Md. Rayhan Mahmud, Sharmin Akter, Sanjida Khanam Tamanna, Lincon Mazumder et al.
The human intestine hosts diverse microbial communities that play a significant role in maintaining gut-skin homeostasis. When the relationship between gut microbiome and the immune system is impaired, subsequent effects can be triggered on the skin, potentially promoting the development of skin dis...
Md. Sharifull Islam, Ping Wei, Md Suzauddula, Ishatur Nime et al.
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is an indicator and diverse endocrine syndrome that combines different metabolic defects with clinical, physiological, biochemical, and metabolic factors. Obesity, visceral adiposity and abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance (IR), elevated blood pressure, endo...
Rashedul Hasan, Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Rashed Noor
OBJECTIVES: (VRSA)] collected from burn patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: which were further tested against 20 commercially available antibiotics to determine antibiotic susceptibility patterns. RESULTS: were MRSA, of which 11 were resistant to vancomycin when employing the disc diffusion method. How...
Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Farjana Rahman, Fahmida Jahan, Rashed Noor
Water related environmental pollution has long been a major concern not only in Bangladesh but also in other developing countries. Present study assessed the pathogenic prevalence in municipal water supplied across Mirpur zone, Dhaka, and its subsequent health impact on the local community. Elevated...
Md. Rayhan Mahmud, Sanjida Khanam Tamanna, Sharmin Akter, Lincon Mazumder et al.
Phages are the most diversified and dominant members of the gut virobiota. They play a crucial role in shaping the structure and function of the gut microbial community and consequently the health of humans and animals. Phages are found mainly in the mucus, from where they can translocate to the int...
Rashed Noor, Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Tasnia Ahmed, Kamal Kanta Das et al.
In 2002 a paper was presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) on the assay of low level plutonium (Pu) in soft drummed waste (Miller 2002 INMM Ann. Meeting (Orlando, FL, 23-27 July 2002)). The technique described enabled the Atomic Weapons Establish...
Tasnia Ahmed, Sagar Baidya, Basudeb Chandra Sharma, M Malek et al.
Present study attempted to detect the pathogenic load in export quality shrimp samples and to demonstrate the drug resistance traits of the pathogenic isolates. Samples were found to be contaminated with Listeria spp. (1.0×10 5 cfu/g), Staphylococcus aureus (9.1×10 6 cfu/g) and Escherichia coli (1.0...
Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Fhamida Hasan, Tamanna Islam, Ifra Tun Nur et al.
Probiotics are put forward as food to ensure the maintenance of the equilibrium of the intestinal flora. Prolonged usage of probiotics in food ingredients for human as well as in animal feed has not exposed any side effects yet. Present study attempted to justify the effects of some commercially ava...
Marufa Sharmin, Ifra Tun Nur, Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Saurab Kishore Munshi et al.
Present study attempted to assess the level of microbiological contamination in oral herbal medicines, frequently used for medications, through conventional cultural and biochemical tests along with the antibiogram of the isolates. Moreover, the anti-bacterial potential of the herbal medicines was a...
Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Farjana Rahman, Sadia Afrin Beauty, Farahnaaz Feroz et al.
Water borne diseases are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries like Bangladesh, where disease outbreaks occur due to unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygienic practices. The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of water used for drinki...
R. T. Esha, Mohammad Rocky Khan Chowdhury, Sam Adhikary, K. M. A. Haque et al.
The Chakmas are the largest tribe inhabiting the forested hilly regions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, which lies in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. Although they are scattered in all four districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, they are mostly concentrated in the districts of Rangamati and Kh...
Ifra Tun Nur, Bijoy K. Ghosh, Mrityunjoy Acharjee
Along with the raw fishes, dry fishes also have a huge contribution to meet up the demand of protein in our daily meal. The assay of microbiological quality is therefore needed to ensure the public health safety. The present study was emphasized on the existence of pathogenic bacteria in raw and dry...
Tasnia Ahmed, Sagar Baidya, Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Tasmina Rahman
Water borne disease outbreaks associated with the drinking of unsafe water, containing pathogenic bacteria of fecal origin, is common in densely populated countries like Bangladesh. Present study was attempted to detect indicator bacteria from drinking water samples for the presumptive occurrence of...
Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Nagma Zerin, Touhida Ishma, Md. Rayhan Mahmud
Plants contain a variety of bioactive compounds that provide them antimicrobial properties, which can be used to develop novel antibiotics. The current research evaluated the antibacterial activity of 6 medicinal plants Sphagneticola calendulacea (Chinese wedelia), Enydra fluctuans (Buffalo spinach)...
Tamanna Islam, Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Nafisa Tabassum, Mahima Ranjan Acharjee
Present study assessed the pathogenic prevalence in municipal water from 10 supply point and deep tube-well water from 10 deep tube-well point delivered across the Kashipur zone of Narayanganj city, Bangladesh along with their drug resistant pattern through conventional, biochemical and disk diffusi...
Nour Fatema, Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Rashed Noor
<b> </b> Present study conducted a complete investigation on microorganisms contaminating the imported apples commonly consumed in Dhaka metropolis, Bangladesh. Study of microbial prevalence demonstrated a substantial number of total viable bacteria (~10<SUP>7</SUP> cfu/g) in each of the dissected p...
Fouzia Ferdous Khan Chowdhury, Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Rashed Noor
Untreated waste materials discharged from the pharmaceutical industries due to lack of legislative regulations may cast the unfavorable consequences within the environment. The present study endeavored to stress the proliferation of harmful microorganisms in both treated and untreated pharmaceutical...
Farzana Hossaini, Nayan C. Das, Fahamida Hossaini, Mrityunjoy Acharjee et al.
Background: Medicinal plants have been commonly used in traditional medicine against different ailment from ancient time. The present study was an attempt to determine the anti-bacterial traits of commonly available medicinal plants, especially having topical uses. Methods: A total of four types of ...
Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Estiak Ahmed, Saurab Kishore Munshi, Rashed Noor
Purpose – With a previous throughput of sea fish contamination with microorganisms, the present study extended the array of such spoilage over four other fish samples including Pseudapocryptes elongates , Scomberomorus cavalla , Xenentodon cancila and Otolithoides pama , evaluated the reductive impa...
Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Rezaul Hoque, Shawda Shafiq Shreya, Nafisa Tabassum et al.
BACKGROUND: The ability of many bacteria to adhere on the host surfaces and forming biofilms has major implications in a wide variety of industries including the food industry, where biofilms may create a persistent source of contamination. In the same environmental condition, the multiple bacterial...