• Assessing the burden of intestinal parasites affecting newly arrived immigrants in Qatar 

      Abu-Madi, Marawan A; Behnke, Jerzy M; Ismail, Ahmed; Boughattas, Sonia ( BioMed Central , 2016 , Article)
      In the last decades, the enormous influx of immigrants to industrialized countries has led to outbreaks of parasitic diseases, with enteric infections being amongst the most frequently encountered. In its strategy to control ...
    • The distribution of Blastocystis subtypes in isolates from Qatar 

      Abu-Madi, Marawan; Mahmoud, Aly; Behnke, Jerzy M.; Clark, C. Graham; Balkhy, Hanan ( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2015 , Article)
      Background: Blastocystis is a common single-celled intestinal parasite of humans and other animals comprising at least 17 genetically distinct small subunit ribosomal RNA lineages (subtypes (STs)), nine of which have been ...
    • Prevalence and genetic diversity of Blastocystis sp. among autochthonous and immigrant patients in Italy 

      Marianna, Marangi; Boughattas, Sonia; De Nittis, Rosella; Pisanelli, Daniela; delli Carri, Valeria; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      The prevalence of Blastocystis sp., its genetic diversity and the distribution of circulating subtypes (STs) were molecularly investigated in a cohort of autochthonous and immigrant patients with gastrointestinal symptoms ...