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IPC Staff Publications 2020/21

  • Bresee, L.C., Lamont, N., Ocampo, W. et al. Implementation strategies for hospital-based probiotic administration in a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial design for preventing hospital-acquired Clostridioides difficile infection. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 1386 (2023). 

  • Leal J, Shen Y, Faris P, et al. Effectiveness of Bio-K for the prevention of Clostridioides difficile infection: Stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trialInfection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 2023:1-9. 

  • Acosta N, Bautista MA, Hollman J, McCalder J, Beaudet AB, Mann L, Waddell BJ, Chen J, Li C, Kuzma D, Bhatnagar S, Leal J, Meddings J, Hu J, Cabaj JL, Ruecker NJ, Naugler C, Pillai DR, Achari G, Ryan MC, Conly JM, Frankowski K, Hubert CRJ, Parkins MD. A multicenter study investigating SARS-CoV-2 in tertiary care hospital wastewater. Viral burden correlates with increasing hospitalized cases as well as hospital-associated transmissions and outbreaks. Water Research. 2021; 201: 117369. https://libkey.io/34229222

  • Almond, J.,Leal, J., Bush, K., Rogers, E., Henderson, B.A., & Ellison, J. Hospital-Acquired Clostridioides difficile Infections in Alberta: The Validity of Laboratory-Identified Event Surveillance versus Clinical Infection Surveillance. American Journal of Infection Control. 2020; 48(6): 633-637.  https://libkey.io/31733811

  • Berenger, B., Conly, J.M., Fonseca, K., Hu, J., Louie, T., Schneider, A.R., Sing, T., Stokes, W., Ward, L., & Zelyas, N. Saliva collected in universal transport media is an effective, simple and high-volume amenable method to detect SARS-CoV-2. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 2020; 27(4): 656-657. https://libkey.io/33160035
     
  • Burak, K.W., Law, S., Rice, C., Hu, J., Fung, C.I., Woo, A.K.H., Fonseca, K., Lang, A.L.S., Kanji, J.N., & Meatherall, B.L. COVID-19 outbreak among physicians at a Canadian curling bonspiel: a descriptive observational study. Canadian Medical Association Journal Open. 2021; 9(1): E87–E95. https://libkey.io/33563638
     
  • Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program. Device-associated infections in Canadian acute-care hospitals from 2009 to 2018. 2020. Canada Communicable Disease Report. 2020; 46(11/12):387-397.  

    Note: Alberta sites includes Peter Lougheed Centre, Calgary; Rockyview General Hospital, Calgary; South Health Campus, Calgary; Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary; Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary; University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton; and Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton. 

  • Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network, Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists, Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) serology: implications for clinical practice, laboratory medicine and public health. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2020; 192(34): E973-E979. https://libkey.io/32753391 
    Note: Kanji J.N.
     
  • Charlton, C.L., Kanji, J.N., Johal, K., Bailey, A., Plitt, S.S., MacDonald, C., Kunst, A., Buss, E., Burnes, L., Fonseca, K., Berenger, BM., Schnabl, K., Hu, J., Stokes, W., Zelyas, N., & Tipples, G. Evaluation of six commercial mid to high volume antibody and six point of care lateral flow assays for detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2020; 58(10): e01361-20.  https://libkey.io/32665420
     
  • Choudhury, B., Stadnyk, M., Jijon, D.F., McLaughlin, L., Kanji, J.N., Charlton, C., Smyzcek, P., Vaudry, W., Houston, S., Tse-Chang, A., & Hawkes, M.T. Pregnancy among HIV-serodiscordant couples: case report of vertical transmission and retrospective case series. Current HIV Research. 2021;19(3):269-276.  https://libkey.io/33390144

  • Crocker, A., Kornilo, A., Conly, J., Henderson, E., Rennert-May, E., & Leal, J. Using administrative data to determine rates of surgical site infections following spinal fusion and laminectomy procedures. American Journal of Infection Control. 2021; 49(6): 759-763. https://libkey.io/33091510

  • Kanji J.N., Zelyas, N., MacDonald, C., Pabbaraju, K., Khan, M.N., Prasad, A., Hu, J., Diggle, M., Berenger, B.M., & Tipples, G. False negative rate of COVID-19 PCR testing using a discordant analysis. Virology Journal (BMC). 2021; 18(1): 13. https://libkey.io/33422083

  • Kanji, J.N., Chichak, V., Sikora, C., Lee, N., Tipples, G., & Zelyas, N. First hospitalized case of laboratory-confirmed coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Alberta, Canada. Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 2020; 5(2): 98-103.

  • Laupland, K., & Leal, J. Defining microbial invasion of the bloodstream: A structured review. Infect Dis (Lond). 2020; 52(6):391-395.

  • McClure, J., Conly, J.M., Obasuyi, O., Ward, L., Ugarte-Torres, A., Louie, T., & Zhang, K. A novel assay for detection of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus directly from clinical samples. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2020; 11: 1295. https://libkey.io/32625187

  • Mponponsua K, Leal J, Puloski S, Chew D, Chavda S, Au F, Rennert-May E. Economic burden of surgical management of surgical site infections following hip and knee replacements in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021; 3:1-8. (Articles in Press). https://libkey.io/34080534

  • Pan et al. Repurposed antiviral drugs for COVID-19 – Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2021; 384(6): 497-511. https://libkey.io/33264556
    Note: O’Neil C

  • Picard, C., Edlund, M., Keddie, C., O’Dochartaigh, D., Drew, R., Douma, M.J., O’Neil, C.R., Smith, S.W., & Kanji, J.N. The effects of trained observers (dofficers) and audits during a facility-wide COVID-19 outbreak: a mixed-methods quality improvement analysis. American Journal of Infection Control. 2021; 49(9): 1136-1141. https://libkey.io/33774100

  • Pfister, T., Rennert-May, E., Ellison, J., Bush, K., & Leal, J. Clostridioides difficileInfections in Alberta: The validity of administrative data using ICD-10 diagnostic codes for CDI surveillance versus clinical infection surveillance. American Journal of Infection Control. 2020; 48(12): 1431-1436. https://libkey.io/32810568

  • Rennert-May E, Leal J, Thang NX, Lang E, Dowling S, Manns B, Wasylak T, Ronksley PE. The impact of COVID-19 on hospital admissions and emergency department visits: a population-based study. PLoS ONE, 2021; 16(6): e0252441. https://libkey.io/34061888

  • Rennert-May, E., Raj, S., Leal, J., Exner, D., Manns, B., Chew, D. An economic evaluation of an antibiotic impregnated envelope for preventing infection in cardiac implantable electronic devices. Eurospace. 2021; 23(5): 767-774. https://libkey.io/33554239

  • Sharma, A., Pillai, D.R., Lu, M., Doolan, C., Leal, J., Kim, J., & Hollis, A. Impact of isolation precautions on quality of life: A meta-analysis. Journal of Hospital Infection. 2020; 105(1):35-42. https://libkey.io/32059996

  • Sharma, A., Leal, J., Kim, J., Pearce, C., Pillai, D.R., & Hollis, A. The cost of contact precautions: a systematic analysis. Canadian Journal of Infection Control. 2020; 35(4): 163-169.

  • Shen, Y., Ellison, J., Leal, J., Bush, K., Chandran, U., Fathima, S., & Conly, J.M. The use of laboratory-identified event surveillance to classify adverse outcomes due to clostridioides difficile infection in Canadian long-term care facilities. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2020; 42(5): 557-564. https://libkey.io/33222722

  • Taylor, S.C., Hurst, B., Charlton, C.L., Bailey, A., Kanji, J.N., McCarthy, M.K., Morrison, T.E., Huey, L., Annen,  K., DomBourian, M.G., & Knight, V. A new SARS-CoV-2 dual purpose serology test: highly accurate infection tracing and neutralizing antibody detection. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2021; 59(4): e02438-20. https://libkey.io/33500361

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