Munawar Sultana

List of Publications:

A. Journal publication:

2018
Bachanek-Bankowska K, Di Nardo A, Wadsworth J, Henry EKM, Parlak Ü, Timina A, Mischenko A, Qasim IA, Abdollahi D, Sultana M, Hossain MA, King DP, Knowles NJ. Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Middle East Caused by an A/ASIA/G-VII Virus Lineage, 2015-2016. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Jun; 24(6):1073-1078. doi: 10.3201/eid2406.170715.

MA Siddique, MR Ali, ASMRU Alam, H Ullah, A Rahman, RP Chakrabarty, MA Amin, SA Hoque, SP Nandi, M Sultana, MA Hossain. Emergence of two novel sublineages Ind2001 BD 1 and Ind2001 BD 2 of foot‐and‐mouth disease virus serotype O in Bangladesh. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12834

Momtaz S, Saha O, Usha MK, Sultana M, Hossain MA. Occurrence of Pathogenic and Multidrug Resistant Salmonella spp. in Poultry Slaughter-House in Bangladesh: Biores Comm. 2018 V4-(2) 506-515.

2017

Sultana M, Mou TJ, Sanyal SK, Diba F, Mahmud, ZH, Parvez AK, Hossain MA, (2017) Investigation of Arsenotrophic Microbiome in Arsenic-Affected Bangladesh Groundwater. Groundwater 2017. doi:10.1111/gwat.12520

Bashar S, Sanyal SK, Sultana M, Hossain MA, (2017) Emergence of IntI1 associated blaVIM-2 gene cassette mediated carbapenem resistance in opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas stutzeri. Emerging Microbes & Infections (2017) 6, e29; doi:10.1038/emi.2017.12

Ali MR, Alam ASMRU, Amin MA, Ullah H, Siddique MA, Momtaz S, Sultana M, Hossain MA. (2017) Complete Genome Sequence of the Circulatory Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype Asia1 in Bangladesh. Genome Announcement 5:e01135-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/ genomeA.01135-17.

2016

Sanyal SK, Mou TJ, Chakrabarty RP, Hoque S, Hossain MA, Sultana M (2016): Diversity of arsenite oxidase gene and arsenotrophic bacteria in arsenic affected Bangladesh soils. AMB Express. 2016 6(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s13568-016-0193-0.

Hassana Z, Sultana M, Westerhoff HV, Khan SI, Roling WFM (2016): Iron Cycling Potentials of Arsenic Contaminated Groundwater in Bangladesh as Revealed by Enrichment Cultivation. Geomicrobiology journal 2016, 33(9): 779–792

Chakrabarty RP, Sultana M, Shehreen S, Akter S and Hossain MA (2016): Contribution of target alteration, protection and efflux pump in achieving high ciproflxacin resistance in Enterobacteriaceae. AMB Express (2016) 6:126. DOI 10.1186/s13568-016-0294-9

Ali MR, Ullah H, Siddique MA, Sultana M, Hossain MA (2016) Complete Genome Sequence of Pig Originated Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype O from Bangladesh. Genome Announcement 2016 4(5): e01150-16

Karmaker M, Sanyal SK, Sultana M, Hossain MA (2016). Association of bacteria in diabetic and non-diabetic foot infection — an investigation in patients from Bangladesh. Journal of Infection and Public Health (2016) 9, 267—277

Towhid ST, Siddique MA, Ullah H, Sultana M, Hossain MA (2016). Foot-and-Mouth Disease: Current Scenario in Asia and Bangladesh, (2016) Malaysian Journal of Microbiology, Malaysian Journal of Microbiology, 2016 12(5): 399-407

Sultana M, Naeem N, Sultana S, Sultana KF, Mukharjee SK, Hossain MA (2016). Screening of Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Producing Bacteria in Clinical Liquid Waste. Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull 2016; 42: 39-48




2015

Rahman A, Sultana M, Uddin MA, Malek MA, Hossain MA (2015) Silkworm as an animal infection model for the screening of environmental, clinical and veterinary pathogens. Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull 2015: 41: 73-80

Hassan Z, Sultana M, Boris M. van Breukelen, Khan S I, Röling WF (2015). Diverse arsenic- and iron-cycling microbial communities in arsenic-contaminated aquifers used for drinking water in Bangladesh. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 91, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiv026

Hassan Z, Sultana M, Hans V. Westerhoff, Khan S I, Röling WF (2015), Iron cycling potentials of arsenic-contaminated groundwater in Bangladesh as revealed by enrichment cultivation. Geomicrobiology Journal DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2015.1111471
SP Nandi, MZ Rahman, S Momtaz, M Sultana, MA Hossain (2015), Emergence and Distribution of Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease Virus Serotype A and O in Bangladesh; Transboundary and emerging diseases Volume 62, Issue 3, pages 328–331, June 2015

SK Sanyal, M Karmaker, M Sultana, MA Hossain (2015) Association of bacteria in diabetic and non-diabetic foot infection – An investigation in patients from Bangladesh. Journal of infection and public health DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2015.10.011

SK Sanyal, M Karmaker, M Sultana, MA Hossain (2015) Association of Bacillus circulans with non-diabetic foot infection in Bangladeshi patient- Indian journal of medical microbiology, Volume : 33 (4) 606-608

A. Abdullah, SMS Alam, M Sultana, MA Hossain (2015) BioCluster: Tool for Identification and Clustering of Enterobacteriaceae Based on Biochemical Data. Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 192–199

Ullah, H., Siddique M.A., Amin, M.A., Das, B.A., Sultana, M. and Hossain, M.A. (2015) Re-emergence of Circulatory Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotypes Asia1 in Bangladesh and VP1 Protein Heterogeneity with Vaccine Strain IND 63/72. Letters in Applied Microbiology, DOI: 10.1111/lam.12354

Hossain, A., Nandi, S.P., Siddique, M.A., Sanyal, S.K., Sultana M. and Hossain, M.A. (2015) Prevalence and distribution of White Spot Syndrome Virus in cultured shrimp. Letters in Applied Microbiology, DOI: 10.1111/lam.12353

Shishir M.A., Pervin S., Sultana M., Khan S.N., and Md Hoq M., 2015, Genetic Diversity of Indigenous Bacillus thuringiensis Strains by RAPD-PCR to Combat Pest Resistance, Bt Research, 6(8): 1-16 (doi: 10.5376/bt.2015.06.0008 )

Diba F, Sanyal SK, Alam SMS, Hossain MA, Sultana M (2015) Plant Growth Promoting Ability of Soil Arsenite Resistant Bacteria. Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology, 32 (1, 2): 25-31.

2014

M. Sultana, M. A. Siddique, S. Momtaz, A. Rahman, H. Ullah, S. P. Nandi, M. A. Hossain, 2014: Complete Genome Sequencing of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype O Isolated from Bangladesh in 2013. Genome Anouncement, 2, January/February 2014, doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01253-13

M. Sultana, R. Bilkis, F. Diba and M. A. Hossain, 2014, Predominance of Multidrug Resistant Zoonotic Salmonella Enteritidis Genotypes in Poultry of Bangladesh, Predominance of Multidrug Resistant Zoonotic Salmonella Enteritidis Genotypes in Poultry of Bangladesh, The Journal of Poultry Science, [Accepted]

Ullah, H., Siddique, M.A, Sultana, M., and Hossain, A.M.(2014) Complete Genome Sequence of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Type A Circulating in Bangladesh. GenomeA 2(3)(accepted), (genomeA00506-14).

Samina Momtaz, Arafat Rahman, Munwar Sultana and M Anwar Hossain (2014). ‘Evolutionary Analysis and Prediction of Peptide Vaccine Candidate for Foot-and-Mouth-Disease Virus Type A and O in Bangladesh’. Accepted on the Journal, Evolutionary Bioinformatics.

2013

Nandi, SP., Sultana, M., and Hossain, MA (2013) Prevalence and Characterization of Multidrug Resistant Zoonotic Enterobacter spp. in Poultry of Bangladesh. Fod borne pathogens and disease. May; 10(5):420-7

Rahman, MZ., Akter, S., Azmuda, N., Sultana, M., Weill, F.X., Khan, SI., Grimont P.A., Birkeland, NK. Serological cross-reaction between O-antigens of Shigella dysenteriae type 4 and an environmental Escherichia albertii isolate. Doi: 1007/s00284-013-0405-7

Nandi, SP., Rahman, MZ., Momtaz, S., Sultana, M., and Hossain, MA Emergence and Distribution of Foot-and-Mouth Disease virus (FMDV) serotype A and O in Bangladesh Transboundary and Emerging Diseases: Doi: 10:1111/tbed.12113

Adnan, N., Sultana, M., Islam, O.K., Nandi, SP., Hossain, M.A., (2013). Characterization of Ciprofloxacin resistant extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia spp. from clinical wastewater in Bangladesh. Accepted for publication in Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology)

Alam, SMS., Amin, MR., Sultana, M., Rahman, MZ., and Hossain, MA. (2012) Antigenic Variation of Capsid Protein VP1 in Foot-and-Mouth 1 Disease Virus (FMDV) Serotype Asia1 of South Asian Region (Submitted to Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry)

2012

Sultana, M., Vogler, S., Zargar, K., Schmidt, C., Saltikov, C., Seifert, J., Schlömann, M., 2012. New clusters of arsenite oxidase and unusual bacterial groups in enrichments from arsenic-contaminated soil. Achieves of Microbiology, 194 (623-637)

Ahmed Rupa, F., Sultana, M., Inatsu, Y., Bari, M. L., and Hossain, .M. A., 2012. Prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria and effectiveness of acidified sodium chlorite and chlorinated water in reducing these microorganisms on tomato. Journal of Food Science and Engineering, 2 (293-300)

Azmuda,N., Rahman, M.Z., Sultana, M., Jenssen E. L., Khan, S.I., Birkeland, N.K., 2012. Shigella flexneri 15 somatic antigen is present in an environment isolate of Escherichia fergusonnei, APMIS, 120(12):959-66.

2011

Sultana, M., Härtig, C., Friedrich, B.P., Seifert, J., Schlömann, M., 2011. Bacterial communities in Bangladesh aquifers differing in aqueous arsenic concentration. Geomicrobiology journal. 28, 191-211

Rahman, M.Z., Azmuda,N., Hossain, J., Sultana, M., Khan, S.I., Birkeland, N.K., Recovery and Characterization of Environmental Variants of Shigella flexneri from Surface Water in Bangladesh. Current Microbiology, DOI 10.1007/s00284-011-9992-3, 2011

2007

Rahman, M.Z., Sultana, M. Birkeland, N.K., Khan, S.I., 2007. Serological cross-reactivity of environmental isolates of Enterobacter, Escherichia, Stenotrophomonas, and Aerococcus with Shigella spp. specific antisera. Current Microbiology. 54 (1), 63-67.

2005

Sultana, M., Rahman, M.Z., Birkeland, N.K., Khan, S.I., 2005. Survival of Shigella flexneri cells in laboratory microcosms. Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry. 5, 114-117.

Rahman, M.Z., Sultana, M., Islam, M.S., Khan, S.I., 2005. Comparison of virulence properties of environmental V. mimicus with that of V.cholerae 01. Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology (BSM) 22, 139-143.

B. NCBI Publication

Three viral and three bacterial complete genome and about 500 sequences of 16S rRNA gene (nearly full length) and arsenite oxidase gene (both from isolated bacteria and clones) have been published in the GenBank database


C. Book publication

Sultana M., Sanyal, S.K., and Hossain, M.A.: Arsenic Pollution in the Environment- role of microbes in its bioremediation. In: Uncovering New Methods for Ecosystem Management through Bioremediation. IGI Global, E-Editorial Discovery, (2015), DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8682-3.ch005E

‘Diversity of 16S rRNA and Arsenite Oxidase Genes in Microbial Communities and Arsenite-oxidizing Isolates from Arsenic-contaminated Soils and Aquifers’ was published and Printed with the support from German Academic Exchange Service.

D. Seminar publication:

1. Bacterial diversity in arsenic contaminated overburden soils and the corresponding genes of arsenite oxidase, published in Biospectrum-das magazine für Biowissenschaften, 2009, abstract no: PO21, page 146.
2. Tracking of Shigella in Bangladeshi surface water: a comparative analysis of Shigella spp. and its close relatives, published in FEMS 2009 program book- Microbes and Man-independence and future challenges, page 51.
3. Bacterial diversity in arsenic contaminated overburden soils and the corresponding genes of arsenite oxidase, published in FEMS 2009 program book- Microbes and Man-independence and future challenges, page 177

E. Conference Proceedings:

1. Sultana, M., Hossain, M.A. (July, 2012). Pollution of Antibiotic resistant bacteria: Prospective studies on spreading of antibiotic resistance, food hygiene and aquaculture in Bangladesh. International conference on Green Chemistry for sustainable development, Jessore Science and Technology University, Jessore, Bangladesh. P: 30-34, ISBN: 978-984-33-5307-8

2. Sultana M., Nandi S. P. and Hossain M. A.; ‘Prevalence of Multidrug Resistant Zoonotic Bacteria in Poultry of Bangladesh’; was published in Asian Food Security Association (AFSA) conference proceedings December 2012.

3. Alam, SM, Amin, M.R., Sultana, M and Hossain, M.A. ‘Antigenic Variation of Capsid Protein Vp1 of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus Prevalent in South Asian Regions’ was published in Asian Food Security Association (AFSA) conference proceedings December 2012.

F. Poster presentation:
International

1. M. Sultana, S. Basar, Y. Ahmed, M. Khan, M. A. Hossain. Antibiotic Resistance Scenario in Bangladesh: Mechanism and Ecological Impact (2016) American Society of Microbiology (ASM)

2. H. Ullah, M. A. Siddique, R. P. Chakrabarty, M. R. Ali, M. Sultana, M. A. Hossain Comparative Genomics of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Type O Circulating in Bangladesh (2016) American Society of Microbiology (ASM)

3. M. Sultana, H. Ullah, M. A. Siddique, A. Rahman, S. T. Towhid, M. A. Hossain. Molecular Phylogeography of Foot and Mouth Disease Virus in Bangladesh (2016) American Society of Microbiology (ASM)
1. M.A. Siddique, H. Ullah, R. P. Chakrabarty, M. Sultana, M.A. Hossain (2015). Foot- and- Mouth Disease in Bangladesh: Epidemiology and Genome Analysis. Accepted for American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Conference, 2015.

4. M. Sultana, R. Bilkis, S. P. Nandi, M.A. Hossain. (2013). Emergence of Multidrug resistant Zoonotic Salmonella in Poultry of Savar, Bangladesh

5. Sultana M., Adnan N., Islam O. K., Nandi S. P., and Hossain M. A. (2013). ‘Ciprofloxacin resistance in clinical waste water (CWW) isolates of extended spectrum β- lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia spp. from Bangladesh’ is accepted by Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), in Fifth Congress of European Microbiologist, which was held in July 21-25, 2013; Liepzig, Germany.

6. Nandi S. P., Rahman M. Z., Momtaz S., Sultana M., and Hossain M. A. (2013). ‘Emergence and Distribution of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) subtypes during recent outbreaks in Bangladesh’ is accepted by Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), in Fifth Congress of European Microbiologist, which will be held in July 21-25, 2013; Liepzig, Germany.

7. Nandi S. P., Sultana M., Mahmud M. S. and Hossain M. A. (2012). ‘Molecular Characterization of Multidrug Resistant-Extended Spectrum β-Lactamase Producing Zoonotic Enterobacter spp. from Poultry of Bangladesh’; (Poster Presentation). First AFSA Conferences on Food Safety and Food Security held on September 15-17, 2012; in Osaka, Japan.

8. Rahman A., Ashraf M. A., Nandi S. P., Alam S. M. S., Zaman F., Sultana M., Hossain M. A.; ‘FMD Virus Genotyping Tool’ (Poster Presentation). International Training Workshop on Bioinformatics and computational biology in South Asian perspective held on September 25-26 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. (Acquired the first price).

9. Poster on “Emergence of multidrug resistance zoonotic Salmonella from poultry of Savar, Bangladesh” was presented in1st AFSA (Asian Food Security Association) on Food Safety and Food Security, 15-17, 2012, Osaka, Japan.

10. Poster on “Molecular Characterization of multidrug resistant-Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase Producing Zoonotic Enterobacter spp. from Poultry of Bangladesh” was presented in1st AFSA (Asian Food Security Association) on Food Safety and Food Security, 15-17, 2012, Osaka, Japan.

11. Poster on “Antigenic Variation of Capsid Protein VP1 of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Prevalent in South Asian Region” was presented in1st AFSA (Asian Food Security Association) on Food Safety and Food Security, 15-17, 2012, Osaka, Japan.
10. Poster on “FMD Virus Genotyping Tool” was presented in1st AFSA (Asian Food Security Association) on Food Safety and Food Security, 15-17, 2012, Osaka, Japan.

12. Poster on “Serological cross-reactivity of environmental isolates of Enterobacter, Escherichia, Stenotrophomonas and Aerococcus with Shigella spp. specific antisera” was presented in 11th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Diseases and Nutrition March 8-10, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand.

13. Poster on “Bacterial diversity in arsenic contaminated overburden soils and the corresponding genes of arsenite oxidase” was presented as a poster in 60th Annual conference on Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) 8-11 March, 2009, Bochum, Germany.

14. Poster on “Bacterial diversity in arsenic contaminated overburden soils and the corresponding genes of arsenite oxidase” was presented in FEMS (Federation of European Microbiological Societies), 3rd Annual conference of European Microbiologist, June, 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden.

National

1. Sabrin Bashar, Santonu Kumar Sanyal, M Anwar Hossain and Munawar Sultana (2015) Mechanism of Carbapenem Resistance in clinical Pseudomonas spp. in Bangladesh. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 105.
2. Farzana Diba, Santonu Kumar Sanyal, Sadikur Rahman , Mala Khan, M Anwar Hossain and Munawar Sultana (2015) Isolation and Molecular Profiling of Arsenotrophic Bacteria from Ground water and Soil of Arsenic prone Areas in Bangladesh. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 106.
3. Khondokar Fahmida Sultana, Mohammad Anwar Siddique, Munawar Sultana and M Anwar Hossain (2015) Screening and Molecular Characterization of Multidrug Resistant Salmonella spp. from Poultry Samples. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 104.
4. Juthika Mandal, Mohammad Anwar Siddique, Munawar Sultana and M Anwar Hossain (2015) Validation of Real Time PCR assay for Detection and Quantification of Salmonella spp. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 108.
5. Ram Prosad Chakrobarty, Munawar Sultana, Saddlee Shehreen, Selina Akhter and M Anwar Hossain (2015) Contribution of Efflux Pump qnrS and DNA gyrase Alteration in Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Escherichia spp. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 103.
6. SM Sabbir Alam , Arafat Rahman, Sadikur Rahman, Saddam Hossain Munawar Sultana and M Anwar Hossain (2015) A Comprehensive Study of FMDV Genotypes Using FMDV Genotyping Tool. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 101.
7. Ovinu Kibria Islam, Dirk Bockmuehl, Munawar Sultana, M Anwar Hossain (2015) Efficacy of Sanitizing Agents on Pseudomonas fluorescence Migula 1895 Biofilm on Food Processing Surfaces. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 102.
8. Samina Momtaz, Arafat Rahman, Munawar Sultana and M Anwar Hossain (2015) Prediction of Peptide Vaccine Epitopes for Foot-and-Mouth-Disease Virus Prevalent in Bangladesh. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 109.
9. Md. Inja-Mamun Haque, Mohammad Anwar Siddique, Santonu Kumar Sanyal, Anwar Hossain, Munawar Sultana, Mahmud Hasan, M Anwar Hossain (2015) Seasonal Prevalence of White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) in Cultured Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) of Bangladesh. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM), Abstract No# 155.
10. Huzzat Ullah, Mohammad Anwar Siddique, Ram Prosad Chakrabarty, Md. Rahmat Ali, Arafat Rahman, Munawar Sultana, M. Anwar Hossain (2015) Isolation and Genome Analysis of Circulatory Foot-and-Mouth-Disease Virus in Bangladesh. International Conference (29th AGM), Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist (BSM)
11. Poster on ‘Microbial quality of raw, powdered and pasteurized milk samples originated from cows and camels in Bangladesh’ was presented and awarded 2nd prize in the science fair organized by NSU-Life science club, in 2010.
12. Sultana M., Naeem N., Sultana F., Nandi S. P., and Hossain M. A. (2013). ‘Antibiotic Pollution and Occurrence of Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) Bacteria in Environments of Bangladesh’ is submitted in First International conference on biotechnology (ICB) May 25-26, 2013; in Bangladesh.
13. Nandi S. P., Rahman M. Z., Momtaz S., Sultana M., and Hossain M. A. (2013). ‘Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) Subtypes Circulating During Recent Outbreaks in Bangladesh’ is accepted as oral presentation by upcoming BSM (Bangladesh Society of Microbiologist) conference.
14. Nandi S. P., Sultana M., Mahmud M. S. and Hossain M. A. (2013). ‘Molecular Characterization of Emerging Multidrug Resistant Zoonotic Salmonella from Poultry of Savar, Bangladesh’ is presented as oral in10th Annual Scientific Conference of CVASU in 6 April, 2013.