Prevalence of Shigellosis among household contacts of index cases in the EFGH catchment area, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md Taufiqul Islam; Farhana Khanam; Md Nazmul Hasan Rajib; Md Ismail Hossen; Syed Qudrat-E-Khuda; Mahzabeen Ireen; Md Golam Firoj; Faisal Ahmmed; Prasanta Kumar Biswas; Amirul Islam Bhuiyan; S. M. Azadul Alam Raz; Md Parvej Mosharraf; Md Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan; Firdausi Qadri

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0013644

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Prevalence of Shigellosis among household contacts of index cases in the EFGH catchment area, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md Taufiqul Islam ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Supervision, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶☯ Contributed equally as joint first author

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Farhana Khanam ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶☯ Contributed equally as joint first author

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md Nazmul Hasan Rajib,

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md Ismail Hossen,

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Syed Qudrat-E-Khuda,

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Mahzabeen Ireen,

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md Golam Firoj,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Faisal Ahmmed,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Prasanta Kumar Biswas,

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Amirul Islam Bhuiyan,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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S. M. Azadul Alam Raz,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md Parvej Mosharraf,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Firdausi Qadri

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fqadri@icddrb.org

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division (IDD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-304X

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Prevalence of Shigellosis among household contacts of index cases in the EFGH catchment area, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md Taufiqul Islam,
Farhana Khanam,
Md Nazmul Hasan Rajib,
Md Ismail Hossen,
Syed Qudrat-E-Khuda,
Mahzabeen Ireen,
Md Golam Firoj,
Faisal Ahmmed,
Prasanta Kumar Biswas,
Amirul Islam Bhuiyan

Published: November 6, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013644

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