Sen, Amitava, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Singh, Arun K., Som, Tapas K., Bandyopadhyay, Sudipta, Roy, Sutirtha
A Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU), established in a district hospital in India, substantially reduced the neonatal mortality rate in the district; it, however, suffered from a dearth of trained nurses....
Sarkar, S.A., Alam, N.H., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Fuchs, G.J.
Objective: Evaluate and compare the efficacy of a standard (WHO) oral rehydration solution (ORS) and a rice-based reduced osmolarity ORS in children with severe persistent diarrhoea. Persistent...
Efficacy of tetracycline in the treatment of cholera due to vibrio cholerae O139 (2007)
Hossain, Shahadat, Salam, MA, Rabbani, GH, Kabir, Iqbal, Mahalanabis, Dilip
Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of tetracycline in the treatment of acute watery diarrhoea due to V. cholerae 0139. Methods: A randomized placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trial was...
Rabbani, G.H., Rahman, H., Mahalanabis, Dilip
Objective: Determine the effect of SCFAs on cholera toxin-induced colonic secretion. Short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) produced by the fermentation of unabsorbed carbohydrates...
Bhattacharya, M.K., Rabbani, G.H., Mazumder, R.N., Khan, A.M., Hossain, Motaher, Mahalanabis, Dilip
Objective: Determine the effects of purified cholera toxin (CT) on intestinal absorption of glucose. Glucose is known to stimulate intestinal sodium absorption which provides the basis for the...
Islam, M Aminul, Rahman, M Mujibur, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Rahman, AKS Mahmudur
Objective: Assess mortality patterns, causes of death, and risk factors in infants and young children discharged from a diarrhoea treatment centre. Methods: Five hundred children aged 1 to 24 months...
Hossain, Md. Shahadat, Salam, Md. Abdus, Rabbani, Md. Golam Hassan, Biswas, Rabi, Mahalanabis, Dilip
This study examined the comparative efficacies of rice-based oral rehydration solution (R-ORS) and glucose-based oral rehydration solution (G-ORS) in the management of severe cholera due to Vibrio...
Amitava Sen, Dilip Mahalanabis, Sanjib Mukhopadhyay, Kamalendu Chakrabarty, Arun K. Singh, Samiran Bisai, ...
Low birth-weight is a leading health problem in developing countries. In a randomized controlled trial, the effect of antimicrobials in pregnant women on improving birth-weight and duration of...
Kabir, I., Rahman, M.M., Haider, R., Mazumder, R.N., Mahalanabis, Dilip
Objective: Evaluate the effect of a high-protein diet on growth, serum proteins, and micronutrient status of malnourished children. Methodology: Sixty-nine children were randomized to receive either...
Early vitamin A supplementation and cell mediated immunity in infants[abstracts] (1997)
Rahman, MM, Alvarez, J.O., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Wahed, M.A., Islam, M.A., Habte, D.
Rahman, M. Mujibur, Mitra, A.K., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Wahed, M.A., Khatun, M., Majid, N.
Addition of a small amount of amylase rich flour (ARF) to a thick porridge instantly liquefy the porridge and increase the energy intake even by sick children. The present study examined the...
Islam, M. Aminul, Rahman, M. Mujibur, Mahalanabis, Dilip
Assessing mortality pattern of children after discharge from hospital is important to guide appropriate management policy. We studied young children aged 1-23 months, who were discharged from an...
Hypo-osmolar sucrose oral rehydration solutions in acute diarrhoea: a pilot study (1996)
Faruque, A.S.G., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Hamadani, J., Hoque, S.S.
Based on studies showing improved absorption of hypo-osmolar oral rehydration solutions (ORS) with reduced glucose and sodium concentration, a hypo-osmolar ORS with sucrose replacing glucose (sodium...
Mahalanabis, Dilip, Rahman, Mohammed M., Sarker, Shafiqul A., Bardhan, Pradip K., Hildebrand, Pius, Beglinger, Chris, ...
The gastric acid barrier, an important host defence against small bowel infection, may be compromised by infection with Helicobacter pylori. In developing countries, H. pylori infection occurs early...
Mazumder, Ramendra N., Kabir, Iqbal, Rahman, M. Mujibur, Khatun, Makduma, Mahalanabis, Dilip
A metabolic balance study was performed to determine the absorption of macronutrients and energy from different food items in 23 malnourished children aged 12 to 48 months with clinically severe...
Banik, Arabinda K., Nath, Samir K., Patra, Fakir C., Wahed, Mohammed A., Darmaun, Dominique, ...
To assess the efficacy of an L-glutamine solution on jejunal salt and water absorption in cholera patients. DESIGN: A randomized double-blind jejunal perfusion study. SETTING: International Centre...
Breast-feeding counselling in a diarrhoeal disease hospital (1996)
Haider, R., Islam, A., Hamadani, J., Amin, N.J., Kabir, I., Malek, M.A., ...
Lactation counsellors were trained to advise mothers of partially breast-fed infants who were admitted to hospital because of diarrhoea, so that they could start exclusive breast-feeding during their...
Reduced osmolarity oral rehydration salt in Cholera (1996)
Faruque, A.S.G., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Hamadani, Jena D., Zetterstrom, Rolf
In a controlled clinical trial conducted in 34 adults with severe cholera diarrhoea, the use of a relatively dilute oral rehydration salt (ORS) solution (sodium 67, potassium 20, chloride 66, citrate...
Sarker, Shafiqul A., Rahman, Md. Mohammad, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Bardhan, Pradip Kumar, Hildebrand, Pius, Beglinger, Christopher, ...
Although H. pylori is well established as an etiological agent of type B gastritis and a predisposing factor for peptic ulcer, knowledge about its transmission is unclear. In this study we examined...
Research methodology for developing efficient handwashing options: an example from Bangladesh (1995)
Hoque, B.A., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Pelto, B., Alam, M.J.
Handwashing has been universally promoted for health interventions, but it is essential that the factors related to behaviour are understood in order to develop appropriate handwashing messages. We...
Rabbani, G.H., Albert, M. John, Rahman, Hamidur, Islam, Moyenul, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Kabir, I., ...
Rabbits are not usually susceptible to intestinal Shigella infection without extensive pretreatment, including starvation and administration of antimicrobial, antimotility, and toxic agents (carbon...
Mitra, A.K., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Ashraf, H., Unicomb, L., Eeckels, R., Tzipori, S.
The therapeutic efficacy of hyperimmune bovine colostrum (HBC) from cows immunized with four serotypes of human rotavirus was evaluated in a double-blind, randomized trial in 75 boys, aged 6-24...
Rahman, M.M., Mazumder, R.N., Ali, M., Mahalanabis, Dilip
To evaluate if an energy-dense porridge liquefied by amylase-rich flour (ARF) from germinated wheat increased the calorie intake in children with acute shigellosis, we studied 66 children, aged 6-35...
Sarker, S.A., Majid, N., Mahalanabis, Dilip
To evaluate the efficacy of a hypo-osmolar and a standard (World Health Organization) oral rehydration salt (ORS) solution in persistent diarrhoea, a randomized controlled clinical trial was...
Rahman, Mohammad M., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Wahed, Mohammad A., Islam, Momenul, Habte, Demissie, Khaled, Mohammad A., ...
Administration of 25,000 IU vitamin A doses at routine immunisation in young infants (1995)
Rahman, M. Mujibur, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Wahed, M.A., Islam, M. Aminul, Habte, D.
To investigate whether monthly administration of vitamin A at routine immunisation produces any side-effects, and to examine the effect of this supplementation on the vitamin A nutrition status of...
Wahed, M.A., Alvarez, Jose O., Khaled, Muhammad A., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Rahman, M. Mujibur, Habte, Demisse
The modified-relative-dose-response (MRDR) test and the relative-dose-response (RDR) test were compared in 49 mildly to moderately malnourished Bangladeshi children. The MRDR test had a significantly...
Alam, N.H., Bardhan, P.K., Haider, R., Mahalanabis, Dilip
The efficacy of an absorbable antimicrobial agent trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) in the management of children with persistent diarrhoea was evaluated in a double blind, randomised, and...
Islam, M.R., Alam, A.N., Hussain, M.S., Mahalanabis, Dilip
We observed the clinical features and results of simple laboratory tests on stools of 33 children with bacteriologically proven shigellosis to identify features that could be used to assess the...
Bacterial translocation in the rat model of lectin induced diarrhoea (1995)
Shoda, R., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Wahed, M.A., Albert, M. John
Red kidney beans were fed to weanling Long-Evans rats to cause diarrhoea (mean (SD) faecal wet weight: 2.66 (0.73) g/day in six rats fed beans v 1.12 (0.47) g/day in six control rats, p < 0.01) and...
Hypotonic oral rehydration solution in acute diarrhoea: a controlled clinical trial (1995)
Mahalanabis, Dilip, Faruque, A.S.G., Hoque, S.S., Faruque, S.M.
In a controlled trial, a hypotonic oral rehydration solution (ORS) (Na+67, K+20, Cl-66, citrate 7, glucose 89 mmol/l osmolality 249 mosmol/kg) was compared with a standard WHO-ORS (Na+90, K+20,...
Sarker, S.A., Mahalanabis, Dilip
On the basis of human perfusion studies it has been speculated that bicarbonate ions in oral rehydration salt solutions (ORS) to treat diarrhoea are more efficiently absorbed from the small bowel. We...
Comparative trial of five antimicrobial compounds in the treatment of cholera in adults (1995)
Khan, Wasif Ali, Begum, Monira, Salam, Mohammed Abdus, Bardhan, Pradip Kumar, Islam, Mohammed Rafiqul, Mahalanabis, Dilip
To compare the efficacy of ciprofloxacin, erythromycin, nalidixic acid and pivmecillinam in the treatment of tetracycline-resistant strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 in adults, a randomized, open,...
Public Health 1995 Jan;109(1):15-24 (1995)
Hoque, B.A., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Alam, M.J., Islam, M.S.
Inadequate handwashing after defecation and anal cleaning practices in the Indian subcontinent is an important source of faeco-oral transmission of enteric diseases. To better understand the process...
Antimicrobial treatment of adults with cholera due to Vibrio cholerae 0139 (synonym Bengal (1995)
Khan, Wasif Ali, Dhar, Ujjwal, Begum, Monira, Salam, Mohammed Abdus, Bardhan, Pradip Kumar, Mahalanabis, Dilip
Antimicrobial treatment of cholera (1995)
Salam, Mohammed Abdus, Khan, Wasif Ali, Begum, Monira, Bardhan, Pradip Kumar, Islam, Mohammed Rafiqul, Mahalanabis, Dilip
Noninasive assessment of gastric acid secretion by applled potential tomography[abstract] (1995)
Sarker, S.A., Bardhan, P.K., Rabbani, S.R., Alam, N.H., Hassan, M., Kibor, A., ...
Cholera in Bangladesh and Goma, Zaire 1994[conference paper] (1994)
Albert, MJ, Ansaruzzaman, M., Bardhan, P.K., Faruque, A.S.G., Faruque, S.M., Islam, M.S., ...
Hoque, Syed Samiul, Faruque, A.S.G., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Hasnat, A.
We studied the age specific distribution of enteropathogens in young children presenting at a large diarrhoeal diseases hospital in urban Bangladesh. A 5 per cent systematic sample was used to...
Islam, M. Aminul, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Majid, N.
Glucose-based oral rehydration salt (ORS) is an appropriate and cost-effective tool to treat diarrhoeal dehydration. In patients with a high purging rate, particularly due to cholera, rice-based ORS...
Islam, M.R., Alam, A.N., Hossain, M.S., Mahalanabis, Dilip
To compare the efficacy of oral gentamicin with nalidixic acid in the treatment of acute shigellosis, we studied, in a double blind-trial, 79 comparable children with bloody diarrhoea of less than 72...
Evaluation of the effect of hypotonic ORS in the treatment of adult cholera (1994)
Alam, Nur Haque, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Sarker, S.A., Bardhan, P.K.
Severity of cholera during concurrent infections with other enteric pathogens. (1994)
Faruque, A.S., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Islam, A., Hoque, S.S.
In a clinic-based case-control study in Bangladesh we evaluated whether children with diarrhoea due to V. cholerae O1 in association with other enteric pathogen(s) are likely to manifest more severe...
Roy, S.K., Tomkins, Andrew, Tait, Susan Fairweather, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Akramuzzaman, S.M., Dewan, Nahrina
Roy, S.K., Tomkins, Andrew, Tait, Susan Fairweather, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Akramuzzaman, S.M., Dewan, Nahrina
Mahalanabis, Dilip, Faruque, A.S.G., Albert, M.J., Salam, M.A., Hoque, S.S.
We describe the disease spectrum and socio-demographic and epidemiological features of an epidemic of cholera due to a new pathogen, Vibrio cholerae O139, in patients attending a very large hospital...
Islam, M. Aminul, Rahman, M. Mujibur, Mahalanabis, Dilip
To examine the relation of maternal and socioeconomic factors with the development of severe malnutrition in young children. DESIGN: A case-control study. SETTING: A large diarrhoea treatment centre...