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Atousa Fakhim
Researcher at Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch
Publications - 12
Citations - 76
Atousa Fakhim is an academic researcher from Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis C virus & Viral load. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 10 publications receiving 48 citations. Previous affiliations of Atousa Fakhim include Islamic Azad University.
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HIV-1 genetic diversity and transmitted drug resistance frequency among Iranian treatment-naive, sexually infected individuals.
Rouhollah Vahabpour,Farah Bokharaei-Salim,Saeed Kalantari,Saba Garshasbi,Seyed Hamidreza Monavari,Maryam Esghaei,Arash Memarnejadian,Atousa Fakhim,Hossein Keyvani +8 more
TL;DR: The moderate prevalence of SDRMs in this population emphasises the fact that the risk of treatment failure in HIV-infected individuals might increase in the future, and preventive measures should be considered by health authorities.
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High prevalence of occult hepatitis C virus infection in injection drug users with HIV infection.
Tahereh Donyavi,Farah Bokharaei-Salim,Khadijeh Khanaliha,Maryam Sheikh,Mohammad-Navid Bastani,Najmeh Moradi,Roghayeh Babaei,Zahra Habib,Atousa Fakhim,Maryam Esghaei +9 more
TL;DR: It seems that the prevalence of OCI in HIV-positive IDUs is extremely significant in Iran and is likely to delay the global eradication of HCV infection until 2030.
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Presence of different hepatitis C virus genotypes in plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cell samples of Iranian patients with HIV infection.
Farzaneh Dehghani-Dehej,Jamal Sarvari,Maryam Esghaei,Seyed Younes Hosseini,Saba Garshasbi,Saeed Kalantari,Seyed Hamidreza Monavari,Atousa Fakhim,Hossein Keyvani,Farah Bokharaei-Salim +9 more
TL;DR: It is revealed that HIV/HCV co‐infection is high in Iranian patients (44.3%), especially in people who have high‐risk factors (83.9%).
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Investigation of the effects of a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission program among Iranian neonates
Farah Bokharaei-Salim,Saeed Kalantari,Zahra Gholamypour,Alireza Najafi,Hossein Keyvani,Maryam Esghaei,Seyed Hamidreza Monavari,Khadijeh Khanaliha,Mohammad-Navid Bastani,Atousa Fakhim,Saba Garshasbi +10 more
TL;DR: The results of this study indicate that if HIV-positive pregnant women enter the PMTCT program for HIV, they can realistically hope to give birth to a non-infected child.
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Detection of HCV genome in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of Iranian seropositive and HCV RNA negative in plasma of patients with beta‐thalassemia major: Occult HCV infection
Roya Kahyesh‐Esfandiary,Zohreh-Azita Sadigh,Maryam Esghaei,Mohammad-Navid Bastani,Tahereh Donyavi,Alireza Najafi,Atousa Fakhim,Farah Bokharaei-Salim +7 more
TL;DR: This study shows that among this group of Iranian patients with β‐thalassemia major, 13.4% had activeHCV infection and 6.3% had occult HCV infection as evidenced by HCV RNA detected in PBMC specimens.