selected scholarly activity
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conferences
- Clinical Practice: Using a Best Evidence Sepsis Scoring Tool to Identify and Manage Pediatric Patients With Severe Sepsis in the Emergency Department. Journal of Pediatric Nursing. 560-561. 2016
- Enhanced Culturing Techniques Identify Unexpected Pathogens In Patients With Suspected Ventilator-Associated Infections: The Fast Identification Of Pathogens (findpath) Pilot Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2016
- Dermal Analysis of CDKN1B (p27) Is the Most Useful Cell Cycle Regulator for Grading of Atypical Melanocytic Nevi. Modern Pathology. 104A-104A. 2009
- Dermal Analysis of CDKN1B (p27) Is the Most Useful Cell Cycle Regulator for Grading of Atypical Melanocytic Nevi. Laboratory Investigation. 104A-104A. 2009
- Compliance With Personal Precautions Against Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens Among Laboratory Workers: A Canadian Survey. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 66-68. 2008
- Cucurbit downy mildew: A unique pathosystem for disease forecasting. ADVANCES IN DOWNY MILDEW RESEARCH - VOL 2. 69-80. 2004
- Transient photoconductivity, density of tail states and doping effect in a-Si : H. ICM'99: ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROELECTRONICS - PROCEEDINGS. 267-270. 1999
- Conditions for Collection Efficiencies Greater than one Hundred Percent. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings. 759-764. 1997
- Determination of the Density of States in Semiconductors from Transient Photoconductivity. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings. 167-178. 1997
- Corticosteroid-induced down-regulation of IL-6 gene expression in rat intestinal smooth muscle and splenic adherent cells. Gastroenterology. A656-A656. 1996
- Intestinal smooth muscle cells attenuate T-cell apoptosis in vitro. Gastroenterology. A712-A712. 1996
- IMMUNE REGULATION BY INTESTINAL SMOOTH-MUSCLE CELLS (ISMCS). Gastroenterology. A836-A836. 1995
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journal articles
- Polymicrobial brain abscesses: A complex condition with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. 83:798-807. 2024
- Implementing a 4% EDTA Central Catheter Locking Solution as a Quality Improvement Project in a Large Canadian Hospital. Journal of Infusion Nursing. 47:255-265. 2024
- A 10-year Retrospective Review of Patient-to-Patient Transmitted Pathogens in Culture-Positive Burn Wounds at a Tertiary Burn Center. Plastic Surgery. 22925503241249760. 2024
- The Impact of Surgical Wait Time and Hospital Stay on the Incidence of Burn Wound Infection and Related Complications at a Single Tertiary Hospital Centre: A 10-Year Experience. Plastic Surgery. 22925503241249756. 2024
- Answer to the Photo Quiz: An unexpected isolate on the routine bacteriology bench. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 61:e0100223. 2023
- Photo Quiz: An unexpected isolate on the routine bacteriology bench. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 61:e0100123. 2023
- Brain Toxoplasmosis and Bacterial Infection after Liver Transplantation. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. 50:155-157. 2023
- Incidence and Risk Factors Associated with Microbial Colonization of Burn Wounds: An Observational Study. Plastic Surgery. 2023
- Retrospective Review of the Clinical Outcomes of Surgically Managed Patients with Intracranial Abscesses: A Single-Center Review. World Neurosurgery. 165:e697-e711. 2022
- Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia. JAMA Pediatrics. 175:475-475. 2021
- Purposeful microbiology comment added to urine cultures with Staphylococcus aureus increases orders for follow-up blood cultures. Access Microbiology. 3:000224. 2021
- Admission High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin vs a Biochemical Score for Predicting Mortality in Patients With COVID-19. CJC OPEN. 3:130-131. 2021
- Local audit of empiric antibiotic therapy in bacteremia: A retrospective cohort study. PLoS ONE. 16:e0248817-e0248817. 2021
- 171. Short-course Antimicrobial Therapy for Paediatric Respiratory Infections (SAFER): a multicentre, Randomized, Controlled, Blinded, Noninferiority Trial. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 7:S214-S215. 2020
- Review of high dose vancomycin in the treatment of Clostridioides difficile infection. Infectious Diseases. 52:847-857. 2020
- Novel Coronavirus COVID-19. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American volume. 102:734-744. 2020
- Screening for and decolonization of Staphylococcus aureus carriers before total joint replacement is associated with lower S aureus prosthetic joint infection rates. American Journal of Infection Control. 48:534-537. 2020
- Short-course antimicrobial therapy for paediatric respiratory infections (SAFER): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 19:83. 2018
- Management and outcomes in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after implementation of mandatory infectious diseases consult: a before/after study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 15:568. 2015
- Self‐disinfecting sink drains reduce the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bioburden in a neonatal intensive care unit. Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics. 104:e344-e349. 2015
- Multifaceted intervention to optimize antibiotic use for intra-abdominal infections. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 70:1226-1229. 2015
- A Controlled Quasi-Experimental Study of an Educational Intervention to Reduce the Unnecessary Use of Antimicrobials For Asymptomatic Bacteriuria. PLoS ONE. 10:e0132071-e0132071. 2015
- Drug use prior to incarceration and associated socio-behavioural factors among males in a provincial correctional facility in Ontario, Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 105:e198-e202. 2014
- A Brief Report of West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease in the Summer of 2012 in Hamilton, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. 25:24-26. 2014
- Bezold's abscess. Emergency Medicine Journal. 28:985-985. 2011
- Examination of staphylococcal stethoscope contamination in the emergency department (pilot) study (EXSSCITED pilot study). Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 13:239-244. 2011
- Prevalence and Predictors of Urethral Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Infection in Male Inmates in an Ontario Correctional Facility. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 102:220-224. 2011
- Population tobacco control interventions and their effects on social inequalities in smoking: placing an equity lens on existing systematic reviews. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 8:178. 2008
- Treatment of septic arthritis. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 177:899-899. 2007
- Invasive group A streptococcal infections. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 175:32-32. 2006
- High Analytical Sensitivity and Low Rates of Inhibition May Contribute to Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in Significantly More Women by the APTIMA Combo 2 Assay. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 44:400-405. 2006
- Outbreaks of Infection Caused by Community‐Acquired Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Canadian Correctional Facility. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. 16:343-348. 2005
- Antimicrobial drugs for treating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2010:CD003340. 2003
- How Much Does It Cost to Manage Paediatric Tuberculosis? One‐Year Experience from The Hospital for Sick Children. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. 9:354-358. 1998