Niyaz Ahmed

Pathogen Evolution Laboratory, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, India

Ahmed studied Veterinary and Comparative Medicine with an inherent interest in zoonotic diseases. He subsequently specialized in genomics and biology of mycobacterial and gastrointestinal pathogens.

Current research interests of Ahmed lab include diversity, evolution and biology of M. tuberculosis and Helicobacter pylori in the context of evolution of survival mechanisms, acquisition and optimization of virulence, and their impact on dissemination dynamics, invasion, persistence, signaling events, molecular pathogenesis, strain evolution and prevention measures. To address these issues he uses a hoast of genomic and cellular microbiology approaches.

Ahmed is the Founding Fellow and General Secretary of the International Society for Genomic and Evolutionary Microbiology and a Corresponding Fellow of the European Helicobacter Study Group. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (India).

Ahmed is an Academic Editor of PLoS ONE, Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, and also an Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Infectious Agents and Cancer.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Gastroenterology & Hepatology > Gastrointestinal Infections (since 20 July 2007)

Links

http://www.pathogen-evolution.org

All recent recommendations

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  Diabetes mellitus increases the risk of active tuberculosis: a systematic review of 13 observational studies.
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  Toxigenic Helicobacter pylori infection precedes gastric hypochlorhydria in cancer relatives, and H. pylori virulence evolves in these families.
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  Detection and identification of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Vibrio cholerae O139 using oligonucleotide microarray.
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  Multiple origins of knockdown resistance mutations in the Afrotropical mosquito vector Anopheles gambiae.
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  The equilibria that allow bacterial persistence in human hosts.
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  Complement C3d conjugation to anthrax protective antigen promotes a rapid, sustained, and protective antibody response.
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  Unidentified curved bacilli in the stomach of patients with gastritis and peptic ulceration.
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  Evolution of two distinct phylogenetic lineages of the emerging human pathogen Mycobacterium ulcerans.
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  The Diploid Genome Sequence of an Individual Human.
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  Comparative Expression Profiling of the Chlamydia trachomatis pmp Gene Family for Clinical and Reference Strains.
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  Genome Dynamics of Campylobacter jejuni in Response to Bacteriophage Predation.
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  Contribution of exogenous genetic elements to the group A Streptococcus metagenome.
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  IL-15 constrains mast cell-dependent antibacterial defenses by suppressing chymase activities.
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  Regulation of IgA production by naturally occurring TNF/iNOS-producing dendritic cells.
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  Culture of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis from the blood of patients with Crohn's disease.
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  Phylogenetic analysis of methanogens from the bovine rumen.
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  Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Central Asian Strain 1 using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit genotyping.
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  Duodenal ulcer promoting gene of Helicobacter pylori.
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• 3.0
  Double trouble: medical implications of genetic duplication and amplification in bacteria.
  Recommended by Niyaz Ahmed with Wasim A. Ziya Ahmad
  
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  Genome plasticity of BCG and impact on vaccine efficacy.
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  Etiology and antibiotic resistance patterns of community-acquired urinary tract infections in J N M C Hospital Aligarh, India.
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  Escherichia coli induces DNA double-strand breaks in eukaryotic cells.
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  Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isocitrate dehydrogenases show strong B cell response and distinguish vaccinated controls from TB patients.
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• 8.0
  An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori.
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• 6.0
  Immunogenicity and in vitro protective efficacy of a recombinant multistage Plasmodium falciparum candidate vaccine.
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• 3.0
  Helicobacter pylori and cancer among adults in Uganda.
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