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  • Molecular characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes group A isolates from a tertiary hospital in Lebanon 
    Tokajian, Sima T.; Karaky, Nathalie M.; Araj, George F.; SAS; 199736770; Natural Sciences; stokjian@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-05)
    Streptococcus pyogenes [Group A Streptococcus (GAS)] is one of the most important human pathogens, responsible for numerous diseases with diverse clinical manifestations. As the epidemiology of GAS infections evolves, a ...
  • Draft Genome Sequences of Streptococcus pyogenes Strains Associated with Throat and Skin Infections in Lebanon 
    Tokajian, Sima; Eisen, Jonathan; Jospin, Guillaume; Coil, David; SAS; 199736770; Natural Sciences; stokjian@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-01)
    We present the draft genome sequences of nine clinical Streptococcus pyogenes isolates recovered from patients suffering from sore throat and skin infections. An average of 2,454,334 paired-end reads per sample were ...
  • Molecular characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a major hospital in Lebanon 
    Tokajian, Sima T.; Harastani, Houda H.; Araj, George F.; SAS; 199736770; Natural Sciences; stokjian@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-01)
    Objectives The occurrence and dissemination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in healthcare settings and the community and its risk of being introduced into hospitals are matters of great concern. ...
  • Molecular Characterization, Multiple Drug Resistance, and Virulence Determinants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from Lebanon 
    Tokajian, Sima; Timani, Rola; Issa, Nahla; Araj, George; SAS; 199736770; Natural Sciences; stokjian@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-01)
    Aims: Typing and characterization of 100 P. aeruginosa clinical isolates by pulse field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) to detect changes in the clonal composition of local strains and to correlate banding patterns with site ...
  • Molecular Typing of Staphylococcus aureus 
    Tokajian, Sima; SAS; 199736770; Natural Sciences (2016-04-01)
    Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections continue to spread worldwide. From an epidemiological perspective, risk factors for hospital acquired (HA) infections are most associated, but not limited ...
  • Antibiotic resistance patterns and sequencing of class I integron from uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Lebanon 
    Hashwa, F. A.; Tokajian, S. T.; Farah, M. J.; El-Najjar, N. G.; SAS; 199736770; 199390070; 200103699; Natural Sciences; fhashwa@lau.edu.lb; stokjian@lau.edu.lb; maya.farah@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-01)
    Aim:  To study the prevalence and molecular basis of antimicrobial resistance in UPEC. Methods and Results:  PCR was used to detect the presence of the Class I integron variable region (VR). The VR amplicons were then ...
  • Incidence of Antibiotic Resistance in Coliforms from Drinking Water and Their Identification Using the Biolog and the API Identification Systems 
    Tokajian, Sima; Hashwa, Fuad; SAS; 199736770; 199390070; Natural Sciences; stokjian@lau.edu.lb; fhashwa@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-01)
    Antibiotic-resistant bacteria were common in samples collected from an intermittent water distribution system in Lebanon. Multiply-resistant isolates were also present and most commonly to amoxycillin, cephalexin and ...
  • Water quality problems associated with intermittent water supply 
    Tokajian, Sima; Hashwa, Fuad; SAS; 199736770; 199390070; Natural Sciences; stokjian@lau.edu.lb; fhashwa@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-01)
    A controlled study was conducted in Lebanon over a period of 12 months to determine bacterial regrowth in a small network supplying the Beirut suburb of Naccache that had a population of about 3,000. The residential area, ...
  • Middle Eastern Exceptionalism 
    Salamey, Imad; SAS; 200603434; Social Sciences (2016-03-31)
    The debate over “Middle Eastern exceptionalism” has encompassed various contested views regarding the phenomenal failure of Middle Eastern states to democratize. International relations theorists have turned particular ...
  • Post-Arab Spring 
    Salamey, Imad; SAS; 200603434; Social Sciences; imad.salamey@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-31)
    This paper advances the proposition that post-Arab Spring politics are a product of globalisation’s economic and social liberalisation. The global market and privatisation have fundamentally deconstructed centralised ...
  • 'Ashura in Sydney 
    Tabar, Paul; SAS; 199329060; Social Sciences; ptabar@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-31)
    'Ashura is a Shi'i religious ceremony organised yearly by the Moslem Shi'is around the world. The Shi'is in Sydney have been commemorating 'Ashura in an increasingly elaborate and sophisticated manner. The aim of this paper ...
  • The Cultural and Affective Logic of the Dabki 
    Tabar, Paul; SAS; 199329060; ptabar@lau.edu.lb; Social Sciences (2016-03-31)
    The dabki is a folkloric dance enacted by Lebanese migrants in Australia. This paper examines this dance and shows that it is invested with many issues pertaining to the harsh realities of Lebanese migrants in Australia. ...
  • Lost between cultures or resisting racism? 
    Poynting, Scott; Tabar, Paul; Noble, Greg; SAS; 199329060; Social Sciences (2016-03-31)
    There is widespread popular belief, both among Sydney's Lebanese-Australian communities and Anglo-Australians, that second-generation immigrant youth of Lebanese background are 'caught between two cultures'. This is often ...
  • The rise and falter of the field of ethnic politics in Australia 
    Tabar, Paul; Noble, Greg; Poynting, Scott; SAS; 199329060; Social Sciences; ptabar@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-31)
    Since the advent of multiculturalism in Australia in the 1970s, ‘ethnicity’ has acquired not only cultural and social importance, but significant political consequences as groups mobilised around ‘ethnic communities’ and ...
  • Middle Eastern Appearances 
    Poynting, Scott; Noble, Greg; Tabar, Paul; SAS; 199329060; Social Sciences; ptabar@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-31)
    This article details a moral panic in 1998–2000 about “ethnic gangs” in Sydney's south-western suburbs and analyses its ideological construction of the links between ethnicity, youth and crime. It documents the racisms of ...
  • ‘Intersections’ of Masculinity and Ethnicity 
    Poynting, Scott; Noble, Greg; Tabar, Paul; SAS; 199329060; Social Sciences; ptabar@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-31)
    This article reports on an ethnographic study of teenage male secondary school students of Arabic‐speaking background in a working‐class suburb of Sydney. Interviews with friendship groups of migrant young men explored ...
  • 'If anyone called me a wog, they wouldn't be speaking to me alone' 
    Tabar, Paul; Noble, Greg; Scott, Poynting; SAS; 199329060; Social Sciences; ptabar@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-31)
  • Youth, Ethnicity and mapping of Identities 
    Noble, Greg; Poynting, Scott; Tabar, Paul; SAS; 199329060; Social Sciences; ptabar@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-31)
  • “Habiibs” in Australia 
    Tabar, Paul; SAS; 199329060; Social Sciences; ptabar@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-31)
    Tackling the phenomenon of using Arabic words by second-generation Lebanese-Australians when conversing in English, and reading it culturally and sociologically, constitutes the primary aim of this article. In so doing, ...
  • The Bilateral Minimal Time Function 
    Nour, C.; SAS; 200502681; Computer Science and Mathematics; chadi.nour@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-30)
    In this paper, we study the minimal time function as a function of two variables (the initial and the terminal points). This function, called the “bilateral minimal time function”, plays a central role in the study of ...

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