses to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Methods: A longitudinal analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain (...
Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Farhana Khanam, Faisal Ahmmed, Justin Im et al.
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever contributes to approximately 135 000 deaths annually. Achievable improvements in household water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) combined with vaccination using typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) may be an effective preventive strategy. However, little is known about how imp...
Ashraful Islam Khan, M. Salim Uzzaman, Md Taufiqul Islam, Mokibul Hassan Afrad et al.
Background: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV) are transmitted by the fecal-oral route and are responsible for epidemic and sporadic outbreaks of acute hepatitis in low-income countries like Bangladesh. Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the seroprevalence of acute...