Mohammad Sorowar Hossain, Enayetur Raheem, Tanvira Afroze Sultana, Shameema Ferdous et al.
Thalassemias are emerging as a global public health concern. Due to remarkable success in the reduction of childhood mortality by controlling infectious diseases in developing countries, thalassemias are likely to be a major public health concern in the coming decades in South Asia. Despite the fact...
Amy J. Pickering, Yoshika S. Crider, Sonia Sultana, Jenna M. Swarthout et al.
BACKGROUND: Previous blinded trials of household water treatment interventions in low-income settings have failed to detect a reduction in child diarrhoea. Technological advances have enabled the development of automated in-line chlorine dosers that can disinfect drinking water without electricity, ...
Yoshika S. Crider, Sonia Sultana, Leanne Unicomb, Jennifer Davis et al.
Chlorination is a low-cost, effective method for drinking water treatment, but aversion to the taste or smell of chlorinated water can limit use of chlorine treatment products. Forced choice triangle tests were used to evaluate chlorine detection and acceptability thresholds for two common types of ...
MR Hassan, MAI Talukder, Sonia Sultana
The growth rate, milk yield, milk composition and reproductive efficiency ofJamunapari goats were studied under semi-intensive conditions. Animals were allowedto graze for 6-7 hours and concentrate (17% CP, 11 MJ/kg DM) at 400g/head/day wasoffered twice daily. No body measurement was different in ma...
Maya Nadimpalli, Val F. Lanza, María Camila Montealegre, Sonia Sultana et al.
Healthy development of the gut microbiome provides long-term health benefits. Children raised in countries with high infectious disease burdens are frequently exposed to diarrhoeal pathogens and antibiotics, which perturb gut microbiome assembly. A recent cluster-randomized trial leveraging >4,000 c...
Hannah E Atlas, Bakary Conteh, Md Taufiqul Islam, Khuzwayo C. Jere et al.
Abstract Background Shigella is a leading cause of acute watery diarrhea, dysentery, and diarrhea-attributed linear growth faltering, a precursor to stunting and lifelong morbidity. Several promising Shigella vaccines are in development and field efficacy trials will require a consortium of potentia...
Arifa Sultana, Saimon Shahriar, Md. Rafat Tahsin, Sabiha Rahman Mim et al.
BACKGROUND: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine (Covishield) was the first to be introduced in Bangladesh to fight the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. As this vaccine had shown some side-effects in its clinical trial, we aimed to conduct a study assessing short-term adverse events following immunizatio...
Sonia Sultana, M. Jasimuddin Khan, Md. Rakibul Hassan, M A M Y Khondoker
Sixteen female Black Bengal goats (10 ± 0.6 months of age and 11.5 ± 1.3 kg live weight) were divided into four groups having four goats in each. In a completely randomized design, A, B, C and D were given 150, 200, 250 and 300g concentrate mixture with ad libitum green grasses. Total dry matter (DM...
Simona Baránková, Joan Pere Pascual‐Díaz, Nusrat Sultana, M. Pilar Alonso‐Lifante et al.
This work has been supported by the Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (Spanish Government: CGL2016-75694-P AEI/FEDER, UE; CGL2017-84297-R), by the Generalitat de Catalunya (‘Ajuts a grups de recerca consolidats’ 2017SGR01116’), by the Czech Science Foundation (grants 16-08698S,...
Kevin Guzman, Rebecca Crowder, Anna M. Leddy, Noriah Maraba et al.
Digital adherence technologies (DATs) have emerged as an alternative to directly observed therapy (DOT) for supervisions of tuberculosis (TB) treatment. We conducted a meta-analysis of implementation feedback obtained from people with TB and health care workers (HCWs) involved in TB REACH Wave 6-fun...
Sayera Banu, Farhana Haque, Shahriar Ahmed, Sonia Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: In Bangladesh, about 80% of healthcare is provided by the private sector. Although free diagnosis and care is offered in the public sector, only half of the estimated number of people with tuberculosis are diagnosed, treated, and notified to the national program. Private sector engagemen...
Md Fazlul Haque, Md. Asdaq Hussain, A Sarkar, M M Hoque et al.
This prospective intervention study was undertaken to assess the impact of repeated breast-feeding counselling on the rate of exclusive breast-feeding up to five months. The study was carried out in two breast-feeding counselling sub-centres, established at the community level in the vicinity of two...
Sharmin Sultana, Mst. Sonia Parvin, Md. Taohidul Islam, Emdadul Haque Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Children suffer from various oral and periodontal diseases. Dental caries is one of the most prevalent oral diseases among children in the world. This study was conducted to identify the prevalence and risk factors of dental caries in children in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. METHODS: A cross-...
Daniel W. Smith, Mahfuza Islam, Kirin E. Furst, Shobnom Mustaree et al.
Expanding drinking water chlorination could substantially reduce the burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries, but the taste of chlorinated water often impedes adoption. We developed a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the effect of people's choice to accept or reject drinking water ba...
Mohammad Khairul Alam Sobuj, Md. Golam Mostofa, Zahidul Islam, Ahmad Fazley Rabby et al.
Abstract Seaweed cultivation is an eco-friendly method and attracts growing interest which needs a multi-criteria approach for its sustainability. In our present study, an economically significant red alga, Gracilariopsis longissima was cultured using a floating raft method on the coast of Cox’s Baz...
David Berendes, Drew Capone, Jackie Knee, David Holcomb et al.
Nutritional factors and infectious agents may contribute to paediatric growth deficits in low- and middle-income countries; however, the contribution of enteric pathogens is only beginning to be understood. We analysed the stool from children <5 years old from an open cohort, cluster-randomised cont...
Md. Rokonuzzaman, MR Hassan, SM Majharul Islam, Sonia Sultana
The present study was undertaken to investigate productive and reproductive performances of crossbreds and Indigenous dairy cows. A total of 400 dairy cows each are equal number of Friesian x indigenous (FI), Sahiwal x indigenous (SaI), Sindhi x indigenous (SiI) and indigenous (I) were selected from...
Jade Benjamin‐Chung, Sonia Sultana, Amal Halder, Mohammed Ali Ahsan et al.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether the quality of implementation of a water, sanitation, and hygiene program called SHEWA-B and delivered by UNICEF to 20 million people in rural Bangladesh was associated with health behaviors and sanitation infrastructure access. METHODS: We surveyed 33 027 households ...
Liza de Groot, Masja Straetemans, Noriah Maraba, Lauren Jennings et al.
Worldwide, non-adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment is problematic. Digital adherence technologies (DATs) offer a person-centered approach to support and monitor treatment. We explored adherence over time while using DATs. We conducted a meta-analysis on anonymized longitudinal adherence data fo...
Nusrat Sultana, Joan Pere Pascual‐Díaz, Ahsen Gers, Kübra Ilga et al.
BACKGROUND:Vaccinium is one of the largest genera (ca. 500 species) of Ericaceae, well known for its edible and ornamental uses. Although there is certain karyological knowledge, information about genome size (GS) is scarce in the genus. OBJECTIVE:The main goal is providing GS data for several Vacc ...