Zeinab H. Halal

Honors and Awards:

• 2006: Pre doctoral scholarship at University of Connecticut.
• 2014: awarded a competitive grant ($12000) from the Egyptian Ministry of education.
• 2016: ISV annual congress award ($1000) from the international society for vaccines.

Publications:

1. Mohamed Seif El-Din Ashour, Ghanem Abd-Elatef Mohamed, Wafaa Nabil Etayeb and Zeinab Helal (2004). Incidence of tuberculosis of the genitourinary tract in some tuberculous patients, Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian journal of Microbiology; 7: 26-8.
2. Zeinab H. Helal, Mazhar I. Khan, Mohamed Seif El-Din Ashour, Somaia A. Eissa (2008). Detection and characterization of Nocardia from patients diagnosed as tuberculosis in Egypt. International Journal of Biomedical Science; 4: 100-105.
3. Zeinab H. Helal, Mohamed Seif El-Din Ashour, Somaia A. Eissa, Ghanem Abd-Elatef, Thierry Zozio, Sankhiros Babapoor, Nalin Rastogi, and Mazhar I. Khan (2009): Unexpectedly high proportion of ancestral Manu genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains cultured from tuberculosis patients in Egypt. J. Clin. Microbiol.; 4: 2794-2801.
4. Babapoor, Sankhiros, Davi de Oliveira Almeida, Jaroslaw J. Fabis, Zeinab H. Helal, Xiuqing Wang, Theodore Girshick and Mazhar I. Khan. (2009): Protective Effect of In ovo Vaccination with IBV-Spike-Recombinant DNA and Chicken Interferon as an Adjuvant. Int. J. Poult. Sci.; 8 (11): 1034-1041.
5. Fatma Alzahraa M. Gomaa and Zeinab H. Helal (2010): Isolation and Identification of Microorganisms Associated With Removable Denture: Prevalence of Non Oral Pathogens. Egypt. Acad. J. Biolog. Sci.; 2 (2): 75- 82.
6. Zeinab H. Helal, Fatma Alzahraa M. Gomaa, Mona M. K. Shehata (2010): Effect of Low Dose of Gamma Radiation on Multidrug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of American Science; 6 (10): 774-780.
7. Fatma Alzahraa M. Gomaa and Zeinab H. Helal (2011): Phenotypic characterization and ERIC-PCR typing of MDR Acinetobacter species in Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology; 20 (1): 175-181.
8. Mona M. K. Shehata, Fatma Alzahraa M. Gomaa and Zeinab H. Helal (2011): Effect of gamma and electron beam irradiation on viability and amplifiable DNA elimination of Staphylococcus aures. Archives of Clinical Microbiology, 2011; Vol. 2 No. 6:3.
9. Zeinab Helal, Sahar Radwan and Wafa El-Tayeb (2012): Involvement of PVL Producing MRSA in Pneumonia Patients, Cairo, Egypt. Archives of clinical microbiology, 3 (6:2).
10. Fatma Salah Eldin, Salwa Afifi, Lamia Fouad and Zeinab Helal (2012): Detection of Metallo-Beta- Lactamase (MBL) producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt J. Med. Lab. Sci. 21(2): 115-122.