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Mahan Ghafari

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Publications

22

Citations

838

H-Index

14

Active since

2012

Affiliations

University of Oxford(Current)

Imperial College London

Emory University

Rega Institute for Medical Research

Medawar Building for Pathogen Research

Mahan Ghafari is an author at University of Oxford specializing in infectious diseases, virology, and life sciences.

Publications per year

2012–2025

22

Publications

22

Estimating false-negative detection rate of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR

Paul S. Wikramaratna, Robert S. Paton, Mahan Ghafari et al. · medRxiv · 2020 · 163 citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Diagnostic Microbiology +15

Prevalence of persistent SARS-CoV-2 in a large community surveillance study

Mahan Ghafari, Matthew Hall, Tanya Golubchik et al. · Nature · 2024 · 150 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Community Health, Infectious Diseases +11

Purifying Selection Determines the Short-Term Time Dependency of Evolutionary Rates in SARS-CoV-2 and pH1N1 Influenza

Mahan Ghafari, Louis du Plessis, Jayna Raghwani et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2022 · 76 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +16

Excess deaths associated with the Iranian COVID-19 epidemic: A province-level analysis

Mahan Ghafari, Alireza Kadivar, Aris Katzourakis · International Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2021 · 66 citations · Full text

Public Health, Health Sciences, Infectious Diseases +16

A mechanistic evolutionary model explains the time-dependent pattern of substitution rates in viruses

Mahan Ghafari, Peter Simmonds, Oliver G. Pybus et al. · Current Biology · 2021 · 60 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +17

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