Browsing Biomedical Research Center by Author "Abu-Madi, Marawan"
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Coproscopy and molecular screening for detection of intestinal protozoa
Abu-Madi, Marawan; Boughattas, Sonia; Behnke, Jerzy M; Sharma, Aarti; Ismail, Ahmed ( BioMed Central , 2017 , Article)Intestinal parasitosis is one of several health concerns about immigrants who travel from endemic to non-endemic regions. Reliable rapid sensitive diagnostic tools, for use in non-endemic regions, are urgently required to ... -
Cryptosporidium spp., prevalence, molecular characterisation and socio-demographic risk factors among immigrants in Qatar.
Boughattas, Sonia; Behnke, Jerzy M; Al-Sadeq, Duaa; Ismail, Ahmed; Abu-Madi, Marawan; BOUGHATTAS, SONIA... more authors ... less authors ( Public Library of Science , 2019 , Article)The World Health Organization WHO has estimated that in developed countries, up to 30% of the population may suffer from foodborne diseases each year, and that in developing countries up to 2 million deaths per annum can ... -
Discrepancy in MALDI-TOF MS identification of uncommon Gram-negative bacteria from lower respiratory secretions in patients with cystic fibrosis
Abdulwahab, Atqah; Taj-Aldeen, Saad; Ibrahim, Emad Bashir; Talaq, Eman; Abu-Madi, Marawan; Fotedar, Rashmi... more authors ... less authors ( Dovepress , 2015 , Article)Introduction: Early identification of microbial organisms from respiratory secretions of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is important to guide therapeutic decisions. The objective was to compare the accuracy of ... -
The distribution of Blastocystis subtypes in isolates from Qatar
Abu-Madi, Marawan; Mahmoud, Aly; Behnke, Jerzy M.; Clark, C. Graham; Balkhy, Hanan ( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Background: Blastocystis is a common single-celled intestinal parasite of humans and other animals comprising at least 17 genetically distinct small subunit ribosomal RNA lineages (subtypes (STs)), nine of which have been ... -
Early Diagnosis of Iron Deficiency in School Children: A Qatari Experience
Amer, Aliaa; Abu-Madi, Marawan; El Dabbagh, Mohamed; Kamal, Madeeha; Shebl, Fatma; Al Marzouqi, Sheikha; Al Mulla, Sumaya; Osman, Marriam; Abdulsalam, Wafa'a... more authors ... less authors ( OMICS Publishing Group , 2015 , Article)Objective: Iron deficiency still remains the most common nutritional deficiency throughout the world and is the leading cause of anaemia in children. Early recognition of iron deficiency, even before the development of ... -
A fluorescence-based polymerase chain reaction-linked single-strand conformation polymorphism (F-PCR-SSCP) assay for the identification of Fasciola spp
Alasaad, Samer; Soriguer, Ramón C; Abu-Madi, Marawan; El Behairy, Ahmed; Baños, Pablo Díez; Píriz, Ana; Fickel, Joerns; Zhu, Xing-Quan... more authors ... less authors ( Springer Verlag , 2011 , Article)The present study aimed to establish a fluorescence-based polymerase chain reaction-linked single-strand conformation polymorphism (F-PCR-SSCP) assay for the identification of Fasciola spp. Based on the sequences of the ... -
Genetic Diversity and Prevalence of in Qatar.
Chourabi, Marwa; Boughattas, Sonia; Abdallah, Atiyeh M; Ismail, Ahmed; Behnke, Jerzy M; Al-Mekhlafi, Hesham M; Abu-Madi, Marawan... more authors ... less authors ( Frontiers Media , 2021 , Article)is a common human intestinal parasite worldwide, and the causative agent of diarrhea, with the severity of disease ranging from asymptomatic to intense and debilitating infection. is known to consist of eight genetically ... -
Genetic relatedness and host specificity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis patients
Abdulwahab, Atqah; Taj-Aldeen, Saad J.; Doiphode, S; Abdulla, Shaikha H.; Muhammed, Ramees; Ahmed, Irshad; Abdeen, Yasmine; Sadek, Omnia; Abu-Madi, Marawan... more authors ... less authors ( Dove Medical Press Limited , 2014 , Article)Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the primary pathogens isolated more frequently in cystic fibrosis (CF) and it exhibits innate resistance to a wide range of antibiotics. Purpose: We sought to determine whether ... -
Helminth Infections Among Long-Term-Residents and Settled Immigrants in Qatar in the Decade from 2005 to 2014: Temporal Trends and Varying Prevalence Among Subjects from Different Regional Origins
Abu-Madi, Marawan; Behnke, Jerzy; Doiphode, Sanjay; Boughattas, Sonia ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)We analysed the prevalence of helminth infection in a dataset of 31,008 records of subjects referred for stool examination at the Hamad Medical Corporation over the course of a decade (2005 to 2014, inclusive). Overall ... -
Host specificity of pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis and patients from different clinical backgrounds.
AbdulWahab, Atqah; Taj-Aldeen, Saad J; Ibrahim, Emad; Hussain, Shaikha; Muhammed, Ramees; Ahmed, Irshad; Abu-Madi, Marawan... more authors ... less authors ( European Respiratory Society: ERJ , 2014 , Article)Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the primary pathogens being isolated more frequently in cystic fibrosis (CF) and exhibits innate resistant to a wide range of antibiotics. Purpose: To determine whether the ... -
Platelets as a Possible Reservoir of HCV And Predictor of Response to Treatment
Amer, Aliaa; Abu Madi, Marawan; Shebl, Fatma; Al Faridi, Dekra; Alkhinji, Moza; Derbala, Moutaz... more authors ... less authors ( SciTechnol , 2016 , Article)In the era of new Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) therapy, and the detection of extrahepatic HCV reservoirs such as peripheral blood mononuclear cells and platelets, it is important to understand the factors underlying resistance ... -
Prevalence of Virulence/Stress Genes in Campylobacter jejuni from Chicken Meat Sold in Qatari Retail Outlets
Abu-Madi, Marawan; Behnke, Jerzy M.; Sharma, Aarti; Bearden, Rebecca; Al-Banna, Nadia ( Public Library of Science , 2016 , Article)Chicken meat from the shelves of supermarkets in Qatar was tested for the presence of Campylobacter spp. and the presence of five virulence genes (htrB, cdtB, clpP, cadF and ciaB) was assessed in isolates. Forty eight ... -
Sarcoptes-World Molecular Network (Sarcoptes-WMN): integrating research on scabies.
Alasaad, Samer; Walton, Shelley; Rossi, Luca; Bornstein, Set; Abu-Madi, Marawan; Soriguer, Ramón C; Fitzgerald, Scott; Zhu, Xing-Quan; Zimmermann, Werner; Ugbomoiko, Uade Samuel; Pei, Kurtis Jai-Chyi; Heukelbach, Jörg... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2011 , Article)Parasites threaten human and animal health globally. It is estimated that more than 60% of people on planet Earth carry at least one parasite, many of them several different species. Unfortunately, parasite studies suffer ... -
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in feral cats in Qatar
Boughattas, Sonia; Behnke, Jerzy; Sharma, Aarti; Abu-Madi, Marawan ( BioMed Central , 2017 , Article)Background: Cats are essential in the life cycle of Toxoplasma gondii as they can shed the environmentally resistant oocysts after acquiring infection. Human populations living in cities with high densities of feral cats ... -
Serum Uric Acid Level Is Positively Associated With Higher Bone Mineral Density at Multiple Skeletal Sites Among Healthy Qataris
ibrahim, wisam nabeel; Younes, Nadin; Shi, Zumin; Abu-Madi, Marawan Abdelhamid ( Frontiers Media , 2021 , Article)Background: Oxidative stress has been implicated as a fundamental mechanism in the decline of bone mass. Although serum uric acid (SUA) has potent antioxidant properties, the findings of many epidemiological and experimental ... -
A TaqMan real-time PCR-based assay for the identification of Fasciola spp.
Alasaad, Samer; Soriguer, Ramón C; Abu-Madi, Marawan; El Behairy, Ahmed; Jowers, Michael J; Baños, Pablo Díez; Píriz, Ana; Fickel, Joerns; Zhu, Xing-Quan... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2011 , Article)Real time quantitative PCR (qPCR) is one of the key technologies of the post-genome era, with clear advantages compared to normal end-point PCR. In this paper, we report the first qPCR-based assay for the identification ...