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Hossain A, Khan P, Kader MF. Imagined speech classification exploiting EEG power spectrum features. Med Biol Eng Comput 2024:10.1007/s11517-024-03083-2. [PMID: 38632207 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-024-03083-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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Imagined speech recognition has developed as a significant topic of research in the field of brain-computer interfaces. This innovative technique has great promise as a communication tool, providing essential help to those with impairments. An imagined speech recognition model is proposed in this paper to identify the ten most frequently used English alphabets (e.g., A, D, E, H, I, N, O, R, S, T) and numerals (e.g., 0 to 9). A novel electroencephalogram (EEG) dataset was created by measuring the brain activity of 30 people while they imagined these alphabets and digits. As part of signal preprocessing, EEG signals are filtered before extracting delta, theta, alpha, and beta band power features. These features are used as input for classification using support vector machines, k-nearest neighbors, and random forest (RF) classifiers. It is identified that the RF classifier outperformed the others in terms of classification accuracy. Classification accuracies of 99.38% and 95.39% were achieved at the coarse-level and fine-level, respectively with the RF classifier. From our study, it is also revealed that the beta frequency band and the frontal lobe of the brain played crucial roles in imagined speech recognition. Furthermore, a comparative analysis against state-of-the-art techniques is conducted to demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed model.
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- Arman Hossain
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, 4331, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, 4331, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, 4331, Bangladesh.
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Akter S, Mamun MAA, Hossain MS, Hossain A, Rahman MZ, Khalil SMI, Rahman MM, Alam MM. Ecotoxicological effects of cypermethrin on indigenous climbing perch (Anabas testudineus). Heliyon 2024; 10:e25723. [PMID: 38370174 PMCID: PMC10869875 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024] Open
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Pesticides including cypermethrin (10% EC) are commonly used pesticide in tea gardens of Bangladesh possess distinct harmful effects on an aquatic community. The experiment was carried out to assess the ecotoxicological effects of cypermethrin (10%) concentrate on indigenous Climbing Perch (Anabas testudineus). A total of 120 A. testudineus (mean length 16 ± 2.67 cm and mean weight 31.6 ± 3.56 g) were exposed to the acute toxicity test when the lethal concentration 50 value (LC50) for 96 h was maintained at 1.00 ppm. Three different sub-lethal concentrations of 0.05 ppm (5%), 0.10 ppm (10%), and 0.20 ppm (20%) were used respectively as three treatments and a control of 0 ppm with three replicates each. Restlessness, erratic movement, increased opercular activities, loss of equilibrium, and irregular response to feeding were observed in all the treatments compared to control one. Concerning histopathological alterations, all the analyzed organs showed highest changes in the T3 (cypermethrin conc. 20%) compared to other treatments while T0 (0 ppm) had normal structure. The major changes in the gill were epithelial cell hyperplasia, necrosis, severe lamellar fusion and epithelial lifting; while necrotic proximal tubules, glomerular shrinkage, disrupted renal corpuscle of the kidney and nuclear pyknosis, degenerated hepatic cells and vacuolation were observed in the liver. Severe melanomacrophage centre (MMC), haemosiderosis and vacuolation were found in spleen. The effect of cypermethrin on the hematological parameters of experimental fish was also studied. Red blood cells, hemoglobin and hematocrit were decreased in the experimental groups and lowest value was in T3 while values of white blood cells were increased in the experimental groups compared to control one. Hence, the present observation revealed that pesticides even at low concentrations can cause harmful effects on A. testudineus.
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- Sharmin Akter
- Department of Fish Health Management, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh
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- Department of Fish Health Management, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh
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- Department of Fish Health Management, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh
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- Department of Fish Health Management, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh
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- Department of Fish Health Management, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh
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- Department of Fish Health Management, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh
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- Department of Fish Health Management, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet-3100, Bangladesh
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Wahiduzzaman M, Hossain A, Talukder MHR, Ali MI, Tarafder F, Tarafder KH, Rahman SH. Endoscopic Transnasal Repair of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leakage: Experience in BSMMU. Mymensingh Med J 2024; 33:192-197. [PMID: 38163792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Endoscopic transnasal repair of CSF rhinorrhoea is gaining popularity around the world because of its tremendous success rate but it depends on defect site, size, technique of repair, experiences of surgeon and also patient's profile. Aim of this study was to analysis of surgical outcome of endoscopic transnasal repair of CSF rhinorrhoea. A retrospective study carried out in the department of ENT and Head neck surgery at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) from January 2018 to December 2019. Of the total of 24 patients 16(66.0%) were female and 8(33.0%) males. The commonest site of the leak was in the cribriform plate in 18(75.3%) followed by 5(20.8%) in the fovea ethmoidalis, and 1(4.0%) in the sphenoid sinus, the overall success rate of this series with first surgical procedure was 95.83% and 100.0% with a second procedure. Meticulous pre-operative evaluation, proper identification of leakage site, choice of graft materials and surgical technique are keys to attaining excellent results.
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- M Wahiduzzaman
- Dr Mohammad Wahiduzzaman, Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (ORLHNS), Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, E-mail:
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Dasgupta S, Samad A, Howlader SS, Choudhury DI, Hossain A, Khan MS, Hasan MR, Talukder QI, Rahman MK. Complete Heparin Reversal by Protamine during Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (OPCAB): A Necessity or Myth? Mymensingh Med J 2023; 32:421-429. [PMID: 37002753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2023]
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In our country majority of the coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) are done off-pump and was reported having excellent clinical outcome along with cost efficiency by various investigators. Heparin is commonly used as most effective anticoagulant, and protamine sulfate is now generally used to reverse the anticoagulant action of heparin. While under dosing of protamine may result in incomplete heparin reversal and prolonged anticoagulation, protamine overdosing is associated with impaired clot formation exerted by the intrinsic anti-coagulation properties of protamine itself, moreover protamine administration is associated with mild to severe cardiovascular and pulmonary complications. Apart from traditional full neutralization of heparin now-a-days, half dose protamine was also introduced showing good outcome regarding lower activated clotting time (ACT), overall, less surgical bleeding with less transfusion. This comparative study was designed to detect differences between traditional and decreased protamine dosing in Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass (OPCAB) surgery. Four hundred (400) patients who underwent Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (OPCAB) surgery at our institution over a period of 12 months were analyzed and were divided into two groups. Group A- received 0.5mg of protamine per 100 unit of heparin; Group B-received 1.0mg of protamine per 100 unit of heparin. ACT, blood loss, hemoglobin and platelet count units of blood and blood product transfusion requirements, clinical outcome and hospital stay were assessed in each patient. This study showed that 0.5mg of protamine per 100 unit of heparin was always able to reverse the anticoagulant effect of heparin with no significant difference in hemodynamic parameters, amount of blood loss and requirements of blood transfusion in between the groups. A standard protamine dosing formula (protamine-heparin at ratio of 1:1) adequate for on-pump cardiac surgical procedures significantly overestimates protamine requirements for OPCAB. Patients treated with decreased protamine do not appear to have adverse outcomes in terms of post-operative bleeding.
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- S Dasgupta
- Dr Saikat Das Gupta, Associate Consultant, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Square Hospitals Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh; E-mail:
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Islam M, Rabbani G, Siddiqua S, Islam S, Islam R, Hossain A, Hossen N, Saha B, Khatun N, Alif S, Karim M. 150P Sex differences in inoperable lung cancer risk and prognosis: Evidence from low-income population setting. J Thorac Oncol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s1556-0864(23)00404-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Hasan MN, Bhuiyan MR, Ferdous SH, Hossain A, Banik MC, Rahman MA. A Case Report of Porphyria Cutanea Tarda with Hepatitis-C Virus Co-infection. Mymensingh Med J 2023; 32:584-586. [PMID: 37002774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2023]
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Porphyria cutanea tarda is a rare disorder of heme metabolism due to deficiency of the enzyme uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase which is manifested as some typical dermatological features and hepatic dysfunction. The Hepatitis-C virus co-infection is common and it can be aggravated by other environmental factors. We report a case of porphyria cutanea tarda in a 37-year-old woman, who presented with recurrent skin blisters and has concomitant Hepatitis-C virus infection. She was taking oestrogen containing oral contraceptive pill for a long duration. The diagnosis of porphyria cutanea tarda was considered on the basis of clinical features and high level of urine porphyrin level. She was put on hydroxychloroquine and combination drugs for Hepatitis-C virus with significant improvement after 3 months of therapy.
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- M N Hasan
- Dr Md Nazmul Hasan, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh; E-mail:
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Rahman A, Styczynski A, Khaleque A, Hossain SA, Sadique A, Hossain A, Jain M, Tabassum SN, Khan F, Bhuiyan MSS, Alam J, Khandakar A, Kamruzzaman M, Ahsan CR, Kashem SBA, Chowdhury MEH, Hossain M. Genomic landscape of prominent XDR Acinetobacter clonal complexes from Dhaka, Bangladesh. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:802. [PMID: 36471260 PMCID: PMC9721023 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08991-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-A. baumannii (ACB) complex pathogens are known for their prevalence in nosocomial infections and extensive antimicrobial resistance (AMR) capabilities. While genomic studies worldwide have elucidated the genetic context of antibiotic resistance in major international clones (ICs) of clinical Acinetobacter spp., not much information is available from Bangladesh. In this study, we analysed the AMR profiles of 63 ACB complex strains collected from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Following this, we generated draft genomes of 15 of these strains to understand the prevalence and genomic environments of AMR, virulence and mobilization associated genes in different Acinetobacter clones. RESULTS Around 84% (n = 53) of the strains were extensively drug resistant (XDR) with two showing pan-drug resistance. Draft genomes generated for 15 strains confirmed 14 to be A. baumannii while one was A. nosocomialis. Most A. baumannii genomes fell under three clonal complexes (CCs): the globally dominant CC1 and CC2, and CC10; one strain had a novel sequence type (ST). AMR phenotype-genotype agreement was observed and the genomes contained various beta-lactamase genes including blaOXA-23 (n = 12), blaOXA-66 (n = 6), and blaNDM-1 (n = 3). All genomes displayed roughly similar virulomes, however some virulence genes such as the Acinetobactin bauA and the type IV pilus gene pilA displayed high genetic variability. CC2 strains carried highest levels of plasmidic gene content and possessed conjugative elements carrying AMR genes, virulence factors and insertion sequences. CONCLUSION This study presents the first comparative genomic analysis of XDR clinical Acinetobacter spp. from Bangladesh. It highlights the prevalence of different classes of beta-lactamases, mobilome-derived heterogeneity in genetic architecture and virulence gene variability in prominent Acinetobacter clonal complexes in the country. The findings of this study would be valuable in understanding the genomic epidemiology of A. baumannii clones and their association with closely related pathogenic species like A. nosocomialis in Bangladesh.
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- Aura Rahman
- NSU Genome Research Institute, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- The Hormone Lab & Infertility Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, 2713, Qatar
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- Department of Computer Sciences, AFG College with the University of Aberdeen, Doha, Qatar.
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- NSU Genome Research Institute, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Rahman A, Kaium A, Khan M, Islam M, Begum N, Prodhan M, Hossain A, Mustafiz S, Chowdhury M. Residue level and health risk assessment of organophosphorus pesticides in
country bean and bitter gourd collected from Cumilla, Bangladesh. Food Res 2021. [DOI: 10.26656/fr.2017.5(6).041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Organophosphorus pesticides are one of the most commonly used pesticide classes in
agriculture in the management of insect pests due to their high efficacy. The extensive use
of organophosphorus pesticides can contaminate both the atmosphere and food, which
may lead to health problems. In this study, the residue level of organophosphorus
pesticides, and their health risk assessment was evaluated on country bean and bitter
gourd. Out of forty analysed samples of the country bean, two samples contained
multiple residues, seven samples contained single residue. On the other hand, out of forty
samples of bitter gourd, one sample contained multiple residues and three samples
contained single residue. Among the organophosphorus pesticides, diazinon was the most
frequently detected organophosphorus pesticide in country bean and bitter gourd. The
highest short-term risks or acute risk (aHI) was below 1.83%, and the highest long-term
risk or chronic risk (HQs) was below 10.46% for the country bean and bitter gourd,
respectively. Short- and long-term risk assessment results showed that the intake risks of
country bean and bitter gourd were acceptable. The health hazard results showed that
country bean and bitter gourd consumption in Cumilla, Bangladesh does not pose an acute
or chronic risk to human health. However, a routine monitoring system must be
established to control the contamination of vegetables with pesticides.
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Islam M, Hasan A, Khatun N, Ridi I, Ishrat N, Das S, Arjuman F, Ahmed H, Begum F, Islam M, Rahman M, Karim M, Hossain A, Hossen M. 33P Demographic differentials of lung cancer survival in Bangladeshi patients. J Thorac Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s1556-0864(21)01875-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Rahman A, Bhuiyan OF, Sadique A, Afroze T, Sarker M, Momen AMI, Alam J, Hossain A, Khan I, Rahman KF, Kamruzzaman M, Shams F, Ahsan GU, Hossain M. Whole genome sequencing provides genomic insights into three Morganella morganii strains isolated from bovine rectal swabs in Dhaka, Bangladesh. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2021; 367:5780225. [PMID: 32129839 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnaa043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Morganella morganii, a gram negative, facultative anaerobic bacterium belonging to the Proteeae tribe of the Morganellaceae family, is an unusual opportunistic pathogen mainly responsible for nosocomial and urinary tract infections. While cattle have long been established as a source of a few zoonotic pathogens, no such data has been recorded for M. morganii despite its ubiquitous presence in nature and a number of animal hosts. In this study, draft genomes were produced of three M. morganii isolates from Bangladeshi cattle. The three isolates, named B2, B3 and B5, possessed an average genome size of 3.9 Mp, a GC% of ∼51% and pan and core genomes of 4637 and 3812 genes, respectively. All strains were bearers of the qnrD1 carrying plasmid Col3M and possessed roughly similar virulence profiles and prophage regions. The strains also carried genes that were unique when compared with other publicly available M. morganii genomes. Many of these genes belonged to metabolic pathways associated with adaptation to environmental stresses and were predicted in silico to be borne in genomic islands. The findings of this study expand on the current understanding of M. morganii''s genomic nature and its adaptation in cattle.
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- Aura Rahman
- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Reza E, Hasan R, Hossain A, Islam M. Outcome of Management of Liver Abscess by Surgical Approach in a Tertiary Care Hospital. Mymensingh Med J 2021; 30:85-89. [PMID: 33397856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Liver abscess is a serious, life threatening condition. A recent development in the management of liver abscesses, facilitated by advances in diagnostic and interventional radiology, has decreased mortality rates. The purpose of this study is to search for the clinical presentations and surgical outcomes of liver abscess in our country. The markers of the outcome are mortality, duration of hospital stay and complications such as wound infection, residual disease following surgery, biliary leakage, intra abdominal abscess formation. This observational cross sectional study was conducted in Mymensingh Medical College & Hospital (MMCH), Bangladesh for 12 months from 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2017. Total 25 patients presenting with the features of liver abscess were included in this study by convenient and purposive sampling according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Surgical principles of liver abscess management were applied and outcomes were observed. The patients were diagnosed on the basis of clinical feature, findings of abdominal ultrasound and occasionally by doing CT scan. Most of the patients (28%) were in the age group of 51-60 years. Regarding sex distribution majority of the patients (64%) was male. Most of patients presented with fever (92%), anorexia and vomiting (32%), upper abdominal pain (84%). Hepatomegaly and reactive pleural effusion are the important findings present in 9(36%) and 8(32%) patients respectively. Size of the liver abscess was more than 5cm in 72% patients. Among the patients right lobe was predominantly involved. It was found during laparotomy that 4 patients (16%) had spontaneous rupture of abscess into peritoneal cavity. One (4%) patient developed biliary leakage after surgical drainage. No intra abdominal abscess or residual diseases was observed after surgery. Among the patients 24% developed wound infection. The overall mortality rate was 12%. The median length of hospital stay was 8 days (range: 1-15 days). Outcome of surgical drainage of liver abscess in tertiary care hospital of our country shows satisfactory result. So, patients with large multiple liver abscess, septic shock, failures of percutaneous drainage should be treated by early open surgical intervention.
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- E Reza
- Dr Ehsanur Reza, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Mymensingh Medical College (MMC), Mymensingh, Bangladesh; E-mail:
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Tuli F, Hossain A, Kibria AF, Tareq A, Mamun S, Ullah AA. Removal of methylene blue from water by low-cost activated carbon prepared from tea waste: A study of adsorption isotherm and kinetics. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enmm.2020.100354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Rahman MM, Kabir SJ, Islam NA, Saha MK, Islam MS, Islam MA, Rahman MM, Hossain MZ, Rahman AM, Sayed A, Islam MN, Kabir KM, Hossain A. Outcome of Closed Reduction and Internal Fixation by Titanium Elastic Nailing for Fracture Shaft of Femur in Children. Mymensingh Med J 2020; 29:823-828. [PMID: 33116083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Femoral fractures are frequent in the pediatric population. Treatment options are based on the patient's age, fracture pattern, type of trauma and associated soft tissue injury. The traditional treatment method for pediatric femoral shaft fracture has been traction and spica casting. The immediate spica cast is safe and effective for children up to 6 years of age with isolated femoral fracture and acceptable reduction. Patients between 6 and 10 years of age can also be treated with spica casting with or without traction. This prospective study was done in the department of Orthopaedics, Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Mymensingh, Bangladesh form from July 2015 to June 2019 to evaluate the outcome of closed reduction and internal fixation by titanium elastic nailing for fracture shaft of femur. Twenty patients, all presenting with fresh diaphyseal fractures of femur, treated with closed reduction and internal fixation by titanium elastic nailing. These patients were prospectively evaluated over a period of at least 18 months. Fractures were classified according to Association of Orthopaedics (AO) classification of shaft of femur fractures. According to AO classification, all were A1, A2, A3 fractures. Average age of the patients was 11±2.7 years; range was 6 to 16 years. There were 15 males and 5 females. Out of 20 cases treated with this method, stable fixation and union was achieved in all of them. Radiological union was achieved at an average of 10±2.3 weeks (8-15 weeks). The results were excellent in twelve patients (60%), successful in five (25%) and poor in three patients (15%) as per the scoring criteria for TEN. The effective treatment of diaphyseal fractures of the femur is intramedullary fixation by titanium elastic nailing in patients of the 6-16 years age group.
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- M M Rahman
- Dr Md Matiur Rahman, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, Mymensingh Medical College (MMC), Mymensingh, Bangladesh; E-mail:
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Kabir SJ, Rahman MM, Islam NA, Saha MK, Islam MS, Islam MA, Rahman MM, Hossain MZ, Sayed A, Islam MN, Kabir KM, Hossain A. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction using Bone Patellar Tendon Bone Autograft in ACL Deficient Knee. Mymensingh Med J 2020; 29:815-822. [PMID: 33116082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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More than 120,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries occur every year in the United States, mostly during the high school and college years. The incidence of these injuries is slowly increasing, especially in females. This is likely caused by their increasing participation in high school and other organized sports. In addition, several studies have shown that female athletes are at an increased risk of ACL injury in sex comparable sports. The goal of this study was to evaluate the functional outcome of Arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using Bone-Patellar tendon- Bone autograft. 25 patients with chronic ACL deficient knee presenting to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH), Mymensingh, Bangladesh from January 2018 to December 2019 were included in the study. The patients with severe osteoarthritis (OA) knee, local active infection and systemic disease, intraarticular fracture of knee that might influence the study results were excluded from the study. Bone patellar tendon bone graft was harvested from ipsilateral knee. The patient was followed till 6 months with specified program of rehabilitation. Results were evaluated by an independent examiner using radiography, subjective and objective evaluation. Assessment using Lysholm's score was 50 (42-63) preoperatively and 90.8 (63-97) at the latest follow up (p<0.005). No patient complained of instability at latest follow up. The quadriceps muscle showed atrophy at final follow-up. Five Patients complained of anterior knee pain. We found no graft displacement on follow up radiographs. Osteo-integration occurred in all cases. ACLR with a BPTB graft can stabilize the knee without loss of motion by closely mimicking the native ACL without any hazards and additional complications. It is useful in high demand patients and cost effective option with high patient satisfaction rate for reconstruction of ACL.
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- S J Kabir
- Dr Shah Jawaher Jahan Kabir, Associate Professor & Head, Department of Orthopaedics, Mymensingh Medical College (MMC), Mymensingh, Bangladesh; E-mail:
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Zhan K, Liu R, Tong H, Gao S, Yang G, Hossain A, Li T, He W. Fetuin B overexpression suppresses proliferation, migration, and invasion in prostate cancer by inhibiting the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. Biomed Pharmacother 2020; 131:110689. [PMID: 32892030 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2020.110689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Revised: 08/23/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Fetuin B (FETUB) is a glycoprotein that is a member of the cysteine protease inhibitor family, and it is associated with cancer. However, the role of FETUB in prostate carcinogenesis is unknown. In this study, we overexpressed FETUB in prostate cancer cells by using lentivirus and then studied the impacts on cell apoptosis, migration and invasion. We found that apoptosis was increased and the migration and invasion of prostate cancer cells were significantly inhibited after overexpression. Then, we performed experiments in vivo and found that there were fewer tumors in the overexpression groups than in the control groups. In addition, we demonstrated that overexpression of FETUB inactivates the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. Rescue assays revealed that intervention of 740Y-P reversed the anti-tumor effect of FETUB on prostate cancer cells. Taken together, our results revealed that FETUB may act as a novel regulator to promote apoptosis and inhibit the migration and invasion of prostate cancer cells and that FETUB is related to the inactivation of the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway.
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- Kai Zhan
- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China; Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China
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- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China; Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China; Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China; Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China; Central Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.
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Hossain M, Tabassum T, Rahman A, Hossain A, Afroze T, Momen AMI, Sadique A, Sarker M, Shams F, Ishtiaque A, Khaleque A, Alam M, Huq A, Ahsan GU, Colwell RR. Genotype-phenotype correlation of β-lactamase-producing uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) strains from Bangladesh. Sci Rep 2020; 10:14549. [PMID: 32883963 PMCID: PMC7471317 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71213-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli is a pathogen commonly encountered in clinical laboratories, and is capable of causing a variety of diseases, both within the intestinal tract (intestinal pathogenic strains) and outside (extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli, or ExPEC). It is associated with urinary tract infections (UTIs), one of the most common infectious diseases in the world. This report represents the first comparative analysis of the draft genome sequences of 11 uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) strains isolated from two tertiary hospitals located in Dhaka and Sylhet, Bangladesh, and is focused on comparing their genomic characteristics to each other and to other available UPEC strains. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) confirmed the strains belong to ST59, ST131, ST219, ST361, ST410, ST448 and ST4204, with one of the isolates classified as a previously undocumented ST. De novo identification of the antibiotic resistance genes blaNDM-5, blaNDM-7, blaCTX-M-15 and blaOXA-1 was determined, and phenotypic-genotypic analysis of virulence revealed significant heterogeneity within UPEC phylogroups.
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- Maqsud Hossain
- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. .,University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. .,Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Khan A, Islam M, Alam M, Hasan A, Arman K, Rahman M, Hossain A, Hossen M, Khurshid N. 1233P Epidemiology of female lung cancer in tertiary level hospitals in Bangladesh. Ann Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.08.1435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Reza E, Bhuiyan K, Emon RI, Hossain A, Biplob MH, Kader S, Habib A, Hasan R, Chaudary AK, Rahman T, Hasan S, Nisa AA. Efficacy of Intra-peritoneal Tramadol Instillation for Postoperative Pain Management after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. Mymensingh Med J 2020; 29:303-310. [PMID: 32506083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Gall stone disease is one of the most common conditions encountered in general surgical practices in adult population. The gold standard treatment for symptomatic gall stone disease is laparoscopic cholecystectomy. It results in less post-operative pain as compared to open cholecystectomy but post-operative pain may be mild, moderate or even severe in some patients. This Randomized control trail was conducted to In-patient department of Surgery, Mymensingh Medical College & Hospital (MMCH), Mymensingh, Bangladesh from April 2018 to September 2018. It was undertaken to evaluate the analgesic effect of intra-peritoneal tramadol instillation in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Total 70 patients with symptomatic gallstone disease undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy were randomized equally in two groups. Then patients were selected in according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. In first group (Group A), patients were received intra-peritoneal tramadol 100mg (diluted in 20.0ml distilled water). Sprayed 10.0ml diluted tramadol into the sub diaphragmatic area, 5.0ml into the area of gall bladder bed and 5.0ml into the space between the liver and kidney under direct vision just before removal of trocars. In second group (Group B) the conventional operative procedure was followed. Postoperatively, patient was extubated and shifted to recovery room. Data recorded and analyzed, such as post-operative pain score at 1, 4, 8, and 24 hour; cumulative 1, 8 and 24 hour analgesic consumption. In addition that postoperative hospital period monitoring of heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, temperature at 0, 4, 8, 24 hours was also analyzed. Intensity of pain was assessed by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) scoring system. Patients showed a VAS ≥3 or patients who requested for analgesia was administrated a supplemental dose of analgesic. In the present study the mean pain scores in Group A were found to be low at1hourpost-operative was 0.60±0.56 and there was a gradual increase in score in respect of time interval with peak of 2.07±0.91 at 24 hours. Whereas, in Group B the mean pain scores immediate post-operative period were at its peak was, 2.50±0.82 which decreased to 1.30±0.84 at 1 hour and further there was rise at 4 hours (2.10±0.71) and 24 hours (2.33±0.0.71). But at any point of time the mean VAS remained significantly low (p<0.050) in patients with Group A compared to Group B except at 1st 24 hours (p=0.210). Intra-peritoneal instillation of tramadol for postoperative pain control in laparoscopic cholecystectomy has beneficial effect in terms of postoperative pain relief following laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
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- E Reza
- Dr Ehsanur Reza, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Mymensingh Medical College (MMC), Mymensingh, Bangladesh
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Das K, Sarkar A, Hossain A. Isolation of pathogenic microorganisms and determination of their antibiotic resistance patterns collected from different bakery products of Dhaka city. Food Res 2020. [DOI: 10.26656/fr.2017.4(4).400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Bakery products play an important part in the diet of daily life and provide vital nutrients
to human. But pathogenic microorganisms may get entry to bakery items through
improper handling and storage which may lead some disease to consumers. For this
reason, the objective of this study was to detect pathogenic bacteria in different bakery
products collected from different places of Dhaka city. In this study, commonly consumed
bakery items such as sweets, biscuit, cake and bread samples were collected from different
locations for the detection of pathogenic microorganism. Here, all the samples were found
to be contaminated huge microbial count up to 106 CFU/g. Klebsiella spp. and
Pseudomonas spp. were most predominate among all. On the other hand, Escherichia coli
was totally absent in all the samples. This result indicated that bakery products prepared
under unhygienic environments and which may serve as a reservoir of various pathogenic
bacteria and most of them were showed resistance against common antibiotics. To ensure
the health safety of consumer’s government should take necessary actions to educated
food handlers.
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Zaved M, Islam M, Hossain A. Experimental cross sections of the 174Yb(n,γ)175Yb reaction at new energies of 0.0334 eV and 0.0536 eV. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2019.108471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Khan R, Hossain M, Kabir M, Howlader N, Hossain A, Rahman M. PCN531 IMPACT OF GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS OF XRCC1 AND XRCC3 GENES AND THEIR ROLE IN PROSTATE CANCER RISKS IN BANGLADESHI POPULATION. Value in Health 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.09.722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Hossain A, Chen J, Iddings A, Bathini S, Khashab T, Culligan M, Mohindra P, Scilla K, Rolfo C, Friedberg J. P1.06-14 Posterior Intercostal Lymph Node Positivity as a Prognostic Indicator of Overall Survival in Resectable Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma. J Thorac Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2019.08.1001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Alam MM, Hawlader DH, Hossain A, Zaman S, Ahsan GU. Knowledge and Practice of Hepatitis B among Biological and Biomedical Sciences Students in a Public University of Bangladesh. Mymensingh Med J 2019; 28:389-398. [PMID: 31086156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A large numbers of biological and biomedical sciences students intricate themselves in health care professions, which makes them vulnerable to occupational exposure of Hepatitis B. This study aimed to determine the level of knowledge and practice of hepatitis B among biological and biomedical sciences students in a public university of Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), Noakhali, Bangladesh from March 2017 to July 2017. Data was collected from students through purposive sampling technique using self-administered structured questionnaire and analyzed by using IBM SPSS 23.0. Out of the 303 participants, 213(70.3%) were within adequate knowledge range and 30(9.9%) of the students were in good practice range. Only 71(23.14%) of the students were fully vaccinated against Hepatitis B. Knowledge level of Participant's were significantly associated with their age and father's education. The practice level was significantly associated with age and all educational variables. Moreover, significant positive but weak linear correlations between knowledge and practice score were identified. The study indicates adequate knowledge, but poor practice of students towards HB. Thus, we recommend all students to implement their knowledge in real life and should be vaccinated prior to entry into health profession.
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- M M Alam
- Mohammad Morshad Alam, Consultant, Bangladesh Health Sector Support Project, The World Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Abdallah Y, Yang M, Zhang M, Masum MMI, Ogunyemi SO, Hossain A, An Q, Yan C, Li B. Plant growth promotion and suppression of bacterial leaf blight in rice by Paenibacillus polymyxa Sx3. Lett Appl Microbiol 2019; 68:423-429. [PMID: 30659625 DOI: 10.1111/lam.13117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Revised: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The effects and mechanisms of Paenibacillus polymyxa Sx3 on growth promotion and the suppression of bacterial leaf blight in rice were evaluated in this study. The results from a plate assay indicated that Sx3 inhibited the growth of 20 strains of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo). Rice seedling experiments indicated that Sx3 promoted plant growth and suppressed bacterial leaf blight. In addition, bacteriological tests showed that Sx3 was able to fix nitrogen, solubilize phosphate and produce indole acetic acid, indicating that various mechanisms may be involved in the growth promotion by Sx3. The culture filtrate of P. polymyxa Sx3 reduced bacterial growth, biofilm formation and disrupted the cell morphology of Xoo strain GZ 0005, as indicated by the transmission and scanning electron microscopic observations. In addition, MALDI-TOF MS analysis revealed that Sx3 could biosynthesize two types of secondary metabolites fusaricidins and polymyxin P. In summary, this study clearly indicated that P. polymyxa Sx3 has strong in vitro and in vivo antagonistic activity against Xoo, which may be at least partially attributed to its production of secondary metabolites. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: Antagonistic bacteria can grow well in their originating environment. However, it is unclear whether antagonistic bacteria were able to survive in different ecological environments. This study revealed that Paenibacillus polymyxa Sx3 isolated from rhizosphere soil of cotton significantly promoted the plant growth and suppressed bacterial leaf blight in rice. Therefore, it could be inferred that P. polymyxa Sx3 has the potential to be used as biocontrol agents in plants grown in different ecological environments.
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.,Department of Plant Pathology, Minia University, El-Minya, Egypt
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.,Institute of Biotechnology, Ningbo Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ningbo, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Kalari KR, Sinnwell JP, Thompson KJ, Tang X, Carlson EE, Alaparthi T, Yu J, Vedell PT, Kalmbach MT, Bockol MA, Hossain A, Weinshilboum RM, Boughey JC, Wang L, Suman VJ, Goetz MP. Abstract P3-06-10: Multiscale modeling of omics data for precision breast cancer treatment. Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs18-p3-06-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Introduction: The vast majority of cancer patients continue to receive treatments that are minimally informed by omics data. In the case of breast cancer, only ER and HER2 are routinely used for treatment selection. There is a particular need for personalized treatment in individuals with primary and secondary drug resistance or aggressive breast cancers. Emerging bioinformatics and statistical methods have made a fundamental impact on cancer research. However, challenges remains with regard to patient-centric data analysis and providing genomic data guidance to oncologists. There exists a large number of FDA approved anti-neoplastic drugs used to treat cancers other than breast and the development of innovative informatics methods and algorithms to repurpose those drugs should benefit breast cancer patients.
Methods and Results: We have developed precision care systems (such as PANOPLY and CORPUS) to identify personalized therapies for an individual patient and to deliver genomic reports in a standard, searchable format so that a researcher or an oncologist can quickly navigate through molecular data and obtain prioritized drugs and targets.The PANOPLY (Precision cancer genomics report: single sample inventory) algorithm applies machine learning and topology-based network analysis methods to integrate multi-omics profiles and clinical data; individual-specific molecular alterations are identified and compared with a set of matched-controls having similar clinical data. Since there is a lack of a “gold standard” dataset to test such algorithms, we simulated 500 case-control sets and evaluated drug predictions across multiple simulation scenarios. We applied the PANOPLY algorithm to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) breast cancer cohort, which consists of multi-omics data and clinical data. In addition, PANOPLY was also applied to an in-house neoadjuvant breast cancer study (BEAUTY) that consists of multi-omics data, clinical data, and patient-derived xenografts (PDXs). In the TCGA breast cancer study we obtained survival data to determine the cases and matched-controls; and in the BEAUTY, we used pathologic complete response (pCR) as an outcome to determine responders and non-responders. Recurrent targetable alterations were not enriched in patients without pCR in the BEAUTY study. We have applied the PANOPLY to non-responder patients to identify individual specific alterations, dysregulated networks, drug targets, and drugs for each patient and stored them as case reports in CORPUS (Computational Oncology Reports and Precision therapeUticS), a web-based repository that allows clinicians to review genomic reports. Using comprehensive “omic” data derived from a triple negative breast cancer patient who had pre and post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy PDXs, PANOPLY prioritized the PARP inhibitors as the top class of drug. Using the PDX models available from this patient, we tested olaparib and confirmed the in vivo antitumor activity (more effective than vehicle with a p-value < 0.05 in the PDXs). Further studies to confirm PANOPLY findings are currently underway.
Conclusions: In summary, the PANOPLY and CORPUS systems incorporate molecular data together with clinical data to provide genomic reports with proposed drug targets to advance or enable precision breast cancer care.
Citation Format: Kalari KR, Sinnwell JP, Thompson KJ, Tang X, Carlson EE, Alaparthi T, Yu J, Vedell PT, Kalmbach MT, Bockol MA, Hossain A, Weinshilboum RM, Boughey JC, Wang L, Suman VJ, Goetz MP. Multiscale modeling of omics data for precision breast cancer treatment [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2018 Dec 4-8; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P3-06-10.
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- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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Roy UN, Camarda GS, Cui Y, Gul R, Hossain A, Yang G, Zazvorka J, Dedic V, Franc J, James RB. Role of selenium addition to CdZnTe matrix for room-temperature radiation detector applications. Sci Rep 2019; 9:1620. [PMID: 30733586 PMCID: PMC6367417 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-38188-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Because of its ideal band gap, high density and high electron mobility-lifetime product, cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe or CZT) is currently the best room-temperature compound-semiconductor X- and gamma-ray detector material. However, because of its innate poor thermo-physical properties and above unity segregation coefficient for Zn, the wide spread deployment of this material in large-volume CZT detectors is still limited by the high production cost. The underlying reason for the low yield of high-quality material is that CZT suffers from three major detrimental defects: compositional inhomogeneity, high concentrations of dislocation walls/sub-grain boundary networks and high concentrations of Te inclusions/precipitates. To mitigate all these disadvantages, we report for the first time the effects of the addition of selenium to the CZT matrix. The addition of Se was found to be very effective in arresting the formation of sub-grain boundaries and its networks, significantly reducing Zn segregation, improving compositional homogeneity and resulting in much lower concentrations of Te inclusions/precipitates. Growth of the new quaternary crystal Cd1−xZnxTe1−ySey (CZTS) by the Traveling Heater Method (THM) is reported in this paper. We have demonstrated the production of much higher yield according to its compositional homogeneity, with substantially lower sub-grain boundaries and their network, and a lower concentration of Te inclusions/precipitates.
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- U N Roy
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA.
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA.,North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7909, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, Prague, 121 16, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, Prague, 121 16, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, Prague, 121 16, Czech Republic
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA.,Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC, 29808, USA
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Kamruzzaman M, Mahboob AH, Uddin MA, Pandit H, Hossain A, Ahmed NU. Pattern of Casualties Attending in the Casualty Department of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Mymensingh Med J 2019; 28:37-43. [PMID: 30755548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Casualty, in relation to personnel, any person who is lost to his organization; by reason of being declared dead, wounded, diseased, detained, captured or missing. Casualty service or department is not well organized in the hospitals of our country. We have recently started functioning casualty department to manage casualties properly in spite of the increasing workload and emerging needs of this department. This study was conducted in the Casualty department, Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH), Mymensingh, Bangladesh to analyze the number of patients and pattern of casualties. A total number of 17435 patients were enrolled in this retrospective observational study. Data was collected from hospital records of all patients attending in the Casualty Department, MMCH between November 19, 2017 and May 18, 2018 and patients were categorized on the basis of their mode of injury. The demographic characteristics of patients with mode of Casualty were analyzed. Male were 75% and female 25%. Avergae per day patient attended in the Casualty department was 96, maximum was 176 and minimum 33. According to age sub-division, 11-20 years age group attended maxiumum was 48. One day attended Road traffic accident (RTA) maximum was 65 and minimum was 3, Non-RTA maximum was 83 and minimum 25, physical assaults maximum was 48 and minimum 1. Injury due to fall and RTA were the common mode of casualty especially in the young population in the study area. Study showed that injury caused by fall was 44% among the all patients. Patients due to fall from tree was highest (35%) in April-May. Incidents of fall were followed by RTA which was 25%. Physical assaults (17%), machinery injury (9%) and others were 5%.
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- M Kamruzzaman
- Dr Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Junior Consultant (Ortho-surgery), Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH), Mymensingh, Bangladesh, E-mail:
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Atique Ullah AK, Tamanna AN, Hossain A, Akter M, Kabir MF, Tareq ARM, Fazle Kibria AKM, Kurasaki M, Rahman MM, Khan MNI. In vitro cytotoxicity and antibiotic application of green route surface modified ferromagnetic TiO2 nanoparticles. RSC Adv 2019; 9:13254-13262. [PMID: 35520756 PMCID: PMC9063744 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra01395d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The enormous numbers of applications of TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) cause concern about their risk to the environment and human health. Consequently, motivated by the necessity of searching for new sources of TiO2 NPs of low cytotoxicity with antibacterial activity, we synthesized TiO2 NPs by a green route using a solution of titanium(iv) isopropoxide as a precursor and an aqueous extract of Artocarpus heterophyllus leaf as a reducing and surface modifying agent. We investigated their structure, shape, size, and magnetic properties, and evaluated their antibiotic application and cytotoxicity. The synthesized TiO2 NPs were applied against two Gram-negative bacteria (E. coli and S. typhimurium) and two Gram-positive bacteria (S. aureus and B. subtilis) to observe their antibacterial activity; and eventually clear zones of inhibition formed by the TiO2 NPs were obtained. Moreover, after exposing the synthesized TiO2 NPs to HeLa cells (carcinoma cells) and Vero cells (normal cells), no toxic effect was found up to a dose of 1000 mg L−1, indicating the safe use of the samples up to at least 1000 mg L−1. However, toxic effects on HeLa cells and Vero cells were observed at doses of 2000 mg L−1 and 3000 mg L−1, respectively. These results indicate the safe use of Artocarpus heterophyllus leaf extract mediated synthesized TiO2 NPs in their potential applications. Artocarpus heterophyllus leaf extract mediated green synthesized TiO2 nanoparticles exhibit less toxicity with high antibacterial activity.![]()
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- A. K. M. Atique Ullah
- Nanoscience and Technology Research Laboratory
- Atomic Energy Centre
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Department of Physics
- University of Dhaka
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
- Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Ural Federal University
- 620000 Yekaterinburg
- Russia
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science
- Hokkaido University
- 060-0810 Sapporo
- Japan
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- Department of Physics
- University of Dhaka
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Environmental Organic Chemistry Laboratory
- Chemistry Division
- Atomic Energy Centre
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Dhaka 1000
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- Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards Division
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Dhaka 1207
- Bangladesh
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science
- Hokkaido University
- 060-0810 Sapporo
- Japan
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- Department of Physics
- University of Dhaka
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Materials Science Division
- Atomic Energy Centre
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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Rahman MM, Amin KB, Rahman SMM, Khair A, Rahman M, Hossain A, Rahman AKMA, Parvez MS, Miura N, Alam MM. Investigation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among clinical isolates from humans and animals by culture methods and multiplex PCR. BMC Vet Res 2018; 14:300. [PMID: 30285752 PMCID: PMC6169064 DOI: 10.1186/s12917-018-1611-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for large numbers of hospital-related and community-acquired infections. In this study, we investigated the presence of S. aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in 100 samples from animals (55 cattle, 36 dogs, and 9 cats) and 150 samples from hospitalized human patients. The samples were collected from healthy and diseased animals and from diseased humans and included milk, wound swab, pus, exudates, nasal swab and diabetic ulcer. Initially, S. aureus was isolated and identified by colony morphology, Gram staining, and biochemical tests (catalase and coagulase tests). The S. aureus-positive samples were examined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to determine their MRSA status. Results Of the 100 animal samples, 29 were positive for S. aureus. Four samples (13.8%) from dogs were MRSA-positive, but samples from cattle and cats were MRSA-negative. Of the 150 human samples we collected, 64 were S. aureus-positive and, of these, 34 (53.1%) were MRSA-positive. Most (28%) of the MRSA samples were isolated from surgical wound swabs, followed by the pus from skin infections (11%), exudates from diabetic ulcers (6%), exudates from burns (4%), and aural swabs (3%). By contrast, a low MRSA detection rate (n = 4) was seen in the non-human isolates, where all MRSA bacteria were isolated from nasal swabs from dogs. The antimicrobials susceptibility testing results showed that S. aureus isolates with mecA genes showed resistance to penicillin (100%), oxacillin (100%), erythromycin (73.5%), ciprofloxacin (70.6%), and gentamicin (67.7%). The lowest resistance was found against ceftazidime, and no vancomycin-resistant isolates were obtained. Conclusions We detected S. aureus and MRSA in both human and canine specimens. Isolates were found to be resistant to some of the antimicrobials available locally. MRSA carriage in humans and animals appears to be a great threat to effective antimicrobials treatment. The prudent use of antimicrobials will reduce the antimicrobial resistance. Our findings will help to find the most appropriate treatment and to reduce antimicrobial resistance in the future by implementing prudent use of antimicrobials. Further studies are required to better understand the epidemiology of MRSA human–animal inter-species transmission in Bangladesh. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12917-018-1611-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- M M Rahman
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh.,Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology & Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology, Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology & Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology, Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology & Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh
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- Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh.
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Masum MMI, Liu L, Yang M, Hossain MM, Siddiqa MM, Supty ME, Ogunyemi SO, Hossain A, An Q, Li B. Halotolerant bacteria belonging to operational group Bacillus amyloliquefaciens in biocontrol of the rice brown stripe pathogen Acidovorax oryzae. J Appl Microbiol 2018; 125:1852-1867. [PMID: 30146698 DOI: 10.1111/jam.14088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2018] [Revised: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 08/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate the antagonistic activity of halotolerant bacteria against rice brown stripe pathogen Acidovorax oryzae. METHODS AND RESULTS Fifteen of 136 isolates of halotolerant bacteria exhibited strong in vitro and in vivo antagonistic activity against both strains of A. oryzae. The 15 antagonistic isolates were identified as 'operational group Bacillus amyloliquefaciens' based on physiological and biochemical features, fatty acid profiles as well as sequence analysis of 16S rRNA, gyrA and rpoB genes. Furthermore, this result indicated that the most effective antagonistic isolates K5-3 and PPB6 could produce siderophore in iron-limiting medium, and four kinds of secondary metabolites based on MALDI-TOF analysis. In addition, the culture filtrates of isolates K5-3 and PPB6 caused the damage of cell membrane evidenced by the TEM images, and resulted in 73-80% reduction in cell numbers, 55-65% reduction in biofilm formation, and 42-50% reduction in swimming ability of both strains of A. oryzae. CONCLUSIONS These isolates in particular K5-3 and PPB6 of halotolerant bacteria markedly inhibited the growth of A. oryzae. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY To our knowledge, this is the first report on biological control of halotolerant bacteria against bacterial brown stripe of rice.
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- M M I Masum
- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Plant Pathology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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- Department of Botany, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key laboratory of Rice Biology and Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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UNLABELLED Aims and methodThere is limited evidence on ethnic differences in personality disorder prevalence rates. We compared rates of people with personality disorder admitted to hospital in East London from 2007 to 2013. RESULTS Of all people admitted to hospital, 9.7% had a personality disorder diagnosis. The admission rate for personality disorder has increased each year. Compared with White subjects, personality disorder was significantly less prevalent among Black and other minority ethnic (BME) groups. Personality disorder was diagnosed in 20% of forensic, 11% of general adult, 8% of adolescent and 2% of old-age in-patients.Clinical implicationsThe increasing number of personality disorder diagnoses year on year indicates the increasing impact of personality disorder on in-patient services. It is important to identify and appropriately manage patients with a personality disorder diagnosis due to the significant strain they place on resources. The reasons for fewer admissions of BME patients may reflect alternative service use, a truly lower prevalence rate or under-detection.Declaration of interestNone.
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- A Hossain
- North East London National Health Service Foundation Trust
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- East London National Health Service Foundation Trust
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- Deancross Personality Disorder Service, East London National Health Service Foundation Trust
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- East London National Health Service Foundation Trust
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Timsina J, Wolf J, Guilpart N, van Bussel L, Grassini P, van Wart J, Hossain A, Rashid H, Islam S, van Ittersum M. Can Bangladesh produce enough cereals to meet future demand? Agric Syst 2018; 163:36-44. [PMID: 29861535 PMCID: PMC5903259 DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2016.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Bangladesh faces huge challenges in achieving food security due to its high population, diet changes, and limited room for expanding cropland and cropping intensity. The objective of this study is to assess the degree to which Bangladesh can be self-sufficient in terms of domestic maize, rice and wheat production by the years 2030 and 2050 by closing the existing gap (Yg) between yield potential (Yp) and actual farm yield (Ya), accounting for possible changes in cropland area. Yield potential and yield gaps were calculated for the three crops using well-validated crop models and site-specific weather, management and soil data, and upscaled to the whole country. We assessed potential grain production in the years 2030 and 2050 for six land use change scenarios (general decrease in arable land; declining ground water tables in the north; cropping of fallow areas in the south; effect of sea level rise; increased cropping intensity; and larger share of cash crops) and three levels of Yg closure (1: no yield increase; 2: Yg closure at a level equivalent to 50% (50% Yg closure); 3: Yg closure to a level of 85% of Yp (irrigated crops) and 80% of water-limited yield potential or Yw (rainfed crops) (full Yg closure)). In addition, changes in demand with low and high population growth rates, and substitution of rice by maize in future diets were also examined. Total aggregated demand of the three cereals (in milled rice equivalents) in 2030 and 2050, based on the UN median population variant, is projected to be 21 and 24% higher than in 2010. Current Yg represent 50% (irrigated rice), 48-63% (rainfed rice), 49% (irrigated wheat), 40% (rainfed wheat), 46% (irrigated maize), and 44% (rainfed maize) of their Yp or Yw. With 50% Yg closure and for various land use changes, self-sufficiency ratio will be > 1 for rice in 2030 and about one in 2050 but well below one for maize and wheat in both 2030 and 2050. With full Yg closure, self-sufficiency ratios will be well above one for rice and all three cereals jointly but below one for maize and wheat for all scenarios, except for the scenario with drastic decrease in boro rice area to allow for area expansion for cash crops. Full Yg closure of all cereals is needed to compensate for area decreases and demand increases, and then even some maize and large amounts of wheat imports will be required to satisfy demand in future. The results of this analysis have important implications for Bangladesh and other countries with high population growth rate, shrinking arable land due to rapid urbanization, and highly vulnerable to climate change.
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- J. Timsina
- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
- Corresponding author at: 28 Buckley Ave, Blacktown, NSW 2148, Australia.
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- Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- Wheat Research Centre, Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute, Dinajpur, Bangladesh
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- Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Gazipur, Bangladesh
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center — Bangladesh, House 10/B, Road 53, Gulshan-2, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh
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- Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, Netherlands
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Ullah AKA, Kabir MF, Akter M, Tamanna AN, Hossain A, Tareq ARM, Khan MNI, Kibria AKMF, Kurasaki M, Rahman MM. Green synthesis of bio-molecule encapsulated magnetic silver nanoparticles and their antibacterial activity. RSC Adv 2018; 8:37176-37183. [PMID: 35557822 PMCID: PMC9088908 DOI: 10.1039/c8ra06908e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Persuaded by the necessity of finding new sources of antibiotics, silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) were synthesized by adopting a newly developed green synthesis technique and subsequently, their antibacterial activity against different pathogenic bacteria was evaluated. We have successfully synthesized bio-molecule capped ferromagnetic Ag NPs with an average crystallite size of 13 nm using AgNO3 solution as a precursor and Artocarpus heterophyllus leaf extract as a reducing and capping agent. The characterization of the synthesized Ag NPs was carried out using various techniques such as UV-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetry (TG), and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) analyses. After exposing the synthesized Ag NPs to two Gram-positive bacteria – Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus cereus and two Gram-negative bacteria – Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium, the zones of inhibition were found to be 15, 16, 19, and 18 mm, respectively. These results imply that the Artocarpus heterophyllus leaf extract mediated green synthesized bio-molecules encapsulated Ag NPs can be considered as a potential antibiotic against human pathogens which is very encouraging. Persuaded by the necessity of finding new sources of antibiotics, Ag NPs were synthesized by adopting a newly developed green synthesis technique and subsequently, their antibacterial activity against different pathogenic bacteria was evaluated.![]()
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- A. K. M. Atique Ullah
- Nanoscience and Technology Research Laboratory
- Atomic Energy Centre
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Department of Physics
- University of Dhaka
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science
- Hokkaido University
- 060-0810 Sapporo
- Japan
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- Department of Physics
- University of Dhaka
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
- Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Ural Federal University
- 620000 Yekaterinburg
- Russia
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- Nanoscience and Technology Research Laboratory
- Atomic Energy Centre
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Nanoscience and Technology Research Laboratory
- Atomic Energy Centre
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Nanoscience and Technology Research Laboratory
- Atomic Energy Centre
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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- Graduate School of Environmental Science
- Hokkaido University
- 060-0810 Sapporo
- Japan
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- Department of Physics
- University of Dhaka
- Dhaka 1000
- Bangladesh
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Hemraj DA, Hossain A, Ye Q, Qin JG, Leterme SC. Anthropogenic shift of planktonic food web structure in a coastal lagoon by freshwater flow regulation. Sci Rep 2017; 7:44441. [PMID: 28327643 PMCID: PMC5361161 DOI: 10.1038/srep44441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 02/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Anthropogenic modification of aquatic systems has diverse impacts on food web interactions and ecosystem states. To reverse the adverse effects of modified freshwater flow, adequate management of discharge is required, especially due to higher water requirements and abstractions for human use. Here, we look at the effects of anthropogenically controlled freshwater flow regimes on the planktonic food web of a Ramsar listed coastal lagoon that is under recovery from degradation. Our results show shifts in water quality and plankton community interactions associated to changes in water flow. These shifts in food web interactions represent modifications in habitat complexity and water quality. At high flow, phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions dominate the food web. Conversely, at low flow, bacteria, viruses and nano/picoplankton interactions are more dominant, with a substantial switch of the food web towards heterotrophy. This switch can be associated with excess organic matter loading, decomposition of dead organisms, and synergistic and antagonistic interactions. We suggest that a lower variability in flow amplitude could be beneficial for the long-term sustaining of water quality and food web interactions, while improving the ecosystem health of systems facing similar stresses as the Coorong.
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- Deevesh A Hemraj
- School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
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- South Australian Research and Development Institute, PO Box 120, Henley Beach, SA 5022, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
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Rugo H, Tolaney S, Dickler M, Kabos P, Ho CL, Wildiers H, Jerusalem G, Alés-Martínez JE, Hossain A, Johnston E, Gianni L. Abstract OT2-01-07: A phase 2 study of abemaciclib plus pembrolizumab for patients with hormone receptor positive (HR+), HER2 negative (HER2-) metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Cancer Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs16-ot2-01-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Abstract
Background:
Abemaciclib is a small molecule inhibitor of both cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4 and CDK6 administered orally twice daily on a continuous schedule. In I3Y-MC-JPBA, a phase I study, abemaciclib demonstrated acceptable safety, tolerability, and single-agent activity as monotherapy in different tumor types, including HR+ MBC (Patnaik A,et al. Cancer Discov 2016;6:1–14). In MONARCH 1, a phase 2 study, abemaciclib demonstrated a 19.7% objective response rate (ORR) with a median duration of response (DoR) of 8.6 months, median progression-free survival (PFS) of 6.0 months, and clinical benefit rate (CBR) of 42.4% in patients with HR+, HER2- MBC whose disease progressed on or after endocrine therapy and chemotherapy (Dickler, M. et al. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), abstract #510 (2016).). Pembrolizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody against the programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1) protein that has shown preliminary efficacy in single-arm monotherapy trials in ER+/HER2- advanced breast cancer.
Trial design:
This open-label, phase 2 study will evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of abemaciclib 150 mg given orally every 12 hours on days 1-21 of a 21-day cycle in combination with intravenous pembrolizumab 200 mg on day 1 of a 21-day cycle in approximately 75 patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer or HR+, HER2- MBC (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02779751). The study will include 3 disease-specific cohorts, each with approximately 25 patients. Only the HR+, HER2- MBC cohort will be presented here.
Eligibility criteria:
Eligible patients for the MBC cohort include women with confirmed HR+, HER2- MBC who have completed at least 1 but no more than 2 prior chemotherapy regimens in the metastatic setting; will provide tumor tissue prior to and after treatment (cycle 3, day 1); have measurable disease (RECIST v.1.1), adequate organ function, an ECOG performance status ≤1, and a life expectancy ≥12 weeks; are ≥18 yrs of age and able to swallow oral medications; and have not received treatment with any CDK 4 and 6 inhibitors or PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors.
Specific aims:
The primary objective is to characterize the safety profile of the combination of abemaciclib and pembrolizumab. Key secondary objectives include ORR, DoR, disease control rate (DCR), PFS, overall survival (OS), and characterization of pharmacokinetics.
Statistical methods:
The safety population includes patients who received at least one dose of study drug. ORR, DoR, DCR, and PFS analyses will be evaluated according to RECIST v.1.1 and irRECIST for disease progression. Time-to-event variables, such as DoR, PFS, and OS, will be estimated by Kaplan-Meier methodology. An interim analysis of safety and preliminary efficacy may occur for each cohort after all patients have completed (or discontinued from) approximately 24 weeks of treatment. The final analysis of OS will occur based on data collected for approximately 12 months after the last patient receives treatment.
Target accrual:
Approximately 75 patients are planned for the trial; 25 patients will comprise the MBC cohort.
Contact information: 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559).
Citation Format: Rugo H, Tolaney S, Dickler M, Kabos P, Ho C-L, Wildiers H, Jerusalem G, Alés-Martínez JE, Hossain A, Johnston E, Gianni L. A phase 2 study of abemaciclib plus pembrolizumab for patients with hormone receptor positive (HR+), HER2 negative (HER2-) metastatic breast cancer (MBC) [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2016 Dec 6-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(4 Suppl):Abstract nr OT2-01-07.
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- H Rugo
- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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- University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO; Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (Gasthuisbert), Leuven, Belgium; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; Hospital Nuestra Señora de Sonsoles, Complejo Hospitalario de Ávila – Oncology, Ávila, Spain; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; IRCCS Ospedale, Milano, Italy
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Chen Y, Cui Y, O'Connor P, Seo Y, Camarda GS, Hossain A, Roy U, Yang G, James RB. Test of a 32-channel Prototype ASIC for Photon Counting Application. IEEE Nucl Sci Symp Conf Rec (1997) 2016. [PMID: 28626357 DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2015.7582272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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A new low-power application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) application is being developed at BNL. As the first step, a 32-channel prototype ASIC was designed and tested recently. Each channel has a preamplifier followed by CR-RC3 shaping circuits and three independent energy bins with comparators and 16-bit counters. The ASIC was fabricated with TSMC 0.35-μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process and tested in laboratories. The power consumption is around 1 mW/ch with a 2.5-V supply. With a gain of 400 mV/fC and the peaking time of 500 ns, the equivalent noise charge (ENC) of 360 e- has been measured in room temperature while the crosstalk rate is less than 0.3%. The 10-bit DACs for global thresholds have an integral nonlinearity (INL) less than 0.56% and differential nonlinearity (DNL) less than 0.33%. In the presentation, we will report the detailed test results with this ASIC.
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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Bami K, Premaratne M, Lamba J, Yam Y, Hossain A, Keenan M, Haddad T, Anand S, Burwash I, Ruddy T, Dwivedi G, Chow B. APPROPRIATE USE CRITERIA FOR CARDIAC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY: IMPACT ON DIAGNOSTIC UTILITY. Can J Cardiol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2016.07.309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Hossain A, Sultana A, Abidta B, Ratnalingam N, Qui Y. Three year review of anti-jiggers education and treatment intervention
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Mondal S, Ghosh S, Hossain A, Mahali K, Roy S, Dolui BK. Thermodynamics of DL-α-aminobutyric acid induced solvation mechanism in aqueous KCl solutions at 288.15–308.15 K. Russ J Phys Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s003602441609020x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Roy UN, Mundle RM, Camarda GS, Cui Y, Gul R, Hossain A, Yang G, Pradhan AK, James RB. Novel ZnO:Al contacts to CdZnTe for X- and gamma-ray detectors. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26384. [PMID: 27216387 PMCID: PMC4877641 DOI: 10.1038/srep26384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2016] [Accepted: 04/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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CdZnTe (CZT) has made a significant impact as a material for room-temperature nuclear-radiation detectors due to its potential impact in applications related to nonproliferation, homeland security, medical imaging, and gamma-ray telescopes. In all such applications, common metals, such as gold, platinum and indium, have been used as electrodes for fabricating the detectors. Because of the large mismatch in the thermal-expansion coefficient between the metal contacts and CZT, the contacts can undergo stress and mechanical degradation, which is the main cause for device instability over the long term. Here, we report for the first time on our use of Al-doped ZnO as the preferred electrode for such detectors. The material was selected because of its better contact properties compared to those of the metals commonly used today. Comparisons were conducted for the detector properties using different contacts, and improvements in the performances of ZnO:Al-coated detectors are described in this paper. These studies show that Al:ZnO contacts to CZT radiation detectors offer the potential of becoming a transformative replacement for the common metallic contacts due to the dramatic improvements in the performance of detectors and improved long-term stability.
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- U N Roy
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, United States
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- Department of Engineering, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, United States
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, United States
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, United States
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, United States
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, United States
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, United States
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- Department of Engineering, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA 23504, United States
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, United States
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Chen Y, Cui Y, O’Connor P, Seo Y, Camarda GS, Hossain A, Roy U, Yang G, James RB. Stability of the Baseline Holder in Readout Circuits For Radiation Detectors. IEEE Trans Nucl Sci 2016; 63:316-324. [PMID: 27182081 PMCID: PMC4862744 DOI: 10.1109/tns.2016.2516007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Baseline holder (BLH) circuits are used widely to stabilize the analog output of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for high-count-rate applications. The careful design of BLH circuits is vital to the overall stability of the analog-signal-processing chain in ASICs. Recently, we observed self-triggered fluctuations in an ASIC in which the shaping circuits have a BLH circuit in the feedback loop. In fact, further investigations showed that methods of enhancing small-signal stabilities cause an even worse situation. To resolve this problem, we used large-signal analyses to study the circuit's stability. We found that a relatively small gain for the error amplifier and a small current in the non-linear stage of the BLH are required to enhance stability in large-signal analysis, which will compromise the properties of the BLH. These findings were verified by SPICE simulations. In this paper, we present our detailed analysis of the BLH circuits, and propose an improved version of them that have only minimal self-triggered fluctuations. We summarize the design considerations both for the stability and the properties of the BLH circuits.
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- Y. Chen
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA (phone: 631-344-5351)
- Dept. of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China and Key Laboratory of Particle & Radiation Imaging, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA (phone: 631-344-5351)
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA (phone: 631-344-5351)
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- University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA (phone: 631-344-5351)
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA (phone: 631-344-5351)
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA (phone: 631-344-5351)
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA (phone: 631-344-5351)
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA (phone: 631-344-5351)
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Mornex F, Senan S, Hennequin C, Lartigau E, Brade A, Wang L, Vansteenkiste J, Dakhil S, Biesma B, Martinez Aguillo M, Aerts J, Govindan R, Rubio-Viqueira B, Lewanski C, Gandara D, Choy H, Mok T, Hossain A, Iscoe N, Treat J, Koustenis A, Chouaki N, Vokes E. PROCLAIM : résultats finaux de survie globale de l’essai de phase III : pemetrexed cisplatine ou étoposide cisplatine, plus radiothérapie thoracique suivie d’une chimiothérapie de consolidation dans le CBNPC non épidermoïde localement avancé. Rev Mal Respir 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rmr.2015.10.674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Das P, Awal A, Mollah A, Roy N, Dey A, Siddique S, Hossain A, Das S, Chowdhury I, Murshed M. Delayed presentation of patients with acute myocardial infarction in CCU of Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Indian Heart J 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ihj.2015.10.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Roy S, Hossain A, Mahali K, Dolui BK. Thermodynamics and mechanisms of glycine solvation in aqueous NaCl and KCl solutions at 298.15 K. Russ J Phys Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024415110151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Kamal SMM, Hossain A, Sultana S, Begum V, Haque N, Ahmed J, Rahman TMA, Hyder KA, Hossain S, Rahman M, Ahsan CR, Chowdhury RA, Aung KJM, Islam A, Hasan R, Van Deun A. Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in Bangladesh: reflections from the first nationwide survey. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2015; 19:151-6. [PMID: 25574912 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.14.0200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance in Bangladesh. DESIGN Weighted cluster sampling among smear-positive cases, and standard culture and drug susceptibility testing on solid medium were used. RESULTS Of 1480 patients enrolled during 2011, 12 falsified multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients were excluded. Analysis included 1340 cases (90.5% of those enrolled) with valid results and known treatment antecedents. Of 1049 new cases, 12.3% (95%CI 9.3-16.1) had strains resistant to any of the first-line drugs tested, and 1.4% (95%CI 0.7-2.5) were MDR-TB. Among the 291 previously treated cases, this was respectively 43.2% (95%CI 37.1-49.5) and 28.5% (95%CI 23.5-34.1). History of previous anti-tuberculosis treatment was the only predictive factor for first-line drug resistance (OR 34.9). Among the MDR-TB patients, 19.2% (95%CI 11.3-30.5; exclusively previously treated) also showed resistance to ofloxacin. Resistance to kanamycin was not detected. CONCLUSION Although MDR-TB prevalence was relatively low, transmission of MDR-TB may be increasing in Bangladesh. MDR-TB with fluoroquinolone resistance is rapidly rising. Integrating the private sector should be made high priority given the excessive proportion of MDR-TB retreatment cases in large cities. TB control programmes and donors should avoid applying undue pressure towards meeting global targets, which can lead to corruption of data even in national surveys.
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- National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- National TB Programme, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- National Professional Offices-World Health Organization (NPO-WHO), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- NPO-WHO, TB CARE-II, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- National TB Programme, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Tuberculosis CARE-II, University Research Company, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- WHO South East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India
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- National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Tuberculosis CARE-II, University Research Company, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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Bolotnikov AE, Ackley K, Camarda GS, Cherches C, Cui Y, De Geronimo G, Fried J, Hodges D, Hossain A, Lee W, Mahler G, Maritato M, Petryk M, Roy U, Salwen C, Vernon E, Yang G, James RB. An array of virtual Frisch-grid CdZnTe detectors and a front-end application-specific integrated circuit for large-area position-sensitive gamma-ray cameras. Rev Sci Instrum 2015; 86:073114. [PMID: 26233363 DOI: 10.1063/1.4927455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2015] [Accepted: 07/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We developed a robust and low-cost array of virtual Frisch-grid CdZnTe detectors coupled to a front-end readout application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for spectroscopy and imaging of gamma rays. The array operates as a self-reliant detector module. It is comprised of 36 close-packed 6 × 6 × 15 mm(3) detectors grouped into 3 × 3 sub-arrays of 2 × 2 detectors with the common cathodes. The front-end analog ASIC accommodates up to 36 anode and 9 cathode inputs. Several detector modules can be integrated into a single- or multi-layer unit operating as a Compton or a coded-aperture camera. We present the results from testing two fully assembled modules and readout electronics. The further enhancement of the arrays' performance and reduction of their cost are possible by using position-sensitive virtual Frisch-grid detectors, which allow for accurate corrections of the response of material non-uniformities caused by crystal defects.
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- A E Bolotnikov
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Korea University, Seoul 136-855, South Korea
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- SUNY Binghamton, Vestal, New York 13902, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11793, USA
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Van Deun A, Aung KJM, Hossain A, de Rijk P, Gumusboga M, Rigouts L, de Jong BC. Disputed rpoB mutations can frequently cause important rifampicin resistance among new tuberculosis patients. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2015; 19:185-90. [DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.14.0651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Hossain A, Nandi S, Siddique M, Sanyal S, Sultana M, Hossain M. Prevalence and distribution of
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- A. Hossain
- Department of Fisheries University of Dhaka Dhaka Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology University of Dhaka Dhaka Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology University of Dhaka Dhaka Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology University of Dhaka Dhaka Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology University of Dhaka Dhaka Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology University of Dhaka Dhaka Bangladesh
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Figueroa JM, Shahar T, Hossain A, Gumin J, Lang F. O4.02 * EXOSOMAL MIRNA FROM GLIOMA-ASSOCIATED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS PROMOTE GLIOMA GROWTH AND PROGRESSION. Neuro Oncol 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nou174.23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Saha M, Hossain A, Bhuiyan SH, Islam MN, Chowdhury MS, Kumar SU. Role of crush smear cytology in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal malignancy. Mymensingh Med J 2014; 23:496-502. [PMID: 25178602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Crush smear cytology, commonly used for central nervous system lesions was reported to be useful in the diagnosis of GI malignancies. This study was designed to see the accuracy of crush smear cytology in detection of gastrointestinal malignancy in relation to histopathological examination. First 4 or 5 bits of pinch biopsy specimens from each of the consecutive patients having endoscopic findings suggestive of carcinoma of gastro-intestinal tract were examined by conventional paraffin embedding and H-E staining by a cytologist. Crush smears stained with Papanicolaou's stain were prepared with the last bit of specimen and were examined by another cytologist. The diagnostic accuracy was examined by correlating with clinical and histological data. Out of 100 cases of suspected oesophageal malignancies, 99 were diagnosed as carcinoma by histopathology and 84 (sensitivity 83.83%, accuracy 83%, K - 0.14) cases were positive for malignancy by crush smear cytology. Out of 60 cases of gastric lesion, 54 and 44 cases were proved to be malignant by histopathology (sensitivity 76%, accuracy 73.3%, K - 0.2) and crush smear cytology respectively. Fifty four of the 57 cases of colonic lesions were proved to be malignant by histopathology and 50 (sensitivity 91%, accuracy 89.5%, K - 0.34) were malignant by crush smear cytology. Combining two methods the accuracy was 100%, 95% and 96.5% in detecting oesophageal, gastric and colonic malignancies respectively. Concordance rate of both the methods in diagnosing oesophageal, gastric and colonic lesions were 883.83%, 73.3% and 89.5% respectively. Crush smear cytology is a cheap, easy and rapidly performing technique. The diagnostic yield is very high when the technique is combined with histopathology. It may be used as a useful adjunct to conventional histopathology.
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- Dr Madhusudan Saha, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, North East Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh
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