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Other Memberships/Affiliations
American Society of Microbiology
Royal College of Pathologists, UK
Association of Molecular Pathologists Pakistan

Degrees:

1997
Doctorate     Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences

Publications resulting from Research
Total 98 Indexed Publications.
1. Ghanchi NK, Nasir A, Masood KI, Abidi SH, Mahmood SF, Kanji A, et al. Higher entropy observed in SAR-CoV-2 genomes from the first COVID-19 wave in Pakistan PLoS ONE. 2021;16(8)(e0256451):https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256451.
2. Mushtaq MZ, Shakoor S, Kanji A, Shaheen N, Nasir A, Ansar Z, et al. Discrepancy between PCR based SARS-CoV-2 tests suggests the need to re-evaluate diagnostic assays. BMC Res Notes. 2021;14(1):316.
3. Sarfraz A, Hasan Siddiqui S, Iqbal J, Ali SA, Hasan Z, Sarfraz Z, et al. COVID-19 age-dependent immunology and clinical outcomes: implications for vaccines. J Dev Orig Health Dis. 2021:1-7.
4. Abidi SH, Imtiaz K, Kanji A, Qaiser S, Khan E, Iqbal K, et al. A rapid real-time polymerase chain reaction-based live virus microneutralization assay for detection of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in blood/serum. PLoS One. 2021;16(12):e0259551.
5. Masood KI, Yameen M, Ashraf J, Shahid S, Mahmood SF, Nasir A, et al. Upregulated type I interferon responses in asymptomatic COVID-19 infection are associated with improved clinical outcome. Sci Rep. 2021;11(1):22958.
6. A Nasir, AR Bukhari, NS. Trovão, PM Thielen, A Kanji, SF Mahmood, NK Ghanchi, Z Ansar, B Merritt, T Mehoke, SA Razzak, MA Syed, SR Shaikh, M Wassan, UBr Aamir, G Baele, Z Rasmussen, D Spiro, R Hasan and Z Hasan. Introduction of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 in Pakistan through travelers arriving from UK. Virus Evolution. 2022, 8(1), 1–9
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