Michael J. Barratt, Sharika Nuzhat, Kazi Ahsan, Steven A. Frese et al.
Disrupted development of the gut microbiota is a contributing cause of childhood malnutrition. Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis is a prominent early colonizer of the infant gut that consumes human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). We found that the absolute abundance of Bifidobacterium infanti...
Sharika Nuzhat, S. M. Tafsir Hasan, Parag Palit, Md Ridwan Islam et al.
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a major global public health problem. We aimed to assess the effects of probiotic and synbiotic supplementation on rate of weight gain and change in length in young SAM infants. This study was substudy of a single-blind randomized clinical trial (NCT0366657). Durin...
Sharika Nuzhat, Rina Das, Subhasish Das, Shoeb Bin Islam et al.
Antimicrobial resistance against shigellosis is increasingly alarming. However, evidence-based knowledge gaps regarding the changing trends of shigellosis in Bangladesh exist due to the scarcity of longitudinal data on antimicrobial resistance. Our study evaluated the last 20 years antimicrobial res...
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Chowdhury Ali Kawser, Abu Sayem Mirza Md. Hasibur Rahman, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid et al.
Data are limited on the prevalence and outcome of anemia and its risk on mortality among children under five years of age hospitalized for pneumonia/severe pneumonia. Thus, we conducted a secondary analysis of data extracted from Dhaka Hospital of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research...
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...
Md Ridwan Islam, Sharika Nuzhat, Shah Mohammad Fahim, Parag Palit et al.
AIMS: Appropriate rehydration has always been significant in treating diarrhoeal diseases in children. Irrational antibiotic use among diarrhoeal children has remained a major public health concern. Information regarding antibiotic use in young infants suffering from diarrhoea is very limited and a ...
Sharika Nuzhat, K. M. Shahunja, Abu S. M. S. B. Shahid, Soroar Hossain Khan et al.
OBJECTIVE: Children with both severe wasting and severe stunting (SWSS) represent an extreme form of malnutrition and are prone to develop severe infection. The study aims to demonstrate clinical features and aetiology of diarrhoea among children with SWSS compared to those with either severe wastin...
Abu Sadat Mohammed Sayeem Bin Shahid, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, K. M. Shahunja, Farzana Afroze et al.
Background Worldwide, pneumonia is the leading cause of mortality in children under the age of five. An expanded program on immunization (EPI) is one kind of evidence-based tool for controlling and even eradicating infectious diseases. Objectives This study aimed to explore the impact of EPI vaccina...
Sharika Nuzhat, SM Tafsir Hasan, Parag Palit, Farzana Afroze et al.
Objective To compare the health and nutrition of children younger than 5 years admitted to hospital during and before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Bangladesh. Methods We collected data from hospital records of children 0-59 months admitted to the Dhaka Hospital of the Internat...
Fatema Zohura, Md. Sazzadul Islam Bhuyian, Ronald Saxton, Tahmina Parvin et al.
OBJECTIVE: The Cholera-Hospital-Based-Intervention-for-7-days (CHoBI7) is a water treatment and handwashing with soap intervention for diarrhoea patients and their household members which is initially delivered in a healthcare facility setting. This study evaluated the effectiveness of CHoBI7 progra...
Md Fuad Al Fidah, Md Ridwan Islam, Md Mushfiqur Rahman, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti et al.
<h2>Abstract</h2><h3>Background</h3> Diarrhoeal diseases are a major public health challenge, placing immense economic burden on households. We aimed to examine the trends in direct medical costs (DMC), direct non-medical costs (DNMC), and family economic burden (FEB) incurred in the community befor...
Sharika Nuzhat, Parag Palit, Mustafa Mahfuz, Md Ridwan Islam et al.
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) support the development of a healthy gut microbiome and the growth of infants. We aimed to determine the association of different HMOs with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among Bangladeshi young infants. This study was nested within a single-blind, randomized, pil...
Shamsun Nahar Shaima, Tahmina Alam, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid, Lubaba Shahrin et al.
Background Pneumonia has been the leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 years of age for the last several decades. Although most of these deaths occur due to respiratory failure, published data are limited regarding predicting factors and outcomes of respiratory fai...
Sharika Nuzhat, Md Iqbal Hossain, Nusrat Jahan Shaly, Rafiqul Islam et al.
Malnourished children are more prone to infectious diseases including severe diarrhea compared to non-malnourished children. However, data are scarce on differences in the presentation in such children. We aimed to identify clinical differentials among children with cholera with or without malnutrit...
Farzana Afroze, Monira Sarmin, C A Kawser, Sharika Nuzhat et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the hypertonic saline efficacy in children with cerebral edema and raised intracranial pressure. METHOD: Studies assessing the efficacy and safety of hypertonic saline in children with cerebral edema and elevated intracranial pressure were identified using Medline, Web of Sci...