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 6ยป27S 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...
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...
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, ...
Albert, M. John, Qadri, Firduasi, Fuchs, George, Wahed, M.A., Baqui, Abdullah H., Clemence, John, ...
Albert, M.John, Islam, M.Sirajul, Faruque, Shah M., Ansaruzzaman, M., Siddique, A.K., Mollby, Ronald, ...
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....