Publications

Higher Diploma:

• Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Based Identification of Infectious cases caused by Escherichia coli.

MSc Thesis:

• Sequence Analysis of Human Cytomegalovirus Promoters

PhD Thesis:

• The Role of Pattern Recognition Receptors in HCV Pathogenesis

Journal Papers

• • • 1. Paywast J. Jalal, Barnabas J. King, Amanj Saeed, Yemisi Adedeji, Christopher P. Mason, Jonathan K. Ball, William L. Irving, C. Patrick McClure, Alexander W. Tarr (2019). Elevated serum activity of MBL and ficolin-2 as biomarkers for progression to hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic HCV infection. Virology 530: 99–106. DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2019.02.002.

      2. Paywast J. Jalal, Richard A. Urbanowicz, Emma Horncastle, Monika Pathak, Chun Goddard, Amanj Saeed, Christopher P. Mason, Jonathan K. Ball, William L. Irving, C. Patrick McClure, Barnabas J. King, Alexander W. Tarr (2019). Expression of human ficolin-2 in hepatocytes confers resistance to infection by diverse hepatotropic viruses. Journal of Medical Microbiology 68 (4): 642-648. DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.000935.

      3. Stuart Astbury, Marcia MariaDa Costa Nunes Soares, Emmanuel Peprahe, Barnabas J. King, Ana Carolina Gomes Jardimf, Jacqueline Farinha Shimizuf, Paywast J. Jalal, Chiman H. Saeed, Furat T. Sabeeri, William L. Irving, Alexander W. Tarr, C. Patrick McClure, (2020). Nanopore sequencing from extraction-free direct PCR of dried serum spots for portable hepatitis B virus drug-resistance typing. Journal of Clinical Virology. 129 (xxxx): 104483. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104483.

      4. Salvatore Dimonte, Paywast J. Jalal, Hiwa A. Ahmad, Safa B. Kareem, Taib A. Hama Soor, Kamal J. Rashid, Salar I. Ali, Muhammad Babakir-Mina, Francesco Greco (2020). Is The SARS-CoV2 evolved in Human Being: A prospective Genetic Analysis. Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research (KJAR). 168-177. DOI https://doi.org/10.24017/science.2020.ICHMS2020.19.

      5. Sazan Q. Maulud, Sevan O. Majed, Beriwan A. Ali, Paywast J. Jalal, Sarhang H. Azeez, Karzan A. Mohammad (2020). Epidemiological Approach of SARS-CoV2 in the First Month of Appearance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine. 7(11).

      6. Paywast J. Jalal (2020). Novel Polymorphism In A Promoter Of MBL2 Gene Result In Lower MBL Expression In Chronic Infection Caused By HCV. Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research (KJAR). 117-128. DOI https://doi.org/10.24017/science.2020.ICHMS2020.13

      7. Rezhna K. Ali, Sazan Q. Maulud, Paywast J. Jalal and Jivan Q. Ahmed (2021). Molecular dual actions of hsa-miRNA and v-miRNA in oncogenic EBV. Microbial Biosystem.6(1).

      8. Mohammed F. Rasul, Bashdar M. Hussen, Abbas Salihi, Bnar S. Ismael, Paywast J. Jalal, Anna Zanichelli, Elena Jamali, Aria Baniahmad, Soudeh Ghafouri‑Fard, Abbas Basiri and Mohammad Taheri (2022). Strategies to overcome the main challenges of the use of CRISPR/Cas9 as a replacement for cancer therapy. Molecular Cancer. 21:64.

      9. Banw A. Othman, Sazan Q. Maulud, Paywast J. Jalal, Saman M. Abdulkareem, Jivan Q. Ahmed, Manish Dhawan, Priyanka, Om Prakash Choudhary. Olfactory dysfunction as a post-infectious symptom of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Annals of Medicine and Surgery 75 (2022) 103352.

      10. Dlshad A. Hasan, Sazan Q. Maulud, Paywast J. Jalal, Priyanka & Om Prakash Choudhary. SARS-CoV-2 vaccine breakthrough reinfection in a health-care worker of Iraq: a case report. HUMAN VACCINES & IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS.

      11. Jivan Q. Ahmed, Sazan Q. Maulud, Manish Dhawan, Priyankae, Om Prakash Choudhary, Paywast J. Jalal, Rezhna K. Ali, Gahin A. Tayib, Dlshad A. Hasan. MicroRNAs in the development of potential therapeutic targets against COVID-19: A narrative review. Journal of Infection and Public Health 15 (2022) 788–799.

      12. Sirwan Sleman, Hongyun Hao, Hastyar Najmuldeen, Paywast J. Jalal and Zhikang Qian. HCMV UL24 and UL43 Cooperate to Modulate the Transcript Expression of Immunoregulatory UL16 binding protein 1 (ULBP1). Viral Immunology (2022).

      13. Aras A. K Shali, Paywast J. Jalal, and Sehand K Arif. Dissemination and Genetic Relatedness of Multidrug-Resistant and Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from a Burn Hospital in Iraq. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (2022). https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/8243192.

      14. Fadia F. AL-Janabi, Huner H. Arif & Paywast J. Jalal. A Microbiological Study on Clinical Isolates of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci (CoNS) from Sulaimaniyah Hospitals. Journal of Zankoy Sulaimani. (2022) 24 (1).

      15. Hezhan F. Rasul, Sirwan M. Mahammed Amen, Hunar H. Arif, Paywast J. Jalal. Molecular detection of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Toxins and Colonization Factors from Children with Diarrhea in Pediatric Teaching Hospital, Sulaimani City. UHD Journal of Science and Technology. (2022) 2(2).

      16. Shene A Mohammed, Khattab Shekhany, Paywast J. Jalal and Chiman H Fattah. Identification and Genotyping of Candida Species Involved in Oral Candidiasis among Diabetic Patients. 2022. DOI: 10.17656/sdj.10148

      17. Paywast J. Jalal, Shad A. Mohammed, Sazan Q. Maulud (2020). The phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV2 spike region and addressing a theoretical binding to ICAM-1. Still in process of publication