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Regional inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis.

Health economics review

Sharaf MF, Rashad AS.
PMID: 27271178
Health Econ Rev. 2016 Dec;6(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s13561-016-0097-3. Epub 2016 Jun 07.

There is substantial evidence that on average, urban children have better health outcomes than rural children. This paper investigates the underlying factors that account for the regional disparities in child malnutrition in three Arab countries, namely; Egypt, Jordan, and...

Production of Superoxide in Bacteria Is Stress- and Cell State-Dependent: A Gating-Optimized Flow Cytometry Method that Minimizes ROS Measurement Artifacts with Fluorescent Dyes.

Frontiers in microbiology

McBee ME, Chionh YH, Sharaf ML, Ho P, Cai MW, Dedon PC.
PMID: 28377755
Front Microbiol. 2017 Mar 21;8:459. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00459. eCollection 2017.

The role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in microbial metabolism and stress response has emerged as a major theme in microbiology and infectious disease. Reactive fluorescent dyes have the potential to advance the study of ROS in the complex...

High risk behaviors of injection drug users registered with harm reduction programme in Karachi, Pakistan.

Harm reduction journal

Altaf A, Shah SA, Zaidi NA, Memon A, Nadeem-ur-Rehman, Wray N.
PMID: 17291354
Harm Reduct J. 2007 Feb 10;4:7. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-4-7.

BACKGROUND: Surveillance data of Sindh AIDS Control Programme, Pakistan suggest that HIV infection is rapidly increasing among IDUs in Karachi and has reached 9% in 2004-5 indicating that the country has progressed from nascent to concentrated level of HIV...

Evaluation of blood bank practices in Karachi, Pakistan, and the government's response.

JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Luby S, Khanani R, Zia M, Vellani Z, Ali M, Qureshi AH, Khan AJ, Mujeeb SA, Shah SA, Fisher-Hoch S.
PMID: 16689480
J Pak Med Assoc. 2006 Jan;56(1):S25-30.

BACKGROUND: National legislation in Pakistan regulating blood banks has been introduced several times, but has never been passed. To support provincial-level efforts to develop legislation we conducted a study to evaluate blood-banking practices in Karachi, Pakistan, to identify areas...

Monomorium dryhimi sp. n., a new ant species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the M. monomorium group from Saudi Arabia, with a key to the Arabian Monomorium monomorium-group.

ZooKeys

Aldawood AS, Sharaf MR.
PMID: 21852921
Zookeys. 2011;(106):47-54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.106.1390. Epub 2011 Jun 15.

A new ant species, Monomorium dryhimi, is described based on workers from a single colony collected in Al Bahah, Asir Province, Saudi Arabia. This is the fourth species of the Monomorium monomorium-group collected from Arabian Peninsula, and appears to...

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection and evaluation of a health education program in el-ghar village in zagazig, egypt.

The Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association

Eassa S, Eissa M, Sharaf SM, Ibrahim MH, Hassanein OM.
PMID: 18706295
J Egypt Public Health Assoc. 2007;82(5):379-404.

UNLABELLED: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an emerging global epidemic, some nations have been more drastically affected than others. Egypt reports the highest incidence in the world, with a prevalence rate of over 20 % (global average 3%). Despite...

Measurement of natural radioactivity in Jordanian building materials and their contribution to the public indoor gamma dose rate.

Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine

Sharaf JM, Hamideen MS.
PMID: 23831927
Appl Radiat Isot. 2013 Oct;80:61-6. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.06.016. Epub 2013 Jun 20.

This study is undertaken to determine the activity concentration of (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K in samples of commonly used building materials in Jordan. Samples of seven different materials were collected from construction sites and local agencies supplying raw construction...

Vitamin D status among population of Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia.

International journal of health sciences

Naeem Z, Almohaimeed A, Sharaf FK, Ismail H, Shaukat F, Inam SB.
PMID: 23267289
Int J Health Sci (Qassim). 2011 Jul;5(2):116-24.

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to assess serum 25OHD level among healthy Saudi population of Qassim region, besides socio-demographic characters, dietary habits, sun exposure and common symptoms of vitamin D deficiency were also evaluated.SUBJECTS AND METHODS: One...

Diagnosis of congenital cytomegalovirus infection in high risk neonates.

Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases

Albanna EA, El-Latif RS, Sharaf HA, Gohar MK, Ibrahim BM.
PMID: 23936620
Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis. 2013 Jul 10;5(1):e2013049. doi: 10.4084/MJHID.2013.049. Print 2013.

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to compare polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and IgM detection using enzyme linked immune-sorbent assay (ELISA) in diagnosis of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection.METHODS: This study was conducted from May 2009 to December 2010. Urine and blood...

Predictors of Cesarean Delivery in Pregnant Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology

Sharaf AA, Nguyen GC.
PMID: 31294403
J Can Assoc Gastroenterol. 2018 Apr 02;1(2):76-81. doi: 10.1093/jcag/gwy003. eCollection 2018 Jun.

AIM: Pregnant women with Crohn's disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC) are likelier to undergo Cesarean delivery than women without IBD. Active perianal disease is the only IBD-related indication for Cesarean delivery. We sought to identify clinical factors contributing...

Prevalence of Intestinal Protozoa among Saudi Patients with Chronic Renal Failure: A Case-Control Study.

Journal of tropical medicine

Hawash YA, Dorgham LSh, Amir el-AM, Sharaf OF.
PMID: 26491455
J Trop Med. 2015;2015:563478. doi: 10.1155/2015/563478. Epub 2015 Sep 28.

It has been hypothesized that chronic renal failure (CRF) predisposes patients to infection with intestinal protozoa. We tested this hypothesis with a matched case-control study to determine the prevalence of these protozoa and their diarrhea associated symptoms among 50...

Association of .

Journal of advanced research

Motawi TK, El-Maraghy SA, Sharaf SA, Said SE.
PMID: 30581618
J Adv Res. 2018 Oct 20;15:103-110. doi: 10.1016/j.jare.2018.10.001. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Although the pathogenesis of paediatric-onset autoimmune hepatitis (pAIH) remains incompletely understood, genetic variants and environmental factors are known to be involved. Caspase recruitment domain family member 10 (CARD10) is a scaffold protein that participates in a complex pathway activating...

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