Research Area

Environmental & Public Health

Connecting environmental microbiology to population health through studies of water safety, sanitation, environmental contamination, and microbial surveillance relevant to Bangladesh.

Scientific questions

How does environmental contamination influence diarrhoeal disease risk?
Can phage-based tools improve detection of pathogens in environmental water?
Which surveillance strategies best inform water and sanitation policy?

Associated publications

Selected prior work by BILSER researchers in this area.

Researcher prior work

Crude preparation of a phage-encoded biofilm-dispersing factor expressed in E. coli and its potential application in bacteriological analysis of environmental water samples

Shah Nayeem Faruque, Iftekhar Bin Naser, M. Mozammel Hoque, Fariya Akter, Shah M. Faruque

Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2025

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Researcher prior work

Environmental prevalence of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh coincides with V. cholerae non-O1 non-O139 genetic variants which overproduce autoinducer-2

Iftekhar Bin Naser, Tushar Ahmed Shishir, Shah Nayeem Faruque, M. Mozammel Hoque, Anamul Hasan, Shah M. Faruque

PLOS ONE · 2021

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Researcher prior work

Vibrio cholerae strains with inactivated cqsS gene overproduce autoinducer-2 which enhances resuscitation of dormant environmental V. cholerae

Iftekhar Bin Naser, M. Mozammel Hoque, Shah Nayeem Faruque, M. Kamruzzaman, Shinji Yamasaki, Shah M. Faruque

PLOS ONE · 2019

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Researcher prior work

Wild raccoons (Procyon lotor) as a potential reservoir of cytolethal distending toxin-producing Providencia strains in Japan

Okechukwu John Obi, Atsushi Hinenoya, Sharda Prasad Awasthi, Noritoshi Hatanaka, Shah M. Faruque, Shinji Yamasaki

Microbiology Spectrum · 2025

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Future directions

—Field sampling programs for surface and drinking water quality.
—Development of practical, low-cost microbial detection methods.