Journal of Antivirals & Antiretrovirals
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Department of Microbiology, Chittagong Medical College, Chattogram, Bangladesh

Biography

Abdul Kalam works at Department of Microbiology, Chittagong Medical College, Chattogram, Bangladesh. His area of research interests includes Infectious diseases, Virology . He /she has authored of many research articles/books in the relevant scope.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Comorbidities of COVID-19 Patients with Low Cycle Threshold (Ct) Value of Nucleocapsid (N) Gene: An Application to Cluster-Based Logistic Model
  Author(s): Sujan Rudra, Shuva Das*, Md Ehsanul Hoque, Abul Kalam, Mohammad Arifur Rahman, Swagata Nandy Shizuka and Tazrina Rahman
  
  Background: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a health crisis throughout the world. The widely used Real-time Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (rRT-PCR) method is most capable of describing the patient’s condition. Comorbidities can make patients more critical. Methods: In this study, we shed light on the low Cycle Threshold (Ct) value of the N gene in the rRT-PCR test of the COVID-19 patients who had comorbidities, cure rate, and the needfulness of ICU (Intensive Care Unit) management. We had conducted the research in the Molecular Biology Laboratory of Chittagong Medical College between May and August 2020, then took the telephone interview with 300 positive patients who fulfilled the study criteria. We applied cluster-based logistic regression to analyze the data. Results:.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/1948-5964.21.13.214

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