Abstract

Bangladesh is a high risk country for emerging infectious diseases because of its high population density and poverty. Emerging Infectious diseases like influenza, HIV and SARS can threaten all people throughout the world. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collaborated productively with the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease research, Bangladesh for many years including with a cooperative agreement working on emerging infectious diseases since September 2004. This new project, builds upon the prior project's accomplishments. The project would provide an administrative, surveillance, and research platform that identifies emerging infectious diseases in Bangladesh and facilitates the collaboration of CDC scientists with local Bangladeshi colleagues in identification, characterization, and control of these threats. It would describe the burden of seasonal influenza in Bangladesh, maintain surveillance for dangerous emerging strains of influenza in Bangladesh, and develop and test strategies to reduce human influenza burden. It would characterize the risks of animal to human transmission of influenza virus at the human animal interface in Bangladesh and develop and evaluate strategies to mitigate that risk.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Center for Infectious Diseases (CID)
Type
Research Project--Cooperative Agreements (U01)
Project #
3U01CI000628-03S1
Application #
8461733
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZCI1-GCA (16))
Project Start
2009-09-30
Project End
2014-09-29
Budget Start
2011-09-30
Budget End
2012-09-29
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$260,000
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
International Center/Diarrhoeal Dis Research
Department
Type
DUNS #
731524711
City
Dhaka
State
Country
Bangladesh
Zip Code
1212

  Publications

Chowdhury, Fahmida; Sturm-Ramirez, Katharine; Mamun, Abdullah Al et al. (2018) Effectiveness of an educational intervention to improve antibiotic dispensing practices for acute respiratory illness among drug sellers in pharmacies, a pilot study in Bangladesh. BMC Health Serv Res 18:676
Hassan, Md Zakiul; Sazzad, Hossain M S; Luby, Stephen P et al. (2018) Nipah Virus Contamination of Hospital Surfaces during Outbreaks, Bangladesh, 2013-2014. Emerg Infect Dis 24:15-21
Ahmed, Makhdum; Aleem, Mohammad Abdul; Roguski, Katherine et al. (2018) Estimates of seasonal influenza-associated mortality in Bangladesh, 2010-2012. Influenza Other Respir Viruses 12:65-71
Rimi, N A; Sultana, R; Muhsina, M et al. (2017) Biosecurity Conditions in Small Commercial Chicken Farms, Bangladesh 2011-2012. Ecohealth 14:244-258
Saha, Samir K; Ahmed, Zabed B; Modak, Joyanta K et al. (2017) Group B Streptococcus among Pregnant Women and Newborns in Mirzapur, Bangladesh: Colonization, Vertical Transmission, and Serotype Distribution. J Clin Microbiol 55:2406-2412
Sazzad, Hossain M S; Labrique, Alain B; Teo, Chong-Gee et al. (2017) Surveillance at Private Laboratories Identifies Small Outbreaks of Hepatitis E in Urban Bangladesh. Am J Trop Med Hyg 96:395-399
Sarkar, Shamim; Khan, Salah Uddin; Mikolon, Andrea et al. (2017) An epidemiological study of avian influenza A (H5) virus in nomadic ducks and their raising practices in northeastern Bangladesh, 2011-2012. Influenza Other Respir Viruses 11:275-282
Hegde, Sonia T; Sazzad, Hossain M S; Hossain, M Jahangir et al. (2016) Investigating Rare Risk Factors for Nipah Virus in Bangladesh: 2001-2012. Ecohealth 13:720-728
Salje, Henrik; Lessler, Justin; Paul, Kishor Kumar et al. (2016) How social structures, space, and behaviors shape the spread of infectious diseases using chikungunya as a case study. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113:13420-13425
Chakraborty, A; Sazzad, H M S; Hossain, M J et al. (2016) Evolving epidemiology of Nipah virus infection in Bangladesh: evidence from outbreaks during 2010-2011. Epidemiol Infect 144:371-80

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