Debasish Saha, Regina C. LaRocque, Ashraful Islam Khan, Jason B. Harris et al.
The serum vibriocidal antibody is the only recognized predictor of protection from cholera, but no seroepidemiological data have been gathered since the emergence of Vibrio cholerae O139. We assessed the association between the vibriocidal antibody titer and protection from cholera in an endemic set...
Firdausi Qadri, Edward T. Ryan, Abu S. G. Faruque, Firoz Ahmed et al.
Gut-derived lymphocytes transiently migrate through the peripheral circulation before homing back to mucosal sites and can be detected using an ELISPOT-based antibody secreting cell (ASC) assay. Alternatively, transiently circulating lymphocytes may be cultured in vitro, and culture supernatants may...
Amal K. Mitra, Syed M. Akramuzzaman, George J. Fuchs, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman et al.
The effect of long-term oral iron supplementation on morbidity due to diarrhea, dysentery and respiratory infections in 349 children, aged 2-48 mo, living in a poor community of Bangladesh, was evaluated in this double-blind study. The treatment group received 125 mg of ferrous gluconate (15 mg elem...
Jens‐Jörg Schnorr, Felicity T. Cutts, Jeremy G. Wheeler, Syed M. Akramuzzaman et al.
Measles still causes high mortality in children younger than 1 year of age. Administration of high titre measles vaccines before 7 months of age led to increased overall mortality, raising questions as to the immunological effects of measles vaccine in young infants. We investigated the immune respo...
Syed M. Akramuzzaman, Felicity T. Cutts, Jobayer Hossain, Obaidullah K Wahedi et al.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate vaccine effectiveness and to assess risk factors for measles in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHOD: A case-control study, involving 198 cases with 783 age-matched neighbourhood controls and 120 measles cases with 365 age-matched hospital controls, was conducted in 1995-96 in three larg...
MM Rahman, Syed M. Akramuzzaman, Amal K. Mitra, George J. Fuchs et al.
To evaluate the effect of long-term oral iron supplementation on growth, 250 children aged 6-71 mo were studied in a randomized double-blind controlled trial. The intervention group received 125 mg of ferrous gluconate (15 mg elemental iron) plus multivitamins (vitamins A, D and C); the comparison g...
M. Mahmud Khan, Suhaila H Khan, Damian Walker, Julia Fox‐Rushby et al.
This facility-based study estimated the costs of providing child immunization services in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from the perspective of healthcare providers. About a quarter of all immunization (EPI) delivery sites in Dhaka city were surveyed during 1999. The EPI services in urban Dhaka are delivered t...
David Walker, Saadia Khan, Syed M. Akramuzzaman, M. Mahmud Khan et al.
Khorshed Alam, Syed Mohammod Hossain, Kamrun Naher, Mohammad Amirul Islam et al.
Abstract In this study, a systematic analysis of fresh and sea water fishes, poultry and their feeds and sediments was conducted using research reactor based neutron activation analysis (NAA) technique with the aim to determine elemental status with special emphasis on arsenic and chromium contamina...
Syed M. Akramuzzaman, Felicity T. Cutts, Jobayer Hossain, Obaidullah K Wahedi et al.