Md. Imam Hossain, Nur E. Alam, Sumaiya Akter, Umme Suriea et al.
BACKGROUND: Dengue, the mosquito borne disease has become a growing public health threat in Bangladesh due to its gradual increasing morbidity and mortality since 2000. In 2019, the country witnessed the worst ever dengue outbreak. The present study was conducted to characterize the socio-economic f...
Md. Ismail Hosen, Arif Mohammad Tanmoy, Deena-Al Mahbuba, Umme Salma et al.
Extensive dead ends or host toxicity of the conventional approaches of drug development can be avoided by applying the in silico subtractive genomics approach in the designing of potential drug target against bacterial diseases. This study utilizes the advanced in silico genome subtraction methodolo...
Kristy Hackett, Umme Salma Mukta, Chowdhury Jalal, Daniel Sellen
Improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices have the potential to improve child health and development outcomes in poorly resourced communities. In Bangladesh, approximately 60% of rural girls become mothers before the age of 18, but most interventions to improve IYCF practices target o...
Farhana Khanam, Alaullah Sheikh, Md. Abu Sayeed, Md Saruar Bhuiyan et al.
BACKGROUND: Rapid and reliable diagnostic assays for enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever are urgently needed. We report the characterization of novel approach utilizing lymphocyte secretions, for diagnosing patients with enteric fever by the TPTest procedure. METHODOLOGY: TPTest detects Salmonel...
S. M. Shamim, Umme Salma Dina, Nahid Arafin, Sumia Sultana
Kristy Hackett, Umme Salma Mukta, Chowdhury Jalal, Daniel Sellen
BACKGROUND: Infant feeding and caregiving by adolescent girls and young women in rural Bangladesh remains relatively understudied despite high potential vulnerability of younger mothers and their children due to poverty and high rates of early marriage and childbearing. This key knowledge gap may ha...
Umme Salma Zohora, Takashi Ano, Mohammad Shahedur Rahman
Bacillus subtilis RB14 was used as an antagonist against fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani K1 to control damping-off diseases in tomato plants. Tomato seeds were treated with B. subtilis RB14 culture. The concentration of bacterial cells for the treatment was about 108 cfu/ml. Treated tomato seeds ...
Amit Saha, Arifuzzaman Khan, Umme Salma, Nusrat Jahan et al.
Background The oral cholera vaccine (OCV), Shanchol™ has shown protective efficacy lasting up to 5 years, however, requirement for a cold chain limits its use in resource poor settings. The study was conducted to determine the safety and immunogenicity of Shanchol in adult participants in Bangladesh...
Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan, Sk Masum Billah, Ishtiaq Mannan, Imteaz Ibne Mannan et al.
In Bangladesh, female paramedics known as Family Welfare Visitors (FWVs), conduct normal deliveries in first-level primary care facilities, or Union Health and Family Welfare Centres (UH&FWC). Utilization of partographs allow for early identification of abnormal labour and referral for advanced care...
Umme Salma Nisha, Md. Sirajul Islam Khan, Mohammad Dalower Hossain Prodhan, Islam Md Meftaul et al.
Human health risks as a result of consuming pesticide residues in fresh vegetables have drawn serious attention to the scientific community, particularly in developing countries. This study analyzed country bean (Lablab purpureus L.) and eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) for widely used neonicotinoid,...
Bishajit Sarkar, Md. Asad Ullah, Yusha Araf, Nafisa Nawal Islam et al.
OBJECTIVES: The group of human coronaviruses (HCoVs) consists of some highly pathogenic viruses that have caused several outbreaks in the past. The newly emerged strain of HCoV, the SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for the recent global pandemic that has already caused the death of hundreds of thousands of...
Umme Habiba, Salma Chowdhury
This paper presents and analyses the status of electronic resources facilities and services provided by the Dhaka University Library (DUL). It also discusses the purpose of using e-resources, benefits, subject coverage status, overall user satisfactions, problems that are faced by DUL users while ac...
Mehjabeen Hossain, Dil Umme Salma Chowdhury, Jacy Farhana, Mohammed Touaha Akbar et al.
Staphylococcus aureus is a gram positive bacterium, responsible for both community-acquired and hospital-acquired infection, resulting in a mortality rate of 39%. 43.2% resistance to methicilin and emerging resistance to Fluroquinolone and Oxazolidinone, have evoked the necessity of the establishmen...
Mohammad Ali, Tasnuva Shamarukh Proma, Zarin Tasnim, Md. Ariful Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Little is known about parental coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). This survey estimated the prevalence and predictive factors of vaccine hesitancy among parents of children with NDD. METHODS: A nationally representat...
Umme Salma, Nazmus Shalahin
An important component of anion-exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs) is an anion exchange membrane (AEM). AEMFCs have substantial potential to use nonprecious electrocatalysts at high pH and recently attracted much attention. Sufficient long-term stability in highly alkaline conditions and at eleva...