| 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 |
| quantitative pcr assay of sewage-associated bacteroides markers to assess sewage pollution in an urban lake in dhaka, bangladesh. | this paper aimed to assess the magnitude of sewage pollution in an urban lake in dhaka, bangladesh, by using quantitative pcr of sewage-associated bacteroides hf183 markers. pcr was also used for the quantitative detection of ruminant wastewater-associated cf128 markers along with the enumeration of traditional fecal indicator bacteria, namely enterococci. the number of enterococci in lake water samples ranged from 1.1 × 10⁴ to 1.9 × 10⁵ colony-forming units/100 ml water. from the 20 water sampl ... | 2010 | 20962907 |