Shams El Arifeen

Impact of 4.0% chlorhexidine cleansing of the umbilical cord on mortality and omphalitis among newborns of Sylhet, Bangladesh: design of a community-based cluster randomized trial (2009)

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...

Arsenic Exposure During Pregnancy and Size at Birth: A Prospective Cohort Study in Bangladesh (2009)

Rahman, Anisur, Vahter, Marie, Smith, Allan H., Nermell, Barbro, Yunus, Mohammed, El Arifeen, Shams, ...

The authors evaluated the association of prenatal arsenic exposure with size at birth (birth weight, birth length, head and chest circumferences). This prospective cohort study, based on 1,578...

Child Health and Mortality (2008)

El Arifeen, Shams

Bangladesh is currently one of the very few countries in the world, which is on target for achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 relating to child mortality. There have been very rapid...

Sex and Socioeconomic Differentials in Child Health in Rural Bangladesh: Findings from a Baseline Survey for Evaluating Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (2008)

El Arifeen, Shams, Baqui, Abdullah H., Victora, Cesar G., Black, Robert E., Bryce, Jennifer, Hoque, D.M.E., ...

This paper reports on a population-based sample survey of 2,289 children aged less than five years (under-five children) conducted in 2000 as a baseline for the Bangladesh component of the...

Increasing Spectrum in Antimicrobial Resistance of Shigella Isolates in Bangladesh: Resistance to Azithromycin and Ceftriaxone and Decreased Susceptibility to Ciprofloxacin (2007)

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...

A Population-based Study of Hospital Admission Incidence Rate and Bacterial Aetiology of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections in Children Aged Less Than Five Years in Bangladesh (2007)

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...

Context matters: interpreting impact findings in child survival evaluations (2005)

Victora, Cesar G, Schellenberg, Joanna Armstrong, Huicho, Luis, Amaral, João, El Arifeen, Shams, Pariyo, George, ...

Appropriate consideration of contextual factors is essential for ensuring internal and external validity of randomized and non-randomized evaluations. Contextual factors may confound the association...

Comparison of Antibiotic Resistance and Serotype Composition of Carriage and Invasive Pneumococci among Bangladeshi Children: Implications for Treatment Policy and Vaccine Formulation

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...

Comparison of Antibiotic Resistance and Serotype Composition of Carriage and Invasive Pneumococci among Bangladeshi Children: Implications for Treatment Policy and Vaccine Formulation

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...

Molecular Basis of Resistance Displayed by Highly Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi in Bangladesh

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...

Setting Priorities in Child Health Research Investments for South Africa

Tomlinson, Mark, Chopra, Mickey, Sanders, David, Bradshaw, Debbie, Hendricks, Michael, Greenfield, David, ...

Nearly 100,000 children under 5 years die annually in South Africa. This paper defines health research priorities to address this unacceptably high mortality rate.

Setting Priorities in Global Child Health Research Investments: Guidelines for Implementation of the CHNRI Method

Rudan, Igor, Gibson, Jennifer L., Ameratunga, Shanthi, El Arifeen, Shams, Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Black, Maureen, ...

This article provides detailed guidelines for the implementation of systematic method for setting priorities in health research investments that was recently developed by Child Health and Nutrition...

How should we measure maternal mortality in the developing world? A comparison of household deaths and sibling history approaches.

Hill, Kenneth, El Arifeen, Shams, Koenig, Michael, Al-Sabir, Ahmed, Jamil, Kanta, Raggers, Han

OBJECTIVE: A reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is one of six health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, there is no consensus about how to measure MMR in the many...