Nadim Sharif, Khalid J. Alzahrani, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed, Shuvra Kanti Dey
There is a significant research gap in meta-analysis on the efficacy and safety of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. This study analyzed the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. Published phase I, phase II, and phase III trials analyzing safety and immunogenicity and phase III randomized clini...
Mahmudul Hasan, Progga Paromita Ghosh, Kazi Faizul Azim, Shamsunnahar Mukta et al.
H7N9, a novel strain of avian origin influenza was the first recorded incidence where a human was transited by a N9 type influenza virus. Effective vaccination against influenza A (H7N9) is a major concern, since it has emerged as a life threatening viral pathogen. Here, an in silico reverse vaccino...
Bahar Uddin Bhuiyan, Motiur Rahman, Mohammed Ruhul Amin Miah, Shamsun Nahar et al.
Commercial sex workers (CSWs) serve as the most important reservoir of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including gonorrhea. Periodic monitoring of the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a high-risk population provides essential clues regarding the rapidly changing ...
Nadim Sharif, Mithun Kumar Sarkar, Rabeya Nahar Ferdous, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed et al.
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a vector (mosquito)-transmitted alphavirus (family Togaviridae ). CHIKV can cause fever and febrile illness associated with severe arthralgia and rash. Genotypic and phylogenetic analysis are important to understand the spread of CHIKV during epidemics and the diversity ...
Sufi HZ Rahman, M Golam Azam, M Anisur Rahman, MS Arfin et al.
AIM: To evaluate the performance of commercially available immunochromatographic (ICT) and immunoblot tests covering the current infection marker CIM and conventional ELISA for the diagnosis of H pylori infection in adult dyspeptic patients. METHODS: Consecutive non-treated dyspeptic patients underg...
Nadim Sharif, Rubayet Rayhan Opu, Khalid J. Alzahrani, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed et al.
Background Health information has a profound impact on developing awareness and ultimately preventing the burden of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, but study in Bangladesh is lacking. Aims Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the impact of information from social media an...
Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammad Habibur Rahman Sarker, Jui Das et al.
BACKGROUND: There is strong association between childhood rotavirus, diarrhoea, climate factors and malnutrition. Conversely, a significant nutritional transition (reduced under-nutrition) with a concurrent increasing trend of rotavirus infection in last decade was also observed among under 5 childr...
Shamsun Nahar Begum, Asgar Ahmed, SH Omy, MM Rohman et al.
Twenty-two maize hybrids were evaluated to find out their variability, character association and path coefficient of grain yield and its component characters. Significant differences were found among the genotypes for the characters studied. Ear length and grain yield (t/ha) had moderate genotypic c...
Mustafizur Rahman, Rajibur Rahman, Shamsun Nahar, Shakhaowat Hossain et al.
Norovirus infections in diarrhea patients attending an urban and a rural hospital in Bangladesh were investigated. A total of 953 fecal specimens from both children and adults collected during 2010-2014 were tested for the presence of norovirus using real time PCR. One fourth (25%) of the specimens ...
Nadim Sharif, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed, Rubayet Rayhan Opu, Mahmuda Rahman Tani et al.
Background Patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) with preexisting diabetes and cardiovascular metabolic diseases have higher fatality rate. The circulation of new variants with emerging clinical characteristics requires more studies focusing the impact of preexisting health conditions on...
Nadim Sharif, Mithun Kumar Sarkar, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed, Rabeya Nahar Ferdous et al.
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has caused worldwide health emergencies during the last 6 months of 2020. Within very short time, severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected over 64,516,333 people with 1,493,264 fatalities in 210 countries and regions. Previous s...
Nadim Sharif, Rubayet Rayhan Opu, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed, Mithun Kumar Sarkar et al.
Background Socio-demographics and comorbidities are involved in determining the severity and fatality in patients with COVID-19 suggested by studies in various countries, but study in Bangladesh is insufficient. Aims We designed the study to evaluate the association of sociodemographic and comorbidi...
Nadim Sharif, Khalid J. Alzahrani, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed, Rubayet Rayhan Opu et al.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major public health issue globally. Preventive health measures against COVID-19 can reduce the health burden significantly by containing the transmission. A few research have been undertaken on the effectiveness of preventive strategies such ...
Mokibul Hassan Afrad, Polash Chandra Karmakar, Sumon Kumar Das, Jelle Matthijnssens et al.
Background Globally, human astroviruses (HAstVs) have emerged as another common cause of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis. Limited data exist on the epidemiology and genetic diversity of HAstVs in Bangladesh. Objective We describe the epidemiology of HAstV-associated diarrhea among hospitalized p...
Nadim Sharif, Khalid J. Alzahrani, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed, Afsana Khan et al.
In spite of the availability of vaccine, the health burden associated with the COVID-19 pandemic continues to increase. An estimated 5 million people have died with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Analysis of evolution and genomic diversity can provide sufficient information to reduce the health burden of the...