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Abu Salim Mustafa

Abu Salim Mustafa

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Microbiology

D-Index
50
Citations
7719
World Ranking
4491
National Ranking
3

Overview

Abu Salim Mustafa is affiliated with Kuwait University in Kuwait and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and microbiology. Their work spans several subfields, including infectious diseases, immunology, molecular biology, epidemiology, and molecular medicine.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on topics such as tuberculosis research and epidemiology, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, immunodeficiency and autoimmune disorders, genomics and phylogenetic studies, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, immune responses and vaccinations, as well as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Abu Salim Mustafa include Hussain A. Safar, Nazima Habibi, Shumaila Nida Muhammad Hanif, Wadha Alfouzan, and Asma Hanif.

The venues where Abu Salim Mustafa has published most frequently encompass:

  • Vaccines
  • Medical Principles and Practice
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Mycobacteriology
  • Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Notable recent publications by Abu Salim Mustafa and colleagues include:

  • The effect of adjuvants and delivery systems on Th1, Th2, Th17 and Treg cytokine responses in mice immunized with Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific proteins, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • An Overview of the Development of New Vaccines for Tuberculosis, 2020, Vaccines
  • Current Status of HIV-1 Vaccines, 2021, Vaccines
  • Recent Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy with a Focus on FDA-Approved Vaccines and Neoantigen-Based Vaccines, 2023, Vaccines
  • Immunological Characterization of Proteins Expressed by Genes Located in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific Genomic Regions Encoding the ESAT6-like Proteins, 2021, Vaccines

Best Publications

  • Human T Cell Responses to the ESAT-6 Antigen from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Pernille Ravn;Abebech Demissie;Tewodros Eguale;Hailu Wondwosson

  • Cytokine cascade in dengue hemorrhagic fever : implications for pathogenesis

    U.C. Chaturvedi;R. Agarwal;E.A. Elbishbishi;A.S. Mustafa

  • Seminested PCR for Diagnosis of Candidemia: Comparison with Culture, Antigen Detection, and Biochemical Methods for Species Identification

    Suhail Ahmad;Zaiba Khan;Abu S. Mustafa;Zia U. Khan

  • Elevated levels of IL-8 in dengue hemorrhagic fever

    R. Raghupathy;U. C. Chaturvedi;H. Al-Sayer;E. A. Elbishbishi

  • Human T-cell clones recognize a major M. leprae protein antigen expressed in E. coli

    Abu Salim Mustafa;Harvindar Kaur Gill;Audun Nerland;Warwick J. Britton

  • Elevated levels of interleukin‐13 and IL‐18 in patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever

    A.S. Mustafa;E.A. Elbishbishi;R. Agarwal;U.C. Chaturvedi

  • Comparative evaluation of (1, 3)-β-D-glucan, mannan and anti-mannan antibodies, and Candida species-specific snPCR in patients with candidemia

    Fasahat F Alam;Abu S Mustafa;Zia U Khan

  • T-cell conditioned media reverse T-cell unresponsiveness in lepromatous leprosy

    Abebe Haregewoin;Tore Godal;Abu Salim Mustafa;Ayele Belehu

  • Development of new vaccines and diagnostic reagents against tuberculosis.

    Abu Salim Mustafa

  • Comparison of antigen-specific T-cell responses of tuberculosis patients using complex or single antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    A S Mustafa;H A Amoudy;H G Wiker;A T Abal

  • Basidiobolus ranarum as an Etiologic Agent of Gastrointestinal Zygomycosis

    Z. U. Khan;M. Khoursheed;R. Makar;S. Al-Waheeb

  • ProPred analysis and experimental evaluation of promiscuous T-cell epitopes of three major secreted antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Abu S. Mustafa;Fatema A. Shaban

  • Identification and HLA Restriction of Naturally Derived Th1-Cell Epitopes from the Secreted Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigen 85B Recognized by Antigen-Specific Human CD4+ T-Cell Lines

    Abu S. Mustafa;Fatema A. Shaban;Adnan T. Abal;Raja Al-Attiyah

  • Human T cell clones recognize two abundant Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein antigens expressed in Escherichia coli.

    F Oftung;A S Mustafa;R Husson;R A Young

  • Multiple epitopes from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESAT-6 antigen are recognized by antigen-specific human T cell lines.

    A. S. Mustafa;F. Oftung;H. A. Amoudy;N. M. Madi

  • Detection of Y chromosome-specific DNA in the plasma and urine of pregnant women using nested polymerase chain reaction

    Majda K. Al-Yatama;Abu S. Mustafa;Sadiq Ali;Sobha Abraham

  • Human T cells recognize mycobacterial heat shock proteins in the context of multiple HLA-DR molecules: studies with healthy subjects vaccinated with Mycobacterium bovis BCG and Mycobacterium leprae.

    A. S. Mustafa;K. E. A. Lundin;F. Oftung

  • Restoration of mycobacterial antigen-induced proliferation and interferon-γ responses in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of tuberculosis patients upon effective chemotherapy

    R Al-Attiyah;A.S Mustafa;A.T Abal;N.M Madi

  • Role of interleukin-12 in patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever.

    A.S Pacsa;R Agarwal;E.A Elbishbishi;U.C Chaturvedi

  • Mycobacterial antigen-induced T helper type 1 (Th1) and Th2 reactivity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from diabetic and non-diabetic tuberculosis patients and Mycobacterium bovis bacilli Calmette–Guérin (BCG)-vaccinated healthy subjects

    R J Al-Attiyah;A S Mustafa

  • Immunogenicity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD1 region gene products in infected cattle.

    A. S. Mustafa;P. J. Cockle;F. Shaban;R. G. Hewinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Suhail Ahmad
Suhail Ahmad Kuwait University
Knut E.A. Lundin
Knut E.A. Lundin University of Oslo
Harald G. Wiker
Harald G. Wiker University of Bergen
Morten Harboe
Morten Harboe Oslo University Hospital
Peter E. Andersen
Peter E. Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Thomas M. Shinnick
Thomas M. Shinnick Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Peter Henrik Andersen
Peter Henrik Andersen Statens Serum Institut
Annemieke Geluk
Annemieke Geluk Leiden University Medical Center
Douglas B. Young
Douglas B. Young Imperial College London

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