Rayane Rafei
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Recent Articles
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Rafei R, Zaylaa M, Diab M, Kassem I, El Omari K, Halimeh F, et al.
Antibiotics (Basel)
. 2025 Feb;
14(2).
PMID: 40001412
Background: The nasopharyngeal carriage of can be the source of transmission between humans and the starting step towards invasive pneumococcal diseases. Data on the carriage of pneumococci in children before...
2.
Bekhit S, Rafei R, Elnaggar F, Al-Sakkaf O, Seif H, Samardali D, et al.
BMC Public Health
. 2025 Feb;
25(1):674.
PMID: 39966829
Background: Cholera persists as a global public health threat, endangering the lives of vulnerable societies including the MENA region where many countries are facing recent cholera outbreaks. The present study...
3.
Rafei R, Tajer L, Nour D, Abboud K, Ankoud D, Osman M, et al.
Pathogens
. 2024 Oct;
13(10).
PMID: 39452743
This study aimed to investigate the SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence among >18-year-old students in the Faculty of Public Health and Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon,...
4.
Rafei R, Osman M, Kassem I, Dabboussi F, Weill F, Hamze M
Future Microbiol
. 2024 Sep;
19(15):1333-1353.
PMID: 39229784
Recent cholera outbreaks in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have raised public health concerns and focused attention on the genus . However, the epidemiology...
5.
Dabboussi N, Debs E, Bouji M, Rafei R, Fares N
Brain Res Bull
. 2024 Aug;
216:111056.
PMID: 39182696
The intricate interplay existing between gut microbiota and homeostasis extends to the realm of the brain, where emerging research underscores the significant impact of the microbiota on mood regulation and...
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Fayad A, Rafei R, Njamkepo E, Ezzeddine J, Hussein H, Sinno S, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2024 Aug;
15(1):6963.
PMID: 39138238
Cholera is a life-threatening gastrointestinal infection caused by a toxigenic bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. After a lull of almost 30 years, a first case of cholera was detected in Lebanon in...
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Nour D, Ismail M, Osman M, Rafei R, Kasir D, Dabboussi F, et al.
PLoS One
. 2024 May;
19(5):e0302579.
PMID: 38722969
Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has swiftly propagated, triggering a competitive race among medical firms to forge vaccines that thwart the infection. Lebanon initiated its vaccination campaign on February...
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Yassine I, Rafei R, Pardos de la Gandara M, Osman M, Fabre L, Dabboussi F, et al.
Microb Genom
. 2023 Dec;
9(12).
PMID: 38100171
In this study, we characterized 54 clinical isolates of collected in North Lebanon between 2009 and 2017 through phenotypic and genomic analyses. The most prevalent serogroup was accounting for 46.3 ...
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Karah N, Mateo-Estrada V, Castillo-Ramirez S, Higgins P, Havenga B, Khan W, et al.
FEMS Microbes
. 2023 Jun;
4:xtad009.
PMID: 37333444
is a Gram-negative bacterium increasingly implicated in hospital-acquired infections and outbreaks. Effective prevention and control of such infections are commonly challenged by the frequent emergence of multidrug-resistant strains. Here we...
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Rafei R, Koong J, Osman M, Al Atrouni A, Hamze M, Hamidian M
FEMS Microbes
. 2023 Jun;
3:xtac027.
PMID: 37332503
has successfully spread during the last decades as one of the main critically important pathogens. However, many aspects including plasmids, are still under-investigated. Here, we report the complete sequence of...