Blood samples to help track recent cholera infection

icddr,b researchers and US collaborators have developed a method to use blood samples to identify individuals recently infected with cholera in order to improve cholera surveillance.

 

Diarrhoea bug develops resistance to Colistin, antibiotic widely used for poultry

A major diarrhoea-causing pathogen Escherichia coli (E. coli) in Dhaka city sludge has shown resistance to 11 different antibiotics including Colistin - a last-resort antibiotic for infection control, widely used in the poultry industry.

Are antibiotic-resistant bacteria in soil a threat to WASH?

Around 40% of E. coli bacteria in household soil, with 10% having the potential to cause diarrhoeal diseases, have shown resistance to at least one antibiotic, found an icddr,b study in rural Bangladesh.

Radically cleaner environment may be essential to cut childhood stunting

Improved drinking water, sanitation and handwashing (WASH) with nutrition intervention successfully cut childhood diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh, found a new study by icddr,b.

How the Cholera bacteria resist viruses that attack them

An icddr,b study has shown how a proportion of the epidemic cholera bacteria survive attack by viruses that kill bacteria to cause the subsequent epidemic in the next season.

icddr,b scientists awarded for OCV development

icddr,b executive director Prof John Clemens MD has received Prince Mahidol Award jointly with Prof Jan Holmgren for their contribution in developing world’s only safe, effective and affordable and internationally licensed oral cholera vaccine (OCV).

Pit latrine minor contributor to diarrhoeal diseases in Bangladesh

Groundwater is more often contaminated due to poor hygiene inside tube wells and water containers stored in households, suggests a new icddr,b study.

icddr,b treatment guideline effective for persistent diarrhoea

Patients admitted with persistent diarrhoea (PD) at icddr,b have had up to 95 percent recovery in recent years, indicates icddr,b hospital data.

Can global warming trigger cholera outbreaks?

Published in Nature Disease Primer, a recent review co-authored by icddr,b researchers suggests that rising sea temperature caused by climate change may be favouring the incidence of different vibrio-related diseases, caused by some virulent Vibrio species.

Rohingya population displacement: Concern for spread of drug-resistant malaria?

Influx of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMNs) in Bangladesh increased population movements around the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region.

Human genetic differences, rotavirus susceptibility and vaccine efficacy

Globally, rotavirus claims lives of around 215,000 children every year, mainly in low-income countries. Susceptibility to this infection may be connected to hereditary differences in histo-blood group antigen phenotypes.

Hearing loss screening for patients with TB and diabetes urged

An icddr,b study in collaboration with National TB Control Program (NTP) has found that patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) also having diabetes may be more likely to experience early hearing loss.

Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis: how icddr,b responded to emergencies

icddr,b played a key role to prevent disease outbreak among the Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMNs) seeking refuge in Bangladesh.

Behaviour change intervention found effective in improving urban slum hygiene

Hygiene practice of shared toilets within urban slums have shown improvements due to behaviour change intervention coupled with sanitation support.

Clinical features useful for early detection of pneumonia

An icddr,b study found additional simple clinical features helpful to distinguish the cause of rapid breathing in children with diarrhoea in order to facilitate appropriate treatment in time.

Arsenic shown to cause diarrhoea and affect lung function

Those exposed to arsenic in Bangladesh may be at higher risk of childhood respiratory tract infection and diarrhoea, suggests a new systematic review by icddr,b.

icddr,b responds to Yemen cholera outbreak

From war-torn Yemen, physicians and nurses arrive at icddr,b for hands-on training on tackling cholera outbreaks as hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people continue to face countrywide epidemic.

icddr,b joins global efforts to improve respiratory health

icddr,b teams up with a new global health research initiative on respiratory health that focuses on reducing the impact of lung diseases worldwide.

Unsafe water and poor sanitation continue to trigger Hepatitis E

Recent icddr,b studies have shown that surveillance of diagnostic laboratories can detect small HEV outbreaks in urban Bangladesh, and that people exposed to pigs can be at a higher risk of jaundice due to poor waste disposal.

When diarrhoea from Shigella could prove fatal

The pathogen Shigella causes diarrhoea known as Shigellosis. It often leads to that condition when a patient’s brain is affected, showing symptoms of seizures, altered consciousness or even developing coma.

icddr,b contributes to lowering regional and global burden of Malaria

Malaria prevalence in Bangladesh's endemic districts declined from 40 to less than 2 people per 1000 population.