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Rubhana Raqib is affiliated with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh and has contributed extensively in fields relating to medicine and environmental science. Their research spans various subfields including infectious diseases, health toxicology and mutagenesis, obstetrics and gynecology, nutrition and dietetics, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist has published numerous papers addressing topics such as heavy metal exposure and toxicity, pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, birth, development, and health, recycling and waste management techniques, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and child nutrition and water access.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Raqib include:

  • Protim Sarker
  • Md. Ahsanul Haq
  • Rasheda Khanam
  • Abdullah H Baqui
  • Evana Akhtar

Raqib's work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, most notably:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Journal of Global Health

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Rubhana Raqib include:

  • "Prenatal Environmental Metal Exposure and Preterm Birth: A Scoping Review" (2021), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Host Directed Therapy Against Infection by Boosting Innate Immunity" (2020), published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Host-Directed Therapy as a Novel Treatment Strategy to Overcome Tuberculosis: Targeting Immune Modulation" (2020), published in Antibiotics
  • "A longitudinal study of rural Bangladeshi children with long-term arsenic and cadmium exposures and biomarkers of cardiometabolic diseases" (2020), published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Prevalence and Predictors of Vitamin D Deficiency and Insufficiency among Pregnant Rural Women in Bangladesh" (2021), published in Nutrients

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness of maternal influenza immunization in mothers and infants.

    K. Zaman;Eliza Roy;Shams E. Arifeen;Mahbubur Rahman

  • Operational Feasibility of Using Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Microscopy Centers of Developing Countries

    Catharina C. Boehme;Pamela Nabeta;German Henostroza;Rubhana Raqib

  • Stool Microbiota and Vaccine Responses of Infants

    M. Nazmul Huda;M. Nazmul Huda;Zachery Lewis;Karen M. Kalanetra;Mamunur Rashid

  • Household Environmental Conditions Are Associated with Enteropathy and Impaired Growth in Rural Bangladesh

    Audrie Lin;Benjamin F. Arnold;Sadia Afreen;Rie Goto

  • Improved outcome in shigellosis associated with butyrate induction of an endogenous peptide antibiotic.

    Rubhana Raqib;Protim Sarker;Peter Bergman;Gul Ara

  • Influenza Immunization in Pregnancy — Antibody Responses in Mothers and Infants

    Mark C. Steinhoff;Saad B. Omer;Eliza Roy;Shams E. Arifeen

  • Arsenic-Associated Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, and Immune Disruption in Human Placenta and Cord Blood

    Sultan Ahmed;Sultana Mahabbat-e Khoda;Rokeya Sultana Rekha;Renee M Gardner

  • Accumulation of cadmium in human placenta interacts with the transport of micronutrients to the fetus.

    Maria Kippler;A. M. Waheedul Hoque;A. M. Waheedul Hoque;Rubhana Raqib;Helena Öhrvik

  • Effects of in utero arsenic exposure on child immunity and morbidity in rural Bangladesh.

    Rubhana Raqib;Sultan Ahmed;Rokeya Sultana;Yukiko Wagatsuma

  • Neonatal outcomes after influenza immunization during pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial

    Mark C. Steinhoff;Saad B. Omer;Eliza Roy;Eliza Roy;Shams El Arifeen;Shams El Arifeen

  • IgA and Neutralizing Antibodies to Influenza A Virus in Human Milk: A Randomized Trial of Antenatal Influenza Immunization

    Elizabeth P. Schlaudecker;Mark C. Steinhoff;Saad B. Omer;Monica M. McNeal

  • Polymorphisms in arsenic(+III Oxidation State) Methyltransferase (AS3MT) Predict Gene Expression of AS3MT as Well as Arsenic Metabolism

    Karin Engström;Marie Vahter;Simona Jurkovic Mlakar;Gabriela Concha

  • Sex-specific effects of early life cadmium exposure on DNA methylation and implications for birth weight

    Maria Kippler;Karin Engström;Simona Jurkovic Mlakar;Matteo Bottai

  • Low birth weight is associated with altered immune function in rural Bangladeshi children: a birth cohort study

    Rubhana Raqib;Dewan S Alam;Protim Sarker;Shaikh Meshbahuddin Ahmad

  • Persistence of local cytokine production in shigellosis in acute and convalescent stages.

    Rubhana Raqib;A. A. Lindberg;B. Wretlind;Pradeep Kumar Bardhan

  • Phenylbutyrate induces LL-37-dependent autophagy and intracellular killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human macrophages.

    Rokeya Sultana Rekha;Ssv Jagadeeswara Rao Muvva;Min Wan;Rubhana Raqib

  • Significant Effects of Oral Phenylbutyrate and Vitamin D3 Adjunctive Therapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Akhirunnesa Mily;Rokeya Sultana Rekha;Rokeya Sultana Rekha;S. M. Mostafa Kamal;Abu Saleh Mohammad Arifuzzaman

  • Cytokine Secretion in Acute Shigellosis Is Correlated to Disease Activity and Directed More to Stool than to Plasma

    Rubhana Raqib;Bengt Wretlind;Jan Andersson;Alf A. Lindberg

  • Arsenic exposure in early pregnancy alters genome-wide DNA methylation in cord blood, particularly in boys.

    K. Broberg;S. S. Ahmed;K. Engström;M. B. Hossain

  • Genome-Wide Study of Hypomethylated and Induced Genes in Patients with Liver Cancer Unravels Novel Anticancer Targets

    Barbara Stefanska;David Cheishvili;Matthew Suderman;Ani Arakelian

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie Vahter
Marie Vahter Karolinska Institute
Shams El Arifeen
Shams El Arifeen International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Jan Andersson
Jan Andersson Karolinska Institute
Charles B. Stephensen
Charles B. Stephensen United States Department of Agriculture
Abdullah H. Baqui
Abdullah H. Baqui Johns Hopkins University
Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson
Gudmundur H. Gudmundsson University of Iceland
Birgitta Agerberth
Birgitta Agerberth Karolinska Institute
Firdausi Qadri
Firdausi Qadri International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Mark C. Steinhoff
Mark C. Steinhoff Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Lars Åke Persson
Lars Åke Persson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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