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Recycling of injection equipment in PakistanSyed Abdul Mujeeb
Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center, Karachi, Pakistan
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 24:145-6. 2003
Quality of drinking waterStephen P Luby
BMJ 334:755-6. 2007
Influenza is a major contributor to childhood pneumonia in a tropical developing countryW Abdullah Brooks
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Pediatr Infect Dis J 29:216-21. 2010..The role of influenza in childhood pneumonia in tropical developing countries is poorly understood. We undertook population-based surveillance among low-income urban preschool children to determine its role in childhood pneumonia...- Using child health outcomes to identify effective measures of handwashingStephen P Luby
Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, ICDDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 85:882-92. 2011..These rapid handwashing indicators should be considered for inclusion in handwashing assessments... - 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, Dhaka, Bangladesh
BMC Public Health 11:901. 2011..Respiratory infections are the leading cause of childhood deaths in Bangladesh. Promoting respiratory hygiene may reduce infection transmission. This formative research explored community perceptions about respiratory infections... - Sampling strategies to measure the prevalence of common recurrent infections in longitudinal studiesWolf Peter Schmidt
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Emerg Themes Epidemiol 7:5. 2010..In contrast to incidence which usually requires continuous sampling, LP can be measured at intervals. This study explored how many more participants are needed for infrequent sampling to achieve the same study power as frequent sampling... - 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... - Observed hand cleanliness and other measures of handwashing behavior in rural BangladeshAmal K Halder
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
BMC Public Health 10:545. 2010..We analyzed data from the baseline assessment of a large intervention project to describe typical handwashing practices in rural Bangladesh, and compare measures of hand cleanliness with household characteristics... - 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... - 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... - Foodborne transmission of Nipah virus, BangladeshStephen P Luby
International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Emerg Infect Dis 12:1888-94. 2006..This investigation suggests that Nipah virus was transmitted from P. giganteus to persons through drinking fresh date palm sap... - Household characteristics associated with handwashing with soap in rural BangladeshStephen P Luby
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:882-7. 2009..3, 3.4) were associated with washing both hands with soap after fecal contact. Interventions that improve the presence of water and soap at the designated place to wash hands would be expected to improve handwashing behavior and health... - Difficulties in maintaining improved handwashing behavior, Karachi, PakistanStephen P Luby
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Am J Trop Med Hyg 81:140-5. 2009..59% versus 1.88%, P = 0.66) as controls. Although intervention households showed better handwashing technique after 2 years without intervention, their soap purchases and diarrhea experience was not significantly different from controls... - Long-term improvement in unsafe injection practices following community interventionStephen Luby
Community Health Sciences Department, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Int J Infect Dis 9:52-9. 2005..A study in 1994 identified frequent unsafe injections as the cause of widespread hepatitis C virus infection in Hafizabad, Pakistan. A simple low cost community education program was assessed to see if it improved injection safety... - 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 handwashing on child health: a randomised controlled trialStephen P Luby
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Centers for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Lancet 366:225-33. 2005..We undertook a randomised controlled trial to assess the effect of handwashing promotion with soap on the incidence of acute respiratory infection, impetigo, and diarrhoea... - Tubewell water quality and predictors of contamination in three flood-prone areas in BangladeshS P Luby
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
J Appl Microbiol 105:1002-8. 2008..To measure enteric bacterial contamination of tubewells in three flood prone areas in Bangladesh and the relationship of bacteriological contamination with tubewell sanitary inspection scores... - Associations among handwashing indicators, wealth, and symptoms of childhood respiratory illness in urban BangladeshStephen P Luby
International Centre of Diarrheal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Trop Med Int Health 13:835-44. 2008..To explore the relationship of easy to collect handwashing indicators with socioeconomic status and reported respiratory disease among children <5 years of age... - Chlorine spot treatment of flooded tube wells, an efficacy trialS Luby
Programme on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, ICDDR, B Centre for Health and Population Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
J Appl Microbiol 100:1154-8. 2006..To evaluate the water quality of recently flooded tube wells in Bangladesh and the effect of spot chlorination on improving bacteriological quality... - Field trial of a low cost method to evaluate hand cleanlinessStephen P Luby
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Centers for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Trop Med Int Health 12:765-71. 2007..To evaluate a simple low cost method for measuring hand contamination as an objective assessment of handwashing practices... - 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... - Infectious diseases and vaccine sciences: strategic directionsStephen P Luby
ICDDR, B, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
J Health Popul Nutr 26:295-310. 2008..Although services for directly-observed therapy have expanded markedly, improved case finding and involvement of private practitioners will be important to reduce the burden of disease... - Combining drinking water treatment and hand washing for diarrhoea prevention, a cluster randomised controlled trialStephen P Luby
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Centers for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Trop Med Int Health 11:479-89. 2006..To evaluate the effectiveness of point of use water treatment with flocculent-disinfectant on reducing diarrhoea and the additional benefit of promoting hand washing with soap... - The effect of handwashing at recommended times with water alone and with soap on child diarrhea in rural Bangladesh: an observational studyStephen P Luby
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PLoS Med 8:e1001052. 2011..We analyzed data from households that received no intervention in a large prospective project evaluation to assess the relationship between observed handwashing behavior and subsequent diarrhea... - The variability of childhood diarrhea in Karachi, Pakistan, 2002-2006Stephen P Luby
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 84:870-7. 2011..Cross-sectional surveys are unreliable measures of diarrhea prevalence... - 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... - Usefulness of the hydrogen sulfide test for assessment of water quality in BangladeshS K Gupta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Appl Microbiol 104:388-95. 2008..To evaluate the usefulness of the hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) test for assessing water quality in Bangladesh... - Surveillance of rotavirus in a rural diarrhoea treatment centre in Bangladesh, 2000-2006K Zaman
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Vaccine 27:F31-4. 2009..Rotavirus is an important cause of childhood diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh and this burden may be reduced with a rotavirus vaccination programme... - Restaurant-associated outbreak of Salmonella typhi in Nauru: an epidemiological and cost analysisS J Olsen
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Epidemiol Infect 127:405-12. 2001..0/1000 persons. Outbreak-associated costs were $46,000. Routine or emergency immunization campaigns targeting school-aged children may help prevent or control outbreaks of typhoid fever in endemic disease areas... - Is drinking water in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, safe for infant formula?E F Dunne
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 28:393-8. 2001..To survey knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding water use and infant feeding in the Koumassi District of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and to evaluate the microbiologic quality of source and stored drinking water... - Faecal contamination of drinking water sources of Dhaka city during the 2004 flood in Bangladesh and use of disinfectants for water treatmentM Sirajul Islam
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
J Appl Microbiol 103:80-7. 2007..To describe the extent of faecal pollution and point of use water treatment strategy during and after the 2004 flood in Dhaka... - Survey of surgical emergencies in a rural population in the Northern Areas of PakistanM Ahmed
Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Trop Med Int Health 4:846-57. 1999..To determine the incidence of specific surgical emergencies in a mountainous rural community in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and to assess use of existing health services, and outcomes related to acute surgical illness events... - A low-cost intervention for cleaner drinking water in Karachi, PakistanS Luby
Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Int J Infect Dis 5:144-50. 2001..To pilot test an inexpensive, home-based water decontamination and storage system in a low-income neighborhood of Karachi... - Hypertension and its determinants among adults in high mountain villages of the Northern Areas of PakistanS M Shah
Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
J Hum Hypertens 15:107-12. 2001..90, 95% CI 1.49, 2). Hypertension is a significant health problem in rural northern Pakistan. The primary health care programme in the Northern Areas of Pakistan needs to address this problem, especially identifying people at risk... - Outbreaks of typhoid fever in the United States, 1960-99S J Olsen
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Epidemiol Infect 130:13-21. 2003..85/year during 1960-79 to 0.85/year during 1980-99 (P=0.0001). S. Typhi outbreaks in the United States are generally small in size but can cause significant morbidity, and are often foodborne, warranting thorough investigation... - Does use of a government service depend on distance from the health facility?R NoorAli
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Health Policy Plan 14:191-7. 1999..Further studies are needed to examine the management of health facilities and the clients' perception of health-care providers... - 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... - Human metapneumovirus infection among children, BangladeshW Abdullah Brooks
ICDDR, B Division of Health Systems and Infectious Diseases, GPO Box 128 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1611-3. 2007..HMPV was the most common single virus identified among febrile children and appears to contribute to the high rates of illness in this population... - 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... - Detection of antibodies secreted from circulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific plasma cells in the diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosisRubhana Raqib
International Centre for Diarrheal Disease and Research, Bangladesh
Clin Vaccine Immunol 16:521-7. 2009..001). The ALS assay is a novel diagnostic method with potential applications in the diagnosis of pediatric TB and in subsequent monitoring of treatment effectiveness... - 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... - Successful co-administration of a human rotavirus and oral poliovirus vaccines in Bangladeshi infants in a 2-dose schedule at 12 and 16 weeks of ageK Zaman
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh ICDDR, B, GPO Box 128, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Vaccine 27:1333-9. 2009..No statistically significant differences were observed between groups for polio seroprotection rates. RIX4414 vaccine was immunogenic when co-administered with OPV and did not interfere with OPV seroprotection rates... - Changing species distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of Shigella over a 29-year period (1980-2008)F Khatun
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Epidemiol Infect 139:446-52. 2011..Although hospitalization for Shigella diarrhoea is decreasing, the high levels of antimicrobial resistance and increased susceptibility of malnourished children continue to pose an ongoing risk... - Vulnerability to homicide in Karachi: political activity as a risk factorA Mian
Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Int J Epidemiol 31:581-5. 2002..001) than controls. CONCLUSIONS: Homicide in Orangi was political. Efforts to improve trust between ethnic groups and to build legitimacy for non-violent forms of conflict resolution are important steps to limit future violence... - Prevalence of infection with waterborne pathogens: a seroepidemiologic study in children 6-36 months old in San Juan Sacatepequez, GuatemalaEllen B Steinberg
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 70:83-8. 2004..Such an approach may provide a suitable, sensitive, and economical alternative to the cumbersome stool collection methods that have previously been used for evaluation of water and sanitation projects... - Management trend and safety of vaginal delivery for term breech fetuses in a tertiary care hospital of Karachi, PakistanN B Mohammed
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
J Perinat Med 29:250-9. 2001..To investigate the safety of vaginal delivery for term breech fetuses in a tertiary-care hospital of Pakistan... - Evaluation of blood bank practices in Karachi, Pakistan, and the government's responseS Luby
Community Health Sciences Department, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Health Policy Plan 15:217-22. 2000..To support provincial-level efforts to develop legislation we conducted a study to evaluate blood-banking practices in Karachi, Pakistan, to identify areas that could be improved... - The effect of antibacterial soap on impetigo incidence, Karachi, PakistanStephen Luby
National Center of Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 67:430-5. 2002..02). The routine use of triclocarban-containing soap by children living in a community with a high incidence of impetigo was associated with a reduced incidence of impetigo... - Prevalence and correlates of stunting among children in rural PakistanSyed M Shah
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Pediatr Int 45:49-53. 2003..The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of stunting and its correlates and to explore the role of sex bias in remote rural villages of south Pakistan... - Improving private practitioner sick-child case management in two urban communities in PakistanStephen Luby
Community Health Sciences Department, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Trop Med Int Health 7:210-9. 2002..To evaluate if INFECTOM, a multicomponent behaviour change strategy, would alter the care received by children visiting private healthcare providers so that it was more consistent with the IMCI algorithm... - Rabies deaths in Pakistan: results of ineffective post-exposure treatmentShehzad Parviz
Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Int J Infect Dis 8:346-52. 2004..To estimate the incidence of rabies and the effectiveness of post-exposure treatment (PET) in Pakistan... - Distribution and circumstances of injuries in squatter settlements of Karachi, PakistanNarjis Rizvi
Community Health Sciences Department, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Sind, Pakistan
Accid Anal Prev 38:526-31. 2006..This research was conducted to study incidence, distribution, type, causes, severity and circumstances of injuries among people living in squatter settlements in Karachi, Pakistan... - Elevated blood lead levels among children living in a fishing community, Karachi, PakistanSiroos Hozhabri
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Arch Environ Health 59:37-41. 2004..30 microg/g in house dust. These findings indicate possible major health concerns and suggest significant environmental contamination in this community as well as the need to identify locally relevant early childhood exposures... - Toxoplasma gondii infection in rural Guatemalan childrenJeffrey L Jones
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3724, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 72:295-300. 2005..Therefore, it is important to educate girls entering child-bearing age about the risks of acute T. gondii infection and the local risk factors for infection... - Factors associated with elevated blood lead concentrations in children in Karachi, PakistanMohammad Hossein Rahbar
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Bull World Health Organ 80:769-75. 2002..To confirm whether blood lead concentrations in Karachi were as high as reported in 1989 and to identify which types of exposure to lead contribute most to elevated blood lead concentrations in children in Karachi... - Infection control practices in clinical laboratories in PakistanSyed Abdul Mujeeb
Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center, Karachi, Pakistan
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 24:141-2. 2003..Among 44 laboratories, gloves were used in 2, protective gowns in 12, disinfectant in 7, and an incinerator in 7. Standard worker safety precautions are not followed at major clinical laboratories in Karachi... - A novel technology to improve drinking water quality: a microbiological evaluation of in-home flocculation and chlorination in rural GuatemalaJosefa M Rangel
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Mailstop A38, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Water Health 1:15-22. 2003..0001). The combined product technology improved water potability as effectively as chlorine bleach; improved water clarity could motivate more persons to effectively treat their water... - Background demographics and risk behaviors of injecting drug users in Karachi, PakistanShehzad Parviz
Community Health Sciences Department, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Int J Infect Dis 10:364-71. 2006..To find the prevalence of HIV infection and risk behaviors among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Karachi, Pakistan... - A cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of a handwashing-promotion program in Chinese primary schoolsAnna Bowen
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:1166-73. 2007..2 days (P = 0.03) of absence per 100 student-weeks. Provision of a large-scale handwashing promotion program and soap was associated with significantly reduced absenteeism. Similar programs could improve the health of children worldwide... - Reducing diarrhoea in Guatemalan children: randomized controlled trial of flocculant-disinfectant for drinking-waterTom M Chiller
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Bull World Health Organ 84:28-35. 2006..To examine the effect of a new point-of-use treatment for drinking-water, a commercially developed flocculant-disinfectant, on the prevalence of diarrhoea in children... - Effect of intensive handwashing promotion on childhood diarrhea in high-risk communities in Pakistan: a randomized controlled trialStephen P Luby
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
JAMA 291:2547-54. 2004..Previous studies lacked sufficient power to assess the impact of household handwashing on diarrhea in infants... - 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... - A randomized controlled trial of household-based flocculant-disinfectant drinking water treatment for diarrhea prevention in rural GuatemalaMegan E Reller
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 69:411-9. 2003..In a setting where diarrhea was a leading cause of death, intermittent use of home water treatment with flocculant-disinfectant decreased the incidence of diarrhea... - Comparing serologic response against enteric pathogens with reported diarrhea to assess the impact of improved household drinking water qualityJohn A Crump
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:136-41. 2007..Larger intervention studies that yield a more marked effect on diarrheal disease, use additional and improved serologic assays, and that collect serum samples at more frequent intervals are needed... - Estimating the incidence of typhoid fever and other febrile illnesses in developing countriesJohn A Crump
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop A38, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:539-44. 2003..This surveillance tool could have wide applications for surveillance for febrile illness in developing countries... - Epidemiology and risk factors for endemic typhoid fever in UzbekistanPadmini Srikantiah
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Trop Med Int Health 12:838-47. 2007..To investigate the risk factors for infection with endemic typhoid fever in the Samarkand region of Uzbekistan... - Diarrheal epidemics in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during three consecutive floods: 1988, 1998, and 2004Brian S Schwartz
Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:1067-73. 2006..Our findings suggest that cholera is the predominant cause of flood-associated diarrheal epidemics in Dhaka, but that other organisms spread by the fecal-oral route also contribute... - Prevalence of hepatitis B among Afghan refugees living in Balochistan, PakistanArshad Quddus
WHO, Polio Eradication Initiative, Kandahar, Afghanistan
Int J Infect Dis 10:242-7. 2006..This study was conducted to estimate seroprevalence of hepatitis B and to identify potential risk factors for hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission among the refugees living in the camps of Balochistan Province, Pakistan... - 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... - 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... - 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... - The chulli water purifier: acceptability and effectiveness of an innovative strategy for household water treatment in BangladeshSundeep K Gupta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 78:979-84. 2008..These issues, which are relevant for other household water treatment strategies, should be resolved before further implementation... - Difficulties in bringing point-of-use water treatment to scale in rural GuatemalaStephen P Luby
Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, Division of Foodborne Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vectorborne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 78:382-7. 2008..Even after efficacy was demonstrated within their community and an aggressive sophisticated marketing approach, few households purchased flocculant-disinfectant for point-of-use water treatment... - Household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant for preventing diarrhoea in areas with turbid source water in rural western Kenya: cluster randomised controlled trialJohn A Crump
Foodborne and Diarrhoeal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS A 38, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
BMJ 331:478. 2005..To compare the effect on prevalence of diarrhoea and mortality of household based treatment of drinking water with flocculant-disinfectant, sodium hypochlorite, and standard practices in areas with turbid water source in Africa... - Population-based surveillance of typhoid fever in EgyptPadmini Srikantiah
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:114-9. 2006..The majority of patients are evaluated at the primary care level and would not have been detected by hospital-based surveillance... - Delayed effectiveness of home-based interventions in reducing childhood diarrhea, Karachi, PakistanStephen P Luby
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Centers for Infectious Diseases, Mailstop A 38, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 71:420-7. 2004..Both of these home-based interventions were ultimately effective in preventing diarrhea, but only households of slightly higher socioeconomic status changed their behavior quickly enough to benefit during the first summer... - Brucellosis as a cause of acute febrile illness in EgyptGregory J Jennings
US Naval Medical Research Unit 3 NAMRU 3, Cairo, Egypt
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 101:707-13. 2007..The high incidence of brucellosis in Fayoum highlights its public health importance, and the need to implement prevention strategies in humans and animals... - Emergence of multidrug-resistant strain of Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh and reversal of their susceptibility to tetracycline after two yearsAbu S G Faruque
J Health Popul Nutr 25:241-3. 2007 - Estimating the longitudinal prevalence of diarrhea and other episodic diseases: continuous versus intermittent surveillanceWolf Peter Schmidt
Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Epidemiology 18:537-43. 2007..The aim of this analysis was to compare estimates of longitudinal prevalence based on intermittent sampling at regular intervals with 24- or 48-hour recall, with estimates based on continuous surveillance... - Serological response and poliovirus excretion following different combined oral and inactivated poliovirus vaccines immunization schedulesIsabelle Parent Du Chatelet
Association pour l Aide a la Medecine Preventive, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Cedex 15, Paris, France
Vaccine 21:1710-8. 2003..Combined schedules of OPV and IPV in the form of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus-IPV vaccine (DPT-IPV) may be useful to accelerate eradication of polio in developing countries... - Clinical diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum among children with history of fever, Sindh, PakistanSiroos Hozhabri
Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Int J Infect Dis 6:233-5. 2002..To identify clinical predictors for malaria and develop a clinical algorithm to more accurately identify malaria from non-malaria cases... - Deaths from rotavirus disease in Bangladeshi children: estimates from hospital-based surveillanceGo Tanaka
Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 26:1014-8. 2007..To assess the potential health benefits of introducing new rotavirus (RV) vaccines, we estimated mortality from RV gastroenteritis in Bangladeshi children <5 years of age... - The global burden of typhoid feverJohn A Crump
Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, MS A 38, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Bull World Health Organ 82:346-53. 2004..To use new data to make a revised estimate of the global burden of typhoid fever, an accurate understanding of which is necessary to guide public health decisions for disease control and prevention efforts... - No evidence for prolonged excretion of polioviruses in persons with residual paralytic poliomyelitis in Ethiopia, Pakistan and GuatemalaAamir J Khan
Department of International Health, Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Room W5041, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Biologicals 34:113-6. 2006..Nevertheless, persistent poliovirus excretion among persons 2 years of age and older with residual paralytic poliomyelitis is uncommon in developing countries...