Muntasir Alam
muntasiralam.bsky.social
Muntasir Alam
@muntasiralam.bsky.social
Microbiologist from Bangladesh
Happy to announce our initial work on validation of Pseudovirus neutralization assay for Nipah vaccine evaluation. The work was funded by CEPI.

#NipahVirus
#100daysMission
#CEPI
Development and Validation of a Standardized Pseudotyped Virus-Based Neutralization Assay for Assessment of Anti-Nipah Virus Neutralizing Activity in Candidate Nipah Vaccines - PubMed
<span><b>Background:</b> An effective vaccine against Nipah virus (NiV) is crucial due to its high fatality rate and recurrent outbreaks in South and Southeast Asia. Vaccine development is challenged ...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Last month, Health Emergencies Response Canada (HERC) and CEPI co-chaired a roundtable in Ottawa with organisations funding and delivering R&D for diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics for epidemic and pandemic threats.
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We published a stillbirth case by novel Listeria monocytogenes in Bangladesh. It seems a distinct genotype is living in the country in absence of genomic investigation.

#Listeria #Stillbirth #GenomicEpidemiology #Bangladesh
A novel virulent core genome multilocus sequence type CT 11424 of Listeria monocytogenes isolate causing stillbirth in Bangladesh | BMC Microbiology
rdcu.be
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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📃Scientific paper: Association of scrub typhus with incidence of dementia: a nationwide population-based cohort study i...

➡️ Continued on ES/IODE

May 27, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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Epidemiological features of scrub typhus and molecular characteristics of Orientia tsutsugamushi in north-central Bangladesh https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39995505/
February 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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"Overlooked" #ScrubTyphus may affect 1 in 10 in rural India, study suggests

Wolf-Peter Schmidt says more awareness needed in rural communities to warn of scrub typhus dangers, as findings show #infections as leading cause of fever hospitalisations.🌡️🌏

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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#MeetOurResearchers video interview with Carlo Perrone @moru-mip.bsky.social

Improving #ScrubTyphus detection and prevention

In northern Thailand, MORU researchers focus on scrub typhus, a disease transmitted by small bugs in rural environments

Watch the video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BznB...
March 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM