Qualifications:

• DVM. 2000. University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
• M. Phil (Biotechnology) Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
• Ph. D. (Biotechnology) Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

Research Interests:

• Virulence mechanisms of enteric bacteria especially S. Typhi
• Immunogenic proteins of Salmonellae as vaccine candidate
• Drug resistance mechanisms of enteric pathogens
• Tissue culture techniques and cytotoxicity analysis of enteric bacteria

Research Publications:

• Stephen Baker, Yasra Sarwar, Hafsa Aziz, Asma Haque, Aamir Ali, Gordon Dougan, John Wain and Abdul Haque. 2005. The detection of Vi negative Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in the peripheral blood of typhoid patients in the Faisalabad region of Pakistan. J Clin Microbiol . 43(9): 4418–4425. IF: 5.89
• Asma Haque, Abdul Haque, Yasra Sarwar and Aamir Ali. Multiplex PCR for drug resistance against standard antityphoid drugs in blood samples of typhoid patients. Accepted for publication in FEBS Journal (Formerly European Journal of Biochemistry)  IF 4.39
• Mashkoor Mohsin, Arshad Hussain, Muhammad Asghar Butt, Saira Bashir, Aaysha Tariq, Shoaib Babar, Aamir Ali, Abdul Haque, Yasra Sarwar and Abdul Haque. Prevalence of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in diarrheal patients in Faisalabad region of Pakistan as determined by multiplex PCR.  J Infect Developing Countries 2007; 1(2):164-169. IF 0.7
• Aamir Ali, Asma Haque, Abdul Haque, Yasra Sarwar, Mashkoor Mohsin, Samina Bashir and Aaysha Tariq. Multiplex PCR for differential diagnosis of pathogens causing enteric fever directly from blood samples. Epidemiology and Infection. 2009; 137(1): 102-107. IF 2.15
• Muhammad Azeem Saeed, Abdul Haque, Aamir Ali, Mashkoor Mohsin, Saira Bashir, Aaysha Tariq, Amna Afzal, Tayyaba Iftikhar, Yasra Sarwar. A profile of drug resistance genes and integrons in E. coli causing surgical wound infections in the Faisalabad region of Pakistan. J Antibiotics 2009; 62: 319-323. IF 2.66
• Muhammad Azeem Saeed, Abdul Haque, Aamir Ali, Mashkoor Mohsin, Saira Bashir, Aaysha Tariq, Amna Afzal, Tayyaba Iftikhar, Yasra Sarwar.  Relationship of drug resistance to phylogenetic groups of E. coli isolates from wound infections. J Infect Developing Countries 2009; 3(9):667-670. IF  0.7
• Mashkoor Mohsin, Abdul Haque, Aamir Ali, Yasra Sarwar, Saira Bashir, Aaysha Tariq, Amna Afzal, Tayyaba Iftikhar, Muhammad Azeem Saeed. Effect of ampicillin, gentamicin and cefotaxime on release of Shiga toxins from Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli isolated during a diarrhea episode in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Food borne Path Dis 2010; 7 (1): 85-90. IF 2.44
• Abida Raza, Yasra Sarwar, Aamir Ali, Amer Jamil, Asma Haque, Abdul Haque A. 2011. Effect of biofilm formation on the excretion of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in feces. Int J Infect Dis, In press. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2011.06.003.  IF 3.2
• Saira Bashir, Yasra Sarwar, Aamir Ali, Mashkoor Mohsin, Muhammad Azeem Saeed, Aaysha Tariq, and  Abdul Haque. 2011. Multiple drug resistance patterns in various phylogenetic groups of uropathogenic E. coli isolated from Faisalabad region of Pakistan. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology. IF 2.42
• Tayyba Iftikhar, Asghar Butt, Khurram Nawaz, Yasra Sarwar, Aamir Ali, Tanveer Mustafa, Abdul Haque. Genotyping of rotaviruses detected from hospitalized children from Faisalabad region, Pakistan. J Med Virol, 2012; 84: 2003-2007. Impact factor 2.02
• Ayesha Tariq, Abdul Haque, Aamir Ali, Muhammad Asif Habeeb, Muhammad Salman, Yasra Sarwar. Molecular profiling of antimicrobial resistance and integron association of MDR clinical isolates of Shigella species from Faisalabad, Pakistan. Can J Microbiol, 2012; 58: 1047-1054. Impact Factor 1.79
• Saira Bashir, Abdul Haque, Yasra Sarwar, Aamir Ali, Irfan Anwar. Virulence profile of different phylogenetic groups of locally isolated community acquired uropathogenic E. coli from Faisalabad region of Pakistan. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob, 2012; 11:23. Impact Factor 2.7
• Amna Afzal, Yasra Sarwar, Aamir Ali, Abbas Maqbool, Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Asif Habeeb1, Abdul Haque1 Molecular evaluation of drug resistance in clinical isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi from Pakistan. J Infect Dev Ctries 2013; 7(12):929-940 IF 0.7
• Sadia Liaquat, Yasra Sarwar, Aamir Ali and Abdul Haque. Comparative growth analysis of capsulated (Vi+) and acapsulated (Vi-) Salmonella Typhi isolates in human blood. EXCLI Journal, 2015; 14:213-219. If  2.83
• Anam Farid, Iram Naz, Asma Ashraf, Aamir Ali, Asad-ur-Rehman, Yasra Sarwar, Abdul Haque. Molecular detection of antimicrobial resistance in local isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis from urinary tract infections in Faisalabad region of Pakistan. EXCLI Journal, 2015;14:697-705. IF 2.83
• Asma Rehman, Yasra Sarwar, Zulfiqar Ali Raza, Syed Zajif Hussain, Tanveer Mustafa, Waheed S Khan, Muhammad Afzal Ghauri, Abdul Haque and Irshad Hussain. Metal nanoparticles assisted polymerase chain reaction for strain typing of Salmonella Typhi. Analyst, 2015; DOI: 10.1039/C5AN01286D. IF 3.97
• Muhammad Salman , Aamir Ali,  Abdul Jabbar, Yasra Sarwar,  Moazur Rahman, Mazhar Iqbal, Abdul Haque. Simplest identification, O-specific polysaccharide purification and antigenic evaluation of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi Vi negative isolate. EXCLI Journal 10/2015; 14:1078-1084. DOI:10.17179/excli2015-565 . IF 2.83
• Zainab Rahmat, Aamir Ali, Yasra Sarwar, Muhammad Salman and Abdul Haque. Purification and antigenic detection of O-specific polysaccharides of Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A isolate from Pakistan: an emerging threat. SpringerPlus, 2016. 5:1954. DOI 10.1186/s40064-016-3643-x.
• Uzma Abdullah, Muhammad Farooq, Ambreen Fatima, Waseem Tauseef, Muhammad Nuri, Yasra Sarwar, Niels Tommerup and Shahid Baig. A Homozygous Mutation in the NPHP3 gene causing Fetal Nephronophthisis. Nephrology (Carlton). 2017 Oct;22(10):818-820.  IF 1.74
• M. Usman Munir, Ayesha Ihsan, Yasra Sarw, Sadia Zafar Bajwa, KhizraBano, Bushra Tehseen, Neelam Zeb, Irshad Hussain, M. Tayyab Ansari, Madiha Saeed, Juan Li, M. Zubair Iqbal, Aiguo Wu, Waheed S. Khan. Hollow mesoporous hydroxyapatite nanostructures; Smart nanocarriers with high drug loading and controlled releasing features. International journal of Pharmaceutics.  2018 Jun 10; 544(1):112-120.    IF 4.84
• Ambreen Ayub, Yasra Sarwar and Waseem Akhtar shamshari. Co- Evolution of Man and Microbial Pathogenic Genome. Mol Biol 2015, 4:4. DOI: 10.4172/2168-9547.1000141. IF. 1.02
• Hafiza Faiza Khalid; Bushra Tehseen; Yasra Sarwar; Syed, Zajif Hussain; Waheed S Khan; Zulfiqar Ali Raza; Sadia Zafar Bajwa; Antonios G. Kanaras; Irshad Hussain; Asma Rehman. Biosurfactant Coated Silver and Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Enhanced Anti-biofilm and Anti-adhesive Properties. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2018  DOI:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.10.049. IF. 9.0
• Sadia Liaquat, Yasra Sarwar, Aamir Ali, Abdul Haque, Muhammad Farooq, Ilargi Martinez-Ballesteros, Lorena Laorden, Javier Garaizar, Joseba Bikandi. Virulotyping of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates from Pakistan: Absence of complete SPI-10 in Vi negative isolates. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2018, DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006839. IF. 3.8
• Muhammad Wajid, Asad Bashir Awan, Muhammad Kashif Saleemi, Jo¨ rg Weinreich, Peter Schierack, Yasra Sarwar and Aamir Ali. Multiple Drug Resistance and Virulence Profiling of Salmonella enterica Serovars Typhimurium and Enteritidis from Poultry Farms of Faisalabad, Pakistan. Microbial Drug Resistance, 2018, DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2018.0121. IF. 2.29
• Asad Bashir Awan, Juliane Schiebel, Alexander Böhm, Jörg Nitschke, Yasra Sarwar, Peter Schierack and Aamir Ali. Association of biofilm formation and cytotoxic potential with multidrug resistance in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. EXCLI Journal 2019;18:79-90. IF. 2.83
• Muhammad Wajid, Muhammad Saleemi, Yasra Sarwar, Aamir Ali. Detection and characterization of multidrug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis as an emerging threat in poultry farms of Faisalabad, Pakistan. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2019. IF. 3.06
• Muniba rahmat, Asma Rehman,  Sufyan Rahmat, Haq Nawaz Bhatti, Munawar Iqbal, Waheed Khan, Yasir Jamil, Sadia Zafar Bajwa, Yasra Sarwar, Sadia Rasul. Laser ablation assisted preparation of MnO₂nanocolloids from waste battery cell powder: evaluation of physico-chemical, electrical and biological properties. Journal of Molecular Structure, 2019. http/doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.04.094. IF. 2.46
• Muhammad Usman, Yumna Zaheer, Muhammad Rizwan Younisd, Ruken Esra Demirdogene, Syed Zajif Hussain, Yasra Sarwar, Mubashar Rehman, Waheed S. Khan, Ayesha Ihsan. The effect of surface charge on cellular uptake and inflammatory behavior of carbon dots. Colloid and Interface Science Communications, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.colcom.2020.100243. IF. 2.83