Bilde av Ahmad, Rafi
Bilde av Ahmad, Rafi
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Rafi Ahmad



  • Abdolrahman Khezri, Jawad Ali, Rafi Ahmad :
    Clinical diagnostics of bacterial infections and their resistance to antibiotics-Current state and novel enabling technologies implementation perspectives
    Academic Press 2025
  • Qian Wei, Håvard Foyn, Johannes Landskron, Shixiong Wang, Inga Hansine Rye, Sigrid S Skånland et al.:
    Identification of a group of 9-amino-acridines that selectively downregulate regulatory T cell functions through FoxP3
    iScience 2025 DOI
  • Nuria Garcia Diaz, Elise Solli, Ehsan Hajjar, Selma Cornillot‐Clément, Johannes Landskron, Rafi Ahmad et al.:
    MAPK and STAT3 Inhibitors Modulate FoxP3 Expression and Regulatory T Cell Function
    European Journal of Immunology 2025 DOI
  • Line Strand Karlsholm, Rafi Ahmad, Hagar Taman, Christopher Graham Fenton, Ruth H Paulssen :
    Actively expressed microbiota in tissue biopsies of treatment-naive ulcerative colitis patients
    Gut Microbes Reports 2025 DOI
  • Astrid Louise Wester, Svein Øivind Solberg, Unni Gopinathan, Rafi Ahmad, David W. Graham :
    Antimicrobial Resistance in a One Health and One World Perspective – Mechanisms and Perspectives
    Academic Press 2024 DOI
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jawad Ali, Wenche Johansen, Rafi Ahmad :
    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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Asal Ahmadi, Abdolrahman Khezri, Håvard Nørstebø, Rafi Ahmad :
    A culture-, amplification-independent, and rapid method for identification of pathogens and antibiotic resistance profile in bovine mastitis milk
    Frontiers in Microbiology 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sathi Das, Kanchan Saxena, Jean-Claude Tinguely, Arijit Pal, Nima L. Wickramasinghe, Abdolrahman Khezri 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jawad Ali, Mukund Joshi, Asal Ahmadi, Knut Olav Strætkvern, Rafi Ahmad :
    Increased growth temperature and vitamin B12 supplementation reduces the lag time for rapid pathogen identification in BHI agar and blood cultures
    F1000 Research 2023 ARKIV / DATA / DOI
  • Ekaterina Avershina, Abdolrahman Khezri, Rafi Ahmad :
    Clinical Diagnostics of Bacterial Infections and Their Resistance to Antibiotics—Current State and Whole Genome Sequencing Implementation Perspectives
    Antibiotics 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Azeem Ahmad, Ramith Hettiarachchi, Abdolrahman Khezri, Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Dushan Wadduwage, Rafi Ahmad :
    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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sathi Das, Kanchan Saxena, Abdolrahman Khezri, Vishesh Kumar Dubey, Azeem Ahmad, Jean-Claude Tinguely 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Yusuf Khan, Daniel Hammarström, Stian Ellefsen, Rafi Ahmad :
    Normalization of gene expression data revisited: the three viewpoints of the transcriptome in human skeletal muscle undergoing load-induced hypertrophy and why they matter
    BMC Bioinformatics 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Rapid Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection using Nanopore sequencing
    2025
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Sverre Branders, Isabell Kegel, Jawad Ali, Fatemeh Asadi, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen 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
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Novel enabling technologies for diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2025
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Rapid point of care UTI diagnostics using nanopore sequencing
    2025
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Four-hour turnaround for diagnosing complex UTIs using nanopore sequencing
    2025
  • Sverre Branders, Manfred G. Grabherr, Rafi Ahmad :
    Voyager: Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Longread Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Sorted Motif Distance Space
    2025
  • Sverre Branders, Manfred G. Grabherr, Rafi Ahmad :
    Voyager: novel real-time taxonomic characterization of long-read sequence data
    2025
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Novel technological solutions for rapid diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance: A One Health approach.
    2024
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Point of diagnosis to direct treatment: Emerging technologies?
    2024
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    How and when is rapid point of diagnostic tools to arrive and reshape management of urosepsis?
    2024
  • Jawad Ali, Wenche Johansen, Rafi Ahmad :
    Short turnaround time of seven to nine hours from sample collection until informed decision for sepsis treatment using nanopore sequencing
    2024
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    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
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Short Turnaround Time of Seven to Nine Hours from Sample Collection Until Informed Decision for Sepsis Treatment Using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Fra idé til product, en reise i produktutvikling
    2024
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Urindyrkning og resistensbestemmelse på 24t
    2024
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Metagenomic analysis for rapid detection of bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2024
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Metagenomic analysis for rapid detection of bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2024
  • Sverre Branders, Rafi Ahmad, Manfred G. Grabherr :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Distance-space
    2024
  • Sverre Branders, Rafi Ahmad, Manfred G. Grabherr :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Distance-space
    2024
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Rapid Detection of Clinically Relevant Uropathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in 5 Hours using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Rapid Detection of Clinically Relevant Uropathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in 5 Hours using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistant genes from urine within 5 hours using Nanopore sequencing
    bioRxiv 2024 DOI
  • Sverre Branders, Manfred G. Grabherr, Rafi Ahmad :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Sorted Motif Distance Space: Voyager
    bioRxiv 2024 DATA / DOI
  • Jawad Ali, Rafi Ahmad :
    Multi-excitation Raman spectroscopy complements whole genome sequencing for rapid detection of bacterial infection and resistance in WHO priority pathogens
    2023
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Novel technological solutions for rapid diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance:A One Health approach
    2023
  • Crystal Chapagain, Jawad Ali, Sverre Branders, Rafi Ahmad :
    Rapid Detection of Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance in Urine Using Nanopore Sequencing
    2023
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    A culture-amplification-independent, and rapid method for identification of pathogens and antibiotic resistance profile in bovine mastitis milk
    2023
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    AMR-Educate: Current Status and plans forward
    2023
  • Jawad Ali, Rafi Ahmad :
    Rapid Diagnostics of Pathogens and AMR-encoding Genes in Blood Cultures Using Nanopore Sequencing 
    2023
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Novel technological solutions for rapid diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance:A One Health approach
    2023
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Transforming Research, Education, and Innovation in Antimicrobial Resistance
    2023
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Novel technological solutions for rapid diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2023
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    What is AMR-Educate?
    2023
  • Jawad Ali, Rafi Ahmad :
    Ultrafast and Cost-Effective Pathogen Identification and Resistance Gene Detection in a Clinical Setting Using Nanopore Flongle Sequencing
    2022
  • Jawad Ali, Rafi Ahmad :
    Rapid diagnostics of pathogens and AMR genes in blood samples using nanopore sequencing
    2022
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Presentation of AMR-Educate project
    2022

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