Irfan Ullah, Kiran Shafiq Khan, Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Ali Ahmed et al.
The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the international crises and researchers are working collaboratively to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. The World Health Organization recognizes vaccine hesitancy as the world's top threat to public health safety, part...
Farah Naz Qamar, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Irum Fatima Dehraj, Sadia Shakoor et al.
BACKGROUND: Clinicians have limited therapeutic options for enteric as a result of increasing antimicrobial resistance, and therefore typhoid vaccination is recommended as a preventive measure. As a part of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP), we investigated the extent measure...
Irfan Ullah, Kiran Shafiq Khan, Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Ali Ahmed et al.
The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the international crises and researchers are working collaboratively to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. The World Health Organization recognizes vaccine hesitancy as the world's top threat to public health safety, part...
Arafat Rahman, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar, Anas Tahir et al.
Harnessing the inherent anti-spoofing quality from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals has become a potential field of research in recent years. Although several studies have been conducted, still there are some vital challenges present in the deployment of EEG-based biometrics, which is stable and c...
Ahsun Rizwan Siddiqi, Tehrim Khan, Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Muhammad Sohaib Asghar et al.
RATIONALE: Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) is a rare variant of Guillain-Barre syndrome, classically diagnosed based on the clinical triad of ataxia, areflexia, and ophthalmoplegia. MFS is usually preceded by viral infections and febrile illness; however, only a few cases have been reported after vacci...
Muhammad Shafiq, Changqing Du, Nasir Jamal, Junaid Hussain Abro et al.
According to the World Health Organization, heart disease is the biggest cause of death worldwide. It may be possible to bring down the overall death rate of individuals if cardiovascular disease can be detected in its earlier stages. If the cardiac disease is detected at an earlier stage, there is ...
Syeda Tayyaba Rehan, Laiba Imran, Hussain Mansoor, Qudsia Sayyeda et al.
Abstract Background The menstrual cycle in women is the main indicator of their reproductive health which is affected by the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. This review aims to summarize the effects of the COVID‐19 infection and the global pandemic on the menstrual health of wo...
Irfan Ullah, Md. Saiful Islam, Sajjad Ali, Hashaam Jamil et al.
Background: The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in social distancing and isolation which leads to insufficient physical activity and thereby increases sedentary behaviors. Hence, this study aimed to assess the prevalence of insufficient physical activity and sedentary behaviors among me...
Hashaam Jamil, Muhammad Fazal Ud Din, Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Muhammad Saqlain et al.
BACKGROUND: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) continues to pose a serious threat to the fragile healthcare system of Pakistan with a continuous increase of morbidity and mortality. The present study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding CCHF among general people who ...
Kah S. Lee, Adnan Shahidullah, Syed Tabish R. Zaidi, Rahul P. Patel et al.
<p>Drugs are regulated in Pakistan under the Drug Act 1976 and DRAP Act, 2012, under which the sales, storage, and distribution of drugs are regulated at provincial level while the manufacturing (licensing), registration, pricing, import, export, and monitoring of controlled drugs comes under ...
Ahmed Hashim, Nouran A. Mohammed, AlFadl Othman, Mohab A.K. Gab-Allah et al.
Background: Novel psychoactive substances (NPSs) are relatively new substances in the illicit drug market, not previously listed in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC). Strox and Voodoo are considered some of the most popular blends of NPS in the Egyptian drug market. Objectives: Th...
Irfan Ullah, Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Sajjad Ali, Rabia Waseem et al.
Abstract The Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) assesses the fear of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has been translated and validated into over 20 languages. The present study conducted confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item response theory (IRT) analyses on the FCV-19S among a...
Arif Mumtaz, Qaisar Ali Khan, Nowshad Asim, Abdul Baqi et al.
RATIONALE: Celiac disease (CD) is autoimmune enteropathy affecting the proximal small intestinal mucosa. It is caused by insensitivity to gluten, a protein predominantly presented in wheat. CD is classically associated with gastrointestinal symptoms. The non-classic clinical presentation of CD can p...
Muhammad Junaid Tahir, Musharaf Zaman, Muhammad Saad Babar, Fareeha Imran et al.
The study was conducted to determine bacterial contamination of stethoscopes used by doctors before and after disinfecting with isopropyl alcohol and analyze their practices of disinfecting stethoscopes. Samples from stethoscopes were taken before and after disinfecting with 70% isopropyl alcohol sw...
Jessica C. Seidman, Kristen Aiemjoy, Mehreen Adnan, Irum Fatima Dehraj et al.
Existing methods to identify patients infected with Salmonella enterica Typhi (S. Typhi) or Paratyphi are inadequately accurate, affordable, and efficient. We evaluated the discriminatory power of antibodies to S. Typhi hemolysin E (HlyE) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakist...