Bilde av Ahmad, Rafi
Bilde av Ahmad, Rafi
Clinical bioinformatics rafi.ahmad@uit.no Tromsø You can find me here

Rafi Ahmad



  • Abdolrahman, Sverre, Anurag Basavaraj, Jawad, Crystal, Fatemeh et al.:
    MysteryMaster: scraping the bottom of the barrel of barcoded Oxford nanopore reads
    BMC Bioinformatics 2025 DOI
  • Qian, Håvard, Johannes, Shixiong, Inga Hansine, Sigrid S et al.:
    Identification of a group of 9-amino-acridines that selectively downregulate regulatory T cell functions through FoxP3
    iScience 2025 DOI
  • Abdolrahman, Jawad, Rafi :
    Clinical diagnostics of bacterial infections and their resistance to antibiotics-Current state and novel enabling technologies implementation perspectives
    2025
  • Nuria Garcia, Elise, Ehsan, Selma, Johannes, Rafi et al.:
    MAPK and STAT3 Inhibitors Modulate FoxP3 Expression and Regulatory T Cell Function
    European Journal of Immunology 2025 DOI
  • Line Strand, Rafi, Hagar, Christopher Graham, Ruth H :
    Actively expressed microbiota in tissue biopsies of treatment-naive ulcerative colitis patients
    Gut Microbes Reports 2025 DOI
  • Jawad, Wenche, Rafi :
    Short turnaround time of seven to nine hours from sample collection until informed decision for sepsis treatment using nanopore sequencing
    Scientific Reports 19. marzo 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj, Crystal, Sverre, Jawad, Robert Charles, Truls E. Bjerklund et al.:
    Culture and amplification-free nanopore sequencing for rapid detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes from urine
    European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Astrid Louise, Svein Øivind, Unni, Rafi, David W. :
    Antimicrobial Resistance in a One Health and One World Perspective – Mechanisms and Perspectives
    2024 DOI
  • Asal, Abdolrahman, Håvard, Rafi :
    A culture-, amplification-independent, and rapid method for identification of pathogens and antibiotic resistance profile in bovine mastitis milk
    Frontiers in Microbiology 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Sathi, Kanchan, Abdolrahman, Vishesh Kumar, Azeem, Jean-Claude et al.:
    Rapid identification of antimicrobial drug resistance strains of E-coli using SERS nanowire chip
    Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering 16. marzo 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Azeem, Ramith, Abdolrahman, Balpreet Singh, Dushan, Rafi :
    Highly sensitive quantitative phase microscopy and deep learning aided with whole genome sequencing for rapid detection of infection and antimicrobial resistance
    Frontiers in Microbiology 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ekaterina, Abdolrahman, Rafi :
    Clinical Diagnostics of Bacterial Infections and Their Resistance to Antibiotics—Current State and Whole Genome Sequencing Implementation Perspectives
    Antibiotics 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Jawad, Mukund, Asal, Knut Olav, Rafi :
    Increased growth temperature and vitamin B12 supplementation reduces the lag time for rapid pathogen identification in BHI agar and blood cultures
    F1000 Research 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Sathi, Kanchan, Jean-Claude, Arijit, Nima L., Abdolrahman et al.:
    SERS Nanowire Chip and Machine Learning-Enabled Classification of Wild-Type and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria at Species and Strain Levels
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Erlend, Ole - Andre, Rafi :
    Rafis kamp
    18. marzo 2025 DOI
  • Rafi :
    Four-hour turnaround for diagnosing complex UTIs using nanopore sequencing
    28. agosto 2025
  • Rafi :
    Innovative Technologies for Rapid Detection of Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
    23. septiembre 2025
  • Anurag Basavaraj, Sverre, Isabell, Jawad, Fatemeh, Truls Erik Bjerklund et al.:
    Accurate and rapid turnaround of four hours for the diagnosis of complicated UTIs using metagenomics
    30. agosto 2025
  • Sverre, Manfred G., Rafi :
    Voyager: Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Longread Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Sorted Motif Distance Space
    2025
  • Anurag Basavaraj, Sverre, Isabell, Jawad, Fatemeh, Truls E. Bjerklund et al.:
    Turnaround time of just four hours from sample collection to informed decision-making for complicated urinary tract infections in a urology ward, using culture-independent metagenomics
    2025
  • Sverre, Isabell, Jawad, Fatemeh, Truls E. Bjerklund, Can et al.:
    Turnaround time of just four hours from sample collection to informed decision-making for complicated urinary tract infections in a urology ward, using culture-independent metagenomics
    2025
  • Sverre, Manfred G., Rafi :
    Voyager: novel real-time taxonomic characterization of long-read sequence data
    2025
  • Rafi :
    Novel enabling technologies for diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2025
  • Rafi :
    Four-hour turnaround for diagnosing complex UTIs using nanopore sequencing
    2025
  • Rafi :
    Rapid point of care UTI diagnostics using nanopore sequencing
    2025
  • Anurag Basavaraj, Crystal, Sverre, Jawad, Robert Charles, Truls E. Bjerklund et al.:
    Rapid Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection using Nanopore sequencing
    2025
  • Jawad, Wenche, Rafi :
    Short turnaround time of seven to nine hours from sample collection until informed decision for sepsis treatment using nanopore sequencing
    2024
  • Sverre, Manfred G., Rafi :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Sorted Motif Distance Space: Voyager
    BioRxiv 2024 DOI
  • Rafi :
    Metagenomic analysis for rapid detection of bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2024
  • Rafi :
    Urindyrkning og resistensbestemmelse på 24t
    2024
  • Rafi :
    Fra idé til product, en reise i produktutvikling
    2024
  • Rafi :
    Metagenomic analysis for rapid detection of bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2024
  • Rafi :
    Novel technological solutions for rapid diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance: A One Health approach.
    2024
  • Anurag Basavaraj, Crystal, Sverre, Jawad, Robert Charles, Truls E. Bjerklund et al.:
    Rapid Detection of Clinically Relevant Uropathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in 5 Hours using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024
  • Sverre, Rafi, Manfred G. :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Distance-space
    2024
  • Rafi :
    How and when is rapid point of diagnostic tools to arrive and reshape management of urosepsis?
    2024
  • Rafi :
    Point of diagnosis to direct treatment: Emerging technologies?
    2024
  • Rafi :
    Two to five hours of incubation of blood culture bottles in a standard laboratory incubator followed by nanopore sequencing is enough for the identification of sepsis pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance 
    2024
  • Anurag Basavaraj, Crystal, Sverre, Jawad, Robert Charles, Truls E. Bjerklund et al.:
    Detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistant genes from urine within 5 hours using Nanopore sequencing
    BioRxiv 2024 DOI
  • Sverre, Rafi, Manfred G. :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Distance-space
    2024
  • Rafi :
    Short Turnaround Time of Seven to Nine Hours from Sample Collection Until Informed Decision for Sepsis Treatment Using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024
  • Anurag Basavaraj, Crystal, Sverre, Jawad, Robert Charles, Truls E. Bjerklund et al.:
    Rapid Detection of Clinically Relevant Uropathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in 5 Hours using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024
  • Jawad, Rafi :
    Rapid Diagnostics of Pathogens and AMR-encoding Genes in Blood Cultures Using Nanopore Sequencing 
    2023
  • Rafi :
    Novel technological solutions for rapid diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance:A One Health approach
    2023
  • Rafi :
    A culture-amplification-independent, and rapid method for identification of pathogens and antibiotic resistance profile in bovine mastitis milk
    2023
  • Rafi :
    AMR-Educate: Current Status and plans forward
    2023
  • Jawad, Rafi :
    Multi-excitation Raman spectroscopy complements whole genome sequencing for rapid detection of bacterial infection and resistance in WHO priority pathogens
    2023
  • Crystal, Jawad, Sverre, Rafi :
    Rapid Detection of Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in Urine Using Nanopore Sequencing
    2023
  • Rafi :
    What is AMR-Educate?
    2023
  • Rafi :
    Novel technological solutions for rapid diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2023

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