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2024

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Enteric pathogens relationship with small bowel histologic features of environmental enteric dysfunction in a multicountry cohort study​
Najeeha T Iqbal, Sarah Lawrence, Tahmeed Ahmed, Kanta Chandwe, Shah M Fahim, Eric R Houpt, Furqan Kabir, Paul Kelly, Jie Liu, Mustafa Mahfuz, Monica Mweetwa, Kelley VanBuskirk, Phillip I Tarr, Donna M Denno, EEDBI Consortium​

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Biomarker relationships with small bowel histopathology among malnourished children with environmental enteric dysfunction in a multicountry cohort study
Mustafa Mahfuz, David Coomes, Marwa Abdalla, Monica Mweetwa, Kelley VanBuskirk, Najeeha T Iqbal, S Asad Ali, Kanta Chandwe, Subhasish Das, Paul Kelly, Nurmohammad Shaikh, Phillip I Tarr, Donna M Denno; EEDBI Consortium

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Anthropometry relationship with duodenal histologic features of children with environmental enteric dysfunction: a multicenter cross-sectional study
Zehra Jamil, Kelley VanBuskirk, Monica Mweetwa, Samer Mouksassi, Gerald Smith, Tahmeed Ahmed, Kanta Chandwe, Donna M Denno, S Mohammad Fahim, Paul Kelly, Mustafa Mahfuz, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Chelsea Marie, Sean R Moore, William A Petri Jr, S Asad Ali; EEDBI Consortium​

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Duodenal transcriptomics demonstrates signatures of tissue inflammation and immune cell infiltration in children with environmental enteric dysfunction across global centers
Chelsea Marie, Subhasish Das, David Coomes, Tahmeed Ahmed, S Asad Ali, Junaid Iqbal, Paul Kelly, Mustafa Mahfuz, Sean R Moore, William A Petri Jr, Phillip I Tarr, Lee A Denson; EEDBI Consortium​
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The Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Biopsy Initiative (EEDBI) Consortium: mucosal investigations of environmental enteric dysfunction
Donna M Denno, Sheraz Ahmed, Tahmeed Ahmed, S Asad Ali, Beatrice Amadi, Paul Kelly, Sarah Lawrence, Mustafa Mahfuz, Chelsea Marie, Sean R Moore, James P Nataro, William A Petri Jr, Peter B Sullivan, Phillip I Tarr; EEDBI Consortium​​
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Multiplexed immunohistochemical evaluation of small bowel inflammatory and epithelial parameters in environmental enteric dysfunction
Kelley VanBuskirk, Monica Mweetwa, Tad Kolterman, Shyam Raghavan, Tahmeed Ahmed, S Asad Ali, Sm Khodeza Nahar Begum, Ellen Besa, Donna M Denno, Zehra Jamil, Paul Kelly, Mustafa Mahfuz, Sean R Moore, Samer Mouksassi, William A Petri Jr, Phillip I Tarr, Peter B Sullivan, Christopher A Moskaluk; EEDBI Consortium​
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​​Histopathology underlying environmental enteric dysfunction in a cohort study of undernourished children in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Zambia compared with United States children
Paul Kelly, Kelley VanBuskirk, David Coomes, Samer Mouksassi, Gerald Smith, Zehra Jamil, Md Shabab Hossain, Sana Syed, Chelsea Marie, Phillip I Tarr, Peter B Sullivan, William A Petri Jr, Donna M Denno, Tahmeed Ahmed, Mustafa Mahfuz, S Asad Ali, Sean R Moore, I Malick Ndao, Guillermo J Tearney, Ömer H Yilmaz, Shyam S Raghavan, Christopher A Moskaluk, Ta-Chiang Liu; EEDBI Consortium
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Duodenal quantitative mucosal morphometry in children with environmental enteric dysfunction: a cross-sectional multicountry analysis
Lubaina Ehsan, David Coomes, Paul Kelly, Adam R Greene, S Asad Ali, Chola Mulenga, Donna M Denno, Kelley VanBuskirk, Muhammad Faraz Raghib, Mustafa Mahfuz, Sean R Moore, Md Shabab Hossain, Tahmeed Ahmed, Peter B Sullivan, Christopher A Moskaluk, Sana Syed; EEDBI Consortium​

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Pneumococcal carriage and changes in serotype distribution post- PCV13 introduction in children in Matiari, Pakistan
Izn Iqbal, Shahira Shahid, Samiah Kanwar, Furqan Kabir, Fayaz Umrani, Sheraz Ahmed, Waqasuddin Khan, Muhammad Farrukh Qazi, Fatima Aziz, Sahrish Muneer, Adil Kalam, Aneeta Hotwani, Junaid Mehmood, Abdul Khalique Qureshi, Zahra Hasan, Sadia Shakoor, Shaper Mirza, Lesley McGee, Stephanie. Log, Narender Kumar, Iqbal Azam, Stephen. Bentley, Fyezah Jehan, Muhammad Imran Nisar​​
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Elucidating the dynamics and impact of the gut microbiome on maternal nutritional status during pregnancy, effect on pregnancy outcomes and infant health in rural Pakistan: study protocol for a prospective, longitudinal observational study
Yaqub Wasan, Jo-Anna B Baxter, Carolyn Spiegel-Feld, Kehkashan Begum, Arjumand Rizvi, Junaid Iqbal, Jessie Hulst, Robert Bandsma, Shazeen Suleman, Sajid Soofi, John Parkinson, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
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Toxic elements identified in breast milk of mothers residing in water contaminated region of Sindh and their impact on infants’ growth patterns: A case-control study
Nurmeen Adil, Syed Sibt-e-Hassan, Amna Jabbar Siddiqui, Zehra Jamil, Junaid Iqbal, Syed Asad Ali, Syed Ghulam Musharraf 
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Nutrient dataset development via FAO/INFOODS approach for infant nutritional survey in rural Matiari, Pakistan
Sanam Iram Soomro, Zehra Jamil, Najma Memon, Sheraz Ahmed, Fayaz Umrani, Imran Ahmed Choudhri, Sajid Mohammed, Khalique Qureshi, Ghulam Raza, Sadaf Jakhro, Asad Ali
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Predictors of voluntary uptake of modern contraceptive methods in rural Sindh, Pakistan
Zahid Memon, Abeer Mian, Wardah Ahmed, Muhammad Jawwad, Shah Muhammad, Abdul Qayyum Noorani, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Hora Soltani

2023​​​

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Supplemental Data from: Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide
Peter J Diebold, Matthew W Rhee, Qiaojuan Shi, Nguyen Vinh Trung, Fayaz Umrani, Sheraz Ahmed, Vandana Kulkarni, Prasad Deshpande, Mallika Alexander, Ngo Thi Hoa, Nicholas A Christakis, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Syed Asad Ali, Jyoti S Mathad, Ilana L Brito

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Integrative–'Omics and Machine-Learning-Based Image Analyses of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Reveal an Immunologic and Metabolic Pathogenesis of Intestinal Failure
Fatima Zulqarnain, Xueheng Zhao, Kenneth D.R. Setchell, Yash Sharma, Phillip FernandesAman Srivastava, Lubaina Ehsan, Varun Jain , Shyam Raghavan,  Christopher Moskaluk, Yael Haberman Lee A. Denson Khyati Mehta, Najeeha T. Iqbal , Najeeb Rahman Kamran Sadiq,  Zubair Ahmad ,Romana Idress , Junaid Iqbal , Sheraz Ahmed , Aneeta Hotwani , Fayyaz Umrani , Beatrice Amadi
, Paul Kelly, Donald E. Brown Sean R. Moore, Syed Asad Ali, Sana Syed​​​
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Children ​Raising Children: A cross-sectional survey of parental perceptions and practices regarding sibling caretaking in rural Pakistan
Shelina Bhamani, Waliyah Mughis, Amir Raza, Sheraz Ahmed, Fayaz Umrani​, Sadaf Jakhro, Khaliq Qureshi, Najeeb Rehman, Asad Ali

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Standard RUTF vs. locally-made RUSF for acutely malnourished children: A quasi-experimental comparison of the impact on growth and compliance in a rural community of Pakistan

​PLoS One. 2023 Jul 12;18(7):e0287962

Azza Sarfraz, She​​raz Ahmed, Sajid Muhammad, Najeeb Rehman, Sanam Iram Soomro, Khaliq Qureshi, Sadaf Jakhro, Fayaz Umrani, Adam Greene, Sana Syed, Sean R Moore, Syed Asad Ali

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Impact of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection on env​ironmental enteric dysfunction and growth of malnourished children in Pakistan: a longitudinal cohort study

​Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia. 2023 Jun 7;15:100212

​Azza Sarfraz, Zehra Jamil, Sheraz Ahmed, Fayaz Umrani, Abdul Khaliq Qureshi, Sadaf Jakhro, Muhammad Sajid, Najeeb Rahman, Arjumand Rizvi, Jennie Z Ma, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Najeeha T Iqbal, Sana Syed, Junaid Iqbal, Kamran Sadiq, Sean R Moore, Syed Asad Ali

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Drivers of malnutrition among late adolescent and young women in rural Pakistan: a cross-sectional assessment of the MaPPS trial

BMJ Open. 2023 May 23;13(5):e063734

Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Amjad Hussain, Sajid B Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency Associates with Growth Faltering and Environmental Enteric Dysfunction in Children

​Metabolites. 2023 Mar 29;13(4):489

Monica Narvaez-Rivas, Kenneth D R Setchell, Stephanie L Galandi, Xueheng Zhao, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Sheraz Ahmed, Junaid Iqbal, Sana Syed, Syed Asad Ali, Sean R Moore

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Community and Health Care Provider Perspectives on Barriers to and Enablers of Family Planning Use in Rural Sindh, Pakistan: Qualitative Exploratory Study​

​JMIR Form Res. 2023 Mar 10;7:e43494​

​Zahid Ali Memon, Abeer Mian, Sophie Reale, Rachael Spencer, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Hora Soltani

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Longitudinal Analysis of the Intestinal Microbiota among a Cohort of Children in Rural and Urban Areas of Pakistan

Nutrients. 2023 Feb 28;15(5):1213

Veeraraghavan Balaji, Duy M Dinh, Anne V Kane, Sajid Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Arjumand Rizvi, Meera Chatterjee, Sudhir Babji, Joanne Duara, Joy Moy, Elena N Naumova, Christine A Wanke, Honorine D Ward, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Impact of enteropathogens on faltering growth in a resource-limited setting

​Front Nutr. 2023 Jan 10;9:1081833​​​

Furqan Kabir, Junaid Iqbal, Zehra Jamil, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Fatima Aziz, Adil Kalam, Sahrish Muneer, Aneeta Hotwani, Sheraz Ahmed, Fayaz Umrani, Sana Syed, Kamran Sadiq, Jennie Z Ma, Sean R Moore, Asad Ali

2022

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Characterizing Retail Food Environments in Peri-Urban Pakistan during the COVID-19 Pandemic
​​Bianca Carducci, Yaqub Wasan, Agha Shakeel, Amjad Hussain, Jo-Anna B Baxter, Arjumand Rizvi, Sajid B Soofi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Perpetuation of gender discrimination in Pakistani society: results from a scoping review and qualitative study conducted in three provinces of Pakistan

​BMC Women's Health. 2022 Dec 22;22(1):540

​Tazeen Saeed Ali, Shahnaz Shahid Ali, Sanober Nadeem, Zahid Memon, Sajid Soofi, Falak Madhani, Yasmin Karim, Shah Mohammad, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

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Psychometric properties of the Sindhi version of the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) in a sample of early adolescents living in rural Pakistan

​PLOS Global Public Health. 2022 Nov 17;2(11):e0000968

​Janavi Shetty, Florence Perquier, Susan C Campisi, Yaqub Wasan, Madison Aitken, Daphne J Korczak, Suneeta Monga, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Peter Szatmari, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Nutritional deficiency in an intestine-on-a-chip recapitulates injury hallmarks associated with environmental enteric dysfunction​

Nature Biomedical Engineering. 2022 Nov;6(11):1236-1247​

​Amir Bein, Cicely W Fadel, Ben Swenor, Wuji Cao, Rani K Powers, Diogo M Camacho, Arash Naziripour, Andrew Parsons, Nina LoGrande, Sanjay Sharma, Seongmin Kim, Sasan Jalili-Firoozinezhad, Jennifer Grant, David T Breault, Junaid Iqbal, Asad Ali, Lee A Denson, Sean R Moore, Rachelle Prantil-Baun, Girija Goyal, Donald E Ingber

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Practices and predictors of menstrual hygiene management material use among adolescent and young women in rural Pakistan: A cross-sectional assessment

​ Journal of Global Health. 2022 Aug 10;12:04059

​Yaqub Wasan, Jo-Anna B Baxter, Arjumand Rizvi, Fariha Shaheen, Qamaruddin Junejo, Mansoor A Abro, Amjad Hussain, Imran Ahmed, Sajid B Soofi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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​Pneumococcal Carriage in Infants Post-PCV10 Introduction in Pakistan: Results from Serial Cross-Sectional Surveys

Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Jun 18;10(6):971

​Shahira Shahid, Amala Khan, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Farah Khalid, Muhammad Farrukh Qazi, Sheraz Ahmed, Furqan Kabir, Aneeta Hotwani, Sahrish Muneer, Syed Asad Ali, Cynthia G Whitney, Anita K M Zaidi, Fyezah Jehan

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​Effects of Integrating Family Planning With Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services on Uptake of Voluntary Modern Contraceptive Methods in Rural Pakistan: Protocol for a Quasi-experimental Study

​JMIR Research Protocols. 2022 Mar 8;11(3):e35291

​Zahid Ali Memon, Sophie Reale, Wardah Ahmed, Rachael Spencer, Talib Hussain Lashari, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Hora Soltani

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​Impact of local terminology on the design of a community-based diagnostic and management algorithm for postpartum sepsis: findings of formative research

International Health. 2022 Mar 2;14(2):189-194

​Shabina Ariff, Fatima Mir, Wafa Aftab, Farrukh Raza, Shujaat Zaidi, Sheraz Memon, Amnesty LeFevre, Linda A Bartlett, Peter Winch, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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​Serotype-specific effectiveness against pneumococcal carriage and serotype replacement after ten-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV10) introduction in Pakistan

PLOS One. 2022 Jan 21;17(1):e0262466

​Muhammad Imran Nisar, Fyezah Jehan, Shahira Shahid, Sheraz Ahmed, Sadia Shakoor, Furqan Kabir, Aneeta Hotwani, Sahrish Muneer, Farah Khalid, Sajid Muhammad, Benjamin M Althouse, Hao Hu, Cynthia G Whitney, Asad Ali, Anita K M Zaidi, Saad B Omer, Najeeha Iqbal

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​Dietary diversity and social determinants of nutrition among late adolescent girls in rural Pakistan

Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2022 Jan;18(1):e13265

​Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, ​Muhammad Islam, Simon Cousens, Sajid B Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Daniel W Sellen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

2021

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Age-Based Anthropometric Cutoffs Provide Inconsistent Estimates of Undernutrition: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Assessment of Late-Adolescent and Young Women in Rural Pakistan
​Jo-Anna B Baxter, Jean-Luc Kortenaar, Yaqub Wasan, Amjad Hussain, Sajid B Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Zulfiqar A Bhutta​

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Characteristics of mobile phone access and usage among caregivers in Pakistan - A mHealth survey of urban​ and rural population

​Int J Med Inform. 2021 Dec;156:104600. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104600. Epub 2021 Sep 28.

​Abdul Momin Kazi, Nazia Ahsan, Saima Jamal, Ayub Khan, Waliyah Mughis, Raheel Allana, Abdul Nafey Kazi, Hussain Kalimuddin, Syed Asad Ali, William McKellin, J​ean-Paul Collet

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​Validation of community health worker identification of maternal puerperal sepsis using a clinical diagnostic algorithm in Bangladesh and Pakistan

​J Glob Health. 2021 Nov 27;11:04039. doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.04039. eCollection 2021.

​Amnesty E LeFevre, Fatima Mir, Dipak K Mitra, Shabina Ariff, Diwakar Mohan, Imran Ahmed, Shazia Sultana, Peter J Winch, Sadia Shakoor, Nicholas E Connor, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Shams El-Arifeen, M A Quaiyum, Abdullah H Baqui, Michael G Gravett, Mathuram Santosham, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Anita Zaidi, Samir K Saha, Saifuddin Ahmed, Sajid Soofi, Linda A Bartlett

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​Impact of pulse oximetry on hospital referral acceptance in children under 5 with severe pneumonia in rural Pakistan (district Jamshoro): protocol for a cluster randomised trial​

BMJ Open. 2021 Sep 17;11(9):e046158. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046158.

​Fatima Mir, Apsara Ali Nathwani, Suhail Chanar, Amjad Hussain, Arjumand Rizvi, Imran Ahmed, Zahid Ali Memon, Atif Habib, Sajid Soofi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

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​Gut integrity and duodenal enteropathogen burden in undernourished children with environmental enteric dysfunction

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Jul 15;15(7):e0009584. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009584. eCollection 2021 Jul.

Zehra Jamil, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Romana Idress, Zubair Ahmed, Kamran Sadiq, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Junaid Iqbal, Sana Syed, Aneeta Hotwani, Furqan Kabir, Kumail Ahmed, Sheraz Ahmed, Fayaz Umrani, Jennie Z Ma, Fatima Aziz, Adil Kalam, Sean R Moore, Syed Asad Ali

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​Mucosal Genomics Implicate Lymphocyte Activation and Lipid Metabolism in Refractory Environmental Enteric Dysfunction

​Gastroenterology. 2021 May;160(6):2055-2071.e0. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2021.01.221. Epub 2021 Jan 29.

Yael Haberman, Najeeha T Iqbal, Sudhir Ghandikota, Indika Mallawaarachchi, Tzipi Braun, Phillip J Dexheimer, Najeeb Rahman, Rotem Hadar, Kamran Sadiq, Zubair Ahmad, Romana Idress, Junaid Iqbal, Sheraz Ahmed, Aneeta Hotwani, Fayyaz Umrani, Lubaina Ehsan, Greg Medlock, Sana Syed, Chris Moskaluk, Jennie Z Ma, Anil G Jegga, Sean R Moore, Syed Asad Ali, Lee A Denson

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​The relationship between pubertal timing and under-nutrition in rural Pakistan

​J Adolesc. 2021 Apr;88:58-66. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.02.002. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

​Susan C Campisi, Khadija N Humayun, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid B Soofi, Muhammad Islam, Amjad Hussain, Agha Shakeel, Ashley Vandermorris, Olle Söder, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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​Characterizing Micronutrient Status and Risk Factors among Late Adolescent and Young Women in Rural Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Assessment of the MaPPS Trial

​Nutrients. 2021 Apr 9;13(4):1237. doi: 10.3390/nu13041237​.

​Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Amjad Hussain, Sajid B Soofi, Imran Ahmed, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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​Direct and indirect effect of 10 valent pneumococcal vaccine on nasopharyngeal carriage in children under 2 years of age in Matiari, Pakistan

​Vaccine. 2021 Feb 22;39(8):1319-1327. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.12.066. Epub 2021 Jan 6.​

​Muhammad Imran Nisar, Sheraz Ahmed, Fyezah Jehan, Shahira Shahid, Sadia Shakoor, Furqan Kabir, Aneeta Hotwani, Sahrish Munir, Sajid Muhammad, Farah Khalid, Benjamin Althouse, Hao Hu, Cynthia Whitney, Asad Ali, Anita K M Zaidi, Saad B Omer, Najeeha Iqbal

2020​

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Self-assessed puberty is reliable in a low-income setting in rural Pakistan
Susan C Campisi, Khadija N Humayun, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid Soofi, Muhammad Islam, Wendy Lou, Ashley Vandermorris, Olle Söder, Zulfiqar A Bhutta​
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Do recipients of cash transfer scheme make the right decisions on household food expenditure? A study from a rural district in Pakistan
​Aminah Jahangeer, Shehla Zaidi, Jai Das, Shifa Habib

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​Community level interventions for pre-eclampsia (CLIP) in India: A cluster randomised controlled trial​

Pregnancy Hypertens. 2020 Jul;21:166-175. doi: 10.1016/j.preghy.2020.05.008. Epub 2020 May 19.

​Mrutunjaya B Bellad, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Ashalata A Mallapur, Sumedha Sharma, Jeffrey Bone, Umesh S Charantimath, Geetanjali M Katageri, Umesh Y Ramadurg, J Mark Ansermino, Richard J Derman, Dustin T Dunsmuir, Narayan V Honnungar, Chandrashekhar Karadiguddi, Avinash J Kavi, Bhalachandra S Kodkany, Tang Lee, Jing Li, Hannah L Nathan, Beth A Payne, Amit P Revankar, Andrew H Shennan, Joel Singer, Domena K Tu, Marianne Vidler, Hubert Wong, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Laura A Magee, Peter von Dadelszen

2019

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​Study of Environmental Enteropathy and Malnutrition (SEEM) in Pakistan: protocols for biopsy based biomarker discovery and validation​

​BMC Pediatr. 2019 Jul 22;19(1):247. doi: 10.1186/s12887-019-1564-x.

Najeeha T Iqbal, Sana Syed, Kamran Sadiq, Marium N Khan, Junaid Iqbal, Jennie Z Ma, Fayaz Umrani, Sheraz Ahmed, Elizabeth A Maier, Lee A Denson, Yael Haberman, Monica M McNeal, Kenneth D R Setchell, Xueheng Zhao, Shahida Qureshi, Lanlan Shen, Christopher A Moskaluk, Ta-Chiang Liu, Omer Yilmaz, Donald E Brown, Michael J Barratt, Vanderlene L Kung, Jeffrey I Gordon, Sean R Moore, S Asad Ali

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​Nash-wo-Numa (childhood growth & development) study protocol: factors that impact linear growth in children 9 to 15 years of age in Matiari, Pakistan

​BMJ Open. 2019 Jun 12;9(6):e028343. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028343.

​Susan C Campisi, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid Soofi, Suneeta Monga, Daphne J Korczak, Wendy Lou, Olle Soder, Ashley Vandermorris, Khadija N Humayun, Ayesha Mian, Peter Szatmari, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Personalized Text Messages and Automated Calls for Improving Vaccine Coverage Among Children in Pakistan: Protocol for a Community-Based Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

JMIR Res Protoc. 2019 May 30;8(5):e12851. doi: 10.2196/12851.


Abdul Momin Kazi, Nazia Ahsan, Ayub Khan, Saima Jamal, Hussain Kalimuddin, Naveera Ghulamhussain, Zabin Wajidali, Abdul Muqeet, Fabiha Zaidi, Meraj Subzlani, William McKellin, Asad Ali, Jean-Paul Collet

2018​

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​Population-based rates, timing, and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country prospective cohort study

Lancet Glob Health. 2018 Dec;6(12):e1297-e1308. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30385-1. Epub 2018 Oct 22.

Alliance for Maternal and Newborn Health Improvement (AMANHI) mortality study group

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Causes and incidence of community-acquired serious infections among young children in south Asia (ANISA): an observational cohort study

Lancet. 2018 Jul 14;392(10142):145-159. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31127-9. Epub 2018 Jul 6.

Samir K Saha, Stephanie J Schrag, Shams El Arifeen, Luke C Mullany, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Nong Shang, Shamim A Qazi, Anita K M Zaidi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Anuradha Bose, Pinaki Panigrahi, Sajid B Soofi, Nicholas E Connor, Dipak K Mitra, Rita Isaac, Jonas M Winchell, Melissa L Arvay, Maksuda Islam, Yasir Shafiq, Imran Nisar, Benazir Baloch, Furqan Kabir, Murtaza Ali, Maureen H Diaz, Radhanath Satpathy, Pritish Nanda, Bijaya K Padhi, Sailajanandan Parida, Aneeta Hotwani, M Hasanuzzaman, Sheraz Ahmed, Mohammad Belal Hossain, Shabina Ariff, Imran Ahmed, Syed Mamun Ibne Moin, Arif Mahmud, Jessica L Waller, Iftekhar Rafiqullah, Mohammad A Quaiyum, Nazma Begum, Veeraraghavan Balaji, Jasmin Halen, A S M Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, Martin W Weber, Davidson H Hamer, Patricia L Hibberd, Qazi Sadeq-Ur Rahman, Venkat Raghava Mogan, Tanvir Hossain, Lesley McGee, Shalini Anandan, Anran Liu, Kalpana Panigrahi, Asha Mary Abraham, Abdullah H Baqui

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​Effect of life skills building education and micronutrient supplements provided from preconception versus the standard of care on low birth weight births among adolescent and young Pakistani women (15-24 years): a prospective, population-based cluster-randomized trial

Reprod Health. 2018 May 31;15(1):104. doi: 10.1186/s12978-018-0545-0.

​Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid B Soofi, Zamir Suhag, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Feasibility and effect of life skills building education and multiple micronutrient supplements versus the standard of care on anemia among non-pregnant adolescent and young Pakistani women (15-24 years): a prospective, population-based cluster-randomized trial

Reprod Health. 2018 May 30;15(1):103. doi: 10.1186/s12978-018-0547-y.

Jo-Anna B Baxter, Yaqub Wasan, Sajid B Soofi, Zamir Suhag, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Promising Biomarkers of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction: A Prospective Cohort study in Pakistani Children

​Sci Rep. 2018 Feb 14;8(1):2966. doi: 10.1038/s41​598-018-21319-8.

Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Kamran Sadiq, Sana Syed, Tauseefullah Akhund, Fayyaz Umrani, Sheraz Ahmed, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, Najeeb Rahman, Shahida Qureshi, Wenjun Xin, Jennie Z Ma, Molly Hughes, Syed Asad Ali

2016​

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​Respiratory viruses associated with severe pneumonia in children under 2 years old in a rural community in Pakistan

J Med Virol. 2016 Nov;88(11):1882-90. doi: 10.1002/jmv.24557. Epub 2016 May 3.

Asad Ali, Tauseef Akhund, Gohar Javed Warraich, Fatima Aziz, Najeeb Rahman, Fayyaz Ahmed Umrani, Shahida Qureshi, William A Petri Jr, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Anita K M Zaidi, Molly A Hughes

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​Potential for task-sharing to Lady Health Workers for identification and emergency management of pre-eclampsia at community level in Pakistan

Reprod Health. 2016 Sep 30;13(Suppl 2):107. doi: 10.1186/s12978-016-0214-0.

Rehana A Salam, Rahat Najam Qureshi, Sana Sheikh, Asif Raza Khowaja, Diane Sawchuck, Marianne Vidler, Peter von Dadelszen, Shujaat Zaidi, Zulfiqar Bhutta.

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Effect of booster doses of poliovirus vaccine in previously vaccinated children, Clinical Trial Results 2013

Vaccine. 2016 Jul 19;34(33):3803-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.05.065. Epub 2016 Jun 16.

Muhammad Atif Habib, Sajid Soofi, Ondrej Mach, Tariq Samejo, Didar Alam, Zaid Bhatti, William C Weldon, Steven M Oberste, Roland Sutter, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Challenges in Implementation of the ANISA Protocol at the Matiari Site, Pakistan

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016 May;35(5 Suppl 1):S65-9. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001110.

Sheraz Ahmed, Shabina Ariff, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Amjad Hussain, Aneeta Hotwani, Muhammad Yaqoob, Shahida M Qureshi, Imran Ahmed, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Samir K Saha, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

2015​​

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​Zinc supplementation fails to increase the immunogenicity of oral poliovirus vaccine: a randomized controlled trial​

Vaccine. 2015 Feb 4;33(6):819-25. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.12.001. Epub 2014 Dec 11.

M A Habib, S Soofi, A Sheraz, Z S Bhatti, H Okayasu, S Z Zaidi, N A Molodecky, M A Pallansch, R W Sutter, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

​​2013​​

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​Effect of provision of daily zinc and iron with several micronutrients on growth and morbidity among young children in Pakistan: a cluster-randomised trial

Lancet. 2013 Jul 6;382(9886):29-40. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60437-7. Epub 2013 Apr 18.

Sajid Soofi, Simon Cousens, Saleem P Iqbal, Tauseef Akhund, Javed Khan, Imran Ahmed, Anita K M Zaidi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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​Effectiveness of Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine on radiologically-confirmed pneumonia in young children in Pakistan

J Pediatr. 2013 Jul;163(1 Suppl):S79-S85.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.03.034.

Asif Raza Khowaja, Syed Mohiuddin, Adam L Cohen, Waseem Mirza, Naila Nadeem, Talha Zuberi, Basit Salam, Fatima Mubarak, Bano Rizvi, Yousuf Husen, Khatidja Pardhan, Khalid Mehmood A Khan, Syed Jamal Raza, Hassan Khalid Zuberi, Sultan Mustafa, Salma H Sheikh, Akbar Nizamani, Heermani Lohana, Kim Mulholland, Elizabeth Zell, Rana Hajjeh, Altaf Bosan, Anita K M Zaidi

2012​

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​Effectiveness of community case management of severe pneumonia with oral amoxicillin in children aged 2-59 months in Matiari district, rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Lancet. 2012 Feb 25;379(9817):729-37. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61714-5. Epub 2012 Jan 27.

Sajid Soofi, Sheraz Ahmed, Matthew P Fox, William B MacLeod, Donald M Thea, Shamim A Qazi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

2011​

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​Improvement of perinatal and newborn care in rural Pakistan through community-based strategies: a cluster-randomised effectiveness trial

Lancet. 2011 Jan 29;377(9763):403-12. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62274-X. Epub 2011 Jan 14.

Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sajid Soofi, Simon Cousens, Shah Mohammad, Zahid A Memon, Imran Ali, Asher Feroze, Farrukh Raza, Amanullah Khan, Steve Wall, Jose Martines​