Udo, Edet E, Al-Mufti, Siham, Albert, M John
Abstract Background Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of food poisoning due to their ability to produce enterotoxins which if ingested in sufficient amounts results in sickness. Food handlers...
Albert, M John, Rotimi, Vincent O, Dhar, Rita, Silpikurian, Susan, Pacsa, Alexander S, Molla, A Majid, ...
Abstract Background The importance of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) infections in the Arabian Gulf including Kuwait is not known. The prevalence of DEC (enterotoxigenic [ETEC],...
Nahar, S., Byun, R., Katouli, M., Kuhn, I., Ansaruzzaman, M., Albert, M. John, ...
Objective: Investigate the clonal status of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains isolated from case-control studies in Bangladesh. Methodology: Eighty EPEC isolates from children with...
Talukder, K.A ., Albert, M. John
Objective: Determine the use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) in molecu [ar typing of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 strains from sporadic outbreaks and epidemic periods from different...
Faruque, Shah M., Siddique, A.K., Mekalanos, John, Albert, M.John
Objective: Analyze virulence-associated genes, and study clonal relationships among toxigenic Vibrio cholerae strains isolated in Bangladesh during 1961-1996 to establish whether seasonal epidemics...
Qadri, Firdausi, Mohi, M. Golam, Azim, Tasnim, Faruque, Shah M., Albert, M. John
A mouse monoclonal antibody (MAb ICT7) that is specific for Shiga toxin was produced. The MAb neutralises the cytotoxic effects of both purified Shiga toxin and culture extracts of Shigella...
Hossain, Muhammad Anowar, Kabir, Iqbal, Albert, M. John, Kibriya, AKMG, Alam, Khorshed, Alam, A.N.
Campylobacter jejuni was isolated from blood cultures bom 6 of 6»27S diarrhoea! children seeking treatment at the Clinical Research Centre of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease...
Epithelial cell invasiveness of non-enteropathogenic serotypes of escherichia coli (2007)
Albert, M. John, Ansaruzzaman, M., Bhuiya, N.A.
Current evidence suggests that cntcropathogcnic Escherichia coli (EPEC) of traditional serotypes possess a three-stage pathogcnesis: localised adherence (LA) to, attachment-ef-facement (AE) of, and...
Faruque, Shah M., Haider, Khaleda, Rahman, M. Monzur, Baqui, Abdullah H., Ahmad, Qazi S., ...
Six hundred and seventy-five Escherichia coti isolates obtained from 225 diarrhoeal children less than five years of age were tested for adherence to HeLa cells and for hybridisation with DNA probes...
Hasan, Khundkar Z., Pathela, Preeti, Alam, Korshed, Podder, Goutam, Faruque, Shah M., Roy, Eliza, ...
The incidence of aetiology-specific diarrhoea and the pathogenicity of infectious agents in a birth cohort (n=252) in rural Bangladesh were determined. Stool specimens or rectal swabs were collected...
Survival of Shigella dysenteriae Type 1 on Fomites (2007)
Islam, Md. Sirajul, Hossain, M.A, Khan, S.I., Khan, M.N.H., Sack, R.B., Albert, M.John, ...
Studies have shown that various objects, such as utensils, toys,a nd clothes, can serve as vehicles for transmission of Shigella spp. Shigellae can become viable but non-culturable (VBNC)when exposed...
Ansaruzzaman, M., Albert, M. John, Kuhn, I., Faruque, S.M., Siddique, A.K., Mollby, R.
The Phene Plate (PhP) system is a commercially available typing system based on the measurements of kinetics of selected biochemical reactions of bacteria grown in liquid medium in 96-well...
Khundkar Z. Hasan, Preeti Pathela, Korshed Alam, Goutam Podder, Shah M. Faruque, Eliza Roy, ...
The incidence of aetiology-specific diarrhoea and the pathogenicity of infectious agents in a birth cohort (n=252) in rural Bangladesh were determined. Stool specimens or rectal swabs were collected...
Albert, M. John, Ansaruzzaman, M., Talukder, Kaisar A., Chopra, Ashok K., Kuhn, Inger, Rahman, Motiur, ...
Aeromonads are causative agents of a number of human infections. Even though aeromonads have been isolated from patients suffering from diarrhea, their etiological role in gastroenteritis is unclear....
Kirov, Sylvia M., Barnett, Timothy C., Pepe, Cynthia M., Strom, Mark S., Albert, M. John
Although there is substantial evidence that type IV pili purified from diarrhea-associated Aeromonas species (designated Bfp for bundle-forming pilus) are intestinal colonization factors (S. M....
Gutierrez-Cazarez, Zita, Qadri, Firdausi, Albert, M. John, Giron, Jorge A.
DNA amplification of lngA, the structural gene of longus type IV pilus produced by human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was achieved by the use of specific oligonucleotide primers designed...
Attridge, Stephen R., Qadri, Firdause, Albert, M. John, Manning, Paul A.
Volunteer studies with Vibrio cholerae O1 have shown that the best correlate of a vaccine's protective efficacy is its propensity to elicit serum bactericidal responses in its recipients. Attempts to...
Matsumoto, Chiho, Okuda, Jun, Ishibashi, Masanori, Iwanaga, Masaaki, Garg, Pallavi, Rammamurthy, Thandavarayn, ...
Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains responsible for the increase in the number of cases of diarrhea in Calcutta, India, beginning in February 1996 and those isolated from Southeast Asian travelers...
PCR detection, characterization, and distribution of virulence genes in Aeromonas spp (1999)
Kingombe, Cesar Isigidi Bin, Huys, Geert, Tonolla, Mauro, Albert, M. John, Swings, Jean, Peduzzi, Raffaele, ...
We found 73.1 to 96.9% similarity by aligning the cytolytic enterotoxin gene of Aeromonas hydrophila SSU (AHCYTOEN; GenBank accession no. M84709) against aerolysin genes of Aeromonas spp., suggesting...
Case-control study of enteropathogens associated with childhood diarrhea in Dhaka, Bangladesh (1999)
Albert, M. John, Faruque, A.S.G., Faruque, S.M., Sack, RB, Mahalanabis, Dilip
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, is a major center for research into diarrheal diseases. The center treats more than 100,000 patients a year. To obtain useful...
Qadri, Firdausi, Ahmed, Firoz, Karim, M. Manjurul, Wenneras, Christine, Begum, Yasmin Ara, Abdus, Salam Mohammad, ...
The immunoglobulin subclass responses to homologous lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and to cholera toxin (CT) in adult patients infected with Vibrio cholerae O1 and V. cholerae O139 were studied....
Immune response of children who develop persistent diarrhea following rotavirus infection (1999)
Azim, Tasnim, Ahmad, S. Meshabahuddin, Sarker, M. Safiullah, Unicomb, Leanne E., De, Soma, ...
A prospective study was conducted with Bangladeshi children with rotavirus (RV) diarrhea to assess whether nutritional and clinical parameters, RV serotypes, levels of interleukin-10 (IL-10), tumor...
Rabbani, G.H., Albert, M. John, Rahman, Hamidur, Chowdhury, Asis Kumar
Short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), acetate, propionate, and butyrate, are produced by bacterial fermentation in the colon and stimulate Na+ and Cl- absorption. We have studied the effects of SCFA on...
Unicomb, Leanne E., Podder, Goutam, Gentsch, Jon R., Woods, Patricia A., Hasan, K. Zahid, Faruque, A.S.G., ...
We characterized 1,534 rotavirus (RV) strains collected in Bangladesh from 1992 to 1997 to assess temporal changes in G type and to study the most common G and P types using reverse...
Faruque, Shah M., Siddique, A.K., Saha, MN, Rahman, M. Mostafizur, Zaman, K., ...
Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal initially appeared in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh and spread northward, causing explosive epidemics during 1992 and 1993. The resurgence of V. cholerae O139...
Bhuiyan, Bahar Uddin, Rahman, Motiur, Miah, Mohammed Ruhul, Nahar, Shamsun, Islam, Nazrul, Ahmed, Monira, ...
Commercial sex workers (CSWs) serve as the most important reservoir of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including gonorrhea. Periodic monitoring of the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of...
Phagocytosis of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal by human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (1999)
Albert, M. John, Qadri, Fiedausi, Bhuiyan, Nurul A., Ahmad, Shaikh M., Ansaruzzaman, M., Weintraub, Andrej
Capsulated bacteria exhibit serum (complement) resistance and resistance to phagocytosis, which result in disseminated infections. Vibrio cholerae O139 strains possess a thin capsule and have been...
Casswall, Thomas H., Nilsson, Hans-Olof, Bergstrom, Mats, Aleljung, Par, Wadstrom, Torkel, Dahlstrom, Anders K., ...
Serologic methods to detect Helicobacter pylori in infants, especially in developing countries, may be limited because of decreased immune response caused by malnutrition. The true prevalence may...
Faruque, Shah M., Saha, Manujendra N., Albert, M. John, Islam, K.M. Nasirul, ...
Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae strains are lysogens of CTXPhi, a filamentous phage which encodes cholera toxin. The receptor for CTXPhi for invading V. cholerae cells is the toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP),...
Epidemiology, genetics, and ecology of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae (1998)
Faruque, Shah M., Albert, M. John, Mekalanos, John J.
Cholera caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae is a major public health problem confronting developing countries, where outbreaks occur in a regular seasonal pattern and are particularly associated with...
Sarker, Shafiqul A., Casswall, Thomas H., Mahalanabis, Dilip, Alam, Nur H., Albert, M. John, Brüssow, Harald, ...
Oral ingestion of immunoglobulins in humans has been shown to be effective as prophylaxis against enteric infections. However, its therapeutic effect in children with infectious diarrhea has hitherto...
Faruque, Shah M., Albert, M. John, Islam, K.M. Nasirul, Mekalanos, John J.
In toxigenic Vibrio cholerae, the CTX genetic element which carries the genes for cholera toxin (CT) is the genome of a lysogenic bacteriophage (CTXPhi). Clinical and environmental strains of V....
Unicomb, Leanne E., Banu, Nurun Nahar, Azim, Tasnim, Islam, Asma, Bardhan, P.K., Faruque, A.S.G., ...
Diarrhea is an important public health concern in developing countries such as Bangladesh. Diarrhea in children that persists for 14 days or more occurs in 7% of patients in Bangladesh and frequently...
Qadri, Firdausi, Mäkelä, P. Helena, Holmgren, Jan, Albert, M. John, Mannoor, Kaiissar, Kantele, Anu, ...
Enteric infections induce a response of circulating pathogen-specific antibody-secreting cells (ASC). The expression of homing receptors (HRs) on these cells was studied in patients with diarrhea...
Hossain, M. Anowar, Rahman, M., Ahmed, Q.S., Malek, M.A., Sack, R. B., Albert, M. John
A total of 14,915 shigella isolates obtained in 1991-1996 from patients attending the Dhaka (urban) and Matlab (rural) treatment centres of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,...
Association of Providencia alcalifaciens with diarrhea in children (1998)
Albert, M. John, Faruque, A.S.G., Mahalanabis, Dilip
It has been demonstrated in previous studies that Providencia alcalifaciens can produce diarrhea by an invasive mechanism. In the present study, P. alcalifaciens was isolated from the stool specimens...
Elliott, Simon J., Srinivas, S., Albert, M. John, Alam, Khorshed, Robins-Browne, Roy M., Gunzburg, Stuart T., ...
Escherichia coli strains producing alpha-hemolysin have been associated with diarrhea in several studies, but it has not been clearly demonstrated that these strains are enteropathogens or that...
Subclinical vitamin a deficiency in pre-school children living in urban slums of Dhaka City (1998)
Wahed, M.A., Haque, Rashidul, Talukder, Sadiqur R, Albert, M.John, Alvarez, J.O.
Objective: Assess the biochemical evidence of vitamin A deficiency in pre-school children living in the urban slums of Dhaka Methodology: To examine the separate and combined effects of low-dose...
Biochemical evidence of selected micronutrients defficiences in children living in urban slum (1998)
Wahed, M.A., Haque, Rashidul, Rahman, Hamidur, Jahan, F., Ahmed, T., Albert, M.John, ...
Investigation of the importance of Norwalk-like viruses in childhood diarrhea in Bangladesh (1998)
Azim, Tasnim, Podder, Goutam, Hasan, Zahid, Salam, M.A., Faruque, A.S.G., Albert, M.John, ...
Induction of fimbriated Vibrio cholerae O139 (1998)
Ehara, Masahiko, Iwami, Mamoru, Ichinose, Yoshio, Hirayama, Toshiya, Albert, M. John, Sack, R. Bradley, ...
Several fimbriated phases of Vibrio cholerae O139 strains were selectively induced and compared immunologically and biochemically with those of V. cholerae O1. Fimbrial antigens were detected on the...
Bardhan, Pradip K., Albert, M. John, Alam, Nur H., Faruque, Shah M., Neogi, Prodyot K.B., Mahalanabis, Dilip
The etiology of persistent diarrhea in children is multifactorial. The objective of the current study was to ascertain the role of microorganisms in the etiology and pathogenesis of persistent...
Albert, M. John, Qadri, Firduasi, Fuchs, George, Wahed, M.A., Baqui, Abdullah H., Clemence, John, ...
Unicomb, Leanne E., Kilgore, Paul E., Faruque, A.S.G., Hamadani, Jena D., Fuchs, George J., Albert, M. John, ...
Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea in children worldwide, and a vaccine may soon be licensed and available for use in immunization programs. To assess the need for a rotavirus...
Phenotypic and genotypic changes in Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal (1997)
Albert, M. John, Bhuiyan, Nurul A., Talukder, Kaisar A., Faruque, A. S. G., Nahar, Shamsun, Faruque, Shah M., ...
To find reasons for the recent decline of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal cholera in Bangladesh, phenotypic and genotypic changes in O139 isolates obtained from patients with cholera from 1993 to 1996...
Comparison of immune responses in patients infected with Vibrio cholerae O139 and O1 (1997)
Qadri, Firdausi, Wennerås, Christine, Albert, M. John, Hossain, Jaber, Mannoor, Kahssar, Begum, Yasmin Ara, ...
Vibrio cholerae O139 has recently emerged as the second etiologic agent of cholera in Asia. A study was carried out to evaluate the induction of specific immune responses to the organism in V....
Faruque, Shah M., Ahmed, Kazi Mokim, Siddique, A.K., Zaman, K., Albert, M. John
Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal emerged in 1992 and rapidly spread in an epidemic form, in which it replaced existing strains of V. cholerae O1 in Bangladesh during 1992 and 1993. The subsequent...
Qadri, Firdausi, Jonson, Gunhild, Begum, Yasmin Ara, Wennerås, Christine, Albert, M. John, Salam, M. Abdus, ...
The mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) is a type 4 pilus present in Vibrio cholerae O1 strains of the El Tor biotype, as well as in strains of serogroup O139. It has been shown to be a...
Toxin antibodies in the sera of children with shigella-associated hemolytic uremics syndrome (1997)
Azim, Tasnim, Rashid, A., Qadri, Firdausi, Sarkar, M. S., Hamadani, Jenna, Salam, M.A., ...
Albert, M.John, Islam, M.Sirajul, Faruque, Shah M., Ansaruzzaman, M., Siddique, A.K., Mollby, Ronald, ...
Faruque, Shah M., Ahmed, Kazi Mokim, Qadri, Firdausi, Siddique, A.K., Albert, M. John
The emergence of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal in 1993, its rapid spread in an epidemic form, in which it replaced existing strains of V. cholerae O1 during 1992 and 1993, and the subsequent...
Kühn, Inger, Albert, M. John, Ansaruzzaman, M., Bhuiyan, N.A., Alabi, S.A., Islam, M.S., ...
Aeromonas isolates from patients with diarrhea in Bangladesh (n = 69), from healthy controls (n = 11), and from surface water (n = 40) were analyzed with respect to their hybridization groups (HGs)...
The role of food in the epidemiology of cholera (1997)
Albert, M. John, Neira, Maria, Motarjemi, Yasmine
Cholera is an acute dehydrating diarrhoeal disease, traditionally caused by vibrio cholerae O1, and also more recently by V. cholerae O139 (Bengal). Traditionally, water was recognized as the primary...
Epidemiology & ecology of vibrio cholerae in Bangladesh (1996)
Siddique, A.K.M., Albert, M.John, Sack, R. Bradley, Islam, Md. Sirajul, Faruque, Shah M., Qadri, FIrdousi, ...
Azim, Tasnim, Sarker, Safiullah, Hamadani, Jena, Wahed, M.A., Haider, Ramesh C., Salam, M. Abdus, ...
Clemens, John, Albert, M. John, Rao, Malla, Huda, Shamsul, Qadri, Firdausi, ...
By the age of 10 years most children in developing countries have been infected by Helicobacter pylori Identification of clues to modes of transmission of this organism to children, as well as...
Azim, Tasnim, Qadri, Fiedausi, Ahmed, Sharmeen, Sarker, M. Safiullah, Halder, Ramesh C., Hamadani, Jena, ...
Antibody responses to the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of shigellae were compared between children with uncomplicated and complicated Shigella dysenteriae 1 infection. One hundred fifteen children...
Studies on the capsule of vibrio cholerae 0139 Bengal (1996)
Albert, M. John, Qadri, Firdausi, Weintraub, Andrej, Jansson, Per Erik
Qadri, Firdausi, Mohi, M. Golam, Chowdhury, Ashrafuzzamn, Alam, Khorshid, Azim, Tasnim, Sears, Cynthia, ...
A monoclonal antibody, ICT11, specific for the toxin of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) neutralized the cytotoxic effect of the toxin on human colonic cell line HT-29/C1. In an evaluation...
Kilgore, Paul E., Unicomb, Leanne E., Gentsch, Jon R., Albert, M. John, McElroy, Charles A., Glass, Roger I.
Rotavirus (RV) diarrhea is an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in Bangladesh and is responsible for 24% of hospital admissions for diarrhea in children from 3 months to 2 years of...
Nandy, R.K., Albert, M. John, Ghose, A.C.
Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal strain was the causative agent of the recent epidemics of cholera in India and Bangladesh. We studied antibacterial and antitoxin immune responses in acute and...
Dhar, Ujjwal, Bennish, Michael L., Khan, Wasif Ali, Seas, Carllos, Huq, Eradul Khan, Albert, M. John, ...
We prospectively compared the clinical features of cholera due to Vibrio cholerae O1 and V. cholerae O139 in 242 men 18-60 years of age, with a history of diarrhoea of 24 h or less, and moderate or...
Epidemiology & molecular biology of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal (1996)
The emergence of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal as the second aetiologic agent of epidemic cholera in October 1992 in the south Indian coastal city of Madras has shattered the long-held notion that only...
Unicomb, Leanne E., Faruque, Shah M., Malek, M.A., Faruque, A.S.G., Albert, M.John
The severity of group A rotavirus (RV) diarrhea was compared with that of mixed infections of RV with diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae O1, and Shigella species by a scoring system. The...
Islam, Md. Sirajul, Albert, M.John, Huq, A., Rahim, M. Zeaur, Felsenstein, Albert, Colwell, Rita R., ...
Lesmana, Murad, Albert, M. John, Subekti, Decy, Richie, Emily, Tjaniadi, Periska, Walz, Stephen E., ...
Strong positive CAMP reactions were demonstrated by 121 Vibrio cholerae O139 and 504 El Tor isolates, and weak positive CAMP reactions were shown by 235 non-O1, non O139 isolates when these isolates...
Azim, Tasnim, Sarker, Mohammed S., Hamadani, Jena, Khanum, Nargis, Halder, Ramesh C., Salam, Mohammed A., ...
This study was designed to see whether alterations occur in peripheral blood mononuclear cell phenotype and function in children with Shigella dysenteriae 1 infection with complications (leukemoid...
Faruque, A.S.G., Fuchs, G.J., Albert, M. John
At the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) Dhaka we studied the trends in cholera for the period January 1992 to May 1995. Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal emerged...
Characterization of Aeromonas trota strains that cross-react with Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal (1995)
Albert, M.John, Ansaruzzaman, M., Shimada, T., Rahman, A., Bhuiyan, N.A., Nahar, S., ...
It has previously been shown that Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal shares antigens with V. cholerae serogroups O22 and O155. We detected six surface water isolates of Aeromonas trota that agglutinated in...
Qadri, Firdausi, Mohi, Golam, Hossain, Jaber, Azim, Tasnim, Khan, A.M., Salam, M.A., ...
Vibrio cholerae serogroup O139, now considered to be the second organism capable of causing epidemic severe dehydrating cholera, contains a capsular polysaccharide which makes it difficult for it to...
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...
A prospective study of reactive arthritis triggered by shigella dysentery (1995)
Azim, Tasnim, Mitchison, N. Avrion, Sieper, Joachin, Salam, M. Abdus, Albert, M. John, Charron, Dominique, ...
Dalsgaard, A., Albert, M. John, Taylor, D.N., Shimada, T., Meza, R., Serichantalergs, O., ...
In February 1994, an outbreak of diarrhea caused by non-O1 Vibrio cholerae occurred among volunteers in a vaccine trial study area in Lima, Peru. Clinically, 95% of the patients presented with liquid...
Ridell, Jouko, Siitonen, Anja, Paulin, Lars, Lindroos, Outi, Korkeala, Hannu, Albert, M. John
Hafnia alvei strains which possess the attachment-effacement gene (eaeA) may have clinical importance as new diarrhea-causing pathogens and should therefore be differentiated from other H. alvei...
Peripheral blood neutrophil responses in children with shigellosis (1995)
Azim, Tasnim, Islam, Laila N., Halder, Ramesh C., Hamadani, Jena, Khanum, Nargis, Sarker, M. Safiullah, ...
Alterations in peripheral blood neutrophil function are known to occur in patients with colitis and may have a role in precipitating nonspecific tissue injury. It is not known whether neutrophil...
Cytokines in the stools of children with complicated shigellosis (1995)
Azim, Tasnim, Halder, R. Chandra, Sarker, M. Safiullah, Ahmed, Sharmeen, Hamadani, Jena, Chowdhury, Akhtaruzzaman, ...
The pathogenesis of the systemic complications, leukemoid reaction and hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with Shigella dysenteriae type 1 infection is not well understood. The excessive...
Impact of infection by Helicobacter pylori on the risk and severity of endemic cholera (1995)
Clemens, John, Albert, M. John, Rao, Malla, Qadri, Firdsusi, Huda, Shamsul, Kay, Bradford, ...
To evaluate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and the subsequent risk and severity of endemic Vibrio cholerae O1 diarrhea among rural Bangladeshis, 285 children and adults with...
Ansaruzzaman, M., Rahman, A., Neogi, P.K.B., Faruque, A.S.G., Rowe, B., ...
In initial studies of slide and tube agglutination tests of shigella-like isolates from diarrheal stools from Bangladesh, 10 and 8 strains of Shigella dysenteriae were identified as provisional...
Ansaruzzaman, M., Rahman, M., Bhuiyan, N.A., Islam, M.S., Albert, M. John
The sucrose-containing selective medium thiosulfate-citrate-bile salt-sucrose agar missed a sucrose nonfermenting and four sucrose late-fermenting variant strains of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal from...
Ansaruzzaman, Mohammed, Albert, M. John, Holme, Tord, Jansson, Per-Erik, Rahman, M. Mahbubur, Widmalm, Gorun
Controlled study of Escherichia coli diarrheal infections in Bangladeshi children (1995)
Albert, M. John, Faruque, S.M., Faruque, A.S., Neogi, P.K.B., Ansaruzzaman, M., Bhuiyan, N.A., ...
Diarrheal diseases are highly prevalent in Bangladesh. However, the relative contribution of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli organisms--those that are enterotoxigenic (ETEC), enteropathogenic (EPEC),...
Moraxella septicemia in children with diarrheal disease (1995)
Hoque, Syed Samiul, Alam, Ahmed N., Albert, M. John
We report 10 cases of Moraxella septicemia associated with diarrheal disease. Their clinical presentations and outcomes are discussed. Recognition of the pathogenicity of these microorganisms in...
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...
Qadri, Firdausi, Hasan, Jafrul A., Hossain, Jaber, Chowdhury, Ashrafuzzaman, Begum, Yasmin Ara, Azim, Tasnim, ...
A monoclonal antibody-based test, Bengal SMART, was developed for rapid detection of Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym Bengal directly from stool specimens. The test, which takes about 15 min to complete,...
Albert, M. John, Faruque, Shah M., Faruque, A.S.G., Bettelheim, Karl A., Neogi, P.K.b., Bhuiyan, N.A., ...
The role of cytolethal distending toxin (CDT)-producing Escherichia coli, a newly described category of E. coli, in the causation of diarrhea was studied by screening E. coli isolates from 546...
Popovic, Tanja, Fields, Patricia I., Olsvik, Orjan, Wells, Joy G., Evins, Gracia M., Cameron, Daniel N., ...
Since October 1992, > 150,000 cases of cholera have been reported from India and Bangladesh; the great majority of Vibrio cholerae isolates belong to the newly established serogroup O139. To better...
Neonatal diarrhea caused by Vibrio cholerae 0139 Bengal (1995)
Khan, A. Miraj, Bhattacharya, Mihir K., Albert, M. John
Cholera rarely occurs in children under 2 years of age. We describe diarrhea due to Vibrio cholerae 0139 Bengal, the newly described etiologic agent of cholera in a 4-day-old breast-fed baby....
Multiple-drug-resistant Salmonella gloucester infections in Bangladesh (1994)
Hoque, Syed Samiul, Salam, Mohammed Abdus, Faruque, Abu S.G., Albert, M. John
We describe three different cases of extraintestinal infections caused by multidrug-resistant Salmonella gloucester from Bangladesh that were associated with bad prognoses. These clinical...
Faruque, Shah M., Comstock, Laurie, Kaper, James B., Albert, M. John
Seventy-two clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1 from Bangladesh, and 12 and 9 isolates respectively from Tanzania and Nigeria were screened for sequences homologous to zonula occludens toxin...
Hafnia alvei in stool specimens from patients with diarrhea and healthy controls[note] (1994)
Ridell, Jouko, Siitonen, Anja, Paulin, Lars, Mattila, Leena, Korkeala, Hannu, Albert, M. John
We found an epidemiological association of Hafnia alvei with diarrhea, because the organism was isolated from 12 of 77 (16%) adult Finnish tourists to Morocco who developed diarrhea and from 0 of 321...
Qadri, Firdausi, Chowdhury, Ashrafuzzaman, Hossain, Jaber, Chowdhury, Khaleda, Azim, Tasnim, Shimada, Toshio, ...
A monoclonal antibody-based coagglutination test directly detected Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym Bengal in 83 of 120 watery diarrheal stool specimens; on culture, 90 samples were positive. Thus, with...
Diarrhea associated with Cyclospora Sp. in Bangladesh (1994)
Albert, M. John, Kabir, Iqbal, Azim, Tasnim, Hossain, Anowar, Ansaruzzaman, Mohammed, Unicomb, Leanne
A spherical acid-fast organism measuring approximately 10 microns in diameter (Cyclospora sp.) has recently been implicated in diarrheal diseases in many parts of the world. We detected this organism...
Johnson, Judith A., Salles, Carlos A., Panigrahi, Pinaki, Albert, M. John, Wright, Anita C., Johnson, Robert J., ...
Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym bengal is closely related to Vibrio cholerae El Tor but has important differences
Sack, R. Bradley, Albert, M. John, Alam, K., Neogi, P.K.B., Akbar, MS, Akbar, M.S.
We undertook a controlled study of children younger than 5 years in Bangladesh to determine whether enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) was associated with diarrhea in this population. ETBF...
Faruque, Shah M., Roy, Sanjit K., Khan, Ferdousi, Nair, G. Balakrish, Sack, R. Bradley, ...
Vibrio cholerae O139 synonym Bengal recently caused large epidemics of cholera-like disease in Bangladesh and India. We compared the restriction fragment length polymorphisms of ctxA and rRNA genes...
Extended serotyping scheme for Vibrio cholerae (1994)
Shimada, Toshio, Arakawa, Eiji, Itoh, Kenichiro, Okitsu, Tadayuki, Matsushima, Akiyoshi, Asai, Yoshio, ...
Qadri, Firdausi, Azim, Tasnim, Hossain, Anwar, Chowdhury, Ashrafuzzaman, Albert, M. John
Three mouse monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) (ICL3, ICL4, and ICL5) were produced that specifically recognized the lipopolysaccharide antigen of the newly recognized Shigella dysenteriae serotype-13...
Vibrio mimicus with multiple toxin types isolated from human and environmental sources (1994)
Ramamurthy, T., Albert, M. John, Huq, Anwarul, Colwell, Rita R., Takeda, Yosifumi, Shimada, Tae, ...
A collection of 13 strains of Vibrio mimicus, including both clinical and environmental isolates from different geographic regions, was examined for various toxins. One strain of environmental origin...
Hemagglutinating properties of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (1994)
Qadri, Firdausi, Haque, Azizul, Faruque, Shah M., Bettelheim, Karl A., Robins-Browne, Roy, Albert, M. John
Many intestinal bacterial pathogens possess hemagglutinating properties, which are indicative of their adhesive properties to the intestinal mucosal surface. To understand the bacteria-mucosa...
Pili of a Vibrio cholerae O139 (1994)
Nakasone, Noboru, Yamashiro, Tetsu, Albert, M. John, Iwanaga, Masaaki
The pili of a strain of Vibrio cholerae O139 were purified and characterized. They were morphologically, electrophoretically and immunologically indistinguishable from the pili with 16 kDa subunit...
Weintraub, Andrej, Widmalm, Goran, Jansson, Per-Erik, Jansson, Monica, Hultenby, Kjell, Albert, M. John
A newly described Vibrio cholerae serogroup--O139 Bengal, the causative agent of the recent large epidemics of cholera-like disease in the Indian subcontinent and neighbouring countries--possesses a...
Microbiological investigation of a duckweed project in Mirzapur (1993)
Islam, Md. Sirajul, Albert, M. John, Hoque, Bilqis Amin, Shahid, Nigar S., Ikramullah, M., Sack, R.B.
Large outbreak of clinical cholera due to vibrio cholerae non-01 in Bangladesh[letter] (1993)
Albert, M. John, Siddiqi, A.K., Islam, M.S., Faruque, A.S.G., Ansaruzzaman, M., Faruque, S.M., ...
Higa, Naomi, Honma, Yasuko, Albert, M. John, Iwanaga, Masaaki
Vibrio cholerae O139 (synonym Bengal), a novel serovar of V. cholerae, is the causative agent of large outbreaks of cholera-like illness currently sweeping India and Bangladesh. Eight randomly...
Popovic, Tanja, Fields, Patricia I., Olsvik, Orjan, Wells, Joy G., Evins, Gracia M., Carneron, Daniel N., ...
Johnson, Judith, Albert, M. John, Panigrahi, Pinaki, Wright, Anita C., Joseph, Aaron, Comstock, Laurie, ...
Do vibrio cholerae 01 express novel surface antigens during growth in the human gut (1991)
Attridge, Stephen R., Albert, M.John, Qadri, Firdausi, Islam, M.R., Voss, Elena
Islam, Md. Sirajul, Albert, M. John, Baqui, A.H., Felsenstein, Albert, Mahalanabis, Dilip, Sack, R.B.
The impact of infection at birth with rotavirus strains on subsequent rotavirus infection (1991)
Shahid, Nigar S., Albert, M. John, Banu, N. Nahar, Faruque, S.M., Unicomb, Leanne, Banu, Khaleda, ...
Mahalanabis, Dilip, Tzipori, S., Bardhan, Pradip Kumar, Haider, Khaleda, Albert, M. John, Haider, Eukhsana, ...
Faruque, Shah M., Siddique, A. K., Saha, Manujendra N., Rahman, M. Mostafizur, Zaman, K., ...
Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal initially appeared in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh and spread northward, causing explosive epidemics during 1992 and 1993. The resurgence of V. cholerae O139...
Unicomb, Leanne E., Podder, Goutam, Gentsch, Jon R., Woods, Patricia A., Hasan, K. Zahid, Faruque, A. S. G., ...
We characterized 1,534 rotavirus (RV) strains collected in Bangladesh from 1992 to 1997 to assess temporal changes in G type and to study the most common G and P types using reverse...
Prototypal Diarrheagenic Strains of Hafnia alvei Are Actually Members of the Genus Escherichia
Janda, J. Michael, Abbott, Sharon L., Albert, M. John
We analyzed five bacterial strains, designated 19982, 9194, 10457, 10790, and 12502, that were isolated from stool specimens of individuals with diarrheal illness by the International Centre for...
Case-Control Study of Enteropathogens Associated with Childhood Diarrhea in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Albert, M. John, Faruque, A. S. G., Faruque, S. M., Sack, R. B., Mahalanabis, D.
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, is a major center for research into diarrheal diseases. The center treats more than 100,000 patients a year. To obtain useful...
Qadri, Firdausi, Das, Swadesh Kumar, Faruque, A. S. G., Fuchs, George J., Albert, M. John, Sack, R. Bradley, ...
The prevalence of toxin types and colonization factors (CFs) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was prospectively studied with fresh samples (n = 4,662) obtained from a 2% routine...
Matsumoto, Chiho, Okuda, Jun, Ishibashi, Masanori, Iwanaga, Masaaki, Garg, Pallavi, Rammamurthy, Thandavarayan, ...
Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains responsible for the increase in the number of cases of diarrhea in Calcutta, India, beginning in February 1996 and those isolated from Southeast Asian travelers...
Rahman, Motiur, Alam, Ashraful, Nessa, Khairun, Hossain, Anowar, Nahar, Shamsun, Datta, Dilip, ...
An etiological study of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) was conducted among female sex workers (FSWs) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Endocervical swab and blood samples from 269 street-based FSWs were...
Gutiérrez-Cázarez, Zita, Qadri, Firdausi, Albert, M. John, Girón, Jorge A.
DNA amplification of lngA, the structural gene of longus type IV pilus produced by human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was achieved by the use of specific oligonucleotide primers designed...
Albert, M. John, Ansaruzzaman, M., Talukder, Kaisar A., Chopra, Ashok K., Kuhn, Inger, Rahman, Motiur, ...
Aeromonads are causative agents of a number of human infections. Even though aeromonads have been isolated from patients suffering from diarrhea, their etiological role in gastroenteritis is unclear....
Bhuiyan, Bahar Uddin, Rahman, Motiur, Miah, Mohammed Ruhul Amin, Nahar, Shamsun, Islam, Nazrul, Ahmed, Monira, ...
Commercial sex workers (CSWs) serve as the most important reservoir of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including gonorrhea. Periodic monitoring of the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of...
PCR Detection, Characterization, and Distribution of Virulence Genes in Aeromonas spp.
Kingombe, Cesar Isigidi Bin, Huys, Geert, Tonolla, Mauro, Albert, M. John, Swings, Jean, Peduzzi, Raffaele, ...
We found 73.1 to 96.9% similarity by aligning the cytolytic enterotoxin gene of Aeromonas hydrophila SSU (AHCYTOEN; GenBank accession no. M84709) against aerolysin genes of Aeromonas spp., suggesting...
Phagocytosis of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal by Human Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes
Albert, M. John, Qadri, Firdausi, Bhuiyan, Nurul A., Ahmad, Shaikh M., Ansaruzzaman, M., Weintraub, Andrej
Capsulated bacteria exhibit serum (complement) resistance and resistance to phagocytosis, which result in disseminated infections. Vibrio cholerae O139 strains possess a thin capsule and have been...
Immune Response of Children Who Develop Persistent Diarrhea following Rotavirus Infection
Azim, Tasnim, Ahmad, S. Meshbahuddin, Sarker, M. Safiullah, Unicomb, Leanne E., De, Soma, ...
A prospective study was conducted with Bangladeshi children with rotavirus (RV) diarrhea to assess whether nutritional and clinical parameters, RV serotypes, levels of interleukin-10 (IL-10), tumor...
Lipopolysaccharide- and Cholera Toxin-Specific Subclass Distribution of B-Cell Responses in Cholera
Qadri, Firdausi, Ahmed, Firoz, Karim, M. Manjurul, Wenneras, Christine, Begum, Yasmin Ara, Salam, Mohammad Abdus, ...
The immunoglobulin subclass responses to homologous lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and to cholera toxin (CT) in adult patients infected with Vibrio cholerae O1 and V. cholerae O139 were studied....
Susceptibility of Vibrio cholerae O139 to Antibody-Dependent, Complement-Mediated Bacteriolysis
Attridge, Stephen R., Qadri, Firdausi, Albert, M. John, Manning, Paul A.
Volunteer studies with Vibrio cholerae O1 have shown that the best correlate of a vaccine's protective efficacy is its propensity to elicit serum bactericidal responses in its recipients. Attempts to...
Epidemiology, Genetics, and Ecology of Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae
Faruque, Shah M., Albert, M. John, Mekalanos, John J.
Cholera caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae is a major public health problem confronting developing countries, where outbreaks occur in a regular seasonal pattern and are particularly associated with...
Qadri, Firdausi, Asaduzzaman, Muhammad, Wennerås, Christine, Mohi, Golam, Albert, M. John, Abdus Salam, Mohammad, ...
Cholera toxin (CT)-specific antibody responses of the immunoglobulin E (IgE) isotype in the sera of adult patients suffering from infection with either Vibrio cholerae O1, V. cholerae O139, or...
Kirov, Sylvia M., Barnett, Timothy C., Pepe, Cynthia M., Strom, Mark S., Albert, M. John
Although there is substantial evidence that type IV pili purified from diarrhea-associated Aeromonas species (designated Bfp for bundle-forming pilus) are intestinal colonization factors (S. M....
Association of Providencia alcalifaciens with Diarrhea in Children
Albert, M. John, Faruque, A. S. G., Mahalanabis, D.
It has been demonstrated in previous studies that Providencia alcalifaciens can produce diarrhea by an invasive mechanism. In the present study, P. alcalifaciens was isolated from the stool specimens...
Elliott, Simon J., Srinivas, S., Albert, M. John, Alam, Khorshed, Robins-Browne, Roy M., Gunzburg, Stuart T., ...
Escherichia coli strains producing alpha-hemolysin have been associated with diarrhea in several studies, but it has not been clearly demonstrated that these strains are enteropathogens or that...
Faruque, Shah M., Albert, M. John, Nasirul Islam, K. M., Mekalanos, John J.
In toxigenic Vibrio cholerae, the CTX genetic element which carries the genes for cholera toxin (CT) is the genome of a lysogenic bacteriophage (CTXΦ). Clinical and environmental strains of V....
Faruque, Shah M., Saha, Manujendra N., Albert, M. John, Islam, K. M. Nasirul, ...
Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae strains are lysogens of CTXΦ, a filamentous phage which encodes cholera toxin. The receptor for CTXΦ for invading V. cholerae cells is the toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP),...
Induction of Fimbriated Vibrio cholerae O139
Ehara, Masahiko, Iwami, Mamoru, Ichinose, Yoshio, Hirayama, Toshiya, Albert, M. John, Sack, R. Bradley, ...
Several fimbriated phases of Vibrio cholerae O139 strains were selectively induced and compared immunologically and biochemically with those of V. cholerae O1. Fimbrial antigens were detected on the...
Rahman, Motiur, Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Nahar, Shamsun, Datta, Simanti, Mashhud Ahmad, Milan, Sarker, Safique, ...
The complex relation between the genotype of Helicobacter pylori and its association with clinical outcome is not well understood. Studies in the West have showed that strains expressing certain...
Rahman, Motiur, Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Nahar, Shamsun, Datta, Simanti, Ahmad, Mian Mashhud, Sarker, Safique, ...
Albert, M. John, Soenarto, Yati, Bishop, Ruth F.
Nine different electropherotypes of rotaviruses occurred among 85 children with rotavirus diarrhea in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Eighty percent of the electropherotypes had a “long” RNA pattern...
Critical Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vibrio cholerae in the Environment of Bangladesh
Huq, Anwar, Sack, R. Bradley, Nizam, Azhar, Longini, Ira M., Nair, G. Balakrish, Ali, Afsar, ...
The occurrence of outbreaks of cholera in Africa in 1970 and in Latin America in 1991, mainly in coastal communities, and the appearance of the new serotype Vibrio cholerae O139 in India and...
Faruque, Shah M., Siddique, A. K., Saha, Manujendra N., Rahman, M. Mostafizur, Zaman, K., ...
Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal initially appeared in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh and spread northward, causing explosive epidemics during 1992 and 1993. The resurgence of V. cholerae O139...
Unicomb, Leanne E., Podder, Goutam, Gentsch, Jon R., Woods, Patricia A., Hasan, K. Zahid, Faruque, A. S. G., ...
We characterized 1,534 rotavirus (RV) strains collected in Bangladesh from 1992 to 1997 to assess temporal changes in G type and to study the most common G and P types using reverse...
Prototypal Diarrheagenic Strains of Hafnia alvei Are Actually Members of the Genus Escherichia
Janda, J. Michael, Abbott, Sharon L., Albert, M. John
We analyzed five bacterial strains, designated 19982, 9194, 10457, 10790, and 12502, that were isolated from stool specimens of individuals with diarrheal illness by the International Centre for...
Case-Control Study of Enteropathogens Associated with Childhood Diarrhea in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Albert, M. John, Faruque, A. S. G., Faruque, S. M., Sack, R. B., Mahalanabis, D.
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, is a major center for research into diarrheal diseases. The center treats more than 100,000 patients a year. To obtain useful...
Qadri, Firdausi, Das, Swadesh Kumar, Faruque, A. S. G., Fuchs, George J., Albert, M. John, Sack, R. Bradley, ...
The prevalence of toxin types and colonization factors (CFs) of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was prospectively studied with fresh samples (n = 4,662) obtained from a 2% routine...
Matsumoto, Chiho, Okuda, Jun, Ishibashi, Masanori, Iwanaga, Masaaki, Garg, Pallavi, Rammamurthy, Thandavarayan, ...
Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strains responsible for the increase in the number of cases of diarrhea in Calcutta, India, beginning in February 1996 and those isolated from Southeast Asian travelers...
Rahman, Motiur, Alam, Ashraful, Nessa, Khairun, Hossain, Anowar, Nahar, Shamsun, Datta, Dilip, ...
An etiological study of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) was conducted among female sex workers (FSWs) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Endocervical swab and blood samples from 269 street-based FSWs were...
Gutiérrez-Cázarez, Zita, Qadri, Firdausi, Albert, M. John, Girón, Jorge A.
DNA amplification of lngA, the structural gene of longus type IV pilus produced by human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) was achieved by the use of specific oligonucleotide primers designed...
Albert, M. John, Ansaruzzaman, M., Talukder, Kaisar A., Chopra, Ashok K., Kuhn, Inger, Rahman, Motiur, ...
Aeromonads are causative agents of a number of human infections. Even though aeromonads have been isolated from patients suffering from diarrhea, their etiological role in gastroenteritis is unclear....
Bhuiyan, Bahar Uddin, Rahman, Motiur, Miah, Mohammed Ruhul Amin, Nahar, Shamsun, Islam, Nazrul, Ahmed, Monira, ...
Commercial sex workers (CSWs) serve as the most important reservoir of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including gonorrhea. Periodic monitoring of the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of...
PCR Detection, Characterization, and Distribution of Virulence Genes in Aeromonas spp.
Kingombe, Cesar Isigidi Bin, Huys, Geert, Tonolla, Mauro, Albert, M. John, Swings, Jean, Peduzzi, Raffaele, ...
We found 73.1 to 96.9% similarity by aligning the cytolytic enterotoxin gene of Aeromonas hydrophila SSU (AHCYTOEN; GenBank accession no. M84709) against aerolysin genes of Aeromonas spp., suggesting...
Phagocytosis of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal by Human Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes
Albert, M. John, Qadri, Firdausi, Bhuiyan, Nurul A., Ahmad, Shaikh M., Ansaruzzaman, M., Weintraub, Andrej
Capsulated bacteria exhibit serum (complement) resistance and resistance to phagocytosis, which result in disseminated infections. Vibrio cholerae O139 strains possess a thin capsule and have been...
Immune Response of Children Who Develop Persistent Diarrhea following Rotavirus Infection
Azim, Tasnim, Ahmad, S. Meshbahuddin, Sarker, M. Safiullah, Unicomb, Leanne E., De, Soma, ...
A prospective study was conducted with Bangladeshi children with rotavirus (RV) diarrhea to assess whether nutritional and clinical parameters, RV serotypes, levels of interleukin-10 (IL-10), tumor...
Lipopolysaccharide- and Cholera Toxin-Specific Subclass Distribution of B-Cell Responses in Cholera
Qadri, Firdausi, Ahmed, Firoz, Karim, M. Manjurul, Wenneras, Christine, Begum, Yasmin Ara, Salam, Mohammad Abdus, ...
The immunoglobulin subclass responses to homologous lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and to cholera toxin (CT) in adult patients infected with Vibrio cholerae O1 and V. cholerae O139 were studied....
Susceptibility of Vibrio cholerae O139 to Antibody-Dependent, Complement-Mediated Bacteriolysis
Attridge, Stephen R., Qadri, Firdausi, Albert, M. John, Manning, Paul A.
Volunteer studies with Vibrio cholerae O1 have shown that the best correlate of a vaccine's protective efficacy is its propensity to elicit serum bactericidal responses in its recipients. Attempts to...
Epidemiology, Genetics, and Ecology of Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae
Faruque, Shah M., Albert, M. John, Mekalanos, John J.
Cholera caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae is a major public health problem confronting developing countries, where outbreaks occur in a regular seasonal pattern and are particularly associated with...
Qadri, Firdausi, Asaduzzaman, Muhammad, Wennerås, Christine, Mohi, Golam, Albert, M. John, Abdus Salam, Mohammad, ...
Cholera toxin (CT)-specific antibody responses of the immunoglobulin E (IgE) isotype in the sera of adult patients suffering from infection with either Vibrio cholerae O1, V. cholerae O139, or...
Kirov, Sylvia M., Barnett, Timothy C., Pepe, Cynthia M., Strom, Mark S., Albert, M. John
Although there is substantial evidence that type IV pili purified from diarrhea-associated Aeromonas species (designated Bfp for bundle-forming pilus) are intestinal colonization factors (S. M....
Association of Providencia alcalifaciens with Diarrhea in Children
Albert, M. John, Faruque, A. S. G., Mahalanabis, D.
It has been demonstrated in previous studies that Providencia alcalifaciens can produce diarrhea by an invasive mechanism. In the present study, P. alcalifaciens was isolated from the stool specimens...
Elliott, Simon J., Srinivas, S., Albert, M. John, Alam, Khorshed, Robins-Browne, Roy M., Gunzburg, Stuart T., ...
Escherichia coli strains producing alpha-hemolysin have been associated with diarrhea in several studies, but it has not been clearly demonstrated that these strains are enteropathogens or that...
Faruque, Shah M., Albert, M. John, Nasirul Islam, K. M., Mekalanos, John J.
In toxigenic Vibrio cholerae, the CTX genetic element which carries the genes for cholera toxin (CT) is the genome of a lysogenic bacteriophage (CTXΦ). Clinical and environmental strains of V....
Faruque, Shah M., Saha, Manujendra N., Albert, M. John, Islam, K. M. Nasirul, ...
Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae strains are lysogens of CTXΦ, a filamentous phage which encodes cholera toxin. The receptor for CTXΦ for invading V. cholerae cells is the toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP),...
Induction of Fimbriated Vibrio cholerae O139
Ehara, Masahiko, Iwami, Mamoru, Ichinose, Yoshio, Hirayama, Toshiya, Albert, M. John, Sack, R. Bradley, ...
Several fimbriated phases of Vibrio cholerae O139 strains were selectively induced and compared immunologically and biochemically with those of V. cholerae O1. Fimbrial antigens were detected on the...
Rahman, Motiur, Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Nahar, Shamsun, Datta, Simanti, Mashhud Ahmad, Milan, Sarker, Safique, ...
The complex relation between the genotype of Helicobacter pylori and its association with clinical outcome is not well understood. Studies in the West have showed that strains expressing certain...
Rahman, Motiur, Mukhopadhyay, Asish K., Nahar, Shamsun, Datta, Simanti, Ahmad, Mian Mashhud, Sarker, Safique, ...
Albert, M. John, Soenarto, Yati, Bishop, Ruth F.
Nine different electropherotypes of rotaviruses occurred among 85 children with rotavirus diarrhea in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Eighty percent of the electropherotypes had a “long” RNA pattern...
Critical Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vibrio cholerae in the Environment of Bangladesh
Huq, Anwar, Sack, R. Bradley, Nizam, Azhar, Longini, Ira M., Nair, G. Balakrish, Ali, Afsar, ...
The occurrence of outbreaks of cholera in Africa in 1970 and in Latin America in 1991, mainly in coastal communities, and the appearance of the new serotype Vibrio cholerae O139 in India and...
Rahman, Mokhlasur, Huys, Geert, Rahman, Motiur, Albert, M. John, Kühn, Inger, Möllby, Roland
The persistence and transmission of Aeromonas in a duckweed aquaculture-based hospital sewage water treatment plant in Bangladesh was studied. A total of 670 samples from different sites of the...
Identification of a Campylobacter jejuni Protein That Cross-Reacts with Cholera Toxin▿
Albert, M. John, Haridas, Shilpa, Steer, David, Dhaunsi, Gursev S., Smith, A. Ian, Adler, Ben
The question of whether Campylobacter jejuni produces a cholera toxin-like toxin (CTLT) has been controversial. The objective of this study was to identify the factor that cross-reacts with CT from...
Cystitis Caused by Aeromonas caviae▿
Al-Benwan, Khalifa, Abbott, Sharon, Janda, J. Michael, Huys, Geert, Albert, M. John
Aeromonas sp. organisms rarely cause urinary tract infection. We report for the first time a case of urinary tract infection caused by A. caviae in an adult patient with a history of increased...
Chau, Tran Thuy, Campbell, James Ian, Galindo, Claudia M., Van Minh Hoang, Nguyen, Diep, To Song, Nga, Tran Thu Thi, ...
This study describes the pattern and extent of drug resistance in 1,774 strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolated across Asia between 1993 and 2005 and characterizes the molecular...
Mokaddas, Eiman M., Rotimi, Vincent O., Albert, M. John
Streptococcus pneumoniae causes serious infections. Treatment is difficult because of the emergence of penicillin resistance in S. pneumoniae. Pneumococcal vaccines offer the promise of control and...
Major Outer Membrane Proteins from Many Campylobacter Species Cross-React with Cholera Toxin▿
Albert, M. John, Haridas, Shilpa, Adler, Ben
We have previously shown that Campylobacter jejuni strains do not produce a functional cholera toxin-like toxin (CTLT) detectable in a Chinese hamster ovary cell assay. Instead, the 53-kDa major...
Albert, M John, Rotimi, Vincent O, Dhar, Rita, Silpikurian, Susan, Pacsa, Alexander S, Molla, A Majid, ...
A study of typhoid fever in five Asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls
Ochiai, R Leon, Acosta, Camilo J, Danovaro-Holliday, M Carolina, Baiqing, Dong, Bhattacharya, Sujit K, Agtini, Magdarina D, ...
Al-Banna, Nadia, Raghupathy, Raj, Albert, M. John
Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of diarrhea in humans. A mouse lung model of infection was previously established for C. jejuni. We used this model to study cytokine production in the lungs and...
Dimitrov, Tzonyo, Dashti, Ali A., Albaksami, Ossama, Udo, Edet E., Jadaon, Mehrez M., Albert, M. John
Blood isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi from two recently returned Bangladeshi patients in Kuwait were ciprofloxacin resistant, with ciprofloxacin MICs of 12 mg/liter for both isolates....