Dr. Rabaab Zahra

• Ali S, Tariq MHA, Yaqoob M, Haq MU, Zahra R., Molecular epidemiology and characterization of antibiotic resistance of Pasteurella multocida isolated from livestock population of Punjab, Pakistan., International journal of veterinary science and medicine, 13, (1), 2025, p1-12Journal Article, 2025
• Sands K, Carvalho MJ, Portal E, Thomson K, Dyer C, Akpulu C, Andrews R, Ferreira A, Gillespie D, Hender T, Hood K, Mathias J, Milton R, Nieto M, Taiyari K, Chan GJ, Bekele D, Solomon S, Basu S, Chattopadhyay P, Mukherjee S, Iregbu K, Modibbo F, Uwaezuoke S, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Muhammad A, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw A, BARNARDS Group, Walsh TR., Characterization of antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria that cause neonatal sepsis in seven low- and middle-income countries., Nature microbiology, 6, (4), 2021, p512-523Journal Article, 2021
• Walsh TR, Zahra R, Iregbu K, Peacock SJ, Stewardson A., Global burden of antimicrobial resistance: essential pieces of a global puzzle., Lancet (London, England), 399, (10344), 2022, p2347-2348Journal Article, 2022
• Habib A, Lo S, Villageois-Tran K, Petitjean M, Malik SA, Armand-Lefèvre L, Ruppé E, Zahra R., Dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in the community of Rawalpindi, Pakistan., PloS one, 17, (7), 2022, pe0270707Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Lee JH, Tareen AR, Kim NH, Jeong C, Kang B, Lee G, Kim DW, Zahra R, Lee SH., Comparative Genomic Analyses of E. coli ST2178 Strains Originated from Wild Birds in Pakistan., Journal of microbiology and biotechnology, 34, (10), 2024, p2041-2048Journal Article, 2024
• Bengtsson-Palme J, Abramova A, Berendonk TU, Coelho LP, Forslund SK, Gschwind R, Heikinheimo A, Jarquín-Díaz VH, Khan AA, Klümper U, Löber U, Nekoro M, Osi"ska AD, Ugarcina Perovic S, Pitkänen T, Rødland EK, Ruppé E, Wasteson Y, Wester AL, Zahra R., Towards monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in the environment: For what reasons, how to implement it, and what are the data needs?, Environment international, 178, 2023, p108089Journal Article, 2023
• Tareen AR, Zahra R., Community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococci (CA-MRS) in fecal matter of wild birds - A 'one health' point of concern., Journal of infection and public health, 16, (6), 2023, p877-883Journal Article, 2023, DOI
• Nieto-Rosado M, Sands K, Portal EAR, Thomson KM, Carvalho MJ, Mathias J, Milton R, Dyer C, Akpulu C, Boostrom I, Hogan P, Saif H, Sanches Ferreira AD, Hender T, Portal B, Andrews R, Watkins WJ, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Muhammad A, Ullah SN, Jan MH, Akif S, Iregbu KC, Modibbo F, Uwaezuoke S, Audu L, Edwin CP, Yusuf AH, Adeleye A, Mukkadas AS, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw A, Roberts L, Chan G, Bekele D, Solomon S, Abayneh M, Metaferia G, Group BARNARDS, Walsh TR., Colonisation of hospital surfaces from low- and middle-income countries by extended spectrum ß-lactamase- and carbapenemase-producing bacteria., Nature communications, 15, (1), 2024, p2758Journal Article, 2024
• Sadek M, Ruppé E, Habib A, Zahra R, Poirel L, Nordmann P., International circulation of aztreonam/avibactam-resistant NDM-5-producing Escherichia coli isolates: successful epidemic clones., Journal of global antimicrobial resistance, 27, 2021, p326-328Journal Article, 2021
• Aziz S, Rasheed F, Akhter TS, Zahra R, König S., Microbial Proteins in Stomach Biopsies Associated with Gastritis, Ulcer, and Gastric Cancer., Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 27, (17), 2022, p5410Journal Article, 2022
• Milton R, Gillespie D, Dyer C, Taiyari K, Carvalho MJ, Thomson K, Sands K, Portal EAR, Hood K, Ferreira A, Hender T, Kirby N, Mathias J, Nieto M, Watkins WJ, Bekele D, Abayneh M, Solomon S, Basu S, Nandy RK, Saha B, Iregbu K, Modibbo FZ, Uwaezuoke S, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Najeeb SU, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw AC, Walsh TR, BARNARDS Group, Chan GJ., Neonatal sepsis and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries from a facility-based birth cohort: an international multisite prospective observational study., The Lancet. Global health, 10, (5), 2022, pe661-e672Journal Article, 2022
• Idrees M, Imran M, Atiq N, Zahra R, Abid R, Alreshidi M, Roberts T, Abdelgadir A, Tipu MK, Farid A, Olawale OA, Ghazanfar S., Probiotics, their action modality and the use of multi-omics in metamorphosis of commensal microbiota into target-based probiotics., Frontiers in nutrition, 9, 2022, p959941Journal Article, 2022
• Hasan B, Perveen K, Olsen B, Zahra R., Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in hospitals in Pakistan., Journal of medical microbiology, 63, (pt 1), 2014, p50-55Journal Article, 2014
• Sands K, Carvalho MJ, Spiller OB, Portal EAR, Thomson K, Watkins WJ, Mathias J, Dyer C, Akpulu C, Andrews R, Ferreira A, Hender T, Milton R, Nieto M, Zahra R, Shirazi H, Muhammad A, Akif S, Jan MH, Iregbu K, Modibbo F, Uwaezuoke S, Chan GJ, Bekele D, Solomon S, Basu S, Nandy RK, Naha S, Mazarati JB, Rucogoza A, Gaju L, Mehtar S, Bulabula ANH, Whitelaw A, BARNARDS Group, Walsh TR., Characterisation of Staphylococci species from neonatal blood cultures in low- and middle-income countries., BMC infectious diseases, 22, (1), 2022, p593Journal Article, 2022
• Yasmin S, Karim AM, Lee SH, Zahra R., Temporal Variation of Meropenem Resistance in E. coli Isolated from Sewage Water in Islamabad, Pakistan., Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 11, (5), 2022, p635Journal Article, 2022
• Sattar H, Toleman M, Nahid F, Zahra R., Co-existence of blaNDM-1 and blaKPC-2 in clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae from Pakistan., Journal of chemotherapy (Florence, Italy), 28, (4), 2016, p346-349Journal Article, 2016
• Zahra R, Javeed S, Malala B, Babenko D, Toleman MA., Analysis of Escherichia coli STs and resistance mechanisms in sewage from Islamabad, Pakistan indicates a difference in E. coli carriage types between South Asia and Europe., The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 73, (7), 2018, p1781-1785Journal Article, 2018
• Stewardson AJ, Marimuthu K, Sengupta S, Allignol A, El-Bouseary M, Carvalho MJ, Hassan B, Delgado-Ramirez MA, Arora A, Bagga R, Owusu-Ofori AK, Ovosi JO, Aliyu S, Saad H, Kanj SS, Khanal B, Bhattarai B, Saha SK, Uddin J, Barman P, Sharma L, El-Banna T, Zahra R, Saleemi MA, Kaur A, Iregbu K, Uwaezuoke NS, Abi Hanna P, Feghali R, Correa AL, Munera MI, Le TAT, Tran TTN, Phukan C, Phukan C, Valderrama-Beltrán SL, Alvarez-Moreno C, Walsh TR, Harbarth S., Effect of carbapenem resistance on outcomes of bloodstream infection caused by Enterobacteriaceae in low-income and middle-income countries (PANORAMA): a multinational prospective cohort study., The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 19, (6), 2019, p601-610Journal Article, 2019
• Kumar N, Nahid F, Zahra R., Association of virulence factors, phylogenetic groups and antimicrobial resistance markers in Escherichia coli from Badin city, Pakistan., Journal of chemotherapy (Florence, Italy), 29, (1), 2017, p8-13Journal Article, 2017
• Dubinsky AN, Dastidar SG, Hsu CL, Zahra R, Djakovic SN, Duarte S, Esau CC, Spencer B, Ashe TD, Fischer KM, MacKenna DA, Sopher BL, Masliah E, Gaasterland T, Chau BN, Pereira de Almeida L, Morrison BE, La Spada AR., Let-7 coordinately suppresses components of the amino acid sensing pathway to repress mTORC1 and induce autophagy., Cell metabolism, 20, (4), 2014, p626-638Journal Article, 2014
• Lee JH, Tareen AR, Kim N-H, Jeong C, Kang B, Lee G, Kim D-W, Zahra R, Lee SH, Complete genome sequence of a high-risk Escherichia coli ST10 isolated from avian feces in Pakistan., Microbiology resource announcements, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Lee JH, Yasmin S, Kim N-H, Jeong C, Kang B, Lee G, Kim D-W, Zahra R, Lee SH, Complete genome sequence of an Escherichia coli ST7366 strain harboring an extended-spectrum ß-lactamase gene isolated from sewage water in Pakistan., Microbiology resource announcements, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Shahid Aziz, Faisal Rasheed, Rabaab Zahra, Simone König, Gastric Cancer Pre-Stage Detection and Early Diagnosis of Gastritis Using Serum Protein Signatures, Molecules, 27, (9), 2022, p2857Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Aziz S, König S, Noor H, Nadeem M, Zahra R, Rasheed F, Isolated dextrogastria with eventration of right hemidiaphragm and hiatal hernia in an adult male., BMC gastroenterology, 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Ali M, Aziz S, Ahmad I, Saadia A, Zahra R, May FEB, Pritchard DM, Rasheed F, Gastric metastasis before diagnosis of primary invasive lobular breast carcinoma: a rare case presentation from Pakistan., Women & health, 2021Journal Article, 2021, DOI
• Carvalho MJ, Sands K, Thomson K, Portal E, Mathias J, Milton R, Gillespie D, Dyer C, Akpulu C, Boostrom I, Hogan P, Saif H, Ferreira A, Nieto M, Walsh TR, Antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiota of mothers and linked neonates with or without sepsis from low- and middle-income countries., Nature microbiology, 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Angez, M., Shaukat, S., Zahra, R., Sharif, S., Alam, M.M., Khurshid, A., Rana, M.S., Zaidi, S.S.Z., Identification of new genotype of Echovirus 19 from children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis in Pakistan, Scientific Reports, 5, 2015Journal Article, 2015, DOI
• Ullah, R.W., Zahur, A.B., Latif, A., Dasti, J.I., Zahra, R., Ul-Hassan Khan, S., Mild form of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) in Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 47, (1), 2015, p276-279Journal Article, 2015
• Angez, M., Shaukat, S., Zahra, R., Khurshid, A., Sharif, S., Alam, M.M., Zaidi, S.S.Z., Molecular epidemiology of enterovirus B77 isolated from non polio acute flaccid paralytic patients in Pakistan during 2013, Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 29, 2015, p189-195Journal Article, 2015, DOI
• Qamar, M.U., Nahid, F., Walsh, T.R., Kamran, R., Zahra, R., Prevalence and clinical burden of NDM-1 positive infections in pediatric and neonatal patients in Pakistan, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 34, (4), 2015, p452-454Journal Article, 2015, DOI
• Shah TA, Zahra R, Screening of environment water for the presence of blaNDM-1 gene containing microorganisms., Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP, 2014Journal Article, 2014, DOI
• Rasheed, F., Campbell, B.J., Alfizah, H., Varro, A., Zahra, R., Yamaoka, Y., Pritchard, D.M., Analysis of Clinical Isolates of Helicobacter pylori in Pakistan Reveals High Degrees of Pathogenicity and High Frequencies of Antibiotic Resistance, Helicobacter, 19, (5), 2014, p387-399Journal Article, 2014, DOI
• Rasheed, F., Khalid, A., Saadia, A., Habib, S., Khan, S.M., Saeed, F., Ahmad, T., Usman, J., Zahra, R., Correlation of 13C urea breath test values with Helicobacter pylori load among positive patients., Hepato-gastroenterology, 61, (129), 2014, p125-128Journal Article, 2014
• Zahra, R., Blackwood, J.K., Sales, J., Leach, D.R.F., Proofreading and secondary structure processing determine the orientation dependence of CAG·CTG trinucleotide repeat instability in Escherichia coli, Genetics, 176, (1), 2007, p27-41Journal Article, 2007, DOI
• Khan, S., Rasheed, F., Zahra, R., Genetic polymorphism of agr locus and antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus at two hospitals in Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 30, (1), 2014, p172-176Journal Article, 2014, DOI
• Shah, T.A., Zahra, R., Screening of environment water for the presence of blaNDM-1 gene containing microorganisms, Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 24, (9), 2014, p695-697Journal Article, 2014
• Nahid, F., Khan, A.A., Rehman, S., Zahra, R., Prevalence of metallo-ß-lactamase NDM-1-producing multi-drug resistant bacteria at two Pakistani hospitals and implications for public health, Journal of Infection and Public Health, 6, (6), 2013, p487-493Journal Article, 2013, DOI
• Zahra, R., La Spada, A.R., Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neurodegeneration in the CAG-Polyglutamine Repeat Diseases, Basic Neurochemistry, 2012, p844-855Book, 2012, DOI
• Blackwood, J.K., Okely, E.A., Zahra, R., Eykelenboom, J.K., Leach, D.R.F., DNA tandem repeat instability in the Escherichia coli chromosome is stimulated by mismatch repair at an adjacent CAG·CTG trinucleotide repeat, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, (52), 2010, p22582-22586Journal Article, 2010, DOI
• Chakrabarti, L., Zahra, R., Jackson, S.M., Kazemi-Esfarjani, P., Sopher, B.L., Mason, A.G., Toneff, T., Ryu, S., Shaffer, S., Kansy, J.W., Eng, J., Merrihew, G., MacCoss, M.J., Murphy, A., Goodlett, D.R., Hook, V., Bennett, C.L., Pallanck, L.J., La Spada, A.R., Mitochondrial Dysfunction in NnaD Mutant Flies and Purkinje Cell Degeneration Mice Reveals a Role for Nna Proteins in Neuronal Bioenergetics, Neuron, 66, (6), 2010, p835-847Journal Article, 2010, DOI
• Maryam, S., Rasheed, T., Latif, A., Zahra, R., Zahur, A.B., Ahsan, A., Afzal, M., Farooq, U., One-step real-time loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP): Evaluation and its application for the detection of foot-and-mouth-disease virus and its serotypes, Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 41, (3), 2017, p435-443Journal Article, 2017, DOI
• Ahmed, A., Latif, A., Zahra, R., Zahur, A.B., Farooq, U., Ullah, A., Abubakar, M., Jamil, A., Afzal, M., Current appraisal of the suitability of foot-and-mouth disease strains in two commonly used commercial vaccines for control of FMD in Pakistan, Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, 27, (2), 2017, p446-450Journal Article, 2017
• Sattar, H., Toleman, M., Nahid, F., Zahra, R., Co-existence of blaNDM-1and blaKPC-2in clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae from Pakistan, Journal of Chemotherapy, 28, (4), 2016, p346-349Journal Article, 2016, DOI
• Jamil, A., Zahra, R., Abubakar, M., Javed Arshed, M., Khan, E.-U.-H., Akhter, T., Afzal, M., Humoral immune response induced by various foot and mouth disease vaccines in buffalo calves, Pakistan Veterinary Journal, 35, (3), 2015, p289-292Journal Article, 2015
• Rasheed F, Khalid A, Saadia A, Habib S, Khan SM, Saeed F, Ahmad T, Usman J, Zahra R, Correlation of 13C urea breath test values with Helicobacter pylori load among positive patients., Hepato-gastroenterology, 2014Journal Article, 2014
• Thomson KM, Dyer C, Liu F, Sands K, Portal E, Carvalho MJ, Barrell M, Boostrom I, Dunachie S, Farzana R, Ferreira A, Frayne F, Hassan B, Jones E, BARNARDS Group, Effects of antibiotic resistance, drug target attainment, bacterial pathogenicity and virulence, and antibiotic access and affordability on outcomes in neonatal sepsis: an international microbiology and drug evaluation prospective substudy (BARNARDS)., The Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2021Journal Article, 2021, DOI
• Khan AA, Farooq J, Abid M, Zahra R, Assessment of inducible clindamycin resistance and Hyper Variable Region (HVR) of mecA gene in clinical staphylococci., Pakistan journal of medical sciences, 2020Journal Article, 2020, DOI
• Samad A, Khan AA, Sajid M, Zahra R, Assessment of biofilm formation by pseudomonas aeruginosa and hydrodynamic evaluation of microtiter plate assay., JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2019Journal Article, 2019
• Gilmore-Hall S, Kuo J, Ward JM, Zahra R, Morrison RS, Perkins G, La Spada AR, CCP1 promotes mitochondrial fusion and motility to prevent Purkinje cell neuron loss in pcd mice., The Journal of Cell Biology, 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI
• Saba T, Sajid M, Khan AA, Zahra R, Role of Intracellular Adhesion icaAD and agr genes in Biofilm Formation in Clinical S. aureus Isolates and Assessment of Two Phenotypic Methods., Pakistan journal of medical sciences, 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI
• Nahid, F., Zahra, R., Sandegren, L., A blaOXA-181-harbouring multi-resistant ST147 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from Pakistan that represent an intermediate stage towards pan-drug resistance, PLoS ONE, 12, (12), 2017Journal Article, 2017, DOI
• Angez, M., Shaukat, S., Zahra, R., Alam, M.M., Sharif, S., Khurshid, A., Arshad, Y., Suleman, M., Mujtaba, G., Zaidi, S.S.Z., Characterization of group B coxsackieviruses isolated from non-polio acute flaccid paralysis patients in Pakistan: Vital assessment before polio eradication, Epidemiology and Infection, 145, (12), 2017, p2473-2481Journal Article, 2017, DOI
• Rabaab Zahra, Wild Birds Carrying Multi-Drug Resistant Enterobacteriaceae As Potential Reservoirs Of Antibiotic Resistance Genes In Islamabad, Pakistan, Sixth conference on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance (EDAR6), Gothenburg, Sweden, September 22-27, 202, 2022Poster, 2022

• Rabaab Zahra, Strengthening Cooperation in Traditional Medicine and Allied Biomedical Sciences in OIC Member States, Islamabad, Pakistan, 27-04-2023, 2023, COMSTECHInvited Talk
• Rabaab Zahra, Gaps and Challenges in Antimicrobial Resistance: At the Front of Clinical and Non-Clinical Settings, 14th Biennial Conference of Pakistan Society for Microbiology (PSM), Salim Habib University, Karachi, 23-11-2023, 2023, Pakistan Society for MicrobiologyInvited Talk
• Rabaab Zahra, Women's Health - The Cornerstone of Strength and Vitality, Pakistan International Womens Day Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, March 1, 2024, 2024, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar, PakistanInvited Talk
• Rabaab Zahra, Identification of Barriers to Biosafety and Biosecurity in Healthcare, Workshop on Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Biosafety and Biosecurity Regimes for a Secure Future, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 4, 2023, 2023, COMSTECHInvited Talk

• Title

  Genomic Comparison of community and Hospital Acquired Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Influence of the Intestinal Microbiota
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan
• Title

  Surveillance for Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance through Characterization of the uncharted Environmental Resistome (SEARCHER)
  Summary

  https://antimicrobialresistance.eu/
• Title

  Burden of antibiotic resistance in neonates from developing societies (BARNARDS) - Phase II
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  IOI-University of Oxford
• Title

  Establishing a Monitoring Baseline for Antibiotic Resistance in Key Environments " EMBARK
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• Title

  The Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Treatment Failure in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries (BALANCE)
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  IOI-University of Oxford

Infectious diseases, Medical microbiology, Antimicrobial resistance, One health,

• Commonwealth Scholarship - PhD 2003
• Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK 2016-2017
• Honor Fell Travel Award, British Society of Cell Biology, UK 2006
• Gold Medal - First class first position - MSc Biotechnology 2002
• UK-Researcher Links Travel grant 2015
• Best Research Performance Award - Quaid-i-Azam University 2022-2023

• Member American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
• Chair of Pakistan Society for Microbiology (PSM) Islamabad Chapter
• Canadian Society of Microbiologists 2022