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Mahan Ghafari

university of oxford

16H-index
68Paper Count
2.3KCitation Count
Published Papers 19
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Large-scale genomic surveillance reveals immunosuppression drives mutation dynamics in persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections
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errMark P. Khurana; Alexandros Katsiferis; Neil Scheidwasser; Mathilde Marie Brünnich Sloth; Jacob Curran-Sebastian; Christian Morgenstern; Man-Hung Eric Tang; Jannik Fonager; Morten Rasmussen; Marc Stegger; Sune Lehmann; Charles Whittaker; Laust H. Mortensen; Pikka Jokelainen; Moritz U. G. Kraemer; Neil M. Ferguson; Mahan Ghafari; Tyra G. Krause; David A. Duchêne; Samir Bhatt
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Biased estimates of phylogenetic branch lengths resulting from the discretised Gamma model of site rate heterogeneity
err2026-05-20
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errLuca Ferretti; Tanya Golubchik; Francesco Di Lauro; Mahan Ghafari; Julian Villabona-Arenas; Katherine E Atkins; Christophe Fraser; Matthew Hall
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SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity and within-host evolution in individuals with persistent infection in the UK: an observational, longitudinal, population-based surveillance study
err2025-07-30
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errMahan Ghafari; Steven A Kemp; Matthew Hall; Joseph Clarke; Luca Ferretti; Laura Thomson; Ruth Studley; Ann Sarah Walker; Tanya Golubchik; Katrina Lythgoe
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Revisiting the origins of the Sobemovirus genus: A case for ancient origins of plant viruses
err2024-01-11
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errGhafari, Mahan; Somera, Merike; Sarmiento, Cecilia; Niehl, Annette; Hebrard, Eugenie; Tsoleridis, Theocharis; Ball, Jonathan; Moury, Benoit; Lemey, Philippe; Katzourakis, Aris; Fargette, Denis
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A quantitative evaluation of the impact of vaccine roll-out rate and coverage on reducing deaths: insights from the first 2 years of COVID-19 epidemic in Iran
err2023-11-13
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errGhafari, Mahan; Hosseinpour, Sepanta; Rezaee-Zavareh, Mohammad Saeid; Dascalu, Stefan; Rostamian, Somayeh; Aramesh, Kiarash; Madani, Kaveh; Kordasti, Shahram
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Insights into SARS-CoV-2 in Angola during the COVID-19 peak: Molecular epidemiology and genome surveillance
err2023-09-22
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errFrancisco, Ngiambudulu M.; van Wyk, Stephanie; Moir, Monika; San, James Emmanuel; Sebastiao, Cruz S.; Tegally, Houriiyah; Xavier, Joicymara; Maharaj, Akhil; Neto, Zoraima; Afonso, Pedro; Jandondo, Domingos; Paixao, Joana; Miranda, Julio; David, Kumbelembe; Ingles, Luzia; Pereira, Amilton; Paulo, Agostinho; Carralero, Raisa Rivas; Freitas, Helga Reis; Mufinda, Franco; Lutucuta, Silvia; Ghafari, Mahan; Giovanetti, Marta; Giandhari, Jennifer; Pillay, Sureshnee; Naidoo, Yeshnee; Singh, Lavanya; Tshiabuila, Derek; Martin, Darren Patrick; Chabuka, Lucious; Choga, Wonderful; Wanjohi, Dorcas; Mwangi, Sarah; Pillay, Yusasha; Kebede, Yenew; Shumba, Edwin; Ondoa, Pascale; Baxter, Cheryl; Wilkinson, Eduan; Tessema, Sofonias Kifle; Katzourakis, Aris; Lessells, Richard; de Oliveira, Tulio; Morais, Joana
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The evolution of SARS-CoV-2
err2023-04-05
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errMarkov, Peter V.; Ghafari, Mahan; Beer, Martin; Lythgoe, Katrina; Simmonds, Peter; Stilianakis, Nikolaos I.; Katzourakis, Aris
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Estimating SARS-CoV-2 variant fitness and the impact of interventions in England using statistical and geo-spatial agent-based models
err2022-08-15
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errHinch, Robert; Panovska-Griffiths, Jasmina; Probert, William J. M.; Ferretti, Luca; Wymant, Chris; Di Lauro, Francesco; Baya, Nikolas; Ghafari, Mahan; Abeler-Dorner, Lucie; Fraser, Christophe
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A framework for reconstructing SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics using excess mortality data
err2022-05-31
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errGhafari, Mahan; Watson, Oliver J.; Karlinsky, Ariel; Ferretti, Luca; Katzourakis, Aris
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Purifying Selection Determines the Short-Term Time Dependency of Evolutionary Rates in SARS-CoV-2 and pH1N1 Influenza
err2022-01-17
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errGhafari, Mahan; du Plessis, Louis; Raghwani, Jayna; Bhatt, Samir; Xu, Bo; Pybus, Oliver G.; Katzourakis, Aris
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Engaging Religious Institutions and Faith-Based Communities in Public Health Initiatives: A Case Study of the Romanian Orthodox Church During the COVID-19 Pandemic
err2021-12-16
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errDascalu, Stefan; Flammer, Patrik G.; Ghafari, Mahan; Henson, Shaun C.; Nascimento, Roger; Bonsall, Michael B.
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A mechanistic evolutionary model explains the time-dependent pattern of substitution rates in viruses
err2021-11-01
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errGhafari, Mahan; Simmonds, Peter; Pybus, Oliver G.; Katzourakis, Aris
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Lessons for preparedness and reasons for concern from the early COVID-19 epidemic in Iran
err2021-09-01
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errGhafari, Mahan; Hejazi, Bardia; Karshenas, Arman; Dascalu, Stefan; Kadvidar, Alireza; Khosravi, Mohammad A.; Abbasalipour, Maryam; Heydari, Majid; Zeinali, Sirous; Ferretti, Luca; Ledda, Alice; Katzourakis, Aris
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Estimating the false-negative test probability of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR
err2020-12-17
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errWikramaratna, Paul S.; Paton, Robert S.; Ghafari, Mahan; Lourenco, Jose
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Inferring Transmission Bottleneck Size from Viral Sequence Data Using a Novel Haplotype Reconstruction Method
err2020-06-16
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errGhafari, Mahan; Lumby, Casper K.; Weissman, Daniel B.; Illingworth, Christopher J. R.
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KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS HIV/AIDS AMONG POST-SECONDARY SCHOOL MALAYSIAN URBAN YOUTHS
err2013-07-13
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errShamsuddin, K.; Ghafari, M.; Amin, R. Mohd; Sutan, R.; Puteh, S. E. Wan; Shah, S. A.; Mahdy, Z. A.; Ahmad, S.
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