Researcher Profile

Currently, I am involved in 15 projects on virology either as a PI and co-investigator, leading laboratory activities and supervising researchers working in molecular assays, tissue culture, and serology. I am a full time laboratory based scientist. My personal challenge is to build upon the strong laboratory based methodological foundation for detection, identification and to some extent discovery of viral pathogen specially related to the respiratory and zoonotic diseases.

Selected publications include:

• Chowdhury FM, Rahman MZ, Khan SI, Ahsan CR and Birkeland NK. 2014. An environmental Escherichia albertii strain, DM104, induces protective immunity to Shigella dysenteriae in guinea pig eye model.  Curr. Microbiol. (DOI 10.1007/s00284-014-0522-y)
• Haider N, Rahman MS, Khan SU, Mikolon A, Gurley ES, Osmani TABMMG, Shanta IS, Paul SK, Berry LM, Islam A, Desmond J, Epstein JH, Daszak P, Azim T, Luby SP, Zeidner N, and Rahman MZ. Identification and epidemiology of a new variant of HoBi-like pestivirus strain in Bangladesh. (accepted for the next issue in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases).
• Gerloff NA, Khan SU, Balish A, Shanta IS, Simpson N, Berman L, Haider N, Poh MK, Islam A, Gurley E, Hasnat MA, Dey T, Shu B, Emery S, Lindstrom S, Haque A, Klimov A, Villanueva J, Rahman M, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Rahman MZ, Luby SP, Zeidner N, Donis RO, Sturm-Ramirez K, Davis CT. 2014. Multiple reassortment events among highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses detected in Bangladesh. Virology 2014 Feb;450–451:297–307.
• Nandi SP. Rahman  MZ, Momtaz S, Sultana M, Hossain MA. 2013. Emergence and Distribution of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype A and O in Bangladesh. Transbound Emerg Dis. DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12113.
• Stockman LJ, Brooks WA, Streatfield PK, Rahman M, Goswami D, Nahar K, Rahman MZ, Luby SP and Anderson LJ. 2013. Challenges to Evaluating Respiratory Syncytial Virus Mortality in Bangladesh, 2004–2008. PLoS One. 8:e53857.
• Rahman MZ, Akter S, Azmuda N, Sultana M, Weill FX, Khan SI, Grimont PA, Birkeland NK. 2013. Serological Cross-Reaction Between O-Antigens of Shigella dysenteriae Type 4 and an Environmental Escherichia albertii Isolate. Curr Microbiol. 2013 Nov;67(5):590-5