Rahman, Mahbubur, Shoma, Shereen, Rashid, Harunur, El Arifeen, Shams, Baqui, A.H., Siddique, A.K., ...
Antimicrobial resistance of Shigella isolates in Bangladesh, during 2001-2002, was studied and compared with that of 1991-1992 to identify the changes in resistance patterns and trends. A...
Zinc supplementation in the management of shigellosis in malnourished children in Bangladesh (2007)
Roy, S.K., Raqib, R ., Khatun, W., Chowdhury, R., Azim, T., Fuchs, G.J., ...
Objective: To assess the impact of zinc supplementation on clinical recovery, weight gain and subsequent growth and morbidity in moderately malnourished children with shigellosis. Design: A...
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from patients with diarrhoea in Bangladesh (2007)
Islam, M.A., Heuvelink, A.E., Sturm, P.D., Beumer, R.R., Zwietering, M.H., ...
The prevalence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and its characteristics were determined among hospitalized patients with diarrhoea and children with diarrhoea in an urban slum...
Prevalence of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli O157 in slaughter animals in Bangladesh (2006)
Islam, M.A., Mondol, A.S., Heuvelink, A.E., Zwietering, M.H., Nair, G.B., ...
Field trial of oral cholera vaccines in Bangladesh (1988)
Clemens, J.D., Harris, J.R., Sack, D.A., Chakraborty, J., Ahmed, F., Stanton, B.F., ...
A study of patients with streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia seen at ICDDR,B Dhaka Hospital (1987)
Akramuzzaman, Syed Md., Rahman, Mahbubur, Alam, A.N., Sack, D.A., Spika, John S.
Oral rehydration therapy wuth alanine-glucose ORS: a controlled clinical trial (1985)
Patra, P.C., Nath, S.K., Mazumder, R.N., Islam, A., Alam, A.N., Sack, D.A., ...
Role of clostridium difficile in diarrhoea in Bangladesh (1985)
Akhtar, S.Q., Sack, D.A., Van Loon, Wasserheit, J., Bartlett, J.G.
Immunogenicity of oral B-subunit/whole-cell cholera vaccine (1985)
Ciznar, Ivan, Khanam, Asma, Ashraf, Amar Bin, Sack, D.A., Clemense, J.D.
Intestinal antibody responses after immunisation with cholera B subunit (1982)
Svennerholm, A.M., Sack, D.A., Holmgren, J., Bardhan, P.K.
In about 80% of Bangladeshi volunteers a single oral or intramuscular immunisation with a new cholera toxoid immunogen (B subunit) gave rise to a local intestinal secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA)...
Sack, D A, Shimko, J, Sack, R B, Gomes, J G, MacLeod, K, O'Sullivan, D, ...
During development of Peru-15, a new live oral vaccine for cholera, the role of buffer needed to be evaluated. Generally, oral bacterial vaccines are acid labile and need to be administered by using...
Attachment of Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 to zooplankton and phytoplankton of Bangladesh waters.
Tamplin, M L, Gauzens, A L, Huq, A, Sack, D A, Colwell, R R
Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1, the causative agent of cholera, is capable of surviving in aquatic environments for extended periods and is considered an autochthonous species in estuarine and brackish...
Huq, A, Colwell, R R, Rahman, R, Ali, A, Chowdhury, M A, Parveen, S, ...
Vibrio cholerae O1 in plankton samples collected from ponds and rivers between February 1987 and January 1990 in Matlab, Bangladesh, was detected by the fluorescent-monoclonal antibody (FA)...
Ward, R L, Nakagomi, O, Knowlton, D R, McNeal, M M, Nakagomi, T, Huda, N, ...
A previous study showed that intergenogroup reassortants of human rotaviruses can persist in nature (R.L. Ward, O. Nakagomi, D.R. Knowlton, M.M. McNeal, T. Nakagomi, J.D. Clemens, D.A. Sack, and G.M....
Evidence for natural reassortants of human rotaviruses belonging to different genogroups.
Ward, R L, Nakagomi, O, Knowlton, D R, McNeal, M M, Nakagomi, T, Clemens, J D, ...
Of 335 rotavirus isolates associated with diarrheal disease in Bangladesh that were culture adapted and subsequently characterized for electropherotype, subgroup, and serotype, 9 had properties that...
Nutritional requirements of shigellae for growth in a minimal medium.
Ahmed, Z U, Sarker, M R, Sack, D A
Most (about 81%) of the clinical isolates of shigellae that were tested failed to grow in a minimal medium. Of the auxotrophic isolates belonging to the four Shigella species, 98% grew in a minimal...
Ghosh, A R, Sen, D, Sack, D A, Hoque, A T
Strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli producing either colonization factor antigen (CFA) I or II were tested for expression of CFA when grown on 16 different agar media by using agglutination...
Congo red binding and salt aggregation as indicators of virulence in Shigella species.
Qadri, F, Hossain, S A, Ciznár, I, Haider, K, Ljungh, A, Wadstrom, T, ...
Smooth strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 1, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii, and Shigella sonnei which form pigmented colonies (Pcr+) on Congo red agar were virulent in the Sereny test. Smooth...
Use of monoclonal antibodies to type Shigella flexneri in Bangladesh.
Carlin, N I, Rahman, M, Sack, D A, Zaman, A, Kay, B, Lindberg, A A
A panel of 10 mouse and rat monoclonal antibodies specific for different type- and group-specific O-antigenic determinants of Shigella flexneri lipopolysaccharide was used to serotype 240 isolates of...
Rapid diagnosis of cholera by coagglutination test using 4-h fecal enrichment cultures.
Rahman, M, Sack, D A, Mahmood, S, Hossain, A
A simple, rapid, and reliable method to detect Vibrio cholerae in fecal specimens would assist in the management of cases of severe diarrhea, especially since most such cases occur in areas with...
Reactivities of serotyping monoclonal antibodies with culture-adapted human rotaviruses.
Ward, R L, McNeal, M M, Clemens, J D, Sack, D A, Rao, M, Huda, N, ...
Rotaviruses collected in Bangladesh during 1985 to 1986 were culture adapted and used in a comparative serotyping study with three groups of monoclonal antibodies, all of which reacted with the major...
Ward, R L, Clemens, J D, Sack, D A, Knowlton, D R, McNeal, M M, Huda, N, ...
Group A rotaviruses collected between 1985 and 1986 during comprehensive surveillance of treated diarrheal episodes occurring in a rural Bangladesh population were culture adapted and characterized...
Sack, D A, Huda, S, Neogi, P K, Daniel, R R, Spira, W M
We have developed a microtiter enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method for detecting the heat-labile enterotoxins of Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli using GM1 ganglioside as the base coat. This...
Seroepidemiology of rotavirus infection in rural Bangladesh.
Sack, D A, Gilman, R H, Kapikian, A Z, Aziz, K M
A prospective seroepidemiological study of rotavirus infection was performed in children in a village in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-three percent of the children had detectable antibodies during the...
Morris, G K, Merson, M H, Sack, D A, Wells, J G, Martin, W T, Dewitt, W E, ...
A laboratory investigation was conducted on cultures collected from travelers before, during, and after a trip to Mexico to characterize the etiology of traveler's diarrhea. Four laboratory methods...
Prevalence of antibody to the Norwalk virus in various countries.
Greenberg, H B, Valdesuso, J, Kapikian, A Z, Chanock, R M, Wyatt, R G, Szmuness, W, ...
Serum samples from children and adults from several countries were tested by radioimmunoassay for antibody to the Norwalk virus. Antibody was commonly found in adults from all the countries tested....
Test for enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli using Y-1 adrenal cells in miniculture.
A rapid, potentially clinically useful test for detection of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is described. Whole bacterial cultures of enterotoxigenic E. coli, when briefly exposed to Y1 adrenal...
Antibodies to heat-labile Escherichia coli enterotoxin in Apaches in Whiteriver, Arizona.
Sack, R B, Hirschborn, N, Woodward, W E, Sack, D A, Cash, R A
Antitoxin titers to heat-labile Escherichia coli enterotoxin were measured in Apache children hospitalized with acute diarrhea and in Apaches of different age groups without diarrhea in Whiteriver,...
Microtiter solid-phase radioimmunoassay for detection of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin.
Greenberg, H B, Sack, D A, Rodriguez, W, Sack, R B, Wyatt, R G, Kalica, A R, ...
The development of a microtiter solid-phase radioimmunoassay for the detection of Vibrio cholerae enterotoxin and heat-labile Escherichia coli enterotoxin is described. The test is based on the...
Sack, D A, Neogi, P K, Alam, M K
We have developed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for quantitating human immunoglobulin A in human secretions and serum. The procedure uses Immunobeads as the solid phase, has a sensitivity of...
Nato, F., Boutonnier, A., Rajerison, M., Grosjean, P., Dartevelle, S., Guénolé, A., ...
We describe the development and evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test for Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 based on lipopolysaccharide detection using gold particles. The specificity ranged between 84 and...
Neonatal diarrhea at a maternity hospital in Rangoon.
Aye, D T, Bact, D, Sack, D A, Wachsmuth, I K, Kyi, D T, Thwe, S M
Between 1981 and 1986, 1,540 infants born at the Central Women's Hospital in Rangoon were transferred to the Sick Baby Unit because of diarrhea (15.4 per 1,000 live births). Rates among cesarean...
Seasonal affective disorder: a review of the syndrome and its public health implications.
Jacobsen, F M, Wehr, T A, Sack, D A, James, S P, Rosenthal, N E
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a disturbance of mood and behavior which resembles some seasonal changes seen in lower mammals. Like these animal seasonal changes, SAD is thought to be related...
Randomised double blind trial of single dose doxycycline for treating cholera in adults.
Alam, A N, Alam, N H, Ahmed, T, Sack, D A
OBJECTIVE--To compare the efficacy of a single dose of doxycycline (200 or 300 mg) with the standard multiple doses of tetracycline in patients with cholera. DESIGN--Randomised double blind...
Nato, F., Boutonnier, A., Rajerison, M., Grosjean, P., Dartevelle, S., Guénolé, A., ...
We describe the development and evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test for Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 based on lipopolysaccharide detection using gold particles. The specificity ranged between 84 and...
Sack, D A, Shimko, J, Sack, R B, Gomes, J G, MacLeod, K, O'Sullivan, D, ...
During development of Peru-15, a new live oral vaccine for cholera, the role of buffer needed to be evaluated. Generally, oral bacterial vaccines are acid labile and need to be administered by using...
Attachment of Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 to zooplankton and phytoplankton of Bangladesh waters.
Tamplin, M L, Gauzens, A L, Huq, A, Sack, D A, Colwell, R R
Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1, the causative agent of cholera, is capable of surviving in aquatic environments for extended periods and is considered an autochthonous species in estuarine and brackish...
Huq, A, Colwell, R R, Rahman, R, Ali, A, Chowdhury, M A, Parveen, S, ...
Vibrio cholerae O1 in plankton samples collected from ponds and rivers between February 1987 and January 1990 in Matlab, Bangladesh, was detected by the fluorescent-monoclonal antibody (FA)...
Ward, R L, Nakagomi, O, Knowlton, D R, McNeal, M M, Nakagomi, T, Huda, N, ...
A previous study showed that intergenogroup reassortants of human rotaviruses can persist in nature (R.L. Ward, O. Nakagomi, D.R. Knowlton, M.M. McNeal, T. Nakagomi, J.D. Clemens, D.A. Sack, and G.M....
Evidence for natural reassortants of human rotaviruses belonging to different genogroups.
Ward, R L, Nakagomi, O, Knowlton, D R, McNeal, M M, Nakagomi, T, Clemens, J D, ...
Of 335 rotavirus isolates associated with diarrheal disease in Bangladesh that were culture adapted and subsequently characterized for electropherotype, subgroup, and serotype, 9 had properties that...
Nutritional requirements of shigellae for growth in a minimal medium.
Ahmed, Z U, Sarker, M R, Sack, D A
Most (about 81%) of the clinical isolates of shigellae that were tested failed to grow in a minimal medium. Of the auxotrophic isolates belonging to the four Shigella species, 98% grew in a minimal...
Ghosh, A R, Sen, D, Sack, D A, Hoque, A T
Strains of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli producing either colonization factor antigen (CFA) I or II were tested for expression of CFA when grown on 16 different agar media by using agglutination...
Congo red binding and salt aggregation as indicators of virulence in Shigella species.
Qadri, F, Hossain, S A, Ciznár, I, Haider, K, Ljungh, A, Wadstrom, T, ...
Smooth strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 1, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii, and Shigella sonnei which form pigmented colonies (Pcr+) on Congo red agar were virulent in the Sereny test. Smooth...
Use of monoclonal antibodies to type Shigella flexneri in Bangladesh.
Carlin, N I, Rahman, M, Sack, D A, Zaman, A, Kay, B, Lindberg, A A
A panel of 10 mouse and rat monoclonal antibodies specific for different type- and group-specific O-antigenic determinants of Shigella flexneri lipopolysaccharide was used to serotype 240 isolates of...
Rapid diagnosis of cholera by coagglutination test using 4-h fecal enrichment cultures.
Rahman, M, Sack, D A, Mahmood, S, Hossain, A
A simple, rapid, and reliable method to detect Vibrio cholerae in fecal specimens would assist in the management of cases of severe diarrhea, especially since most such cases occur in areas with...
Reactivities of serotyping monoclonal antibodies with culture-adapted human rotaviruses.
Ward, R L, McNeal, M M, Clemens, J D, Sack, D A, Rao, M, Huda, N, ...
Rotaviruses collected in Bangladesh during 1985 to 1986 were culture adapted and used in a comparative serotyping study with three groups of monoclonal antibodies, all of which reacted with the major...
Ward, R L, Clemens, J D, Sack, D A, Knowlton, D R, McNeal, M M, Huda, N, ...
Group A rotaviruses collected between 1985 and 1986 during comprehensive surveillance of treated diarrheal episodes occurring in a rural Bangladesh population were culture adapted and characterized...
Sack, D A, Huda, S, Neogi, P K, Daniel, R R, Spira, W M
We have developed a microtiter enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method for detecting the heat-labile enterotoxins of Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli using GM1 ganglioside as the base coat. This...
Seroepidemiology of rotavirus infection in rural Bangladesh.
Sack, D A, Gilman, R H, Kapikian, A Z, Aziz, K M
A prospective seroepidemiological study of rotavirus infection was performed in children in a village in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-three percent of the children had detectable antibodies during the...
Morris, G K, Merson, M H, Sack, D A, Wells, J G, Martin, W T, Dewitt, W E, ...
A laboratory investigation was conducted on cultures collected from travelers before, during, and after a trip to Mexico to characterize the etiology of traveler's diarrhea. Four laboratory methods...
Prevalence of antibody to the Norwalk virus in various countries.
Greenberg, H B, Valdesuso, J, Kapikian, A Z, Chanock, R M, Wyatt, R G, Szmuness, W, ...
Serum samples from children and adults from several countries were tested by radioimmunoassay for antibody to the Norwalk virus. Antibody was commonly found in adults from all the countries tested....
Test for enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli using Y-1 adrenal cells in miniculture.
A rapid, potentially clinically useful test for detection of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is described. Whole bacterial cultures of enterotoxigenic E. coli, when briefly exposed to Y1 adrenal...
Antibodies to heat-labile Escherichia coli enterotoxin in Apaches in Whiteriver, Arizona.
Sack, R B, Hirschborn, N, Woodward, W E, Sack, D A, Cash, R A
Antitoxin titers to heat-labile Escherichia coli enterotoxin were measured in Apache children hospitalized with acute diarrhea and in Apaches of different age groups without diarrhea in Whiteriver,...
Microtiter solid-phase radioimmunoassay for detection of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin.
Greenberg, H B, Sack, D A, Rodriguez, W, Sack, R B, Wyatt, R G, Kalica, A R, ...
The development of a microtiter solid-phase radioimmunoassay for the detection of Vibrio cholerae enterotoxin and heat-labile Escherichia coli enterotoxin is described. The test is based on the...
Sack, D A, Neogi, P K, Alam, M K
We have developed an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for quantitating human immunoglobulin A in human secretions and serum. The procedure uses Immunobeads as the solid phase, has a sensitivity of...
Neonatal diarrhea at a maternity hospital in Rangoon.
Aye, D T, Bact, D, Sack, D A, Wachsmuth, I K, Kyi, D T, Thwe, S M
Between 1981 and 1986, 1,540 infants born at the Central Women's Hospital in Rangoon were transferred to the Sick Baby Unit because of diarrhea (15.4 per 1,000 live births). Rates among cesarean...
Seasonal affective disorder: a review of the syndrome and its public health implications.
Jacobsen, F M, Wehr, T A, Sack, D A, James, S P, Rosenthal, N E
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a disturbance of mood and behavior which resembles some seasonal changes seen in lower mammals. Like these animal seasonal changes, SAD is thought to be related...