Bua, A. and Rosu, V. and Molicotti, P. and Das Gupta, S.K. and Ahmed, N. and Zanetti, S. and Sechi, L.A. (2009) Phages specific for mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan help serodiagnosis of tuberculosis. New Microbiologica, 32 (3). pp. 293-296. ISSN 1121-7138

Bannantine, J.P. and Rosu, V. and Zanetti, S. and Rocca, S. and Ahmed, N. and Sechi, L.A. (2008) Antigenic profiles of recombinant proteins from Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in sheep with Johne's disease. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, 122 (1-2). pp. 116-125. ISSN 0165-2427

Sechi, L.A. and Rosu, V. and Pacifico, A. and Fadda, G. and Ahmed, N. and Zanetti, S. (2008) Humoral Immune Responses of Type 1 Diabetes Patients to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Lend Support to the Infectious Trigger Hypothesis. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 15 (2). pp. 320-326. ISSN 1556-6811

Hussain, M.A. and Naveed, S.A. and Sechi, L.A. and Ranjan, Sarita and Alvi, A. and Ahmed, I. and Ranjan, Akash and Mukhopadhyay, Sangita and Ahmed, N. (2008) Isocitrate Dehydrogenase of Helicobacter pylori Potentially Induces Humoral Immune Response in Subjects with Peptic Ulcer Disease and Gastritis. PLoS ONE, 3 (1). e1481. ISSN 1932-6203

Sechi, L.A. and Paccagnini, D. and Salza, S. and Pacifico, A. and Ahmed, N. and Zanetti, S. (2008) Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis Bacteremia in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: An Infectious Trigger? Clinical Infectious Diseases, 46 (1). pp. 148-149. ISSN 1058-4838

Sechi, L.A. and Ruehl, A. and Ahmed, N. and Usai, D. and Paccagnini, D. and Felis, G.E. and Zanetti, S. (2007) Mycobacterium aviumsubspeciesparatuberculosisinfects and multiplies in enteric glial cells. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 13 (43). pp. 5731-5735. ISSN 1007-9327

Sechi, L.A. and Felis, G.E. and Ahmed, N. and Paccagnini, D. and Usai, D. and Ortu, S. and Molicotti, P. and Zanetti, S. (2007) Genome and transcriptome scale portrait of sigma factors in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 7 (4). pp. 424-432. ISSN 1567-1348

Ahmed, N. and Majeed, A.A. and Ahmed, I. and Hussain, M.A. and Alvi, A. and Devi, S.M. and Rizwan, M. and Ranjan, Akash and Sechi, L.A. and Mégraud, F. (2007) genoBASE pylori: A genotype search tool and database of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 7 (4). pp. 463-468. ISSN 1567-1348

Devi, S.M. and Ahmed, I. and Francalacci, P. and Hussain, M.A. and Akhter, Y. and Alvi, A. and Sechi, L.A. and Mégraud, F. and Ahmed, N. (2007) Ancestral European roots of Helicobacter pylori in India. BMC Genomics, 8 (1). p. 184. ISSN 1471-2164

Sechi, L.A. and Gazouli, M. and Sieswerda, L.E. and Molicotti, P. and Ahmed, N. and Ikonomopoulos, J. and Scanu, A.M. and Paccagnini, D. and Zanetti, S. (2006) Relationship between Crohn's disease, infection with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and SLC11A1 gene polymorphisms in Sardinian patients. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 12 (44). pp. 7161-7164. ISSN 1007-9327

Devi, S.M. and Ahmed, I. and Khan, A.A. and Rahman, S.A. and Alvi, A. and Sechi, L.A. and Ahmed, N. (2006) Genomes of Helicobacter pylori from native Peruvians suggest admixture of ancestral and modern lineages and reveal a western type cag-pathogenicity island. BMC Genomics, 7 (1). p. 191. ISSN 1471-2164

Sechi, L.A. and Mara, L. and Cappai, P. and Frothingam, R. and Ortu, S. and Leoni, A. and Ahmed, N. and Zanetti, S. (2006) Immunization with DNA vaccines encoding different mycobacterial antigens elicits a Th1 type immune response in lambs and protects against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection. Vaccine, 24 (3). pp. 229-235. ISSN 0264-410X

Sechi, L.A. and Ahmed, N. and Felis, G.E. and Duprè, I. and Cannas, S. and Fadda, G. and Bua, A. and Zanetti, S. (2006) Immunogenicity and cytoadherence of recombinant heparin binding haemagglutinin (HBHA) of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis: Functional promiscuity or a role in virulence? Vaccine, 24 (3). pp. 236-243. ISSN 0264-410X

Rao, K.R. and Ahmed, N. and Srinivas, S. and Sechi, L.A. and Hasnain, S.E. (2006) Rapid Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotypes on the Basis of the Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit Locus 26 Signature. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 44 (1). pp. 274-277. ISSN 0095-1137

Ali, S. and Khan, A.A. and Ahmed, I. and Musaddiq, M. and Ahmed, K.S. and Polasa, H. and Rao, L.V. and Habibullah, C.M. and Sechi, L.A. and Ahmed, N. (2005) Antimicrobial activities of Eugenol and Cinnamaldehyde against the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 4 (1). p. 20. ISSN 1476-0711

Rao, K.R. and Kauser, F. and Srinivas, S. and Zanetti, S. and Sechi, L.A. and Ahmed, N. and Hasnain, S.E. (2005) Analysis of genomic downsizing on the basis of region-of-difference polymorphism profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis patient isolates reveals geographic partitioning. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 43 (12). pp. 5978-5982. ISSN 0095-1137

Sechi, L.A. and Gazouli, M. and Ikonomopoulos, J. and Lukas, J.C. and Scanu, A.M. and Ahmed, N. and Fadda, G. and Zanetti, S. (2005) Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, Genetic Susceptibility to Crohn's Disease, and Sardinians: the Way Ahead. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 43 (10). pp. 5275-5277. ISSN 0095-1137

Kauser, F. and Hussain, M.A. and Ahmed, I. and Srinivas, S. and Devi, S.M. and Majeed, A.A. and Rao, K.R. and Khan, A.A. and Sechi, L.A. and Ahmed, N. (2005) Comparative genomics of Helicobacter pylori isolates recovered from ulcer disease patients in England. BMC Microbiology, 5 (1). p. 32. ISSN 1471-2180

Ahmed, N. and Sechi, L.A. (2005) Helicobacter pylori and gastroduodenal pathology: new threats of the old friend. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 4 (1). p. 1. ISSN 1476-0711

Ahmed, N. and Alam, M. and Rao, K.R. and Kauser, F. and Kumar, N.A. and Qazi, N.N. and Sangal, V. and Sharma, V.D. and Das, R. and Katoch, V.M. and Murthy, K.J.R. and Suneetha, S. and Sharma, S.K. and Sechi, L.A. and Gilman, R.H. and Hasnain, S.E. (2004) Molecular Genotyping of a Large, Multicentric Collection of Tubercle Bacilli Indicates Geographical Partitioning of Strain Variation and Has Implications for Global Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42 (7). pp. 3240-3247. ISSN 0095-1137

Majeed, A.A. and Ahmed, N. and Rao, K.R. and Ghousunnissa, S. and Kauser, F. and Bose, B. and Nagarajaram, H.A. and Katoch, V.M. and Cousins, D.V. and Sechi, L.A. and Gilman, R.H. and Hasnain, S.E. (2004) AmpliBASE MTTM: a Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity knowledgebase. Bioinformatics, 20 (6). pp. 989-992. ISSN 1367-4803

Kauser, F. and Khan, A.A. and Hussain, M.A. and Carroll, I.M. and Ahmad, N. and Tiwari, S. and Shouche, Y. and Das, B. and Alam, M. and Ali, S.M. and Habibullah, C.M. and Sierra, R. and Megraud, F. and Sechi, L.A. and Ahmed, N. (2004) The cag Pathogenicity Island of Helicobacter pylori Is Disrupted in the Majority of Patient Isolates from Different Human Populations. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 42 (11). pp. 5302-5308. ISSN 0095-1137