Affiliation: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
- Coping strategies for financial burdens in families with childhood pneumonia in BangladeshNadia I Alamgir
James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
BMC Public Health 10:622. 2010..This study aimed to determine the out-of pocket expenditure and coping strategies adopted by families of children admitted in a hospital in Bangladesh with pneumonia...
- Burden of typhoid and paratyphoid fever in a densely populated urban community, Dhaka, BangladeshAliya Naheed
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Sharani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Int J Infect Dis 14:e93-9. 2010..We conducted blood culture surveillance to estimate the incidence of typhoid and paratyphoid fever among urban slum residents in Dhaka, Bangladesh...
- Multihospital surveillance of pneumonia burden among children aged <5 years hospitalized for pneumonia in BangladeshAliya Naheed
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Clin Infect Dis 48:S82-9. 2009..Pneumonia contributes substantially to childhood mortality in Bangladesh. We conducted a study to characterize the disease severity and risk factors for mortality among children hospitalized for pneumonia in Bangladesh...
- Fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 in northeastern BangladeshA Naheed
ICDDR, B Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Lancet Infect Dis 4:607-8. 2004
- Clinical value of Tubex and Typhidot rapid diagnostic tests for typhoid fever in an urban community clinic in BangladeshAliya Naheed
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 61:381-6. 2008..We conclude that the value of Tubex and Typhidot tests for typhoid fever diagnosis in a community clinic in urban Bangladesh is low...
- Surveillance for invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae disease among hospitalized children in Bangladesh: antimicrobial susceptibility and serotype distributionSamir K Saha
Department of Microbiology, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Clin Infect Dis 48:S75-81. 2009..Vaccines offer the prospect of primary disease prevention of pneumococcal disease in childhood. For introduction of such vaccines in developing countries, information about disease epidemiology is necessary...
- Identification of serotype in culture negative pneumococcal meningitis using sequential multiplex PCR: implication for surveillance and vaccine designSamir K Saha
Department of Microbiology, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Children Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PLoS ONE 3:e3576. 2008..Furthermore, PCR has not been used to determine serotype distribution in culture-negative meningitis cases...
- Invasive pneumococcal disease burden and implications for vaccine policy in urban BangladeshW Abdullah Brooks
ICDDR, B, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:795-801. 2007..9%, 82.4%, 14.7%, and 24.1%, respectively. Current conjugate vaccines should substantially reduce IPD, childhood pneumonia, and antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh...
- A low-cost approach to measure the burden of vaccine preventable diseases in urban areasStephen P Luby
International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Vaccine 28:4903-12. 2010..0 deaths per 100,000 children <5 years of age per year. This low-cost approach can provide data to support vaccine introduction and the health impact of newly introduced vaccines...
- Bacteremic typhoid fever in children in an urban slum, BangladeshW Abdullah Brooks
ICDDR, B Centre for Health and Population Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Emerg Infect Dis 11:326-9. 2005..The relative risk for preschool children compared with older persons was 8.9. Our regression model showed that these children were clinically ill, which suggests a role for preschool immunization...
- Causes of early childhood deaths in urban Dhaka, BangladeshAmal K Halder
Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Science, International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PLoS ONE 4:e8145. 2009..The child mortality in urban Dhaka was substantially lower than the national rate. Mortality rates were not affected by recall periods between 1 and 5 years...
- Use of multiple surveillance modalities to assess the epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in BangladeshStephen P Luby
International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Clin Infect Dis 48:S97-102. 2009..Together, these data provide a strong scientific case for the importance of pneumococcal disease prevention to child health in Bangladesh and, therefore, the potential benefit of an effective vaccine...
- Effect of weekly zinc supplements on incidence of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children younger than 2 years in an urban, low-income population in Bangladesh: randomised controlled trialW Abdullah Brooks
The Centre for Health and Population Research, International Centre for Diarrhoea Disease Research, Mohakhali Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Lancet 366:999-1004. 2005..We aimed to examine whether giving zinc weekly could prevent clinical pneumonia and diarrhoea in children younger than 2 years...
- Invasive pneumococcal disease among children in rural Bangladesh: results from a population-based surveillanceShams E Arifeen
International Centre for Diarhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Clin Infect Dis 48:S103-13. 2009..However, better estimates of the disease burden and reliable population-based data on serotype composition are needed for vaccine development and implementation in developing countries...
- Zinc therapy for diarrhoea improves growth among Bangladeshi infants 6 to 11 months of ageAliya Naheed
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Mohakhali, Bangladesh
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 48:89-93. 2009..We assessed the effect of zinc for the treatment of diarrhoea implemented at the community level on physical growth among children 6 to 35 months of age...
- Antimicrobial drug resistance of Salmonella enterica serovar typhi in asia and molecular mechanism of reduced susceptibility to the fluoroquinolonesTran Thuy Chau
Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, 190 Ben Ham Tu, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 51:4315-23. 2007..The 8-methoxy fluoroquinolone gatifloxacin showed rapid killing of serovar Typhi harboring both the single- and double-amino-acid substitutions...
- Evaluation of three rapid diagnostic tests for cholera: does the skill level of the technician matter?Pavani Kalluri
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Trop Med Int Health 11:49-55. 2006..To evaluate SMART, Medicos Dip Stick and an Institut Pasteur (IP) cholera dipstick tests for accuracy and ease of use...