Dr. Anwar Hossain

Umma Salma, Yuri Nishimura, Masahiro Tokumura, Anwar Hossain, Kozo Watanabe, Kazushi Noro, Mohammad Raknuzzaman, Takashi Amagai and Masakazu Makino : Occurrence, seasonal variation, and environmental risk of multiclass antibiotics in the urban surface water of the Buriganga River, Bangladesh, Chemosphere (impact factor:8.1) , vol.370 Elsevier , pp.143956 , 2025 .

Ray Ak, Faruque MH, Das R, Sakib S, Moniruzzaman M, Shaikh MAA, Hossain A and Habibullah-Al-Mamun : Trace Metal Pollution near a Coal-Fired Power Plant in Bangladesh: Implications for Environmental and Human Health, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (impact factor:3.8) , vol.6 Springer Nature , pp.376 , 2025 .

Tasrina Rabia Choudhury, Tanjeela Islam, M Safiur Rahman, Shamshad Begum Quraishi, Anwar Hossain, Sheikh Fahim Faysal Sowrav and M Sarwaruddin Chowdhury : Assessing potentially toxic elements in edible fish: A health risk analysis from Coastal Islands in Bangladesh, Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (impact factor:9.0) , vol.7 Elsevier , pp.671-685 , 2025 .

Md Zakaria, Micanaldo Ernesto Francisco, Santonu K Sanyal, Anwar Hossain, Shankar C Mandal and Md Inja-Mamun Haque : A Review on Modulation of Gut Microbiome Interaction for the Management of Shrimp Aquaculture and Proposal of the Introduction of Deep Learning-Based Approach for Shrimp Disease Detection, The Microbe , vol.7 Elsevier , pp.100299 , 2025 .

Tazri Z, Sakib S, Das R, Faruque MH, Hossain A and Hosen MM, Quraishi SB, Habibullah-Al-Mamun M : Heavy metal contamination in a transboundary river: ecological and human health risk assessment, International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (impact factor:2.3) Taylor & Francis , pp.1-25 , 2025 .

Umma Salma, Anwar Hossain, Md Shafiujjaman, Yuri Nishimura, Masahiro Tokumura, Rumi Tanoue, Tatsuya Kunisue, Kozo Watanabe, Mohammad Raknuzzaman, Kazushi Noro and others : Occurrence, risks, and mitigation of antibiotic pollution in Bangladeshi aquaculture systems, Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (impact factor:9.0) , vol.7 Elsevier , pp.351-363 , 2025 .

Jannatul Ferdoush, Anwar Hossain, Md Inja-Mamun Haque, Md Ismail Hossen, Md Abdullah Al-Mamun, Md Mizanur Rahman, Md Shafiujjaman and Shankar C Mandak : Expression Profiling of Innate Immune Genes in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linnaeus, 1758) Upon Short Term Immunization with Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and Peptidoglycan (PGN), Genetics of Aquatic Organisms , vol.8 , no.3 , 2024 .

Anwar Hossain, Yuri Nishimura, Umma Salma, Masahiro Tokumura, Takahiro Nishino, Mohammad Raknuzzaman, Kazushi Noro, Kozo Watanabe, Takashi Amagai and Masakazu Makino : Effects of Water Matrices on the Removal of Oxytetracycline Antibiotic and Total Organic Carbon (TOC) using Four Different Oxidation Processes, Results in Engineering (impact factor:6.0) Elsevier , pp.103183 , 2024 .

Md Shafiujjaman, Shankar C. Mandal, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, Md Habibullah-Al-Mamun, Md Aftab Ali Shaikh, Kozo Watanabe and Anwar Hossain : Environmental and human health risk of potentially toxic metals in freshwater and brackish water Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) aquaculture, Environmental Geochemistry and Health (impact factor:3.2) , vol.46 , no.11 Springer , pp.477 , 2024 .

Bashar MK, Noro K, Wang Q, Tokumura M, Mori I, Omagari R, Raknuzzaman M, Hossain A, Islam MR, Hossain M, Islam S and Amagai T : Trace Metal Contaminations in Bangladeshi Rice: Their Concentration and Risk Assessment., Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (impact factor:3.8) , vol.235 , no.9 Springer Nature , pp.592 , 2024 .

Anwar Hossain, Md Al Zahid, Santonu Kumar Sanyal, Md Inja-Mamun Haque, Md Habibullah-Al-Mamun, Shankar Chandra Mandal and Kozo Watanabe : Heterogeneous bacterial communities in gills and intestine of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and in water and sediments of aquaculture ponds in Bangladesh, Aquaculture and Fisheries Elsevier , 2024 .

Masahiro Tokumura, Jumpei Miyazaki, Mahmud Hossain, Anwar Hossain, Mohammad Raknuzzaman, Qi Wang, Yuichi Miyake, Takashi Amagai, Shigeki Masunaga, Shofiqul Islam and others : Evaluation of the potentials of rice varieties and water management practices for reducing human health risks associated with polluted river water irrigated rice in Bangladesh, Science of The Total Environment (impact factor:8.2) , vol.923 Elsevier , pp.171244 , 2024 .

SM Rafiqul Islam, Robel Ahmed, Farjana Sharmen, Md Mobarok Hossain, Kallyan Chakma, Afroza Akter Tanni, Md Ashikur Alim Akash, Mohammad Enayet Hossain, M Shah Nawaz Chowdhury, AMAM Zonaed Siddiki, Anwar Hossain, Shankar C Mandal, Keith A. Crandall, Ali Rahnavard, SM Sharifuzzaman and Adnan Mannan : Genome sequence of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infecting cultured black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) in Bangladesh, Microbiology Resource Announcements , ASM , pp.e01211--23 , 2024 .

Md Zakaria, Santonu K Sanyal, Md Inja-Mamun Haque, Shankar C Mandal, Kozo Watanabe and Anwar Hossain : Bacterial Diversity and Antibiotic Resistance Genes Associated with the Different Farming Systems of Black Tiger Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) in Bangladesh, Aquaculture Research (impact factor:2.0) , vol.2023 Hindawi , 2023 .

Md Habibullah Al Mamun, Sanjida Akter Tanima, Bijoya Paul, Md. Al Zahid, Md. Humayun Kabir, Shamim Ahmed, Shankar C Mandal and Anwar Hossain : Occurrence of Organochlorine Pesticides (OCPs) Residues in Farmed and Wild Fish in Bangladesh and Implications for Human Health, Exposure and Health (impact factor:8.835) , vol.15 , no.2 Springer Netherlands , pp.425-437 , 2023 .

Bashar MK, Noro K, Wang Q, Tokumura M, Mori I, Raknuzzaman M, Hossain A and Amagai T : Spatiotemporal distribution and pollution assessment of trace metals in the Buriganga River, Bangladesh, Journal of Water and Health (impact factor:2.2) IWA , pp.1-11 , 2023 .

Tanjina Akter Suma, Nushrat Alam, Sheikh Zahir Raihan, Md. Al Zahid, Shankar Chandra Manda, Fahrin Jahan Suchan, Ripa Kundu, Anwar Hossain and Md Abdul Muhit : Association of Antibacterial Susceptibility Profile with the Prevalence of Genes Encoding Efflux Proteins in the Bangladeshi Clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, Antibiotics (impact factor:5.22) , vol.12 MDPI , pp.305 , 2023 .

Umma Salma, Md Shafiujjaman, Md Al Zahid, Md Habibullah-Al-Mamun, Md Hasan Faruque and Anwar Hossain : Widespread Use of Antibiotics, Pesticides, and Other Aqua-Chemicals in Finfish Aquaculture in Rajshahi District of Bangladesh, Sustainability (impact factor:3.889) , vol.14 , no.2 MDPI , pp.1-22 , 2022 .

MM Islam, Anwar Hossain and Shankar C Mandal : Impacts of Water Quality on Finfish and Shellfish Biodiversity in the River Meghna, Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.31 , no.1 , pp.19--27 , 2022 .

Hossain A, Habibullah-Al-Mamun M, Nagano E, Kitazawa D, Masunaga S and Matsuda H : Antibiotics, Antibiotics Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes in Aquaculture: Risks, Current Concern and Future Thinking, Environmental Science and Pollution Research (impact factor:5.190) , vol.29 Springer Nature , pp.11054–11075 , 2022 .

Mohammad Raknuzzaman, Md Habibullah-Al-Mamun, Anwar Hossain, Masahiro Tokumura and Shigeki Masunaga : Organ-specific accumulation of toxic elements in Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) from Bangladesh and human health risk assessment, Journal of Environmental Exposure Assessment , 2022 .

Shorna S, Shawkat S, Hossain A,, Quraishi SB, Ullah AKMU, Hosen MM, Hossain MK, Saha B, Paul B and Habibullah-Al-Mamun M : Accumulation of trace metals in indigenous fish species from the old Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh and human health risk implications, Biological Trace Element Research (impact factor:4.081) , vol.199 , pp.3478–3488 , 2021 .

Shorna S., Quraishi S.B., Hosen M.M., Hossain M.K., Saha B., Hossain A. and Habibullah-Al-Mamun Md. : Ecological risk assessment of trace metals in sediment from the Old Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh, Chemistry and Ecology (impact factor:2.381) Taylor & Francis , 2021 .

Hasan MK, Shahriar A, Hossain N, Shovon IK, Hossain A, Jolly YN and Begum BA : Trace Metals Contamination in Riverine Captured Fish and Prawn of Bangladesh and Associated Health Risk, Exposure and Health (impact factor:8.835) , vol.13 , pp.237–251 , 2021 .

Sei Kanto, Qi Wang, Masahiro Tokumura, Anwar Hossain, Mohammad Raknuzzaman, Yuichi Miyake and Takashi Amagai : Occurrence, potential source, and cancer risk of PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their halogenated derivatives in Shizuoka, Japan, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, Environmental Research (impact factor:8.431) , vol.196 , pp.110909 , 2021 .

Shankar C. Mandal, Puja Boidya, Md. Inja-Mamun Haque, Anwar Hossain, Zubair Shams and Abdullah-Al Mamun : Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on fish consumption and household food security in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, Global Food Security (impact factor:9.027) , vol.29 , pp.100526 , 2021 .

Hossain A, Raknuzzaman M and Tokumura M : Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Concern about Misuse of Antibiotics, Journal of Biomedical Analytics , vol.3 , pp.19-23 , 2020 .

Mandal SC, Kadir S and Hossain A : Effects of Salinity on the Growth, Survival and Proximate Composition of Pangas, Pangasius hypophthalmus, Bangladesh Journal of Zoology , vol.48 , no.(1) , pp.141-149 , 2020 .

Habibullah-Al-Mamun M, Ahmed MK, Hossain A and Masunaga S : Distribution, source apportionment and risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the surficial sediments from the coastal areas of Bangladesh, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (impact factor:3.692) , vol.76 , pp.178–190 , 2019 .

Habibullah-Al-Mamun M, Ahmed MK, Islam MS, Hossain A, Tokumura M and Masunaga S : Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in commonly consumed seafood from the coastal area of Bangladesh: occurrence, distribution and human health implications, Environmental Science and Pollution Research (impact factor:5.190) , vol.26 , pp.1355–1369 , 2019 .

Hossain, A., Nakamichi, S., Habibullah-Al-Mamun, M., Tani, K., Masunaga, S. and Matsuda, H : Occurrence and Ecological Risk of Pharmaceuticals in River Surface Water of Bangladesh, Environmental Research (impact factor:8.431) , vol.165 , pp.258-266 , 2018 .

Siddique MA, Haque MI, Sanyal SK, Hossain A, Nandi SP, Alam ASMRU,, Sultana M, Hasan M and Hossain MA : Circulatory white spot syndrome virus in South-West region of Bangladesh from 2014 to 2017: molecular characterization and genetic variation, AMB Express (impact factor:4.126) , vol.8 , pp.25 , 2018 .

Hossain, A., Nakamichi, S., Habibullah-Al-Mamun, M., Tani, K., Masunaga, S. and Matsuda, H. : Occurrence, distribution, ecological and resistance risks of antibiotics in surface water of finfish and shellfish aquaculture in Bangladesh, Chemosphere (impact factor:8.943) , vol.188 , pp.329-336 , 2017 .

Hasan MAR, Haque MI, Hossain A, Hasan M and Rahman MS : Bacterial loads in shrimp and fish hatchery environments of Bangladesh, Journal of Asiatic Society Bangladesh, Science , vol.43 , no.(1) , pp.37-47 , 2017 .

Smriti S, Islam T, Begum MK, Punom NJ, Mitra S, Hossain A, Sarker RH and Rahman MS : Fraudulence detection in fish marketing of Bangladesh using DNA barcoding, Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences , vol.41 , no.(1) , pp.17-27. , 2017 .

Hossain MJ, Hossain A, Mandal SC and Rahman MS : Impact of live tubificid worms on the growth and survival of Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1794) reared in tanks., Bangladesh Journal of Science and Industrial Research , vol.51 , no.(3) , pp.175-182 , 2016 .

Hossain MA, Ganguly A, Rahman SAA, Hossain A, Hasan M and Rahman MS : Amino acid profile of the gelatin extracted from the scales of catla, rohu, grass carp and their mixed type, Bangladesh Journal of Zoology , vol.44 , no.(2) , pp.185-195 , 2016 .

Kabir A, Habib MA, Hossain A and Mandal SC : Genetic diversity of olive barb (Systomus sarana, Hamilton, 1822) from different locations of Bangladesh, Croatian Journal of Fisheries (impact factor:1.6) , vol.73 , pp.6–12 , 2015 .

Rohomania T, Saha ML, Hossain A and Rahman MS : Morphological and Biochemical Characterization of Bacteria isolated from fresh and salted Hilsa, Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822), Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology , vol.32 , pp.07-13 , 2015 .

Haque MM, Hossain A, Mandal SC, Rahman MS and Mahmud ZH : Prevalence, characterization and antibiotic susceptibility of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from fishes and shellfishes of coastal regions of Bangladesh, Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.24 , no.(2) , pp.121-129 , 2015 .

Husain MA, Hossain A, Mandal SC, Kabir MA and Rahman MS : Optimization of feeding frequency on the growth performance of thai pangas, Pangasius hypophthalmus (Sauvage, 1878), Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.24 , no.(1) , pp.83-90 , 2015 .

Hossain A, Nandi SP, Sultana M and Hossain MA : Prevalence and distribution of white spot syndrome virus in farmed shrimp of coastal regions in Bangladesh, Letters in Applied Microbiology (impact factor:2.831) , vol.60 , pp.128-134 , 2014 .

Hossain A, Sanyal SK, Siddique MA, Bishwas RK, Sultana M and Hossain MA : Envelope protein gene vp466-a target for PCR detection of white spot syndrome virus in shrimp, Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology , vol.31 , pp.65-68 , 2014 .

Rohomania T,, Saha ML, Hossain A, Mandal SC and Rahman, MS : Microbial and proximate composition of fresh and salted hilsa, Tenualosa ilisha, Bangladesh Journal of Zoology , vol.42 , pp.235-244 , 2014 .

Islam M, Ahsan DA, Mandal SC and Hossain A : Effects of Salinity Changes on Growth Performance and Survival of Rohu Fingerlings, Labeo rohita (Hamilton, 1822), Journal of Coastal Development , vol.17 , no.(1) , pp.379 , 2014 .

Kabir MA, Rahman MS, Hossain A and Mandal SC : Proximate composition and microbial quality of three imported aquarium fish feeds in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Journal of Zoology , vol.42 , no.(2) , pp.291-302 , 2014 .

Rabbane MG, Rahman MS and Hossain A : Role of maternal cortisol hormone on gene regulation of Zebra fish (Danio rerio, Hamilton, 1822), Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.22 , pp.135-144 , 2013 .

Salehin AN, Mandal SC and Hossain A : Hematology of Air Breathing Mud Eel, Monopterus Cuchia (Hamilton, 1822) of Mymensingh and Kishoreganj Districts of Bangladesh, Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.22 , no.(2) , pp.127-134 , 2013 .

Hossain A, Mollah MFA and Hasan M : Ratio optimisation of media ingredients for mass culture of tubificid worms (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) in Bangladesh, Asian Fisheries science (impact factor:1.07) , vol.25 , pp.357-368 , 2012 .

Hasan M, Hossain A, Mandal SC and Haque W : Effects of Transport Media and Duration on the Mortality and Physiological Responses in Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix Fingerlings, Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.22 , no.(1) , pp.55-62 , 2012 .

Rahman MM, Rahman MS, Hossain A and Hasan M : Seminal Plasma composition and their physiological relationship with spermatozoa motility in silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), World Journal of Fish and Marine Sciences , vol.3 , no.(3) , pp.194-200 , 2011 .

Hossain A, Hasan M and Mollah MFA : Effects of soybean meal and mustard oil cake on the production of fish live foods tubificid worms in Bangladesh, World Journal of Fish and Marine Sciences , vol.3 , no.(3) , pp.183-189 , 2011 .

Hossain A, Rahman MS and Hasan M : Optimum Harvest for Sustainable Yield of Fish Live Food Tubificid Worms, The Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences , vol.20 , no.(1) , pp.57- 63. , 2011 .

Haque MI, Siddique MA and Hossain A : PCR Based Detection of White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) in Shrimp Post Larvae (PL) of Bangladesh, International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (impact factor:0.415) , vol.51 , no.(1) , pp.191-197 , 2020 .

Raknuzzaman M, Habibullah-Al-Mamun Md, Hossain A, Tokumura M and Masunaga S : Organ-specific accumulation of toxic elements in Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) from Bangladesh and human health risk assessment, Journal of Environmental Exposure Assessment , vol.1 , no.4 OAE , pp.1-11 , 2022 .

MM Islam, A Hossain and SC Mandal : Impacts of Water Quality on Finfish and Shellfish Biodiversity in the River Meghna, Dhaka University J of Biological Sciences , vol.31 , no.1 , pp.19-27 , 2022 .