Anwar Huq, R. Bradley Sack, Azhar Nizam, Ira M. Longini et al.
The occurrence of outbreaks of cholera in Africa in 1970 and in Latin America in 1991, mainly in coastal communities, and the appearance of the new serotype Vibrio cholerae O139 in India and subsequently in Bangladesh have stimulated efforts to understand environmental factors influencing the growth...
R. Bradley Sack, Abdullah Siddique, Ira M. Longini, Azhar Nizam et al.
How Vibrio cholerae spreads around the world and what determines its seasonal peaks in endemic areas are not known. These features of cholera have been hypothesized to be primarily the result of environmental factors associated with aquatic habitats that can now be identified. Since 1997, fortnightl...
M. Shaminur Rahman, M. Nazmul Hoque, M. Rafiul Islam, Salma Akter et al.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the etiologic agent of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a public health emergency of international concerns declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). An immuno-informatics approach along with comparati...
Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Janet Perkins, Sajia Islam, Abu Bakkar Siddique et al.
BACKGROUND: Access to skilled health services during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period for obstetric care is one of the strongest determinants of maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes. In many countries, husbands are key decision-makers in households, effectively determining women's ac...
Habib‐ur‐Rehman Athar, Faisal Zulfiqar, Anam Moosa, Muhammad Ashraf et al.
Salinity stress is considered the most devastating abiotic stress for crop productivity. Accumulating different types of soluble proteins has evolved as a vital strategy that plays a central regulatory role in the growth and development of plants subjected to salt stress. In the last two decades, ef...
Mohammad Anwar Siddique, M. Rahmat Ali, A. S. M. Rubayet Ul Alam, H. Ullah et al.
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Bangladesh, and the implementation of a control programme for this disease is at an early stage, according to the FAO- and OIE-proposed Progressive Control Pathway for FMD (PCP-FMD) Roadmap. To develop an effective control programme, understanding of foot-a...
M. Shaminur Rahman, M. Nazmul Hoque, Joynob Akter Puspo, M. Rafiul Islam et al.
Abstract The microbiome of the anaerobic digester (AD) regulates the level of energy production. To assess the microbiome diversity and composition in different stages of anaerobic digestion, we collected 16 samples from the AD of cow dung (CD) origin. The samples were categorized into four groups (...
Young-Gun Zo, Irma Nelly Gutierrez Rivera, Estelle Russek‐Cohen, M. Sirajul Islam et al.
Diversity, relatedness, and ecological interactions of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 populations in two distinctive habitats, the human intestine and the aquatic environment, were analyzed. Twenty environmental isolates and 42 clinical isolates were selected for study by matching serotype, geographic...
M. Rafiul Islam, M. Shaminur Rahman, Md. Al Amin, A. S. M. Rubayet Ul Alam et al.
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) serotype A exhibits a higher degree of genetic and antigenic diversity resulting in frequent vaccine failure due to serological mismatch between the vaccine and heterologous strains. Currently, knowledge on the molecular basis of antigenic relationships among the ...
AK Siddique, Sirajuddin Ahmed, Anwarul Iqbal, Arif Sobhan et al.
Despite the known presence of rotavirus-associated diarrhoea in Bangladesh, its prevalence, including records of hospitalization in rural health facilities, is largely unknown. In a systematic surveillance undertaken in two government-run rural health facilities, 457 children, aged less than five ye...
H. Ullah, Mohammad Anwar Siddique, Md. Al Amin, Bikash Das et al.
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) serotypes O, A and Asia1 are responsible for significant number of disease outbreaks in Bangladesh; however serotype Asia1 has not been reported in circulation since 1996. The present investigation reports the detection of serotype FMDV Asia1 from local farms in 2...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Mahmud Al Noor Tushar, Anwar Zahid, Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
High concentrations of naturally-occurring and man-accentuated boron in groundwater possess a potential threat to the health and well-being of humans worldwide. In Bangladesh, only a few studies focused on the health risks of boron-containing groundwater. Therefore, the present study investigated th...
Mir Mohammad Ali, Khadijatul Kubra, Edris Alam, Anwar Hossain Mondol et al.
Toxic metals and freshwater fish's metalloid contamination are significant environmental concerns for overall public health. However, the bioaccumulation and sources of metal(loids) in freshwater fishes from Bangladesh still remain unknown. Thus, the As, Pb, Cd, and Cr concentrations in various fres...
Rashed Jalal, Zaheer Iqbal, Matieu Henry, Gianluca Franceschini et al.
In response to prevailing classification inconsistency between land cover maps, developed by different organizations in different times at different scales, an object-based National Land Representation System (NLRS) for Bangladesh has been developed. The process, which began in 2013 and was complete...
M. Shaminur Rahman, M. Nazmul Hoque, M. Rafiul Islam, Salma Akter et al.
Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a public health emergency of international concern declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). An immuno-informatics approach along with comparative...