Shafiqul Alam Sarker, Shamima Sultana, Gloria Reuteler, D Moine et al.
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic resistance is rising in important bacterial pathogens. Phage therapy (PT), the use of bacterial viruses infecting the pathogen in a species-specific way, is a potential alternative. METHOD: T4-like coliphages or a commercial Russian coliphage product or placebo was orally give...
Juan Shan, S. Kaisar Alam, Brian S. Garra, Yingtao Zhang et al.
This work identifies effective computable features from the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS), to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for breast ultrasound. Computerized features corresponding to ultrasound BI-RADs categories were designed and tested using a database of ...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Mohammad Aslam, Zhahirul Islam, Ishrat J. Azmi et al.
From 300 stool samples, 58 Campylobacter strains were isolated by standard microbiological and biochemical methods. Of these, 40 strains were identified as Campylobacter jejuni and 5 as Campylobacter coli. The presence of flaA (100%), cadF (100%), racR (100%), dnaJ (100%), pldA (100%), ciaB (95%), v...
Gilles Bourdin, Armando Navarro, Shafiqul Alam Sarker, A.C. Pittet et al.
Eighty-nine T4-like phages from our phage collection were tested against four collections of childhood diarrhoea-associated Escherichia coli isolates representing different geographical origins (Mexico versus Bangladesh), serotypes (69 O, 27 H serotypes), pathotypes (ETEC, EPEC, EIEC, EAEC, VTEC, Sh...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Bijay K. Khajanchi, Mohammed Aminul Islam, Dilip Dutta et al.
<I>Objectives</I>: The aim of the present study was to determine the clonal relationships of ciprofloxacin-resistant <I>Shigella dysenteriae</I> type 1 strains isolated from south Asia, and <I>S. dysenteriae</I> 1 strains associated with epidemics in 1978, 1984 an...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Dilip Dutta, Ashrafus Safa, M. Ansaruzzaman et al.
Of 469 recently isolated Shigella flexneri strains, 452 agglutinated with Shigella flexneri-specific monoclonal antibodies. Of these, 396 could be assigned to 10 of the currently recognized 15 serotypes, with S. flexneri 2b dominating (23.2%). Of the 56 untypeable strains which showed invasive prope...
Sumon Kumar Das, Dilruba Begum, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Farzana Ferdous et al.
The study aimed to determine the geographical diversity in seasonality of major diarrhoeal pathogens among 21 138 patients enrolled between 2010 and 2012 in two urban and two rural sites in Bangladesh under the surveillance system of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banglade...
Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan, Kaisarul Islam, Md. Nakib Alam Shovon, Mohammed Baz et al.
The 60 GHz band is a great prospect to meet the future demand for short-range indoor communication requiring wide bandwidth and high data rates. This paper presents the design of a 60 GHz printed Q-slot patch antenna for body-centric communication. The Q-slot has a slot gap of 0.2 mm and is etched o...
Lorraine Chapot, Md Samun Sarker, Ruhena Begum, Delower Hossain et al.
The use of antibiotics in animals for both therapeutic and non-therapeutic purposes is a major driver of the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). While several studies have investigated prescription and consumption patterns in humans, little attention has been paid to the veterina...
M. Sirajul Islam, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, Mohammad Ansaruzzaman, Shah M. Faruque et al.
ABSTRACT This paper details the phenotypic, genotypic, and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of 88 Vibrio cholerae strains from Zimbabwe. Of the 88 strains, 83 were classified as “altered El Tor” and 5 as “hybrid El Tor” strains. All of the strains were susceptible to tetracycline, doxycycline, ciprof...
Rubhana Raqib, Protim Sarker, Khalequ Zaman, Nur Alam et al.
Shigella sonnei live vaccine candidate, WRSS1, which was previously evaluated in US, Israeli and Thai volunteers, was administered orally to Bangladeshi adults and children to assess its safety, clinical tolerability and immunogenicity. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation, age-desce...
Abdullah Al Amin, Shahnaj Parvin, Muhammad Abdul Kadir, Tasmia Tahmid et al.
When a breast lump is detected through palpation, mammography or ultrasonography, the final test for characterization of the tumour, whether it is malignant or benign, is biopsy. This is invasive and carries hazards associated with any surgical procedures. The present work was undertaken to study th...
Kaisar A. Talukder, Moydul Islam, Bijay K. Khajanchi, Dilip Dutta et al.
A total of 358 Shigella dysenteriae strains isolated from patients attending the Dhaka treatment center of the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, between the years 1999 and 2002 were included in this study. S. dysenteriae type 1, the dominant serotype in 1999 (76.4%), d...
Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan, Md Junayed Hossain, Kaisarul Islam, Nazmus Sadad Ovi et al.
In this study, the design of a compact and novel millimeter wave cotton textile-based wearable antenna for body-centric communications in healthcare applications is presented. The free space and on-body antenna performance parameters for the proposed antenna at 60 GHz are investigated and analyzed. ...
Ahmad Chowdhury, Rezwana R. Razzaque, Sabiq Muhtadi, Ahmad Shafiullah et al.
In this study we investigate the potential of parametric images formed from ultrasound B-mode scans using the Nakagami distribution for non-invasive classification of breast lesions and characterization of breast tissue. Through a sliding window technique, we generated seven types of Nakagami images...