Journal of Pharmacovigilance

Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Biography

Dr. Sheikh Zahoor Ahmad completed his MBBS from MBBS   Government Medical College, Srinagar 2003; MS in General Surgery from SKIMS Srinagar 2007. He did his DNB in Surgical Oncology from Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin 2011. He received fellowship from Thoracic Onco-Surgery Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 2012. He is a member of Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO), USA and Life Member of Indian Association of Cancer Research (IACR). His research interests are in the field of Thoracic Malignancies, Gynaecological Cancers and Soft Tissue Malignancies.

Publications

• Review   
  Corona virus and traditional approach for developing immunity through unani herbal medicine
  Author(s): Arsheed Iqbal*, Adil Rashid, Haider Ali Quraishi, Afroza Jan and Shiekh Zahoor Ahmad
  
  Till date four coronaviruses are found to exist i.e. human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E), HCoV-0C43, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), fourth human coronavirus, HCoV-NL63 has been reported from a seven-month-old child with bronchiolitis and conjunctival inflammation. Coronaviruses, a genus of the coronaviridae family, are enveloped viruses with large plua- strand RNA genome. The genomic RNA is 27-32 kb in size, capped and polyadenylated. After detailed and extensive research coronaviruses have been found in rats, mice, chickens, swine cattle, horses, dog, cats, rabbits, humans and can cause a wide variety of diseases including gastroenteritis and respiratory tract diseases. The most recent found SARS-CoV can lead to life threating pneumonia and is the most pathogenic human coronavirus identified so far. This fatal and highly contagious virus is.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2329-6887.21.9.296

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