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| Emily S GurleySummaryAffiliation: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Country: Bangladesh Publications
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Family and community concerns about post-mortem needle biopsies in a Muslim societyEmily S Gurley
GPO 128, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
BMC Med Ethics 12:10. 2011..The goal of this study was to better understand family and community concerns and decision-making about post-mortem needle biopsies in this low-income, predominantly Muslim country in order to design an informed consent process...- Etiologies of bacterial meningitis in Bangladesh: results from a hospital-based studyEmily S Gurley
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:475-83. 2009..Case-fatality ratios were 10% for N. meningitidis, 22% for S. pneumoniae, and 24% for Hib. Bacterial meningitis from vaccine-preventable pathogens causes significant morbidity and mortality in Bangladesh in adults and children... - Risk of nosocomial transmission of Nipah virus in a Bangladesh hospitalEmily S Gurley
Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, Centre for Health and Population Research, ICDDR B, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:740-2. 2007..No evidence of recent Nipah virus infection was detected despite substantial exposures and minimal use of personal protective equipment... - Person-to-person transmission of Nipah virus in a Bangladeshi communityEmily S Gurley
Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, ICDDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1031-7. 2007..Capacity for person-to-person transmission increases the potential for wider spread of this highly lethal pathogen and highlights the need for infection control strategies for resource-poor settings... - Rates of hospital-acquired respiratory illness in Bangladeshi tertiary care hospitals: results from a low-cost pilot surveillance strategyEmily S Gurley
International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B
Clin Infect Dis 50:1084-90. 2010..Patients hospitalized in resource-poor health care settings are at increased risk for hospital-acquired respiratory infections due to inadequate infrastructure... - Fatal outbreak from consuming Xanthium strumarium seedlings during time of food scarcity in northeastern BangladeshEmily S Gurley
Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PLoS ONE 5:e9756. 2010..An outbreak characterized by vomiting and rapid progression to unconsciousness and death was reported in Sylhet Distrct in northeastern Bangladesh following destructive monsoon floods in November 2007... - Use of infrared camera to understand bats' access to date palm sap: implications for preventing Nipah virus transmissionM Salah Uddin Khan
PIDVS, HSID, ICDDR, B, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, Mohakhali, 1212 Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ecohealth 7:517-25. 2010..Efforts that prevent bat access to the shaved surface and the sap stream of the tree could reduce Nipah spillovers to the human population... - 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... - Date palm sap collection: exploring opportunities to prevent Nipah transmissionNazmun Nahar
Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences PIDVS, Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division HSID, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Ecohealth 7:196-203. 2010..Further studies to explore the effectiveness of these methods and to motivate gachhis to invest their time and money to use them could reduce the risk of human Nipah infection in Bangladesh... - Social ecological analysis of an outbreak of pufferfish egg poisoning in a coastal area of BangladeshM Saiful Islam
International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 85:498-503. 2011.... - Recurrent zoonotic transmission of Nipah virus into humans, Bangladesh, 2001-2007Stephen P Luby
International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Emerg Infect Dis 15:1229-35. 2009..Interventions to prevent virus transmission from bats to humans and from person to person are needed... - Date palm sap linked to Nipah virus outbreak in Bangladesh, 2008Muhammad Aziz Rahman
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 12:65-72. 2012..We investigated a cluster of patients with encephalitis in the Manikgonj and Rajbari Districts of Bangladesh in February 2008 to determine the etiology and risk factors for disease... - Transmission of human infection with Nipah virusStephen P Luby
International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Clin Infect Dis 49:1743-8. 2009..Efforts to prevent transmission should focus on decreasing bat access to date palm sap and reducing family members' and friends' exposure to infected patients' saliva... - Influenza in outpatient ILI case-patients in national hospital-based surveillance, Bangladesh, 2007-2008Rashid Uz Zaman
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PLoS ONE 4:e8452. 2009..To explore the epidemiology and seasonality of influenza throughout the country and among all age groups, we established nationally representative hospital-based surveillance necessary to guide influenza prevention and control efforts... - Clinical presentation of nipah virus infection in BangladeshM Jahangir Hossain
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Clin Infect Dis 46:977-84. 2008..In Bangladesh, 4 outbreaks of Nipah virus infection were identified during the period 2001-2004... - Cluster of Nipah virus infection, Kushtia District, Bangladesh, 2007Nusrat Homaira
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PLoS ONE 5:e13570. 2010..In March 2007, we investigated a cluster of Nipah encephalitis to identify risk factors for Nipah infection in Bangladesh... - Multiple outbreaks of puffer fish intoxication in Bangladesh, 2008Nusrat Homaira
International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 83:440-4. 2010..Lack of knowledge about marine puffer toxicity contributed to the outbreaks. Health communication campaigns will enhance people's knowledge and may prevent future outbreaks... - Hospital-based surveillance for Japanese encephalitis at four sites in Bangladesh, 2003-2005M Jahangir Hossain
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 82:344-9. 2010..Infection with JEV is clearly an etiology of encephalitis in Bangladesh. Population-based studies to quantify burden of disease could assess options for targeted immunization programs... - Hospital-based prevalence of malaria and dengue in febrile patients in BangladeshLabib I Faruque
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 86:58-64. 2012..Dengue infection is widespread across Bangladesh, but malaria is sufficiently uncommon that it should not be assumed as the cause of fever without laboratory confirmation... - Incidence of influenza-like illness and severe acute respiratory infection during three influenza seasons in Bangladesh, 2008-2010Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 68, Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed, Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Bull World Health Organ 90:12-9. 2012..To determine how much influenza contributes to severe acute respiratory illness (SARI), a leading cause of death in children, among people of all ages in Bangladesh... - Bangladeshi backyard poultry raisers' perceptions and practices related to zoonotic transmission of avian influenzaRebeca Sultana
Center for Communicable Diseases, ICCDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh
J Infect Dev Ctries 6:156-65. 2012..This paper explores the perception of Bangladeshi backyard poultry raisers regarding poultry sickness and zoonotic disease transmission and relevant practices... - Incidence of respiratory virus-associated pneumonia in urban poor young children of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009-2011Nusrat Homaira
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PLoS ONE 7:e32056. 2012..Pneumonia is the leading cause of childhood death in Bangladesh. We conducted a longitudinal study to estimate the incidence of virus-associated pneumonia in children aged <2 years in a low-income urban community in Dhaka, Bangladesh... - A novel low-cost approach to estimate the incidence of Japanese encephalitis in the catchment area of three hospitals in BangladeshRepon C Paul
International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Government of the People s Republic of Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 85:379-85. 2011..8-4.9), 1.4 in Khulna (95% CI = 0.9-4.1), and 0.6 in Chittagong (95% CI = 0.4-0.9). Bangladesh should consider a pilot project to introduce JE vaccine in high-incidence areas... - 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... - Understanding community perceptions, social norms and current practice related to respiratory infection in Bangladesh during 2009: a qualitative formative studyFosiul A Nizame
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh
BMC Public Health 11:901. 2011..abstract:.. - Long-term neurological and functional outcome in Nipah virus infectionJames J Sejvar
Divisions of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases and Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA 30333, USA
Ann Neurol 62:235-42. 2007..Long-term neurological assessments of survivors are limited. We assessed long-term neurologic and functional outcomes of 22 patients surviving NiV illness in Bangladesh... - Genetic characterization of Nipah virus, Bangladesh, 2004Brian H Harcourt
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1594-7. 2005..We describe the genetic characterization of a new strain of NV isolated during outbreaks in Bangladesh (NV-B) in 2004, which confirms that NV was the etiologic agent responsible for these outbreaks...