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Siddiqui I, Habib Khan A, Imran S, Jafri L. M068 An audit on the awareness of Westgard rules as quality control monitoring tool among medical laboratory technologists of a tertiary care hospital. Clin Chim Acta 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2022.04.601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tembhre MK, Parihar AS, Sharma VK, Imran S, Bhari N, Lakshmy R, Bhalla A. Enhanced expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 in psoriatic skin and its upregulation in keratinocytes by interferon-γ: implication of inflammatory milieu in skin tropism of SARS-CoV-2. Br J Dermatol 2020; 184:577-579. [PMID: 33155280 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.19670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Revised: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- M K Tembhre
- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.,Department of Cardiac Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Dermatology and Venereology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Cardiac Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, APS University, Rewa, India
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Imran S, Jafri L, Majid H, Khan AH. Performance of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) for detecting newly diagnosed diabetes and pre diabetes in different ethnicities of Pakistan. Clin Chim Acta 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2019.03.566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Rehman A, Imran S, Hassan M, Akhlaq A, Iqbal S, Beg F, Zahid G, Khalid H, Qadir FS, Murad HF, Baloch NUA, Awais M, Saleem S. Taxi drivers' attitudes toward road safety in Pakistan. Public Health 2015; 129:818-21. [PMID: 25936972 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2014] [Revised: 02/23/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- A Rehman
- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Medical College, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Department of Radiology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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Akhtar R, Sardar M, Saima N, Saleem G, Imran S, Aslam A. Responses of Nili-Ravi buffalo to aflatoxin B1 with and without toxin adsorbents. J Anim Feed Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.22358/jafs/65667/2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Saha D, Akinsola A, Sharples K, Adeyemi MO, Antonio M, Imran S, Jasseh M, Hossain MJ, Nasrin D, Kotloff KL, Levine MM, Hill PC. Health Care Utilization and Attitudes Survey: understanding diarrheal disease in rural Gambia. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2013; 89:13-20. [PMID: 23629926 PMCID: PMC3748496 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
Abstract
Diarrheal disease causes ∼1.34 million deaths per year among children under 5 years of age globally. We conducted a Health Care Utilization and Attitudes Survey of 1,012 primary caregivers of children aged 0–11, 12–23, and 24–59 months randomly selected from a Demographic Surveillance population in rural Gambia. Point prevalence of diarrhea was 7.7% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 6.1–9.8); 23.3% had diarrhea within the previous 2 weeks. Caregivers of 81.5% of children with diarrhea sought healthcare outside their home, but only 48.4% of them visited a health center. Only 17.0% (95% CI = 12.1–23.2) of children with diarrhea received oral rehydration solution (ORS) at home. Abbreviated surveys conducted on six occasions over the subsequent 2 years showed no change in prevalence or treatment-seeking behavior. Diarrhea remains a significant problem in rural young Gambian children. Encouraging care-seeking behavior at health centers and promoting ORS use can reduce mortality and morbidity in this population.
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- Debasish Saha
- *Address correspondence to Debasish Saha, Centre for International Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. E-mail:
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Imran S, Nicholl R. Neonatal respiratory distress: do not forget the rarer causes! Case Reports 2009; 2009:bcr03.2009.1669. [DOI: 10.1136/bcr.03.2009.1669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Aaronson JS, Eckman B, Blevins RA, Borkowski JA, Myerson J, Imran S, Elliston KO. Toward the development of a gene index to the human genome: an assessment of the nature of high-throughput EST sequence data. Genome Res 1996; 6:829-45. [PMID: 8889550 DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.9.829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
A rigorous analysis of the Merck-sponsored EST data with respect to known gene sequences increases the utility of the data set and helps refine methods for building a gene index. A highly curated human transcript data base was used as a reference data set of known genes. A detailed analysis of EST sequences derived from known genes was performed to assess the accuracy of EST sequence annotation. The EST data was screened to remove low-quality and low-complexity sequences. A set of high-quality ESTs similar to the transcript data base was identified using BLAST; this subset of ESTs was compared with the set of known genes using the Smith-Waterman algorithm. Error rates of several types were assessed based on a flexible match criterion defining sequence identity. The rate of lane-tracking errors is very low, approximately 0.5%. Insert size data is accurate within approximately 20%. Reversed clone and internal priming error rates are approximately 5% and 2.5%, respectively, contributing to the incorrect identification of reads as 3' ends of genes. Follow-up investigation reveals that a significant number of clones, miscategorized as reversed, represent overlapping genes on the opposite strand of entries in the transcript data base. Relevance of these results to the creation of a high-quality index to the human genome capable of supporting diverse genomic investigations is discussed.
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- J S Aaronson
- Merck Research Laboratories, Department of Bioinformatics, Rahway, New Jersey 07065, USA.
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