Prabhat K. Talukdar, Md Mizanur Rahman, Mahdia Rahman, Ashikun Nabi et al.
BACKGROUND: Unsafe water supplies continue to raise public health concerns, especially in urban areas in low resource countries. To understand the extent of public health risk attributed to supply water in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, Escherichia coli isolated from tap water samples collected from differ...
Moydul Islam, Prabhat K. Talukdar, Ashfaqul Hoque, Md. Enamul Huq et al.
The main objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of bla (NDM-1) in Gram-negative bacteria in Bangladesh. In October 2010 at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) laboratories, 1,816 consecutive clinical samples were tested for imipenem-resis...
Mohammad Aminul Islam, M. I. Huq, Ashikun Nabi, Prabhat K. Talukdar et al.
The purpose of this study was to screen for reduced susceptibility against imipenem and the presence of the New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) gene in a collection of Enterobacteriaceae (Escherichia coli, Shigella spp. and Klebsiella pneumoniae) from different surveillance studies between 2003 ...
Mohammed Badrul Amin, Prabhat K. Talukdar, Ajrin Sultana Sraboni, Md. Rayhanul Islam et al.
Fish sold at retail markets are often contaminated with harmful bacterial pathogens, posing significant health risks. Despite the growing aquaculture industry in Bangladesh to meet high demand, little attention has been paid to ensuring the safety of fish. The objective of this study was to evaluate...
Mohammed Badrul Amin, Prabhat K. Talukdar, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Subarna Roy et al.
Antibiotic resistance is a leading cause of hospitalization and death worldwide. Heavy metals such as arsenic have been shown to drive co-selection of antibiotic resistance, suggesting arsenic-contaminated drinking water is a risk factor for antibiotic resistance carriage. This study aimed to determ...