Mahmudur Rahman

TL;DR: S. pneumoniae was the most common bacteria causing acute meningoencephalitis among the study subjects, and Japanese encephalitis virus was present in few patients.

TL;DR: This paper introduces location centric profiles (LCPs), aggregates built over the profiles of users present at a given location, and introduces PROFILR, a suite of mechanisms that construct LCPs in a private and correct manner.

TL;DR: High waist-to-height ratio levels using sex-specific cut-offs were more common in females, urban residents, Christians, older individuals, married, the better educated and the nonpaid, and age and locality were identified as best predictors in males and females.

TL;DR: Investigation of the feasibility of conducting a phase III vaccine trial in Bangladesh found it would take 516 years and over 163,000 vaccine doses to run a ring vaccination trial under current epidemic conditions, and ring vaccination or cluster-randomized trials are unlikely to be completed within a reasonable time window.

TL;DR: Gastroparesis can be challenging to diagnose due to the lack of instrument, standardized method, and paucity of research data on normative value, risk factors, and treatment studies in Asian patients.