List of works by Ahmed Al-Qahtani

A role for DRAK2 in the germinal center reaction and the antibody response

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AID dysregulation in lupus-prone MRL/Fas(lpr/lpr) mice increases class switch DNA recombination and promotes interchromosomal c-Myc/IgH loci translocations: modulation by HoxC4

scientific article published on 18 May 2011

Analysis of gene mutations involved in chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum parasites isolated from patients in the southwest of Saudi Arabia

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Antibiotic resistance determinants and genetic analysis of Salmonella enterica isolated from food in Morocco.

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Association between HLA variations and chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Saudi Arabian patients

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Association of Toll-Like Receptor 3 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Hepatitis C Virus Infection.

scientific article published on 03 January 2017

Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in microRNAs with susceptibility to hepatitis B virus infection and HBV-related liver complications: A study in a Saudi Arabian population.

scientific article published on 07 July 2017

BCR-signalling synergizes with TLR-signalling for induction of AID and immunoglobulin class-switching through the non-canonical NF-κB pathway

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Comparative sequence analysis of domain I of Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 from Saudi Arabia and worldwide isolates.

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

Coronavirus respiratory illness in Saudi Arabia

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Correlation between genetic variations and serum level of interleukin 28B with virus genotypes and disease progression in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

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scientific article published in 2019

Detecting mutations in PfCRT and PfMDR1 genes among Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Saudi Arabia by pyrosequencing

scientific article published on 25 February 2011

Detection and genotyping of torque teno virus (TTV) in healthy blood donors and patients infected with HBV or HCV in Qatar.

scientific article published on 9 February 2015

Development of species-specific primers for identification of Biomphalaria arabica, the intermediate host of Schistosoma mansoni in Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

Dissemination of multiple carbapenem-resistant clones of Acinetobacter baumannii in the Eastern District of Saudi Arabia.

scientific article published on 2 July 2015

Distribution of drug resistance genotypes in Plasmodium falciparum in an area of limited parasite diversity in Saudi Arabia

scientific article published in May 2012

Endonuclease G plays a role in immunoglobulin class switch DNA recombination by introducing double-strand breaks in switch regions

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Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in the neonatal intensive care unit: does vancomycin play a role?

scientific article published on March 2014

First reported nosocomial outbreak of harboring and in a neonatal intensive care unit in Cairo, Egypt

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Full-length human surfactant protein A inhibits influenza A virus infection of A549 lung epithelial cells: A recombinant form containing neck and lectin domains promotes infectivity

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Genetic Diversity, Repeat Motifs, and Natural Selection at the C-Terminal Knob-Associated Histidine Rich Protein (KAHRP) of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> Clinical Samples from Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on 28 March 2022

Genetic variability of the core protein in hepatitis C virus genotype 4 in Saudi Arabian patients and its implication on pegylated interferon and ribavirin therapy

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Genetic variation at -1878 (rs2596542) in MICA gene region is associated with chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Saudi Arabian patients

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Genetic variation in interleukin 28B and correlation with chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Saudi Arabian patients

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Genome-wide association study of chronic hepatitis B virus infection reveals a novel candidate risk allele on 11q22.3.

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

Hepatitis C genotype 4: genotypic diversity, epidemiological profile, and clinical relevance of subtypes in Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on January 2013

Hepatitis C virus core protein substitutions affect the response to pegylated-interferon and ribavirin therapy.

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HoxC4 binds to the promoter of the cytidine deaminase AID gene to induce AID expression, class-switch DNA recombination and somatic hypermutation

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IL28B polymorphisms predict the virological response to standard therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 4 infection

scientific article published on 08 February 2013

Inhibition of growth of Leishmania donovani promastigotes by newly synthesized 1,3,4-thiadiazole analogs.

scientific article published on July 2009

Integrative and comparative genomics analysis of early hepatocellular carcinoma differentiated from liver regeneration in young and old

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Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) and IL-1Ra producing mesenchymal stem cells as modulators of diabetogenesis

scientific article published on June 2010

Interleukin-22 Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Malaria Patients

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Molecular detection of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and torque teno viruses in drug users in Saudi Arabia.

scientific article published on August 2009

Patterns of Genetic Diversity among Alphasatellites Infecting Gossypium Species

scientific article published in 2022

Prevalence of anelloviruses (TTV, TTMDV, and TTMV) in healthy blood donors and in patients infected with HBV or HCV in Qatar

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Quasispecies of genotype 4 of hepatitis C virus genomes in Saudi patients managed with interferon alfa and ribavirin therapy

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Regulation of aicda expression and AID activity: relevance to somatic hypermutation and class switch DNA recombination

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Relationship of interferon-γ-inducible protein-10 kDa with viral response in patients with various heterogeneities of hepatitis C virus genotype-4.

scientific article published on April 2013

RhoB is a component of the human cytomegalovirus assembly complex and is required for efficient viral production.

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Role of single nucleotide polymorphisms of KIF1B gene in HBV-associated viral hepatitis

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Sequence variation of the HVR1 region of Hepatitis C virus in response to interferon-α and ribavirin treatment

scientific article published on 28 May 2011

Similarities between the effect of SARS-CoV-2 and HCV on the cellular level, and the possible role of ion channels in COVID19 progression: a review of potential targets for diagnosis and treatment

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Single nucleotide polymorphisms in CXCR1 gene and its association with hepatitis B infected patients in Saudi Arabia.

scientific article published in March 2013

The Correlation Between Hepatitis B Virus Precore/Core Mutations and the Progression of Severe Liver Disease

scholarly article by Ahmed A Al-Qahtani et al published 2018 in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

The association of toll-like receptor 4 polymorphism with hepatitis C virus infection in Saudi Arabian patients.

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The epidemic dynamics of hepatitis C virus subtypes 4a and 4d in Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on 21 March 2017

The prospect of malaria elimination in the Arabian Peninsula: a population genetic approach.

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The transferability of blaOXA-23 gene in multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

The translesion DNA polymerase theta plays a dominant role in immunoglobulin gene somatic hypermutation

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Toll-like receptor 3 polymorphism and its association with hepatitis B virus infection in Saudi Arabian patients.

scientific article published in September 2012

Toll-like receptors and B-cell receptors synergize to induce immunoglobulin class-switch DNA recombination: relevance to microbial antibody responses

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Variations in DEPDC5 gene and its association with chronic hepatitis C virus infection in Saudi Arabia

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