Publications

isolation of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from bangladeshi children.	to determine the prevalence of infection with campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni in bangladesh, culture surveys were conducted among three populations. in dacca, campylobacter was isolated from 5.2% of 97 individuals with clinical dysentery and from 12.3% of 204 patients with only diarrhea. this difference may have resulted from a greater representation of young children in the second group. campylobacter was isolated from 17.7% of the 141 healthy village children aged 1 to 5.5 years and from 38. ...	1980	7309841
surveillance of patients attending a diarrhoeal disease hospital in bangladesh.	in october 1979 a surveillance system was set up at the international centre for diarrhoeal disease research, bangladesh, hospital at dacca to study a 4% systematic sample of the 100 000 patients with diarrhoea who come to the hospital for care each year. from december 1979 to november 1980 inclusive, 3550 patients were studied. a recognised pathogenic organism was identified for 66% of patients screened for all pathogens, one-third of whom had a mixed infection with two or more agents. enteroto ...	1982	6812801
serotypes of campylobacter jejuni isolated from patients attending a diarrhoeal disease hospital in urban bangladesh.	the serotypes of strains of campylobacter jejuni isolated from patients attending the international center for diarrhoeal disease research, bangladesh (icddr, b), dhaka, and from animals were ascertained by penner and hennessy's (1980) serotyping scheme. of 102 isolates from man, 74% were typable and serotypes 53, 15 and 22 predominated. of 26 isolates from animals, 65% were typable and serotypes 15 and 53 occurred frequently. the diarrhoeal illnesses associated with different serotypes were sim ...	1987	3694663
campylobacter jejuni as a cause of acute diarrhoea in children: a study at an urban hospital in bangladesh.	the importance of c. jejuni as an aetiological agent of childhood diarrhoea was investigated at an urban children's hospital in dhaka over a period of 1 year. c. jejuni was isolated from 25.5% of 102 diarrhoeal patients compared to 8.6% of 93 age and sex-matched healthy control children studied (p less than 0.002). the organism was isolated as a single pathogen in 17.6% of diarrhoeal patients. no c. coli was detected. the infection rate was significantly higher (p less than 0.05) amongst childre ...	1991	1995935
antigen profile of helicobacter pylori strains isolated from peptic ulcer patients in dhaka, bangladesh.	the whole-cell-extract and the acid-extract preparations of helicobacter pylori strains isolated from peptic ulcer patients and the nctc 11638 control strain were studied to compare their antigen profiles. besides, the anti-h. pylori-antibody profile in serum from h. pylori-infected peptic ulcer patients were also studied to define the antigen stimulating specific anti-h. pylori-antibody response in the infected patients. the whole-cell extract (wce) and the acid-extract (ae) preparations showed ...	1993	8031286
case-control study of enteropathogens associated with childhood diarrhea in dhaka, bangladesh.	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 information representative of all patients, a surveillance system in which a 4% systematic sample of all patients is studied in detail, including etiological agents of diarrhea, was installed in october 1979. the first paper on etiology for the surveillance patients was published in 1982, which identifi ...	1999	10523534
diarrhoea in elderly people: aetiology, and clinical characteristics.	we examined the characteristics of elderly people attending the dhaka hospital of icddr,b. the hospital has a diarrhoeal disease surveillance system that enrols a 2% systematic sample of all patients visiting the hospital. we reviewed data of all patients enrolled into the surveillance system (n = 13,782) over the period 1996-2001 to identify patients aged 60 y and above for inclusion into the current study (4% of all surveillance patients; n = 478). v. cholerae o1 was the most common enteric pa ...	2004	15119366
axonal variant of guillain-barre syndrome associated with campylobacter infection in bangladesh.	campylobacter jejuni enteritis is the predominant bacterial infection preceding guillain-barré syndrome (gbs), an acute postinfectious immune-mediated polyradiculoneuropathy. the purpose of this study was to define the clinical phenotype of gbs and the relation with preceding c jejuni infections in bangladesh.	2010	20157160