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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 trial. Infection 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
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.
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
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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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