Mullany, Luke C, El Arifeen, Shams, Winch, Peter J, Shah, Rasheduzzaman, Mannan, Ishtiaq, Rahman, Syed M, ...
Abstract Background The World Health Organization recommends dry cord care for newborns but this recommendation may not be optimal in low resource settings where most births take place in an unclean...
Willis, Jeffrey R., Kumar, Vishwajeet, Mohanty, Saroj, Singh, Pramod, Singh, Vivek, Baqui, Abdullah H., ...
Although gender-based health disparities are prevalent in India, very little data are available on care-seeking patterns for newborns. In total, 255 mothers were prospectively interviewed about their...
Determining Gestational Age in a Low-resource Setting: Validity of Last Menstrual Period (2009)
Rosenberg, Rebecca E., Ahmed, Saifuddin, Saha, Samir K., Black, Robert E., ...
The validity of three methods (last menstrual period [LPM], Ballard and Dubowitz scores) for assessment of gestational age for premature infants in a low-resource setting was assessed, using...
Setting Research Priorities To Reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Diarrhoea by 2015 (2009)
Olivier Fontaine, Margaret Kosek, Shinjini Bhatnagar, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Kit Yee Chan, Christopher Duggan, ...
Darmstadt, Gary L., Hussein, Mohamed Hassan, Winch, Peter J., Haws, Rachel A., Gipson, Reginald, Santosham, Mathuram
Neonatal deaths account for almost two-thirds of infant mortality worldwide; most deaths are preventable. Two-thirds of neonatal deaths occur during the first week of life, usually at home. While...
Baqui, Abdullah H, Rosecrans, Amanda M, Williams, Emma K, Agrawal, Praween K, Ahmed, Saifuddin, Darmstadt, Gary L, ...
Socio-economic disparities in health have been well documented around the world. This study examines whether NGO facilitation of the government's community-based health programme improved the equity...
Risk Factors for Invasive Pneumococcal Disease among Navajo Adults (2007)
Watt, James P., O'Brien, Katherine L., Benin, Andrea L., McCoy, Sandra I., Donaldson, Connie M., Reid, Raymond, ...
Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is 3–5 times more common among Navajo adults than in the general US population. The authors conducted a case-control study to identify risk factors for IPD among...
Baqui, Abdullah H., Rahman, Mahbubur, Zaman, K., El Arifeen, Shams, Chowdhury, Hafizur Rahman, Begum, Nazma, ...
The research was carried out to study the rate of population-based hospital admissions due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) and bacterial aetiology of ALRIs in children aged less than...
Saha, Samir K., Law, Paul A., Black, Robert E., Santosham, Mathuram, ...
Oil massage of newborns has been practised for generations in the Indian sub-continent; however, oils may vary from potentially beneficial, e.g. sunflower seed oil, to potentially toxic, e.g. mustard...
Baqui, Abdullah H., Rahman, Mahbubur, Zaman, K., Arifeen, Shams El, Chowdhury, Hafizur Rahman, Begum, Nazma, ...
The research was carried out to study the rate of population-based hospital admissions due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) and bacterial aetiology of ALRIs in children aged less than...
Bari, Sanwarul, Mannan, Ishtiaq, Rahman, Mohammed Anisur, Darmstadt, Gary L., Seraji, M. Habibur R., Baqui, Abdullah H., ...
The Projahnmo-II Project in Mirzapur upazila (sub-district), Tangail district, Bangladesh, is promoting care-seeking for sick newborns through health education of families, identification and...
Baqui, Abdullah H., Black, Robert E., Arifeen, Shams El, Yunus, Mohammad, Zaman, K., Begum, Nazma, ...
Excessive use of antibiotics for diarrhoea is a major contributing factor towards increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance in developing countries. Zinc therapy for diarrhoea has been shown to be...
Bari, Sanwarul, Mannan, Ishtiaq, Rahman, Mohammed Anisur, Darmstadt, Gary L., Habibur, M., Seraji, R., ...
The Projahnmo-II Project in Mirzapur upazila (sub-district), Tangail district, Bangladesh, is promoting care-seeking for sick newborns through health education of families, identification and...
Osendarp, Saskia J. M., Fuchs, George J., Mahmud, Hasan, Tofail, Fahmida, Black, Robert E., ...
An essential role for zinc in development of the fetal immune system has been documented. However, the effect of antenatal zinc supplementation on infants’ postnatal immune response to vaccinations...
Osendarp, Saskia J. M., Fuchs, George J., Mahmud, Hasan, Tofail, Fahmida, Black, Robert E., ...
An essential role for zinc in development of the fetal immune system has been documented. However, the effect of antenatal zinc supplementation on infants’ postnatal immune response to vaccinations...
Osendarp, Saskia J. M., Fuchs, George J., Mahmud, Hasan, Tofail, Fahmida, Black, Robert E., ...
An essential role for zinc in development of the fetal immune system has been documented. However, the effect of antenatal zinc supplementation on infants’ postnatal immune response to vaccinations...
CHERIAN, THOMAS, MULHOLLAND, EDWARD KIM, CARLIN, JOHN BROOKE, OSTENSEN, HARALD, AMIN, RUHUL, DE CAMPO, MARGARET, ...
CHERIAN, THOMAS, MULHOLLAND, EDWARD KIM, CARLIN, JOHN BROOKE, OSTENSEN, HARALD, AMIN, RUHUL, DE CAMPO, MARGARET, ...
Potential Impact of Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccines on Pediatric Pneumococcal Diseases (2004)
OBrien, Katherine L., Santosham, Mathuram
Children younger than age 2 years have the highest rates of invasive pneumococcal disease and play an important role in its transmission. In the United States, seven pneumococcal serotypes cause...
OBrien, Katherine L., Shaw, Jana, Weatherholtz, Robert, Reid, Raymond, Watt, James, Croll, Janne, ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of invasive bacterial disease among children worldwide. The authors aimed to determine the incidence, clinical characteristics, and serotype...
Moulton, Lawrence H, Chung, Shang-en, Croll, Janné, Reid, Raymond, Weatherholtz, Robert C, Santosham, Mathuram
Background Oropharyngeal carriage studies of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and the rapid drop in Hib invasive disease in countries with widespread Hib conjugate vaccine immunization programmes...
Brooks, W. Abdullah, Faruque, A.S.G., Wahed, M.A., Fuchs, George, Black, Robert, Santosham, Mathuram, ...
Brooks, W. Abdullah, Faruque, A.S.G., Wahed, M.A., Fuchs, George, Black, Robert, Santosham, Mathuram, ...
Brooks, W. Abdullah, Faruque, A.S.G., Wahed, M.A., Fuchs, George, Black, Robert E., Santosham, Mathuram
Brooks, W. Wahed, Faruque, A.S.G., Wahed, M.A., Fuchs, George, Black, Robert, Santosham, Mathuram, ...
Interrater Agreement in the Assessment of Dehydration in Infants (1997)
DUGGAN, CHRISTOPHER, REFAT, MAMDOUH, HASHEM, MOHAMED, FAYAD, IBRAHIM, SANTOSHAM, MATHURAM
Effect of diarrhea on the humoral response to oral polio vaccination (1996)
Myaux, Jacques A., Unicomb, Leanne, Besser, Richard E., Modlin, John F., Uzma, A., Islam, Aminul M., ...
The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of concurrent diarrheal illness on seroconversion to trivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV). METHODS: Six- to 16-week-old infants with acute diarrhea...
Case-Cohort Analysis of Case-Coverage Studies of Vaccine Effectiveness (1995)
Moulton, Lawrence H., Wolff, Mark C., Brenneman, George, Santosham, Mathuram
Evaluation of vaccine field effectiveness may be performed by combining surveillance data on incident cases with an immunization coverage survey. Although many methods have been used for the analysis...
Rotavirus Diarrhoea in Apache Children: A Case-Control Study (1990)
MENON, SRIKUMAR, SANTOSHAM, MATHURAM, REID, RAYMOND, ALMEIDO-HILL, JEANNE, SACK, R BRADLEY, COMSTOCK, GEORGE W
Menon S (Division of Geographic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA), Santosham M, Reid R, Almeido-Hill J, Sack R B and Comstock G W. Rotavirus...
Saha, Samir K., Darmstadt, Gary L., Baqui, Abdullah H., Hanif, M., Ruhulamin, M., Santosham, Mathuram, ...
The turnaround time (TAT) for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi identification and reporting of the antibiotic susceptibility profile was determined for 391 cases of typhoid fever, using the lysis...
Transient and Persistent Helicobacter pylori Colonization in Native American Children
Pérez-Pérez, Guillermo I., Sack, R. Bradley, Reid, Raymond, Santosham, Mathuram, Croll, Janne, Blaser, Martin J.
Helicobacter pylori is chiefly acquired in childhood, but the exact timing of acquisition is not well understood. The main goal of this study was to assess H. pylori acquisition in a pediatric...
Saha, Samir K., Baqui, Abdullah H., Darmstadt, Gary L., Ruhulamin, M., Hanif, Mohammed, El Arifeen, Shams, ...
The nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae is thought to pose a risk for invasive pneumococcal diseases, and the evaluation of carriage strains is thus often used to inform antibiotic...
Nasopharyngeal versus Oropharyngeal Sampling for Detection of Pneumococcal Carriage in Adults
Watt, James P., O'Brien, Katherine L., Katz, Scott, Bronsdon, Melinda A., Elliott, John, Dallas, Jean, ...
Several studies have shown that nasopharyngeal sampling is more sensitive than oropharyngeal sampling for the detection of pneumococcal carriage in children. The data for adults are limited and...
Saha, Samir K., Darmstadt, Gary L., Baqui, Abdullah H., Hanif, M., Ruhulamin, M., Santosham, Mathuram, ...
The turnaround time (TAT) for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi identification and reporting of the antibiotic susceptibility profile was determined for 391 cases of typhoid fever, using the lysis...
Transient and Persistent Helicobacter pylori Colonization in Native American Children
Pérez-Pérez, Guillermo I., Sack, R. Bradley, Reid, Raymond, Santosham, Mathuram, Croll, Janne, Blaser, Martin J.
Helicobacter pylori is chiefly acquired in childhood, but the exact timing of acquisition is not well understood. The main goal of this study was to assess H. pylori acquisition in a pediatric...
Saha, Samir K., Baqui, Abdullah H., Darmstadt, Gary L., Ruhulamin, M., Hanif, Mohammed, El Arifeen, Shams, ...
The nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae is thought to pose a risk for invasive pneumococcal diseases, and the evaluation of carriage strains is thus often used to inform antibiotic...
Nasopharyngeal versus Oropharyngeal Sampling for Detection of Pneumococcal Carriage in Adults
Watt, James P., O'Brien, Katherine L., Katz, Scott, Bronsdon, Melinda A., Elliott, John, Dallas, Jean, ...
Several studies have shown that nasopharyngeal sampling is more sensitive than oropharyngeal sampling for the detection of pneumococcal carriage in children. The data for adults are limited and...
Saha, Samir K., Darmstadt, Gary L., Baqui, Abdullah H., Crook, Derrick W., Islam, M. Nurul, Islam, Maksuda, ...
Highly ciprofloxacin-resistant (MIC, 512 μg/ml) strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi were isolated from the blood of typhoid patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The strains were indistinguishable...
Basset, Alan, Trzcinski, Krzysztof, Hermos, Christina, O'Brien, Katherine L., Reid, Raymond, Santosham, Mathuram, ...
The recent discovery of a mobile genetic element encoding a pilus-like structure in Streptococcus pneumoniae and the demonstration of a role for the pilus in virulence in mice have led to the...
Asghar, Rai, Banajeh, Salem, Egas, Josefina, Hibberd, Patricia, Iqbal, Imran, Katep-Bwalya, Mary, ...
Objective To evaluate whether five days’ treatment with injectable ampicillin plus gentamicin compared with chloramphenicol reduces treatment failure in children aged 2-59 months with community...
Saha, Samir K., Darmstadt, Gary L., Baqui, Abdullah H., Hossain, Belal, Islam, Maksuda, Foster, Dona, ...
Setting Research Priorities To Reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Diarrhoea by 2015
Fontaine, Olivier, Kosek, Margaret, Bhatnagar, Shinjini, Boschi-Pinto, Cynthia, Chan, Kit Yee, Duggan, Christopher, ...
Olivier Fontaine and colleagues applied a priority-setting methodology to identify research priorities aimed at reducing global diarrhea mortality by 2015.
Validation of community health workers’ assessment of neonatal illness in rural Bangladesh
Darmstadt, Gary L, Baqui, Abdullah H, Choi, Yoonjoung, Bari, Sanwarul, Rahman, Syed M, Mannan, Ishtiaq, ...
Baqui, Abdullah H, Ahmed, Saifuddin, Arifeen, Shams El, Darmstadt, Gary L, Rosecrans, Amanda M, Mannan, Ishtiaq, ...
Objective To assess the effect of the timing of first postnatal home visit by community health workers on neonatal mortality.