PUBLICATION
Meshkat Z, Salimizand H, Amini Y, Mansury D, Zomorodi AR, Avestan Z, Jamee A, Falahi J, Farsiani H, Mojahed A. Detection of efflux pump genes in multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii ST2 in Iran. Acta Microbiol Immunol Hung. 2021 Feb 2. doi: 10.1556/030.2021.01314. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 33533731
Bahari D, Babamiri B, Salimi A, Salimizand H. Ratiometric fluorescence resonance energy transfer aptasensor for highly sensitive and selective detection of Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria in urine sample using carbon dots as optical nanoprobes. Talanta 221. 2021, 121619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121619
Meshkat Z, Salimizand H, Amini Y, et.al. Detection of efflux pump genes in multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii ST2 in Iran. Acta Microbiol Immunol Hung. 2021 Feb 2. doi: 10.1556/030.2021.01314. Online ahead of print
Zomorodi, A.R., Rad, M., Hashemitabar, G.R., and Salimizand, H. Molecular typing of cephalosporin resistant serovars of Salmonella enterica from poultry and farm animals. Bulgarian Journal of Veterinary Medicine. 2020. 23, 178-186.
JE Abbas, Salimizand H, S Hassanzadeh, R Ramazanzadeh. AdeG efflux pump as the main Tigecycline resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii. Gene Reports, 2020 (20)100689
Morad Ali Ranaei, Shahram Shahraki-Zahedan, Amir Hossein Mohagheghi-Fard, Salimizand H, Ramin Ordoni, Yousef Amini. Prevalence of the blaCTX-M and antibiotic resistance pattern among clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from Zahedan, Southeast Iran. Gene Reports 19 (2020) 100626.
Meshkat Z, Amini Y, Sadeghian H, Salimizand H. ISAba1/blaOXA-23-like family is the predominant cause of carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter nosocomialis in Iran. Infect Genet Evol. 2019;71:60.
Darroudi M, KhandaKhandan Nasab N, Salimizand H, Dehnad A. Green synthesis and antibacterial activity of zinc selenide (ZnSe) nanoparticles. Nanomedicine J. 2019.
Mohammadpour B, Salimizand H, Rahmani K. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and mortality of metallo-beta-lactamases in Iranian patients infected with metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Rev Med Microbiol. 2019.
Salimizand H, Zomorodi AR, Mansury D, et al. Diversity of aminoglycoside modifying enzymes and 16S rRNA methylases in Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter nosocomialis species in Iran; wide distribution of aadA1 and armA. Infect Genet Evol. 2018;66:195-199.
Mohammadpour B, Rouhi S, Moradi M, Salimizand H. Prevalence of Metallo-β-Lactamases in Acinetobacter baumannii in Iran: A Review and Meta-Analysis. Infect Disord Drug Targets. 2018.
Salimizand H, Saeid Amel Jamehdar, Leila Babaei Nik, Hamid Sadeghian. Design of peptides interfering with iron-dependent regulator (IdeR) and evaluation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth inhibition. Iran J Basic Med Sci 2017; 20:722-728. doi: 10.22038/IJBMS.2017.8859
Mosavat A, Soleimanpour S, Farsiani H, Salimizand H. Moderate Genetic Diversity with Extensive Antimicrobial Resistance Among Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Referral Hospital in Northeast Iran. Jundishapur J Microbiol. 2018;11(7).
Ahmadi A, Salimizand H. Delayed identification of Acinetobacter baumannii during an outbreak owing to disrupted blaOXA-51-like by ISAba19. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2017;50(1):119-122.
Sarhaddi N, Soleimanpour S, Farsiani H, Salimizand H. Elevated prevalence of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii with extensive genetic diversity in the largest burn centre of northeast Iran. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2017;8. doi:10.1016/j.jgar.2016.10.009
Meshkat Z, Salimizand H, Amini Y, et al. Molecular characterization and genetic relatedness of clinically Acinetobacter baumanii isolates conferring increased resistance to the first and second generations of tetracyclines in Iran. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob. 2017;16(1). doi:10.1186/s12941-017-0226-9
Azizi O, Shahcheraghi F, Salimizand H, et al. Molecular analysis and expression of bap gene in biofilm-forming multi-drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Reports Biochem Mol Biol. 2016;5(1):62.
Nasab NK, Dehnad AR, Salimizand H, et al. Zinc selenide nanoparticles (ZnSe-NPs): Green synthesis and investigation of their cytotoxicity effects. Ceram Int. 2016;42(10):12115-12118.
Salimizand H, Menbari S, Ramazanzadeh R, Khonsha M, Saleh Vahedi M. DNA fingerprinting and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of clinical and environmental Acinetobacter baumannii isolates: a multicentre study. J Chemother. 2016;28(4):277-283. doi:10.1080/1120009X.2016.1175706
Ramazanzadeh R, Salimizand H, Shahbazi B, Narenji H. Prevalence of mecA Gene of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus spp. Isolated from Nosocomial Infections and Environmental Specimens in Sanandaj Hospitals, Kurdistan, Iran. Res Mol Med. 2015;3(3):38-42.
Salimizand H, Modarresi F, Azizi O, Mansouri S, Rahmati M, Barkhordari K. Antimicrobial Profile and Phenotypic Metallo-β-Lactamase Detection of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolated From Clinical and Environmental Specimens. Zahedan J Res Med Sci. 2015;17(6).
Salimizand H, Noori N, Meshkat Z, Ghazvini K, Amel SJ. Prevalence of Acinetobacter baumannii harboring ISAba1/blaOXA-23-like family in a burn center. Burns. 2015;41(5):1100-1106.
Farsiani H, Mosavat A, Soleimanpour S, Salimizand H. Limited genetic diversity and extensive antimicrobial resistance in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii in north-east Iran. J Med Microbiol. 2015;64(7):767-773.
Narenji H, Salimizand H, Ramazanzadeh R, Shahbazi B, Khonshah M. PREVALENCE OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS SPP. AND MECA GENE FROM SPECIMENS IN KURDISTAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS, Iran. Iran J Public Health. 2014;43(2):265.
Salimizand H, Shahcheraghi F, Kalantar E, Badmasti F. Molecular characterization of class 1 integrons and gene cassettes in multidrug resistant (MDR) Klebsiella spp. isolated from hospitalized and outpatients in Iran, 2009. Iran J Microbiol. 2013;5(1).
Salimizand H, Habibi M, Shahcheraghi F. Metallo-β-lactamases among Multidrug Resistant (MDR) Gram Negative Bacteria Isolated from Clinical Specimens during 2009 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. Zahedan J Res Med Sci. 2012;14(8):48-51.
Kalantar E, Torabi V, Salimizand H, Soheili F, Ramezanzadeh R. Incidence and susceptibility pattern of metallo-beta-lactamase producers among Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from burn patients at Kurdistan Province. Jundishapur J Microbiol. 2012;5(3):507-510.
Under review/ In press papers
Comparative genomics of Acinetobacter baumannii in Iran: Whole -genome sequencing of three isoaltes (Submited to Jouernal of Antimicrobial Agents)
(Journal of EndononticsSubmitted to ) The calcium hydroxide promotes the biofilm formation of Enterococcus faecalis
Detection and Comparison of molecular typing and antimicrobial susceptibility profiling of Yersinia ruckeri of red mouth disease in trouts (submitted to Journal of Veterinary Research)
Detection of virulence genes and determining antimicrobial susceptibility among Escherichia coli causative mastitis isolates from dairy farm in north of Iran (submitted to The New Zealand Veterinary Journal)
Carbapenemase Producing Klebsiella pneumonia ST15 Arrival to the West of Iran. (Submitted to Journal of Medical Microbiology)
TEM-171 in Proteus mirabilis, where resistance phenotype does not meet resistance genotype (submitted to Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)
Presentations
12th International Congress of Medical Lab. and Clinic. 12-14 Des 2019, Tehran, Iran. Identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae resistant to the last resort treatment in Kurdistan (Poster)
4th Iranian Congress of Medical Bacteriology, 18-20 October, 2017. Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a referral Hospital in Iran; consequences after infection prevention control interventions (Poster)
18th International & Iranian Congress of Microbiology. August 2017 29-31, Tehran - Iran, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. MOLECULAR TYPING OF SALMONELLAISOLATES BY REP-PCR (Poster)
th International Congress of Clinical Microbiology, 21- 23 November 2017, Shiraz- Iran. P-B-118: Molecular analysis and clonal diversity of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Northeast-Iran (Poster)
6th International Conference on Nanostructures (ICNS6), 7-10 March 2016, Kish Island, Iran. Green Synthesis, Characterization, and Antibacterial Properties of ZnSe Nanoparticles (Poster)
12th Iranian Congress of Microbiology, Kermanshah, Iran. 23-26 May 2011. Prevalence of class 1 integrons among gram negative bacteria and related antibiotic susceptibility during 2008-2010. (Poster)
3ed SENS conference (SENS3), Queens' College, Cambridge University, UK. 6-10 September 2007. Isolation and characterization of human umbilical cord vein mesenchymal stem cells: potential application in cell-based gene therapy (Poster)
PROJECTS
Evaluation of efflux pumps expression in tigecycline resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Kurdistan University-Medical centers
Molecular characterization of carbapenems resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates sequence typed by MLST in Sanandaj Hospital centers
Evaluation of Intestinal Bacteria Population and Short Chain Fatty Acids Profiles in Stool Sample of Alzheimer's Disease Patients Compared to Control Group
Evaluation of Specific Bacterial Species Associated with Triomethylamine-N-Oxide Production (TMAO) and Plasma Choline Level in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Patients Compared to Healthy Individuals in Kurdistan Province
Prevalence of mcr gene in Gram-negative bacteria isolated from human, poultry, dairy and sheep stools in Kurdistan province
Determination of Frequency of Fluoroquinolones Resistance to Ciprofloxacin and Levofloxacin and Determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of these Antibiotics in Klebsiella Pneumoniae Producing High Beta Lactamase (ESBL)
Epidemiology of Papillomavirus and its Genotypes in Unmarried Girls of Reproductive Age in Sanandaj, Iran
Frequency of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Isolated from Intensive Care Unit to Improve Reasonable Antibiotic Prescription in Tohid Hospital, Sanandaj
Assessment of Microbial DNA in Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis by PCR
Bacteriological study of Legionella pneumophila in irrigation systems of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Divandareh
SUPERVISOR
:Master Projects as Supervisor
Transcriptomic analysis of colistin resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates aiming new drug targets identification
Concurrent evaluation of the effect of calcium hydroxide and pantoprazole on eradication of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm
Seeking Bacteriophages and Determination of their Antibacterial Effect on Common Drug Resistant Gram-negative Bacteria
Identification of plasmids carrying blaNDM gene in gram-negative bacteria isolated from different regions of Iran
Frequency of genes constituting biofilm including algD, ppgL, PAPI-1, pelF in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains determined by Rep-PCR
Synergic effect of calcium hydroxide and pantoprazole on the removal of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm
Determination of the genetic origin of carbapenemase blaOXA23 specific to Acinetobacter baumannii in Proteus mirabilis and its genetic structure
Frequency of blaGES producing strains in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from clinical specimens and their typing by Multi-locus Sequence Typing (MLST) in university affiliated hospitals in Sanandaj
Evaluation of efflux pumps expression in tigecycline resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Kurdistan University-Medical centers
Molecular characterization of carbapenems resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates sequence typed by MLST in Sanandaj Hospital centers
Technical skills and competencies
Phylogenetic analyzing tools: BioNumerics7.2, Gel compare 2, GelJ and NTsys
Beacon Designer, Primer3, MEGA6, Mendeley, EndnoteX6
Good knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, and Microsoft Windows (7, 8, 10)
Python
Personal skills and competencies
Mother Tongue
Kurdish
Other languages
English (C1), Persian (Native)
Education and training
22nd Sep 2008- 4th Jul 2011
MSc. of Microbiology
Microbiology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Iran
Thesis title: Molecular characterization of class 1 integrons and gene cassettes in Klebsiella spp. isolated from hospitalized and outpatients in Iran
23rd Sep 2003- 06th Feb 2006
BSc. of Medical Laboratory Sciences, MLS
Faculty of Paramedical Science, Yazd University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
23rd Sep 1998- 23rd Feb 2001
Certified, Medical laboratory Sciences, MLS
Faculty of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Work experience
Feb 2016 - Present
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Department of Microbiology
Research Associate
Activities: Research (60%), Teaching (40%)
2012- 2002
Besat hospital of Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran
Supervisor of Microbiology Lab section
Laboratory
,Activities: Doing diagnostic tests on human specimens, Animal cell Culture, Molecular biological test, PCR, realtime-PCR, immunocytochemistry, Flow cytometry
Committee work
Liver and digestive research center
Cellular and molecular research center
Zoonosis Research center
Interests
Microbial Genomics
Gut microbiome
Bacteriophages
