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| Munirul AlamSummaryAffiliation: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Country: Bangladesh Publications
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Phenotypic and molecular characteristics of Escherichia coli isolated from aquatic environment of BangladeshMunirul Alam
Laboratory of Enteric Microbiology, Laboratory Sciences Division, International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Microbiol Immunol 50:359-70. 2006..Finally, it may be concluded that serotype-based pathotyping may be useful for E. coli strains of clinical origin; however, it is not precise enough for reliably identifying environmental strains as diarrheagenic...
Viable but nonculturable Vibrio cholerae O1 in biofilms in the aquatic environment and their role in cholera transmissionMunirul Alam
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:17801-6. 2007..cholerae cells freshly discharged into the environment are significantly less robust than cells adapted to environmental conditions...
Biofilms in water, its role and impact in human disease transmissionAnwar Huq
University of Maryland, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, 3132 Bioscience Research, Building 413, College Park, MD 20742, United States
Curr Opin Biotechnol 19:244-7. 2008..For this reason discovery and investigation of this important bacterial ecological niche in the environment were impeded...- Diagnostic limitations to accurate diagnosis of choleraMunirul Alam
Enteric and Food Microbiology Laboratory, Laboratory Sciences Division, International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
J Clin Microbiol 48:3918-22. 2010..cholerae by in vivo vibriolytic action of the phage and/or nonculturability induced as a host response... - Proteolytic activation of Vibrio mimicus (Vm) major outer membrane protein haemagglutinin (HA) with Vm-HA/protease: Implication for understanding bacterial adherenceMunirul Alam
Laboratory of Enteric Microbiology, International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Microbiol Immunol 50:845-50. 2006..mimicus strains. Proteolytic activation of OMPHA was also achieved with various proteases from bacterial and eukaryotic sources. These findings may indicate a novel coordination of V. mimicus HAs in the adherence of the bacterium... - Serogroup, virulence, and genetic traits of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the estuarine ecosystem of BangladeshMunirul Alam
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:6268-74. 2009..The demonstrated prevalence of tdh-positive and diarrheagenic serogroup O8:K21 strains in coastal villages of Bangladesh indicates a significant human health risk for inhabitants... - Vibrio cholerae classical biotype strains reveal distinct signatures in MexicoMunirul Alam
International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
J Clin Microbiol 50:2212-6. 2012.... - Cholera between 1991 and 1997 in Mexico was associated with infection by classical, El Tor, and El Tor variants of Vibrio choleraeMunirul Alam
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
J Clin Microbiol 48:3666-74. 2010..Finally, the CL biotype reservoir in Mexico is unprecedented and must have contributed to the changing epidemiology of global cholera in ways that need to be understood... - Seasonal cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae serogroups O1 and O139 in the coastal aquatic environment of BangladeshMunirul Alam
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:4096-104. 2006..cholerae O139 have been demonstrated. Based on the results of this study, the coastal ecosystem of the Bay of Bengal is concluded to be a significant reservoir for the epidemic serogroups of V. cholerae... - Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae in the aquatic environment of Mathbaria, BangladeshMunirul Alam
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:2849-55. 2006..The biofilm community is concluded to be an additional reservoir of cholera bacteria in the aquatic environment between seasonal epidemics of cholera in Bangladesh... - Genetic characteristics of Matlab variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 that are hybrids between classical and El Tor biotypesAshrafus Safa
Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric Microbiology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B, Centre for Health and Population Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
J Med Microbiol 55:1563-9. 2006..The genetic relatedness of Matlab variants to the V. cholerae strains recently isolated in Mozambique is another important observation of this study, which underscores the epidemiological significance of Matlab variants... - Genetic characteristics of drug-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 causing endemic cholera in Dhaka, 2006-2011Shah M Rashed
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
J Med Microbiol 61:1736-45. 2012..cholerae strains were clonal, as determined by a PFGE (NotI)-based dendrogram. This study shows 2008-2010 to be the time of transition from ctxB genotype 1 to genotype 7 in V. cholerae ET causing endemic cholera in Dhaka, Bangladesh... - Phenotypic, genotypic, and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of strains isolated from the cholera epidemic in ZimbabweMohammad S Islam
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 68 Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed, Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
J Clin Microbiol 49:2325-7. 2011..All of the strains were susceptible to tetracycline, doxycycline, ciprofloxacin, and azithromycin by disc diffusion, but susceptibility to tetracycline and azithromycin diminished when observed using the MIC method... - Changing genotypes of cholera toxin (CT) of Vibrio cholerae O139 in Bangladesh and description of three new CT genotypesNurul A Bhuiyan
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 57:136-41. 2009..This change and the impact that it causes to the epidemiology of cholera caused by O139 should be closely monitored... - Antibacterial activity of Psidium guajava leaf and bark against multidrug-resistant Vibrio cholerae: implication for cholera controlNiaz Rahim
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Jpn J Infect Dis 63:271-4. 2010..extract/vol. ORS). P. guajava, which is widely distributed in Bangladesh, thus offers great potential for use in indigenous, herbal medicine for controlling epidemics of cholera... - Role of Shrimp Chitin in the Ecology of Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae and Cholera TransmissionShamsun Nahar
Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric and food Microbiology, International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research Dhaka, Bangladesh
Front Microbiol 2:260. 2011..It is concluded that the abundance of chitin that occurs during blooms plays an important role in the aquatic life cycle of V. cholerae and, ultimately, in the seasonal transmission of cholera... - Effect of transport at ambient temperature on detection and isolation of Vibrio cholerae from environmental samplesMunirul Alam
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:2185-90. 2006..cholerae from freshwater ecosystems can be achieved by holding samples at the ambient temperature, an observation that has significant implications for tracking this pathogen in diverse aquatic environments... - Genomic relatedness of the new Matlab variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 to the classical and El Tor biotypes as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresisAshrafus Safa
Laboratory Sciences Division, ICDDR.B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
J Clin Microbiol 43:1401-4. 2005..Strains that clustered with the classical biotype appear to have been derived from the classical strains, which are thought to be extinct... - Occurrence and expression of luminescence in Vibrio choleraeChristopher J Grim
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 74:708-15. 2008..Luminescence expression patterns of V. cholerae were also investigated, and isolates could be grouped based on expression level. Several strains with defective expression of the lux operon, including natural K variants, were identified... - Application of duplex-PCR in rapid and reliable detection of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae in water samples in ThailandChariya Chomvarin
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
J Gen Appl Microbiol 53:229-37. 2007..cholerae in the water sample was detected in duplex PCR. Pre-PCR filtration followed by enrichment for 3 h significantly increase in the efficiency of duplex-PCR detection of toxigenic V. cholerae... - Seasonal cholera from multiple small outbreaks, rural BangladeshO Colin Stine
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:831-3. 2008..The observed minimal overlap in VNTR patterns between the 2 communities was consistent with sequential, small outbreaks from local sources...