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Browsing Pathology Publications (BUCM-IC) by Issue Date
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Irfan Ali Mirza, Muhammad Azmat Khan; Abdul Hakim
(Pak Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2005)
Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever caused by Lassa virus belonging to
Arenaviridae family and is endemic in West African countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia,
Guinea and Nigeria. The virus is present in a multi-mammate ...
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Irfan Ali Mirza, Sajjad Hussain Mirza; Sabahat Irfan, Rashad Siddiqi; Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq, Asif Nawaz
(Pak Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2006)
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are the commonest causes of chronic liver disease all over the world including Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Armed Forces policy, all the military ...
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Irfan Ali Mirza, Syed Mathar Hussain Kazmi; Asif Nawaz Janjua
(Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 2006-12-26)
HBV and HCV infections are a constant source of threat to the
younger population. It is thus imperative that public campaign
be launched to create awareness to masses. General
education of the public can be very helpful ...
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Arif Maqsood Ali, Shahid Ahmed Abbasi; Shazia Arif, Irfan Ali Mirza
(Pak Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2007-04-16)
Objective: This study was carried out to find out the extent of MRSA in hospitalized patients in
Military Hospital Rawalpindi.
Methodology: It is a prospective cross sectional descriptive study based on the records ...
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Irfan Ali Mirza, Liaquat Ali; Muhammad Arshad
(Pak Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2008)
Objective: To determine the aerobic microorganisms involved and their antibiotic sensitivity pattern in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) to provide a guideline for making a protocol for empirical ...
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Irfan Ali Mirza
(Journal of The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 2008)
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Humaira Zafar, Misbah Zaheer; Kausar Izhar, Mobina Dhodhy; Abbas Hayat
(Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College (JRMC), 2008)
Background: Isolation of different types of organisms from urine, high vaginal swab (HVS), pus and blood and determining their sensitivity and resistance pattern. Methods: The study was conducted in the Department of ...
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Sumaira Zaree, Kausar Izhar; Humaira Zafar, Abbas Hayat
(Ann. Pak. Inst. Med. Sci., 2009)
Objective: To find out the frequency and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of various
pathogens causing urinary tract infections in patients referred for urine culture and
sensitivity.
Materials and Methods: In this cross ...
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Bahram Mazhari, Wajiha Raza; Humaira Zafar; Muhammed Umer Awan, Abbas Hayat
(Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College (JRMC), 2009)
Background: Rubella virus infection is normally not a
serious infection in childhood, but if it occurs during
pregnancy it can be a very serious threat to the
developing fetus. It may lead to Congenital Rubella
Syndrome ...
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Mobina Ahsan Dodhy, Humaira Zafar; Ali Mujtaba
(Annals of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, 2010)
Background: Hepatitis C is now a very common disease in our setup. A majority of
patients suffering from this illness present with thrombocytopenia while being investigated
for any other medical or surgical illness.
Objective: ...
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Luqman Satti, Aamer Ikram; Shahid Abbasi, Tariq Butt; Nasarullah Malik, Irfan Ali Mirza
(Malaysian Journal of Microbiology, 2010-03-04)
We evaluated the performance of MGIT 960 system in terms of recover rate, detection time of mycobacteria and
contamination rate from various human clinical specimens and compared it with already in use BACTEC 460 TB ...
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Abdul Sattar, Shahid Ahmad Abbasi; Farah Faqir, Irfan Ali Mirza; Javaid Usman, Ali Faraz
(Pak Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2010-04-08)
Objective: To determine the in vitro efficacy of tigecycline against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Place and Duration of study: Department of Microbiology Army Medical College and Armed Forces Institute ...
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Abdul Sattar, Shahid Ahmad Abbasi; Irfan Ali Mirza, Nasrullah Malik; Pervaiz Ahmad, Farah Faqir
(Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 2010-05-21)
Neutropenic fever is an important cause of morbidity and mortality during therapy of acute myeloid leukemia. Patients with
acute myeloid leukemia are at increased risk of acquiring vancomycin resistant enterococcal infection ...
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Sumaira Zareef, Humaira Zafar; Rubina Mansoor, Mobeena Ehsan; Bahram Mazhari, Umar Awaan; Abbas Hayat
(Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College (JRMC), 2010-07)
Background: To study the frequency of intestinal parasites in the stool specimens Method: In this cross sectional study, 643 samples of stool were collected. Each stool sample was analyzed grossly and microscopically. ...
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Kiran Tauseef, Nadir Ali, Sohaib Ahmed, Humaira Zafar, Jaleel Anwar
(Isra Medical Journal, 2011)
OBJECTIVE: To determine the reference values of PT and APTT amongst the healthy infants of < 1 year of
age.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS: It was a descriptive cross sectional study carried out at Haematology
department of Armed ...
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Humaira Zafar, Kiran Tauseef Bukhari
(Isra Medical Journal, 2011)
Rheumatic fever (RF) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) continues to be a global health problem since
long. Moreover, it is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality especially in younger age group i.e. 3–18
years.
RF ...
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Abdul Qadar Khan Mohmand, Muhammad Waseem Kousar, Humaira Zafar, Kiran Tauseef Bukhari, Mudassira Zahid Khan
(Isra Medical Journal, 2011)
Fungi are playing a vital role in the Biological world. Their three forms (Yeasts, Molds and Mushrooms) are
important in the preparation of certain foods (cheese, bread, liquors), antibiotics and anti-fungal drugs. They
are ...
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Mobina Ahsan Dodhy, Wardah Aslam; Amna Nazir, Masooma Shaheen; Maryam Habib, Humaira Zafar
(International Journal of Pathology, 2011)
Sea blue histiocytosis is a rare disorder, characterized by the presence of atypical macrophages (sea
blue histiocytes) in the bonemarrow detectable by May-Giemsa staining. We report a case of a 3 years old female
,whose ...
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Irfan Ali Mirza, Aamir Hussain; Shahid Ahmed Abbasi, Nasrullah Malik; Luqman Satti, Umme Farwa
(Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, 2011-01-10)
This case report describes an outbreak of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in the intensive care unit of a tertiary
care hospital. Three patients were infected on the same day from an Ambu bag which was used ...
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Kiran Tauseef, Nadir Ali; Sohaib Ahmed, Humaira Zafar; Jaleel Anwar
(Isra Medical Journal, 2011-04)
OBJECTIVES: To assess the variation in reference values of Haematological parameters i.e Haemoglobin
(Hb), Total Leucocyte Count (TLC), Red Blood Cells (RBC) and Platelet Counts (PLT) in neonates of
Rawalpindi and to ...