Research Areas

WHO priority pathogens,Fungal infections, bacterial infections, parasitic infections,The role of food-producing animals in disease epidemiology,One Health ,Antimicrobial resistance,

Profile

Bashir is a registered medical laboratory technologist with the Malawi Medical Council. He has over 7 years of work experience as a laboratory technician in the Department of Biological and Biomedical Health Sciences. Before joining the university, Bashir worked as a medical laboratory technician at Mlambe Mission Hospital under the Christian Health Association of Malawi. Bashir has a strong interest in microbiology, specifically in understanding antimicrobial resistance and the role of food-producing animals in disease epidemiology in Malawi, in relation to the One Health Approach.

Publications

• Journal Article
  Bashir Merico, Rashid Kaseka, Biton Tehuwa, James Majamanda, Pizga Kumwenda (2025). Drug-resistant Zoonotic Salmonella Strains Isolated from Chicken Droppings; A Case of Ntcheu District, Mphate Area, Malawi, EAS J Vet Med Sci, 7(2), 15-23. (2025)
  

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• Journal Article
  Merico BJ, Chigwechokha P, Bandawe GP. 2025. Fungal infections through a One Health lens: an overlooked dimension of global health, with a focus on Africa. One Health Mycology 2(2), 123-133 (2025)
  https://doi.org/10.63049/OHM.25.22.3

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• Conference Proceedings
  Merico, B., Kumwenda, P. (2024). Extensively-resistant Salmonella typhimurium DT 104 isolated from chicken droppings: A case of Ntcheu District small-scale poultry farms. Malawi Medical Journal. Abstracts for the 2023 Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Research Dissemination Conference-Volume 36. No 2 (2024)-P6_001832. https://www.mmj.mw/?p=13065. (2024)
  https://www.mmj.mw/?p=13065

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