Shahnaz Sultana, Saiful Alam, Muhammad Manjurul Karim
Iron (Fe) bioavailability to plants is reduced in saline soils; therefore, plants growing in arid soils face two major challenges for poor crop productivity: high salinity and Fe deficiency. Siderophore-producing plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) could be a promising alternative to chemica...
Shahnaz Sultana, Sumonta C. Paul, Samia Parveen, Saiful Alam et al.
Growth and productivity of rice are negatively affected by soil salinity. However, some salt-tolerant rhizosphere-inhabiting bacteria can improve salt resistance of plants, thereby augmenting plant growth and production. Here, we isolated a total of 53 plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) fro...
Mohammad Tariqur Rahman, Muhammad Manjurul Karim
Nutritional immunity describes mechanisms for withholding essential transition metals as well as directing the toxicity of these metals against infectious agents. Zinc is one of these transition elements that are essential for both humans and microbial pathogens. At the same time, Zn can be toxic bo...
Firdausi Qadri, Firoz Ahmed, Muhammad Manjurul Karim, Christine Wennerås et al.
The immunoglobulin subclass responses to homologous lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and to cholera toxin (CT) in adult patients infected with Vibrio cholerae O1 and V. cholerae O139 were studied. LPS-specific antibody-secreting cells (ASC) of both the immunoglobulin A1 (IgA1) and IgA2 subclasses were seen,...
Ayesha Siddika, Alfi Anjum Rashid, Shakila Nargis Khan, Amena Khatun et al.
Introduction The ongoing global expansion of salt-affected land is a significant factor, limiting the growth and yield of crops, particularly rice ( Oryza sativa L). This experiment explores the mitigation of salt-induced damage in rice (cv BRRI dhan100) following the application of plant growth-pro...
Farhima Akter, Ruhul Amin, Khan Tanjid Osman, M Nural Anwar et al.
Hospital and agriculture wastewater is mostly responsible for causing environmental pollution by spreading un-metabolized antibiotics and resistant bacteria, especially in Bangladesh. Here, we studied the influence of the most frequently prescribed antibiotic, fluoroquinolone (~72%), on the developm...
Tania Akter Jhuma, Jannatul Rafeya, Shahnaz Sultana, Mohammad Tariqur Rahman et al.
The application of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) as vital components for plant growth promotion against biotic and abiotic stresses could be a promising strategy to improve crop production in areas vulnerable to increasing salinity. Here, we isolated Seventy-five endophytic bacteria fr...
Tingbi Xu, Cody R. Rasmussen-Ivey, Francesco S. Moen, Ana Fernández-Bravo et al.
This global survey of vAh brought together scientists that study fish disease to evaluate the evolution, geographical distribution, phylogeny, and hosts of vAh and other Aeromonas sp. isolates. In addition to vAh isolates from China and the United States, four new vAh isolates were isolated from the...
Farjana Saiada, Hamidur Rahman, Sayra Moni, Muhammad Manjurul Karim et al.
A total of 1106 stool samples collected from diarrhoea patients admitted to Dhaka hospital of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, during January-December 2008 were analysed for the presence of rotavirus-specific RNA by PAGE. The group B-specific RNA migration patter...
Mahbuba Khatun, S.M. Sabbir Alam, Abed Hussain Khan, M. Anwar Hossain et al.
OBJECTIVE: To establish a suitable method of diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) using peripheral blood, spleen or bone marrow aspirates. METHODS: Peripheral blood, bone marrow and spleen aspirate samples were collected from clinically suspected VL patients (n = 26). A new PCR primer pair (MK1F...
Muhammad Manjurul Karim, Shahnaz Sultana, Rokaia Sultana, Mohammad Tariqur Rahman
As far as comorbidity is concerned, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) appear to be accounted for the highest prevalence, severity, and fatality among COVID 19 patients. A wide array of causal links connecting CVD and COVID-19 baffle the overall prognosis as well as the efficacy of the given therapeutic ...
Shafiqur Rahman, Shakila Nargis Khan, M Niamul Naser, Muhammad Manjurul Karim
Shrimp export is the second largest exportable commodity in Bangladesh. However, frequent outbreaks of microbial diseases over the last few years challenged its prospect to flourish. The use of antimicrobial chemicals have led to the emergence of more virulent pathogens, with the eventual transfer o...
Mohammad Tariqur Rahman, Joe M. Regenstein, Noor Lide Abu Kassim, Muhammad Manjurul Karim
Despite the widely used author contribution criteria, unethical authorship practices such as guest, ghost, and honorary authorship remain largely unsolved. We have identified six major reasons by analyzing 78 published papers addressing unethical authorship practice. Those are lack of: (i) awareness...
Gazi Nurun Nahar Sultana, Atiqur Rahman, Muhammad Manjurul Karim, A. D. A. Shahinuzzaman et al.
Somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations have been reported in many types of cancer cells, but very few reports document the prevalence of inherited mtDNA polymorphisms including NADH-dehydrogenase (ND3) subunit polymorphisms in cancer patients compared to healthy control populations. Although, f...
Zimam Mahmud, Rasel Khan Manik, Adua Rahman, Muhammad Manjurul Karim et al.
The tannery industry produces one of the worst contaminants, and unsafe disposal in nearby waterbodies and landfills has become an imminent threat to public health, especially when the resulting multidrug-resistant bacteria and heavy metals enter community settings and animal food chains. In this st...