Md Wadud Ahmed, Md. Azizul Haque, Md. Mohibbullah, Md. Sirajul Islam Khan et al.
Md. Sirajul Islam, Shaobing Peng, R. M. Visperas, Nelzo C. Ereful et al.
DavidA. Sack, A Eusof, MichaelH. Merson, RobertE. Black et al.
Of 57 male children, aged 5 months to 2 1/2 years with rotavirus diarrhoea, 28 were given oral therapy with sucrose electrolyte solution and 29 were given glucose electrolyte solution in a randomised double-blind trial. All were rehydrated and remained so on oral therapy alone. These patients were c...
Stephen P. Luby, Shyam Gupta, Md. Arif Sheikh, Richard B. Johnston et al.
AIMS: To measure enteric bacterial contamination of tubewells in three flood prone areas in Bangladesh and the relationship of bacteriological contamination with tubewell sanitary inspection scores. METHODS AND RESULTS: Microbiologists selected 207 tubewells in three flood prone districts, assessed ...
Selina Akter, Md. Tanvir Islam, Mohd Zulkefeli, Sirajul Islam Khan
Agarwood or eaglewood (Aguru in Bengali) is the most expensive wood in the world, which is an occasional product of a few genera of Aquilaria and Gyrinops in the plant family Thymelaeaceae. Agar is a scented product, oleoresin, obtained from pathological conditions of the wood of live trees co...
M. Sirajul Islam, Ayesha Siddika, MA Khan, Md. Muniruzzaman GOLDAR et al.
Five tube-wells in Matlab, Bangladesh, were selected for analysis of selected biophysicochemical parameters. The results showed that all tube-well water samples contained zooplankton and bacteria. Results for some of the parameters were outside the accepted limits recommended by the World Health Org...
Stephen P. Luby, Amal Halder, Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, Leanne Unicomb et al.
We used a prospective, longitudinal cohort enrolled as part of a program evaluation to assess the relationship between drinking water microbiological quality and child diarrhea. We included 50 villages across rural Bangladesh. Within each village field-workers enrolled a systematic random sample of ...
Md. Humayun Kabir, Md. Sirajul Islam, Md. Enamul Hoq, Tanmoy Roy Tusher et al.
Md. Shakhaoath Khan, Ifsana Karim, Md. Sirajul Islam, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman
The present study analyzed numerically magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) laminar boundary layer flow past a wedge with the influence of thermal radiation, heat generation and chemical reaction. This model used for the momentum, temperature and concentration fields. The principal governing equations is bas...
Aney Parven, Md. Sirajul Islam Khan, Mohammad Dalower Hossain Prodhan, Kadiyala Venkateswarlu et al.
David A. Sack, Sirajul Islam, Kenneth H. Brown, Asma Islam et al.
We performed a double-blind trial comparing sucrose electrolyte oral solution with glucose electrolyte oral solution in children less than 5 years of age with severe cholera-like diarrhea. Of 111 patients studied (102 with bacteriologically confirmed cholera), 55 received sucrose solution and 56 rec...
Sayera Banu, Arman Hossain, Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin, Muhammad Reaj Uddin et al.
BACKGROUND: There are limited data on TB among prison inmates in Bangladesh. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), its drug resistance and risk factors in Dhaka Central Jail, the largest prison in Bangladesh. METHODS: Cross sectional survey with, active...
Md. Humayun Kabir, Tanmoy Roy Tusher, Md. Saddam Hossain, Md. Sirajul Islam et al.
The aim of this study was to investigate the spatio-seasonal variations in water quality and suitability of the Shitalakhya river, an economically important and ecologically critical urban river in Bangladesh, along with associated influencing factors and possible sources of water pollution. Therefo...
Peter Ravenscroft, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, M Shafiqul Islam, M. Sirajul Islam et al.
Faecal contamination of groundwater from pit latrines is widely perceived as a major threat to the safety of drinking water for several billion people in rural and peri-urban areas worldwide. On the floodplains of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta in Bangladesh, we constructed latrines and monitor...
Mohammad Zahangeer Alam, Alex R. Crump, Md. Manjurul Haque, Md. Sirajul Islam et al.
Recently, recognition of negative environmental impacts associated with overuse of pesticides in the agricultural regions of Bangladesh has made it clear that unsustainable pest-control strategies must change. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) was developed for use as a tool in the production of heal...
Saiful Islam, Muhammad Minarul Islam, B. M. Jewel Rana, Md. Sirajul Islam et al.
This ongoing study is carried out to analyze the thermal performance with sensitivity study of a mixed convective hexagonal heat exchanger containing TiO2–H2O nanofluid. Magnetic force is regarded to be horizontal while all surrounding walls are adiabatic. The finite element method is used to simula...
Farzana Akter Laboni, Md Wadud Ahmed, Abdul Kaium, Md. Khairul Alam et al.
The prevalence of heavy metals in frequently consumed vegetables constitutes a considerable public health hazard. This study aims to determine the quantity of heavy metals in widely consumed watercress (WC), alligator weed (AW), red amaranth (RA), spinach (SP), cauliflower (CF), and eggplant (EP) cu...
Sajib Mandal, Md. Sirajul Islam, Md. Haider Ali Biswas, Sonia Akter
Sajal Kumar Halder, Iqrar Ahmad, Jannatul Fardous Shathi, Maria Mulla Mim et al.
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease that claims the lives of millions of people around the world. A number of factors like disease’s non-specific symptoms, increased viral mutation, growing antiviral drug resistance due to reduced susceptibility, unavailability of an effective vaccine for dengu...
M. Sirajul Islam, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, M. Shafiqul Islam, Ganesh Chandra Saha et al.
BACKGROUND: Groundwater drawn from shallow tubewells in Bangladesh is often polluted by nearby pit latrines, which are commonly used toilets in rural and sub-urban areas of the country. METHODS: To determine the minimum safe distance of a tubewell from a pit latrine in different hydrogeological cond...