Publications by authors named "Naseeha Bibi"

is a Gram-negative bacterium characterized as a small, nonmotile, facultative anaerobic coccobacillus. It is a common cause of a variety of invasive and non-invasive infections. Among six serotypes (a-f), type b (Hib) is the most familiar and predominant mostly in children and immunocompromised individuals.

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Dengue virus belonging to the family and its four serotypes are responsible for dengue infections, which extend over 60 countries in tropical and subtropical areas of the world including Pakistan. During the ongoing dengue outbreak in Pakistan (2022), over 30,000 cases have been reported, and over 70 lives have been lost. The only commercialized vaccine against DENV, Dengvaxia, cannot be administered as a prophylactic measure to cure this infection due to various complications.

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colonizes the respiratory tract and is associated with life-threatening invasive infections. The recent rise in its global prevalence, even in the presence of multiple vaccines, indicates an urgent need to develop effective cross-strain vaccine strategies. Our work focused on identifying the universally conserved antigenic regions of that can be used to develop new vaccines.

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