Adam C. Levine, Justin Glavis‐Bloom, Payal Modi, Sabiha Nasrin et al.
BACKGROUND: Dehydration due to diarrhoea is a leading cause of child death worldwide, yet no clinical tools for assessing dehydration have been validated in resource-limited settings. The Dehydration: Assessing Kids Accurately (DHAKA) score was derived for assessing dehydration in children with diar...
Angela F. Jarman, Sara Long, Sarah E. Robertson, Sabiha Nasrin et al.
Pediatric diarrheal disease is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. While several studies have demonstrated an increased incidence of diarrheal illness in boys compared with girls in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC), the reasons for this difference are uncle...
Payal Modi, Justin Glavis‐Bloom, Sabiha Nasrin, Allysia Guy et al.
INTRODUCTION: Although dehydration from diarrhea is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children under five, existing methods of assessing dehydration status in children have limited accuracy. OBJECTIVE: To assess the accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound measurement of the aorta-to-IVC rat...
Payal Modi, Sabiha Nasrin, Meagan Hawes, Justin Glavis‐Bloom et al.
Background Undernutrition contributes to 45% of all deaths in children Objective This study assessed the validity of different measures of undernutrition in children with diarrhea. Methods A prospective cohort study was conducted at an urban hospital in Bangladesh. Children Results Of the 721 patien...
Adam C. Levine, Justin Glavis‐Bloom, Payal Modi, Sabiha Nasrin et al.
INTRODUCTION: Diarrhea remains one of the most common and most deadly conditions affecting children worldwide. Accurately assessing dehydration status is critical to determining treatment course, yet no clinical diagnostic models for dehydration have been empirically derived and validated for use in...
Rochelle K. Rosen, Monique Gainey, Sabiha Nasrin, Stephanie C. Garbern et al.
Objective: Framework Matrix Analysis (FMA) and Applied Thematic Analysis (ATA) are qualitative methods that have not been as widely used/cited compared to content analysis or grounded theory. This paper compares methods of FMA with ATA for mobile health (mHealth) research. The same qualitative data ...
Sabiha Nasrin, Md. Tariqujjaman, Marufa Sultana, Rifat Zaman et al.
BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children globally with the majority of these deaths observed in resource-limited settings. Globally, the annual incidence of clinical pneumonia in under-five children is approximately 152 million, mostly in the low- and middle-income countries. ...
Stephanie C. Garbern, Tzu-Chun Chu, Phillip Yang, Monique Gainey et al.
OBJECTIVES: Few studies have evaluated determinants of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Vibrio cholerae O1 in older children and adults. This study aimed to characterize the prevalence of MDR V. cholerae O1 and associated risk factors among patients over five years of age in Bangladesh. METHODS: Stool cult...
Melissa Young, Junjie Guo, Anne M Williams, Kyly C. Whitfield et al.
BACKGROUND: Vitamin B-12 and folate deficiencies in women and children have important public health implications. However, the evidence is conflicting and limited on whether the influence of inflammation on biomarker concentrations may be sufficiently and consistently influenced by inflammation to r...
Stephanie C. Garbern, Eric J. Nelson, Sabiha Nasrin, Adama Mamby Keita et al.
Background: Diarrheal illness is a leading cause of antibiotic use for children in low- and middle-income countries. Determination of diarrhea etiology at the point-of-care without reliance on laboratory testing has the potential to reduce inappropriate antibiotic use. Methods: This prospective obse...
Syed Saad Andaleeb, Anis Rahman, Mehdi Rajeb, Nasrin Akter et al.
Television has recently experienced unprecedented expansion in Bangladesh. Given its popularity and influence, and with more people using it for their information, research on the credibility of TV news is warranted. Perceived independence of TV channels, their social role, source expertise, objecti...
Adam C. Levine, Meagan A. Barry, Monique Gainey, Sabiha Nasrin et al.
Diarrheal diseases lead to an estimated 1.3 million deaths each year, with the majority of those deaths occurring in patients over five years of age. As the severity of diarrheal disease can vary widely, accurately assessing dehydration status remains the most critical step in acute diarrhea managem...
Rina Das, Sabiha Nasrin, Parag Palit, Rukaeya Amin Sobi et al.
With more than 100,000 cases estimated each year, Bangladesh is one of the countries with the highest number of people at risk for cholera. Moreover, Bangladesh is formulating a countrywide cholera-control plan to satisfy the GTFCC (The Global Task Force on Cholera Control) Roadmap's goals. With a p...
Stephanie C. Garbern, Tzu-Chun Chu, Monique Gainey, Samika Kanekar et al.
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health threat and is increasingly prevalent among enteric pathogens in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, the burden of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in older children, adults, and elderly patients with acute diarr...
David MacKenzie, Sabiha Nasrin, Bita Atika, Payal Modi et al.
OBJECTIVES: Unstructured clinical assessments of dehydration in children are inaccurate. Point-of-care ultrasound is a noninvasive diagnostic tool that can help evaluate the volume status; the corrected carotid artery flow time has been shown to predict volume depletion in adults. We sought to deter...
Adam C. Levine, Monique Gainey, Kexin Qu, Sabiha Nasrin et al.
BackgroundDespite the importance of accurate and rapid assessment of hydration status in patients with acute diarrhoea, no validated tools exist to help clinicians assess dehydration severity in older children and adults. The aim of this study is to validate a clinical decision support tool (CDST) a...
Sabiha Nasrin, Md. Ahshanul Haque, Parag Palit, Rina Das et al.
Asymptomatic or subclinical infection by diarrheal enteropathogens during childhood has been linked to poor health and nutritional outcomes. In this study, we aimed to assess the impact of asymptomatic Shigella infection on different forms of childhood malnutrition including the composite index of a...
Mamun Abdullah Al, Nasrin Akter Ivy, Mohammad Ashik Iqbal Khan, Sayda Rehana et al.
Development of high‐yielding rice ( Oryza sativa L.) is a crucial need for succeeding food security that needs the presence of great genetic variability to be used in breeding programs. Creating new variants through sodium azide mutagenesis can be a better alternative in advancing plant breeding iss...
Md. Ahshanul Haque, Sabiha Nasrin, Parag Palit, Rina Das et al.
Asymptomatic infection by fecal enteropathogens is a major contributor to childhood malnutrition. Here, we investigated the incidence rate of asymptomatic infection by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) and assessed its association with childhood stunting, wasting, and being underweight among c...
Eaftekhar Ahmed Rana, Nahida Sarwer Chowdhury, Md. Sirazul Islam, Jahan Ara et al.
Background and Aim: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been announced as a life-threatening, highly transmissible infectious novel emerging disease worldwide. Rapid detection and epidemiological information are desperately needed to overcome the existing pandemic situation and alleviate national and...