Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Stanton TD, Keegan SP, Abdulahi JA, Amulele AV, Bates M, Heinz E, Hooda Y, Hu W, Jain K, Kanwar S, Magobo R, Olwagen CP, Tembo JM, Sonda T, Strysko J, Tigoi CC, Amin SA, Bittinger K, Cornick J, Foster-Nyarko E, Gumbi W, Hotwani A, Iqbal N, Jones SM, Kabir F, Khan W, Musyani CL, McGann CM, Mittal V, Moustafa AM, Musicha P, Mwansa JCL, Ndumba ML, Odih EE, Omuoyo DO, Pearse O, Phillips LT, Planet PJ, Rasool AA, Rodrigues CMC, Sands K, Tanmoy AM, Theiller E, Zuza AM, Basu S, Chan GJ, Iregbu KC, Mazarati JB, Alemayehu SS, Walsh TR, Zahra R, Dramowski A, Fwoloshi S, Labi AK, Madrid L, Obeng-Nkrumah N, Ojok D, Wadugu BD, Whitelaw AC, Bethou A, Bhargava A, Jindal A, Nanavati RN, Prasad PS, Sastry A, Farooqi JQ, Ghanchi N, Jehan F, Khan E, Agarwal RK, Aiken AM, Berkley JA, Coffin SE, Feasey NA, Govender NP, Hamer DH, Madhi SA, Nisar MI, Saha SK, Saha S, Sankar MJ, Wyres KL, Holt KE., Distribution of capsule and O types in Klebsiella pneumoniae causing neonatal sepsis in Africa and South Asia: A meta-analysis of genome-predicted serotype prevalence to inform potential vaccine coverage. , PLoS medicine, 23, (1), 2026, pe1004879
Gschwind, Remi, Bonnet, Mehdi, Abramova, Anna, Jarquín-Díaz, Victor Hugo, Wenne, Marcus, Löber, Ulrike, Godron, Nicolas, Kampouris, Ioannis D, Tskhay, Faina, Nahid, Fouzia, Debroucker, Chloé, Bui-Hai, Maximilien, El Aiba, Inès, Klümper, Uli, Berendonk, Thomas U, Forslund-Startceva, Sofia K, Zahra, Rabaab, Bengtsson-Palme, Johan, Ruppé, Etienne, Cefiderocol resistance genes identified in environmental samples using functional metagenomics, The ISME Journal, 2026
Kim, Nam-Hoon, Lee, Jung Hun, Yasmin, Saba, Tareen, Abdul Rauf, Jang, Kyung-Min, Jeong, Chanyeong, Kang, Byeonghyeon, Lee, Gwangje, Lee, Dong-Won, Zahra, Rabaab, Kim, Dae-Wi, Lee, Sang Hee, Comparative genomic analyses of Escherichia coli ST405 strains from Pakistan, mSystems, 2026
Khan, Ayaz Ali, Khan, Muhammad Ibrahim, Ullah, Habib, Gohar, Farwa, Ahsan, Aitezaz, Irshad, Hamid, Zahra, Rabaab, Characterization of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and phylogenetic analysis of E. coli strains isolated from healthy broilers in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, One Health, 2026, p101364
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, p1-12
Rzaska, J, Cooke, A, Farzana, R, Hassan, B, Achi, C, Nieto-Rosado, M, Oduwo, J, Owinoh, E, Zahra, R, Iregbu, K C, Mahboob, A, Riaz, S, Hamid, M H, Muhammad, A, Khan, M, Rashid, E, Medugu, N, Oduyebo, O, Nwafia, I, Yahaya, M, Aminu, A, Wilson, L, Langhorne, S, Sindhu, A, Rehman, A, Shah, A, Shoaib, A, Tariq, R, Temur, R, Babar, M, Sajid, A, Razzaq, R, Pervin, S, Farzana, R, Tasnim, N, Akujobi, T, Ogunsanya, O, Ahmad, M, Nwachukwu, P, Orabueze, I, Abubakar, J, Chukwuma, S, Walsh, T, Sands, K, Thomson, K, P98 Prevalence of bacteria carrying ESBL genes on hospital surfaces in low- and middle-income countries, JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 7, (Supplement_4), 2025
Cooke, A, Rzaska, J, Farzana, R, Hassan, B, Achi, C, Nieto-Rosado, M, Oduwo, J, Owinoh, E, Zahra, R, Iregbu, K C, Mahboob, A, Riaz, S, Hamid, M H, Muhammad, A, Khan, M, Rashid, E, Medugu, N, Oduyebo, O, Nwafia, I, Yahaya, M, Aminu, A, Wilson, L, Langhorne, S, Sindhu, A, Rehman, A, Shah, A, Shoaib, A, Tariq, R, Temur, R, Babar, M, Sajid, A, Razzaq, R, Pervin, S, Farzana, R, Tasnim, N, Akujobi, T, Olutekunbi, O, Ahmad, M, Nwachukwu, P, Orabueze, I, Abubakar, J, Chukwuma, S, Walsh, T, Sands, K, Thomson, K, P99 Prevalence of carbapenemase-producing bacteria colonizing hospital surfaces in low- and middle-income countries, JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 7, (Supplement_4), 2025
Khan, Umair Hassan, Shah, Rahim, Ahmad, Faisal, Fatima, Hina, Hussain, Mujahid, Khan, Muhammad Firdous Nawaz, Zahra, Rabaab, Multi-epitope mRNA Rabies Vaccine Design Using a Reverse Vaccinology Approach Validated by Molecular Dynamics and Binding Energies, Journal of Computational Biophysics and Chemistry, 2025, p1-26
Fatima, Shehla Batool, Khan, Hidayat Ullah, Bibi, Ayesha, Hamza, Muhammad, Zahra, Rabaab, Rehman, Shafiq ur, Farooqi, Abida, Water scarcity impact on water quality and implications for residents in Islamabad, Pakistan, Environmental Earth Sciences, 84, (20), 2025
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, p2041-2048
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, p2758
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, p877-883
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, p108089
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, p2347-2348
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, p5410
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, p959941
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-e672
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, p2857
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, 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, pe0270707
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, p593
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, p635
Rabaab Zahra, Abdul Rauf Tareen, Sumair Khan, Mati Ullah, 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, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2021
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, 2021
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, p512-523
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, p326-328
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, 2020
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, 2019
Shahzeera Begum, Muneela Shaheen, Amir Afzal Khan, Rabaab Zahra, Prevalence of aminoglycoside and tetracycline resistance genes and their association with virulence factors in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii, International Journal of Biosciences (IJB), 15, (3), 2019, p392-399
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, p601-610
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, 2018
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, p1781-1785
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, 2018
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, p8-13
Nahid, F., Zahra, R., Sandegren, L., A bla
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, p435-443
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, p2473-2481
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, p446-450
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, p346-349
Sattar, H., Toleman, M., Nahid, F., Zahra, R., Co-existence of bla
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, 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, p189-195
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, p276-279
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, p452-454
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, p289-292
Shah, T.A., Zahra, R., Screening of environment water for the presence of bla
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, 2014
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, p172-176
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, p626-638
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, 2014
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, p125-128
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, p50-55
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, p387-399
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, p487-493
Zahra, R., La Spada, A.R., Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neurodegeneration in the CAG-Polyglutamine Repeat Diseases, Basic Neurochemistry, 2012, p844-855
Perveen K, Zahra R, Analysis of Carbapenem Resistance Genes in Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter spp. from a tertiary care hospital, 13th Asia-Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APCCMI), Beijing, China, October 25-28, 2012, 2012
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, p835-847
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, p22582-22586
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, p27-41
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
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, Pakistan
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, COMSTECH
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 Microbiology
Rabaab Zahra, Strengthening Cooperation in Traditional Medicine and Allied Biomedical Sciences in OIC Member States, Islamabad, Pakistan, 27-04-2023, 2023, COMSTECH
Research Expertise
Projects
- 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
- Funding Agency
- IOI-University of Oxford
- Title
- Genomic Comparison of community and Hospital Acquired Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Influence of the Intestinal Microbiota
- Funding Agency
- Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan
- Title
- The Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Treatment Failure in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries (BALANCE)
- Summary
- The study aims to quantify the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bloodstream infections in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), compare with high-income countries (HICs) and to evaluate the contributions of inadequate antibiotic therapy, pathogen virulence, and the integration of epidemiological and health economic analyses.
- Funding Agency
- IOI-University of Oxford
- Title
- Establishing a Monitoring Baseline for Antibiotic Resistance in Key Environments " EMBARK
- Funding Agency
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Best Research Performance Award - Quaid-i-Azam University
Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK
UK-Researcher Links Travel grant
Honor Fell Travel Award, British Society of Cell Biology, UK
Commonwealth Scholarship - PhD
Gold Medal - First class first position - MSc Biotechnology
Memberships
The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Chair of Pakistan Society for Microbiology (PSM) Islamabad Chapter
Member American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Canadian Society of Microbiologists