Palestinian Salmonella group
Home:
University of Birzeit- www.birzeit.edu
P.O. Box 14
Birzeit
Palestine
Tel. ++ 972 2 2982163
Fax ++ 972 2 2810656
Principal investigator:
Tamer Essawi PhD
Email: tessawi@birzeit.edu
Research team:
Mohamed Farraj mfarraj@birzeit.edu
Shadi Hassan
Firas Al-Mahmoud
Field of Interest:
Molecular epidemiology of Salmonella in Palestine
Surveillance and characterization of Salmonella
Curriculum:
I have been engaged in university teaching under graduate and graduate students of clinical laboratory science.
Engaged in cooperation in research projects with partners in Belgium, France, United Kingdom and United States of America. Member of the national committee for eradication of polio among Palestinian children. I was tutor for Ph.D. thesis in Belgium and France.
We are interested in studying resistance to antibiotics and molecular epidemiology in MRSA methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Key Publications:
- Molecular, antibiogram and serological typing of staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from Al-Makased Hospital in East Jerusalem. Journal of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Vol. 3 No 7 pp 576-583 July 1998.
- Isolation and characterization of Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli strains in Northern Palestine. J. Med. Microbiol., Vol. 51 (2002), pp 332-335.
- Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Ribosome Spacer and Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction. (Accepted for publication in the Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences 2004.
- A method for T-Lymphocyte identification by Rosette-Formation with Staphylococci Preloaded with Anti-T Serum. Journal of Immunology, no. 6 pp 21-24, (1981).
- Germ line transcription in mice bearing neor gene downstream of Ig3 exon in the Ig heavy chain locus. International Immunology Vol. 18 No. 4 p581-589 Feb. 2006.