Publications

in silico analysis for development of epitopes-based peptide vaccine against alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus.	alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (alkv) causes a fatal clinical disease in human beings of different tropical and sub-tropical regions. recently, the alkv epidemics have raised a great public health concern with the room for improvement in the essential therapeutic interventions. despite increased realistic clinical cases of alkv infection, the efficient vaccine or immunotherapy is not yet available to-date. therefore, the current study aimed to analyze the envelope glycoprotein of alkv for the ...	2019	31370756
hyalomma rufipes on an untraveled horse: is this the first evidence of hyalomma nymphs successfully moulting in the united kingdom?	during september 2018, a tick was submitted to public health england's tick surveillance scheme for identification. the tick was sent from a veterinarian who removed it from a horse in dorset, england, with no history of overseas travel. the tick was identified as a male hyalomma rufipes using morphological and molecular methods and then tested for a range of tick-borne pathogens including; alkhurma virus, anaplasma, babesia, bhanja virus, crimean-congo haemorrhagic fever virus, rickettsia and t ...	2019	30876825
hajj abattoirs in makkah: risk of zoonotic infections among occupational workers.	at completion of hajj, the islamic pilgrimage to makkah, pilgrims give thanks for the blessing, and acceptance, of hajj, marking the end of the pilgrimage by sacrificing an animal and distributing the sacrificial meat to the poor. with over two million muslims making hajj, each hajj, more than 1.2 million heads of cattle: sheep, goats and camels are slaughtered. over 16 000 abattoir workers work around the clock to sacrifice and process the cattle in keeping with islamic law and public health gu ...	2019	31016884
genetic diversity of alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus in western asia.	alkhurma hemorrhagic fever, caused by alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (alkv), is an arboviral infection which is further expanding in tropical and subtropical regions of the western asia. a number of alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (alkv) strains have been isolated from clinical cases representing saudi arabia and egypt; however, the phylogenetic relationship of these particular isolates to those reported previously elsewhere in the world remains elusive. based on the analysis of the envelope ...	2019	30779959
phylogenetic diversity and dna barcoding of the camel tick hyalomma dromedarii (acari: ixodidae) of the eastern region of saudi arabia.	hard ticks are causative agents of physical illness and vectors of important diseases of human and livestock. the hard tick hyalomma dromedarii koch, 1844 is a major ectoparasite of livestock in the kingdom of saudi arabia (ksa), of which, the onehumped dromedaries camelus dromedarius is the most economically and culturally important and a potential reservoir of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (merscov) disease. here we report on the molecular phylogenetic diversity of h. dromedarii ...	2019	33597400