conclusions these findings underscored the importance of monitoring and developing guidelines for better management of infectious diarrhoea in bangladesh and elsewhere. background diarrhoea is considered as the most widespread illness occurring in bangladesh. in addition, the growing antimicrobial resistance of diarrhoeal pathogens in this developing country hardens physicians to supervise pati...

under 5 Years of Age Presenting to a Diarrheal Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1996 to 2007 Daniel Leung, MD; Sumon Das, MBBS; M.A. Malek; A.S.G. Faruque, MBBS, MPH; Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, MBBS, MMed; Edward T. Ryan, MD, DTMH, FIDSA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Ba...

Background: This review was performed to evaluate the trend of alcohol use, characteristics of consumers, alcohol use disorders and toxic alcohol intoxications in Bangladesh. In addition, sources and sales figures of alcoholic beverages, and number of legal permits issued for alcohol consumption are reported and analyzed. Methods: A narrative search was performed on available medical literature...

1. General Introduction 1.1. The lifecycles of Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris lumbricoides 1.2. Morbidity and burden of disease 1.3. Epidemiology and age profiles of infection 1.4. Predisposition and susceptibility to infection 1.5. Immunological responses and the peak shift hypothesis 1.6. Treatment and control 1.7. Helminth frequency distributions 1.8. Density dependence in helminth species ...

This paper examines the long run cointegrating relation and short run dynamics among carbon emissions, energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization, financial development and openness to trade in Bangladesh by using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach of cointegration. Empirical results for Bangladesh over the period 1975-2010 suggest an evidence of a long-run rel...

Background: Green pit viper bite is an important cause of morbidity in Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics and clinical presentations of green pit viper bite in Bangladesh. Methods: This prospective observational study was done in the department of Medicine in Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh. A total of 40 patients with history of green...

Background: Snakebite is the most important cause of envenomation in South Asia particularly in Bangladesh, though there is lack of data from the rural part of the country. About 82 species of snakes (28 venomous) exist in Bangladesh. In this study, demographic characteristics of the victim, circumstances behind the bite along with pre-hospital and hospital managements and outcomes were evaluat...

Author details International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 68 Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh. James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 5th Floor, (Level-6), icddr,b Building, 68 Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Library R...

s: Scientific Session 1: Health ecology and its potential challenges in Bangladesh by 2050 (50) M Shafiqur Rahman, DGHS. 03 Developing first responder training programme to prevent child drowning in a rural community in Bangladesh: Is it feasible? (43) Syed Jahangir Hussain, CIPRB. 04 Revitalizing Health for All: Developing a comprehensive primary health care model for Bangladesh (37) Taufique ...

Bangladesh, a developing economy, contains trade deficit from her very inception. This paper makes an effort to understand the time series behavior of total export and total import of Bangladesh. Unit root tests recognize the existence of random walk in total export and total import time series. Johansen cointegration test reveals long-run equilibrium relationship between these two variables. G...