Mohammed Tarek Alam, Rubaiul Murshed, Elias Bhiuyan, Sadia Saber et al.
Background: A definitive treatment of SARS CoV-2 is yet to arrive and the human death toll rises exponentially globally. In this health emergency, it might be useful to look into the old therapies which could be effective against the virus. In vitro research showed Ivermectin could decrease the conc...
Mohammed Tarek Alam, Rubaiul Murshed, Pauline Francisca Gomes, Zafor Md Masud et al.
Introduction: While multiple vaccines are undergoing clinical trial across the globe, we yearn for an FDA approved drug to protect us from the devastating pandemic for the time being. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of Ivermectin when administered as pre-exposure prophylaxis for COVID...
Sadia Saber, Naz Yasmin, Mohammed Tarek Alam, Mohammad Monower Hossain et al.
Introduction: Among all the bacterial infections encounter in primary care, urinary tract infection (UTI) has considered as one of the most frequent bacterial infection. UTI can be defined as the presence of an infection in any part of our urinary system-kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder and urethra...
Abdul Momen, Farhana Khan, Sadia Saber, Amrin Sultana et al.
The year 2020 has been plagued by the COVID‑19 pandemic that has resulted in an additional 1,800,000 deaths worldwide. Many patients who recover from Covid-19 later present with shortness of breath and fibrosis of the lungs, while some take a long time to recover from the initial infection. A drug s...
Muhtarima Jannat, Shah Tasdika Auyon, Abu Sina Md. Tushar, Sadia Haque Tonny et al.
Maize, one of the most important cereal crops in Bangladesh, is severely contaminated by fumonisin, a carcinogenic secondary metabolite produced by Fusarium including Fusarium proliferatum. Biocontrol with Bacillus strains is an effective approach to controlling this F. proliferatum as Bacillus has ...
Md Tarek Alam, Sadia Saber, Rafa Faaria Alam, Mohammad Monower Hossain
Echinococcosis is a parasitic disease endemic in many parts of the world. Liver is the most common affected organ followed by lungs. However, the infestation of the latter is usually secondary to another infected organ system. Symptoms are not specific and can be produced by the mass effect or cyst ...
Tamanna Zerin, Ariful Islam, Sabera Gulnahar, Noor E Farjana et al.
Purpose: As bloodstream infection is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, the surveillance study is required to continuously monitor the pattern of infection and antibiotic resistance. Our study aimed to detect the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of bacteria isolated from patients in Ra...
Sadia Saber, Samia Rashna Ahmed, Naz Yasmin, Mohammed Tarek Alam et al.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease which was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for this ongoing pandemic worldwide. COVID-19 itself has a high mortality rate but in addition with bac...
Sadia Saber, Mohammad Monower Hossain
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a multi-system infectious disease with a major cause of morbidity and mortality all over the world but particularly in developing countries like Bangladesh. A normal healthy individual does not face the symptoms causing by tuberculosis due to their immune system that...
Sadia Saber, Mohammad Dabir Hossain, Mohammed Tarek Alam, Mohammad Monower Hossain et al.
Bardet Biedl Syndrome (BBS) is an infrequent ciliopathic autosomal recessive genetic disorder that produces many effects and affects various body systems. Consanguineous marriage is conventionally considered as the most frequent etiology. The primary characteristics of the disorder are gradual visua...
Sadia Saber, Mohammed Tarek Alam, Mohammad Monower Hossain, Rafa Faaria Alam
Background: The prevalence and socio-demographic factors of peptic ulcer disease (PUD) have changed remarkably now a day. Currently, peptic ulcer disease has considered as a multifactorial health problem. Objective: To determine the socio-demographic factors of Peptic ulcer disease among patients at...
Mohammad Zaid Hossain, Nusrat Sultana, Afroza Akbar Sweety, Reaz Mahmud et al.
Background: Dengue is an endemic disease for Bangladesh with occasional outbreak. Little is known about the predictors of severe dengue.
 Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in the medicine department of Dhaka Medical College from April 2019 to March 2020. Total 199 consecutive pa...
Sadia Saber, Md Tarek Alam, Nazi Yasmin, Mohammad Monwer Hossain et al.
Background: Enteric fever otherwise called Typhoid fever is a systemic disease caused by Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi, having reservoir in contaminated water and food. It affects considerable number of populations of the world but regions of South Asia are most commonly affected. Aims a...
Md Tarek Alam, Rubaiul Murshed, Nilufar Begum, Sadia Saber et al.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has a tremendous effect worldwide, and as a front liner, health professionals are significantly exposed to the disease. This study focused on exploring the seroprevalence of the antibody of the health professional who never had a SARS-CoV-...
Pauline Francisca Gomes, Abdul Momen, Amrin Sultana, Rafa Faaria Alam et al.
COVID-19 has proved to cause multi-systemic manifestations in many reported cases across the world. Here, we report a rare presentation of a 20 years old COVID-19 positive male patient with acute kidney injury who developed ophthalmoplegia during the course of the disease. COVID-19 being a relativel...
Sadia Saber, ME Haque, Mohammed Tarek Alam, Mohammad Monower Hossain
Background: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) has become a modern epidemic as a non-communicable disease showing rising trend all over the world. In Bangladesh a large number of diabetic patients encounter every day to the various diabetic clinics for treatment purpose. Objective: This study aims to observe th...
Amit Wazib, Shaila Rahman, Md Abul Fayaz, Farah Naz Kamal et al.
Background: Migraine ranks as one of the most incapacitating disorders. A variety of drugs are recommended for the preventive management of migraines. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the comparative effectiveness of Propranolol, Topiramate and their combination in the prophylaxi...
Rummana Islam, Ismam Ahmed Protic, Abu Sina Md. Tushar, Mehedi Hasan et al.
Citrus canker, caused by Xanthomonas citri pv. citri (Xcc), is one of the most widespread citrus disease. In this study, 54 isolates of Xcc were obtained from citrus canker-infected leaves, twigs and fruit samples collected from various citrus-growing regions in Bangladesh. These isolates were analy...
Sadia Saber, Md Faizul Islam Chowdhury, Mohammad Monower Hossain, MD. Rafayel Islam
Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis has infected around 1.7 billion people around the world so far and has been categorized as one of the top 10 causes of mortality globally. The rate of infection is increasing every year mainly 30 high TB burden countries. Due to high density of population every...
Abdul Momen, Rafa Faaria, Farhana Khan, Sadia Saber et al.
An infected cause of esophagobronchial fistula between left bronchus and esophagus is mentioned who is a 32 year old male with a history of smoking and I/V drug abuse. The scientific reasons for suspecting an esophagogastric-bronchial fistula in an adult are discussed, as well as a description of th...