Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns and Risk Factors Associated with Salmonella spp. Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Study (2021)
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Yusuf Osman, A., Ali Elmi, S., Simons, D., Elton, L., Haider, N., Azam Khan, M., …Kock, R. (2021). Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns and Risk Factors Associated with Salmonella spp. Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Study. Pathogens an international, open access journal of pathogens and pathogen-host interactions, https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10091160

The burden of antimicrobial use in agricultural settings is one of the greatest challenges facing global health and food security in the modern era. Malaysian poultry operations are a relevant but understudied component of epidemiology of antimicrobi... Read More about Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns and Risk Factors Associated with Salmonella spp. Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Diagnosis of Chikungunya Virus in Febrile Patients From a Malaria Holoendemic Area (2021)
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(2021). Diagnosis of Chikungunya Virus in Febrile Patients From a Malaria Holoendemic Area. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 247 - 252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.06.043

Accurate diagnosis of chikungunya (CHIK) is essential for effective disease management and surveillance. In a cohort of febrile Congolese patients, available diagnostic methods widely used in CHIK diagnosis were evaluated. In addition, plasma cytokin... Read More about Diagnosis of Chikungunya Virus in Febrile Patients From a Malaria Holoendemic Area.

Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation (2020)
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Vairo, F., Aimè Coussoud-Mavoungou, M., Ntoumi, F., Castilletti, C., Kitembo, L., Haider, N., …Ippolito, G. (2020). Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation. Viruses, 1020 - 1020. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12091020

<jats:p>The Republic of Congo (RoC) declared a chikungunya (CHIK) outbreak on 9 February 2019. We conducted a ONE-Human-Animal HEALTH epidemiological, virological and entomological investigation. Methods: We collected national surveillance and epidem... Read More about Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation.

Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018 (2020)
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Ghosh, S., Rana, M. S., Islam, M. K., Chowdhury, S., Haider, N., Kafi, M. A. H., …Jhora, S. T. (2020). Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article ARTN 2410. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59109-w

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006–2018 to quantify the im... Read More about Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018.

Awareness of rabies and response to dog bites in a Bangladesh community (2016)
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Ghosh, S., Chowdhury, S., Haider, N., Bhowmik, R., Rana, M., Prue Marma, A., …Ahmed, B. (2016). Awareness of rabies and response to dog bites in a Bangladesh community. Veterinary Medicine and Science, 161 - 169. https://doi.org/10.1002/vms3.30

Community awareness regarding rabies and treatment seeking behaviours are critical both for the prevention and control of the disease in human and animals. We conducted a study to explore people's awareness about rabies, their attitudes towards dogs... Read More about Awareness of rabies and response to dog bites in a Bangladesh community.

Non-random patterns in viral diversity (2015)
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Anthony, S., Islam, A., Johnson, C., Navarrete-Macias, I., Liang, E., Jain, K., …Lipkin, W. (2015). Non-random patterns in viral diversity. Nature communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9147

It is currently unclear whether changes in viral communities will ever be predictable. Here we investigate whether viral communities in wildlife are inherently structured (inferring predictability) by looking at whether communities are assembled thro... Read More about Non-random patterns in viral diversity.

Risk practices for animal and human anthrax in Bangladesh: an exploratory study (2013)
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Islam, M., Hossain, M., Mikolon, A., Parveen, S., Khan, M., Haider, N., …Luby, S. (2013). Risk practices for animal and human anthrax in Bangladesh: an exploratory study. https://doi.org/10.3402/iee.v3i0.21356

From August 2009 to October 2010, International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh and the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research together investigated 14 outbreaks of anthrax which included 140 animal and 273 human ca... Read More about Risk practices for animal and human anthrax in Bangladesh: an exploratory study.