Md. Milon Islam, Md. Rezwanul Haque, Hasib Iqbal, Md. Munirul Hasan et al.
Margaret Kosek, Tahmeed Ahmed, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Laura E. Caulfield et al.
BACKGROUND: Environmental enteropathy (EE), the adverse impact of frequent and numerous enteric infections on the gut resulting in a state of persistent immune activation and altered permeability, has been proposed as a key determinant of growth failure in children in low- and middle-income populati...
Arjun S. Raman, Jeanette L. Gehrig, Siddarth Venkatesh, Hao-Wei Chang et al.
Characterizing the organization of the human gut microbiota is a formidable challenge given the number of possible interactions between its components. Using a statistical approach initially applied to financial markets, we measured temporally conserved covariance among bacterial taxa in the microbi...
M Munirul Islam, Kazi Istiaque Sanin, Mustafa Mahfuz, Akhter Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: Bangladesh is one of the 20 countries with highest burden of stunting globally. A large portion (around 2.2 million) of the population dwells in the slum areas under severe vulnerable conditions. Children residing in the slums are disproportionately affected with higher burden of undernu...
James A Platts-Mills, Mami Taniuchi, Md. Jashim Uddin, Shihab U. Sobuz et al.
Background: Early exposure to enteropathogens has been associated with malnutrition in children in low-resource settings. However, the contribution of individual enteropathogens remains poorly defined. Molecular diagnostics offer an increase in sensitivity for detecting enteropathogens but have not ...
Tahmeed Ahmed, Mustafa Mahfuz, Md Munirul Islam, Dinesh Mondal et al.
The Etiology, Risk Factors and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study site in Bangladesh is located in the capital city of Dhaka in an urban slum that has one of the highest population densities in the world. The site ...
Kamrul Hasan, Munirul M. Haque, Riddhiman Adib, Jannatul F Tumpa et al.
Blood hemoglobin level (Hgb) measurement has a vital role in the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of numerous diseases. We describe the use of smartphone video imaging and an artificial neural network (ANN) system to estimate Hgb levels non-invasively. We recorded 10 second-300 frame fingertip ...
Kazi Istiaque Sanin, M Munirul Islam, Mustafa Mahfuz, Akhter Ahmed et al.
The prevalence of stunting among children below 5 years of age is higher in the slum-dwelling population of Bangladesh compared to that in both urban and rural areas. Studies have reported that several factors such as inadequate nutrition, low socio-economic status, poor hygiene and sanitation and l...
Mahamudul Hasan, M Munirul Islam, Eman Mubarak, Md. Ahshanul Haque et al.
Mothers are often responsible for preparing nutritious foods in their households. However, the quality of mother's diets is often neglected, which may affect both mother's and child's nutrition. Because no single food contains all necessary nutrients, diversity in dietary sources is needed to ensure...
Nagendra Monangi, Huan Xu, Rasheda Khanam, Waqasuddin Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Selenium (Se), an essential trace mineral, has been implicated in preterm birth (PTB). We aimed to determine the association of maternal Se concentrations during pregnancy with PTB risk and gestational duration in a large number of samples collected from diverse populations. METHODS: Ges...
Munirul M. Haque, Masud Rabbani, Dipranjan Das, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif et al.
BACKGROUND: Care for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be challenging for families and medical care systems. This is especially true in low- and- middle-income countries such as Bangladesh. To improve family-practitioner communication and developmental monitoring of children with ASD,...
Upol Ehsan, Nazmus Sakib, Md Munirul Haque, Tanjir Rashid Soron et al.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a critical problem worldwide; however, low and middle-income countries (LMICs) often suffer more from it due to the lack of contextual research and effective care infrastructure. Moreover, ASD in LMICs offers unique challenges as cultural misperceptions and social p...
Mohammad Jyoti Raihan, Emily Briskin, Mustafa Mahfuz, M Munirul Islam et al.
Elevated blood lead level (BLL) is known to cause cardiac, immune, and cognitive damage but had not been thoroughly studied in relation to stunting among children under two years of age. We primarily aimed to assess the relationship between elevated BLL, the accumulation of concerned amount of the m...
Fahim Ahmad, Shyamal Kumar Paul, Meiji Soe Aung, Rummana Mazid et al.
Dengue virus (DENV) that caused an outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh during 2018 was analysed phylogenetically. DENV samples were classified into type 2-Cosmopolitan genotype (54%) and type 3-genotype I (46%), indicating co-circulation of two DENV types and resurgence of type 3 associated with genotype ...
Zobaer Akond, Md. Jahangir Alam, Mohammad Nazmol Hasan, M. S. Uddin et al.
Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis is a statistical method that links two types of information such as phenotypic data (trait measurements) and genotypic data (usually molecular markers). There a number of QTL tools have been developed for gene linkage mapping. Standard Interval Mapping (SIM) o...