World wheat production is now under threat due to the wheat blast outbreak in Bangladesh in early March 2016. This is a new disease in this area, indicating the higher possibility of this pathogen spreading throughout the Asia, the world's largest wheat producing area. Occurrence of this disease caused ~3.5% reduction of the total wheat fields in Bangladesh. Its economic effect on the Banglades...

We characterized Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Vietnam to investigate their genetic relatedness and antimicrobial resistance. The isolates from Bangladesh and Vietnam were genetically closely related but were distant from those from Indonesia and Taiwan. All but a few isolates from Indonesia and Taiwan were susceptible to all antimicrobials t...

Nine districts in West Bengal, India, and 42 districts in Bangladesh have arsenic levels in groundwater above the World Health Organization maximum permissible limit of 50 microg/L. The area and population of the 42 districts in Bangladesh and the 9 districts in West Bengal are 92,106 km(2) and 79.9 million and 38,865 km(2) and 42.7 million, respectively. In our preliminary study, we have ident...

background: acute poisoning is a major public health problem in bangladesh. it is a common method for suicide. a clear picture regarding clinical presentation, most commonly used toxic agents, background factors and outcome of poisoned patients is necessary in every region. the aim of this study was to investigate frequency and outcome of acute pharmaceutical and chemical poisoning cases in nor...

the present study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of developmental stages of fasciola gigantica infection in lymnaea snails and their populations in sylhet region of bangladesh. a total of 1865 lymnaea snails were collected and examined, of which 56 (3%) were found to having infected with developmental stages of fasciola gigantica. only 4.08% infected of 515 snails were collected fr...

a. Dr. Md. Mamunur Rashid, Associate Professor, Dept. of HBPS, BIRDEM Hospital, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh b. Dr. Hashim Rabbi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of HBPS, BIRDEM Hospital, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh c. Dr. Azharul Islam, Dr. Muhd. Mustaque Husain, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Surgical Emergency, BIRDEM Hospital, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh d. Dr. Md. Mohsin Kabir, Assistant Professor, Dept. of GHP...

The beauty parlor industry is one of the fastest growing industries of Bangladesh. The lifestyle of people of our country has changed rapidly over the past few years. Realizing the importance of sound health and presentation, people are becoming more concerned about their health and beauty. Thousands of beauty-care service providers or beauty parlors have sprung up all over the country in the l...

Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to: Dr. M. Mostafa Zaman National Centre for Control of Rheumatic Fever and Heart Diseases Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207 Bangladesh (Present address: National Professional Officer World Health Organization House 12, Road 7, Dhaka 1205, Bangladesh) Email: [email protected] Fax: +880-2-8613247 Prevalence of Overweight Defined by Body Mass ...

This dataset contains Adult Male Equivalent (AME) values for use in Bangladesh. These were constructed using prescriptive nutritional constructs adapted to the actual growth and weight pattern seen in Bangladesh. This dataset provides a common base to facilitate for future work with household consumption and expenditure data in Bangladesh while updating the average energy requirements for infan...

Bryonopsis laciniosa Linn (Cucurbiataceae) is a rare climbing plant, locally known as Shromony (Kirtikar and Basu, 1984; Rahman, 1996). The plant was collected during September 1998 near the village Kakon hat of Borind tract of Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. The plant was identi"ed by Prof. N. Zaman, Dept. of Botany, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh and a voucher specimen (Voucher specimen no...