Dr. Saima Naseem

Name

Dr. Saima Naseem

Designation

Associate Professor

Email

saima.naseem@duhs.edu.pk

Office

Room no. 72, 2nd Floor Pathology Department DIMC, DUHS Ojha Campus

Qualifications

  • MBBS
  • M.Phil
  • CHPE (DUHS)
  • PhD Scholar (DUHS)

Research

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8191-0297

 

 

  1. Saima Naseem, Khursheed Hashmi, Fatima Fasih, Shaheen Sharafat, Rafiq Khanani. In vitro evaluation of antimicrobial effect of miswak against common oral pathogens. Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences 2014; 30(20):398-403. DOI 12669/pjms.302.4284–
  1. Wajiha Iffat, Sadia Shakeel, Saima Naseem, Shehla Imam, Marvi Khan. Attitudinal survey to assess medical and dental students’ belief of ADR reporting in Pakistan. International Journal of Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2014; 6 (5), 279-283. ISSN- 0975-1491.
  1. Wajiha Iffat, Sadia Shakeel, Saima Naseem, Abdur Rasheed. Social Networking Experiences on Facebook pertaining to Accountability and E- Professionalism: A future perspective. International Journal of Pharmacy 2014; 4(3): 83-88.
  1. Samreen Soomro, Samina Baig, Saima Naseem & Shaheen Sharafat. Seasonal variation and recent status of typhoid fever in a tertiary care hospital. International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research. 2014; 2(2) 101-104. DOI 10.29052/IJEHSR.v2.i2.2014.100-103, ISSN- 2307-3748.
  1. Fatima Fasih, Khursheed Hashimi, Saima Naseem, Shaheen Sharafat, Rafiq Khanani. Antimicrobial effect of honey against cutaneous pyogenic bacteria. Rawal Medical Journal 2015; 40(2):133-136.
  1. Saima Naseem, Wajiha Iffat, Sadia Shakeel, Syed Areeb Bin Tariq. Knowledge about Antibiotic Use amongst the Public: a cross sectional study in Karachi. Infectious disease journal of Pakistan. 2016; 25 (3): 49-54.
  1. Bushra Sikandar, Muhammad Asif Qureshi, Saima Naseem, Saeed Khan, Talat Mirza. Increased tumor infiltration of CD4+ and CD8+ T-Lymphocytes in patients with Triple Negative Breast Cancer suggest susceptibility to immune therapy. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2017; 18(7): 1827-32. DOI 10.22034/APJCP.2017.18.7.1827.
  1. Arfa Mustasam, Saima Naseem, Earaj Javed. Apprehensions about reproductive health: a cross sectional study in Karachi, Pakistan. Rawal Medical Journal. 2018; 43(4):665-9.
  1. Saima Naseem, Samina Baig, Fatima Fasih, Shaheen Sharafat. Spectrum of uropathogens and their antibiotic susceptibility pattern- four years data from a Reference Laboratory of Karachi, Sindh. Infectious Diseases Journal of Pakistan. 2018;27(3):65-9
  1. Fatima Fasih, Samina Baig, Sambreen Zameer, Saima Naseem, Shaheen Sharafat. Bacteriological profile and drug resistance patterns of blood culture isolates: A five year audit from tertiary care hospital. Isra Med J. 2019; 11(6): 449-53.
  1. Sahar Iqbal, Syed Talha Naeem, Ambreen Fatima, Saima Naseem, Shaheen Sharafat, Fouzia Zeeshan. Installation and implementation of automation and its impact on clinical chemistry laboratory productivity. 2021; 46(1): 228-231.
  1. Saima Naseem, Ambreen Fatima, Sahar Iqbal,, Fatima Fasih, Syed Talh Naeem, Uzma Bukhari. Nitrofurantoin and Fosfomycin, effective oral empirical treatment options against multidrug resistant Escherichia coli. Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College (JRMC). 2021; 25(4): 507-511.
  2. Sahar Iqbal, Samina Baig, Saima Naseem, Syed Talha Naeem, Ambreen Fatima, Prof. Saeed Khan.  Comparison of Hepatitis C Antibody Assays and evaluation of agreement between Hepatitis C antigen and PCR results. Journal of Ayub Medical College. 2022; 34(3):474-477.Y8
  3. Sadia Shakeel, Wajiha Iffat, Saima Naseem, Shagufta Nesar, Hina Rehman, Muhammad Yaqoob, Anees Ur Rehman, Ibrahim Barrak, Shazia Jamshed  and Márió Gajdács. Healthcare Professionals’ Practice of HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis in Clinical Settings in Karachi, Pakistan. Healthcare 2022, 10, 277. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare100 20277.
  4. Ambreen Fatima, Saima Naseem, Sahar Iqbal, Wajiha Iffat, Talha Naeem & Fatima Fasih. Retrospective Surveillance of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Acinetobacter Species at Tertiary Care Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Lat. Am. J. Pharm. 2022; 41(1):224-9.
  5. Ambreen Fatima, Hareem Gohar, Kamran Dawood, Hira Zafar Siddiqui, Mehwish Sajjad, Saima Naseem.  Bacteriological Profile and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Pus Isolates from Tertiary Care Hospital. J Liaquat Uni Med Health Sci. 2022;21(03):190-5.
  6. Ambreen Fatima, Fatima Fasih, Samina Baig, Fouzia Zeeshan, Saima Naseem, Mohammad Asif Qureshi. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) antibodies in tertiary care hospital of Karachi, Pakistan. Rawal Medical Journal. 2023; 48(1):70-3.
  7. Saima Naseem, Ambreen Fatima, Fatima Fasih, Sahar Iqbal, Hareem Gohar, Fouzia Zeeshan. Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae among uropathogens isolated in a referral laboratory of Karachi. Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute. 2022; 36(4):230-34.
  8. Ambreen Fatima, Fatima Fasih, Saima Naseem, Mehwish Sajjad, Hareem Gohar, Uzma Bukhari. Bacteriologic Profile and Antibiotic Susceptibility in Patients with UTIs in Tertiary Care Hospital. J Liaquat Uni Med Health Sci. 2022; 21(04):252-7.
  9. Fatima Fasih, Ambreen Fatima, Samina Baig, Saima Naseem, Muhammad Moazzam Tauheed, Hareem Gohar.  Antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteraemic isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar typhi and Paratyphi infection in Pakistan from 2017-2020. J Pak Med Assoc. 2023 ;73(3):505-510.
  10. Fouzia Zeeshan, Ambreen Fatima, Hareem Gohar, Mehwish Sajjad, Mona Siddiqui, Saima Naseem. Frequency of Bacterial Co-Infections Isolated from Covid-19 Positive Patients from Tertiary care Hospital of Karachi. Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College (JRMC). 2023;27(2):278-284. doi: 10.37939/jrmc. v27i2.2024.
  1. Ambreen Fatima, Hareem Gohar, Hira Zafar Siddiqui, Rehana Faryal Mehdi, Saima Naseem and Fouzia Zeeshan Khan. Current Rise of Extensive Drug Resistant Salmonella Cases in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Karachi, Pakistan. Med Forum 2023; 34(9):32-36. doi:10.60110/medforum.340908.
  2. Mehwish Sajjad, Ambreen Fatima, Hareem Gohar, Fouzia Zeeshan Khan, Hira Zafar Siddiqui, Saima Naseem. Susceptibility pattern of ceftazidime-avibactam against multi drug resistant gram-negative rods. LMRJ; 2024;6(3):132-7. DOI:10.38106/LMRJ.2024.6.3-03.
  3. Mehwish Sajjad, Fatima Arshad, Farah Fatima Abbas, Anum Liaquat Ali, Saima Naseem, Uzma Bukhari. Frequency of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Blood Donors. J Muhammad Med Coll. 2025; 16 (2) pp-152-55.