Publications by authors named "Ahamed Khairul Basher"
Background: To optimize vaccination strategies, it is useful to detect breakthrough infections and assess vaccine effectiveness in programmatic use. Monitoring emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and vaccine effectiveness against them is also essential to determine the most effective vaccine options. This study aims to monitor SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections, the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, and host immune response during the peri-infection period of COVID-19.
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- Frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) in low-income hospital settings are at high risk for contracting SARS-CoV-2 due to occupational exposure, with a significant portion of them being nurses and female.
- A study conducted in Bangladesh from July 2021 to July 2023 involving 3,436 HCWs found a prevalence rate of 26% for lab-confirmed COVID-19 infections, with nurses being most affected and physicians facing a higher infection risk compared to support staff.
- The findings highlight the need for targeted infection control measures, such as improving workplace safety and training, to protect HCWs and reduce the risk of transmission in healthcare settings.
The WHO Essential Medicines List Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification could facilitate antibiotic stewardship and optimal use. In Bangladesh, data on antibiotic dispensing in pharmacies according to the AWaRe classification are scarce. We aimed to explore antibiotic dispensing pattern in pharmacies according to the WHO AWaRe classification to aid pharmacy-targeted national antibiotic stewardship program (ASP).
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