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Infectious Disease • Novel Coronavirus Disease

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Novel Coronavirus Disease

Molecular Phylogenetics and Biological Potential of Fungal Endophytes From Plants of the Sundarbans Mangrove. (PubMed, Front Microbiol) - "Their total polyphenol and flavonoid content and their FRAP value were also determined. All endophytes are reported for the first time in the plants under investigation."

Journal • PCR

Surveillance of plasticizers, bisphenol A, steroids and caffeine in surface water of River Ganga and Sundarban wetland along the Bay of Bengal: occurrence, sources, estrogenicity screening and ecotoxicological risk assessment. (PubMed, Water Res) - "A secondary effect, and a potential impact on human health could be reflected via fish consumption from the productive fisheries region along the lower stretch of River Ganga. Identification of areas of elevated estrogenicity, plasticizer and steroid concentrations in River Ganga can be used to design and implement interventions for the remediation of such emerging contaminants."

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Effects of cyclone Fani on the copepod community of the Ganges River estuary of India. (PubMed, Environ Monit Assess) - "The intensity of cyclones is increasing in the Indian Sundarban; therefore, following a cyclone, more severe and prolong disruptions of the copepod community are likely. Institutionalized monitoring of the cyclone-mediated ecological changes of the Ganges River estuary is therefore strongly recommended."

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Preliminary Report of Pyrethroid Resistance in Anopheles vagus, an Important Malaria Vector in Bangladesh. (PubMed, Am J Trop Med Hyg) - "Bangladesh, having made significant progress in malaria control efforts, has recently seen an upswing in malaria cases-58% of which occurred in Bandarban district. Anopheles vagus, the primary vector of malaria, was found to be resistant to both permethrin and deltamethrin-with only 29% and 55% mortality at 30 minutes, respectively. Intervention strategies in this area-all based on pyrethroids, may need to be reevaluated toward closing this gap in protection and increasing intervention efficacy."

Journal • Infectious Disease • Malaria

Opportunities for the development of drowning interventions in West Bengal, India: a review of policy and government programs. (PubMed, BMC Public Health) - "This is the first systematic analysis of both policy content and execution of government programs to provide comprehensive insights into possible implementation strategies for a health intervention, in this case drowning. Programs targeting specific health outcomes should consider interventions outside of the health sector that address social determinants of health. This may enable the program to better align with relevant government agendas and increase sustainability."

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Direct Germline Transformation of Cotton Meristem Explants With No Selection. (PubMed, Front Plant Sci) - "The most widely used marker free approach is probably the Agrobacterium-based 2 T-DNA strategy where the gene-of-interest (GOI) and selectable marker gene are delivered from independent T-DNAs (Darbani et al., 2007)...The marker-free transformation frequency in this no selection system was similar to current meristem transformation system with selection (0.2%-0.7%). The strategy for further improvement of this system and its implication in improving cotton transformation pipeline and in developing transgene-free genome editing technology is discussed."

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Mapping the travel patterns of people with malaria in Bangladesh. (PubMed, BMC Med) - "The approach demonstrated here provides a framework for identifying key traveller groups and their origins and destinations of travel in combination with knowledge of local epidemiology to inform malaria control and elimination efforts. Working with the NMEP, the findings were used to derive a set of policy recommendations to guide targeting of interventions for elimination."

Journal • Infectious Disease • Malaria

Determining child drowning mortality in the Sundarbans, India: applying the community knowledge approach. (PubMed, Inj Prev) - "Drowning is a major cause of death among children in the Sundarbans, particularly those aged 1 to 4 years. Interventions keeping children in safe spaces away from water are urgently required. The results illustrate how routine data collection systems grossly underestimate drowning deaths, emphasising the importance of community-based surveys in capturing these deaths in rural low- and middle-income country contexts. The community knowledge approach provides a low-resource, validated methodology for this purpose."

Clinical • Journal

Assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamination in the Sundarbans, the world's largest tidal mangrove forest and indigenous microbial mixed biofilm-based removal of the contaminants. (PubMed, Environ Pollut) - "Relative abundances of different microbial communities in PAH-sequestering biofilms revealed bacterial phyla including Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi and Planctomycetes as well as members of Ascomycota phylum of fungi. The dominance of Candida tropicalis, Clostridium butyricum, Sphingobacterium multivorum and Paecilomyces fulvus were established."

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System wide channel network analysis reveals hotspots of morphological change in anthropogenically modified regions of the Ganges Delta. (PubMed, Sci Rep) - "We find that the anthropogenically modified embanked regions have much higher levels of geomorphic change than the adjacent natural Sundarban forest and that this change is primarily due to channel infilling and increased rates of channel migration. Having a better understanding of how anthropogenic changes affect delta channel networks over human timescales will help to inform policy decisions affecting the human and ecological presences on deltas around the world."

Journal • KEAP1

Identifying peak breeding season and estimating size at first maturity of mud crab (Scylla olivacea) from a coastal region of Bangladesh. (PubMed, Heliyon) - "Live crabs were collected year-round from the river adjacent to southwest part of Sundarbans...The size at first maturity (M) was estimated as 95.5 mm CW which lied at size class 91-100 mm (CW). The findings from the study will assist in fixing up the banning time and thus protecting the mother crabs; and will assist in formulating police to conserve and protect juvenile crabs in the sense that the minimum legal capture size of crabs will allow the adults to mate and spawn at least once before their capture."

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Saving the Sundarbans from development. (PubMed, Science) - No abstract available

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Identification of conservation priority zones using spatially explicit valued ecosystem services: A case from the Indian Sundarbans. (PubMed, Integr Environ Assess Manag) - "The estimated CPZs were found to be highly consistent with the existing biodiversity zonations. The outcome of this study could be a reference for environmentalists, land administrators, researchers, and decision-makers to design relevant policies to protect the high values of the Sundarbans ecosystem."

Clinical • Journal

Forecasting mangrove ecosystem degradation utilizing quantifiable eco-physiological resilience -A study from Indian Sundarbans. (PubMed, Sci Rep) - "RDA analyses well represented response variables of degradation explained by explanatory resilience variables. We hypothesize that with the help of our predictive models the policy makers could trace even the cryptic process of mangrove degradation and save the respective forests in time by proposing appropriate action plans."

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