Mustafizur Rahman, Rasheda Sultana, Giasuddin Ahmed, Sharifun Nahar et al.
Approximately 20,000 stool specimens from patients with diarrhea visiting 1 urban and 1 rural hospital in Bangladesh during January 2001-May 2006 were tested for group A rotavirus antigen, and 4,712 (24.0%) were positive. G and P genotyping was performed on a subset of 10% of the positive samples (n...
Zahid Hassan, Viswanathan Mohan, Liaquat Ali, Rebecca Allotey et al.
Fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes (FCPD) is a secondary cause of diabetes due to chronic pancreatitis. Since the N34S variant of the SPINK1 trypsin inhibitor gene has been found to partially account for genetic susceptibility to chronic pancreatitis, we used a family-based and case-control approach...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Mustafizur Rahman, Max Ciarlet, Mark Zeller et al.
G11 rotaviruses are believed to be of porcine origin. However, a limited number of G11 rotaviruses have been recently isolated from humans in combination with P[25], P[8], P[6], and P[4]. To investigate the evolutionary relationships of these strains, we analyzed the complete genomes of 2 human G11P...
Liaquat Ali, Abul Azed Khan, Zahid Hassan, M Mosihuzzaman et al.
The whole powder of Trigonella foenum graecum seeds and its extracts were tested for their hypoglycemic effect on normal and diabetic model rats. The powder, its methanol extract, and the residue remaining after methanol extraction had significant hypoglycemic effects when fed simultaneously with gl...
Anwar Zahid, Muhammad Qumrul Hassan, Klaus-Dieter Balke, Matthias Flegr et al.
Bishwajit Bhowmik, Tasnima Siddique, Anindita Majumder, Ibrahimu Mdala et al.
BACKGROUND: To assess the maternal characteristics and nutritional status according to body mass index (BMI) at 6-14 weeks of gestation and to examine the relationship between maternal nutritional status in early pregnancy and its impact on neonatal birth weight. METHODS: The investigation was condu...
Ashraful Islam Khan, Md. Mahbubur Rashid, Md Taufiqul Islam, Mokibul Hassan Afrad et al.
BACKGROUND: Despite advances in prevention, detection, and treatment, cholera remains a major public health problem in Bangladesh and little is known about cholera outside of limited historical sentinel surveillance sites. In Bangladesh, a comprehensive national cholera control plan is essential, al...
Anwar Zahid, Klaus-Dieter Balke, Muhammad Qumrul Hassan, Matthias Flegr
Avijit Mallik, Asif Bin Karim, Zahid Hassan, Masum Akanda
In food industry, cold storage is a must. The main objective of this kind of storage is to preserving the raw foods within for a certain period of time. But, for lack of technology and ignorance about humidity and temperature effect on raw foods; many times, food safety is not maintained well enough...
Abidur Rahman Khan, Nils Michelsen, Andres Marandi, Rabby Hossain et al.
The Hazaribagh industrial area in Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh, is considered one of the hotspots of chromium (Cr) pollution, due to excessive discharge of Cr contaminated waste over decades by approximately 150 tanneries. In 2000, elevated Cr concentrations were observed in the underlying ...
Britta Planer‐Friedrich, Cornelia Härtig, Heidi Lißner, Jörg Steinborn et al.
Rajesh Sharma, Hedayat Abbastabar, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Hassan Abidi et al.
Background: Cancers represent a challenging public health threat in Asia. This study examines the temporal patterns of incidence, mortality, disability and risk factors of 29 cancers in Asia in the last three decades. Methods: The age, sex and year-wise estimates of incidence, mortality, and disabil...
Rushdiá Ahmed, Bachera Aktar, Nadia Farnaz, Pushpita Ray et al.
BACKGROUND: Rohingya diaspora or Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMNs), took shelter in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh due to armed conflict in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. In such humanitarian crises, delivering sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services is critical for bet...
Suraiya Fatema, Andres Marandi, Anwar Zahid, Muhammad Qumrul Hassan et al.
Mokibul Hassan Afrad, Zahid Hassan, Farjana Saiada, Sayra Moni et al.
BACKGROUND: Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide including Bangladesh. Unlike what was seen in high-income countries, the licensed rotavirus vaccines did not show high efficacy in Bangladeshi trials. We assessed rotavirus prevalence and genotypes ...