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Effects of Absolute Humidity, Relative Humidity, Temperature, and Wind Speed on Influenza Activity in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Published in Applied and environmental microbiology (15-03-2019)“…The occurrence of influenza in different climates has been shown to be associated with multiple meteorological factors. The incidence of influenza has been…”
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A Perfect Storm: Impact of Genomic Variation and Serial Vaccination on Low Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness During the 2014–2015 Season
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (01-07-2016)“…Background. The 2014–2015 influenza season was distinguished by an epidemic of antigenically-drifted A(H3N2) viruses and vaccine components identical to…”
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Low 2012-13 influenza vaccine effectiveness associated with mutation in the egg-adapted H3N2 vaccine strain not antigenic drift in circulating viruses
Published in PloS one (25-03-2014)“…Influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) is generally interpreted in the context of vaccine match/mismatch to circulating strains with evolutionary drift in the…”
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Serial Vaccination and the Antigenic Distance Hypothesis: Effects on Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness During A(H3N2) Epidemics in Canada, 2010–2011 to 2014–2015
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (01-04-2017)“…Background. The antigenic distance hypothesis (ADH) predicts that negative interference from prior season's influenza vaccine (v1) on the current season's…”
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Early season co-circulation of influenza A(H3N2) and B(Yamagata): interim estimates of 2017/18 vaccine effectiveness, Canada, January 2018
Published in Euro surveillance : bulletin européen sur les maladies transmissibles (01-02-2018)“…Using a test-negative design, we assessed interim vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the 2017/18 epidemic of co-circulating influenza A(H3N2) and B(Yamagata)…”
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Getting a grippe on severity: a retrospective comparison of influenza-related hospitalizations and deaths captured in reportable disease and administrative data sources in Ontario, Canada
Published in BMC public health (14-05-2019)“…Since 2009, in Ontario, reportable disease surveillance data has been used for timely in-season estimates of influenza severity (i.e., hospitalizations and…”
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Acute Respiratory Infections in Travelers Returning from MERS-CoV-Affected Areas
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-09-2015)“…We examined which respiratory pathogens were identified during screening for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in 177 symptomatic travelers…”
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Evaluation and Comparison of Multiple Test Methods, Including Real-time PCR, for Legionella Detection in Clinical Specimens
Published in Frontiers in public health (31-08-2016)“…Legionella is a Gram-negative bacterium that can cause Pontiac fever, a mild upper respiratory infection and Legionnaire's disease, a more severe illness. We…”
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Epidemiology of Enterovirus D68 in Ontario
Published in PloS one (23-11-2015)“…In August 2014, children's hospitals in Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about…”
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Investigation of mesalazine as an antifibrotic drug following myocardial infarction in male mice
Published in Physiological reports (01-09-2023)“…Objectives Myocardial infarction (MI) initiates a complex reparative response during which damaged cardiac muscle is replaced by connective tissue. While the…”
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Humoral and cell-mediated immunity to pandemic H1N1 influenza in a Canadian cohort one year post-pandemic: implications for vaccination
Published in PloS one (23-11-2011)“…We evaluated a cohort of Canadian donors for T cell and antibody responses against influenza A/California/7/2009 (pH1N1) at 8-10 months after the 2nd pandemic…”
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Genetic Deletion of Polo-Like Kinase 2 Induces a Pro-Fibrotic Pulmonary Phenotype
Published in Cells (Basel, Switzerland) (11-03-2021)“…Pulmonary fibrosis is the chronic-progressive replacement of healthy lung tissue by extracellular matrix, leading to the destruction of the alveolar…”
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Rhinovirus outbreaks in long-term care facilities, Ontario, Canada
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-09-2010)“…Diagnostic difficulties may have led to underestimation of rhinovirus infections in long-term care facilities. Using surveillance data, we found that…”
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Assessing the Relative Timeliness of Ontario's Syndromic Surveillance Systems for Early Detection of the 2009 Influenza H1N1 Pandemic Waves
Published in Canadian journal of public health (01-07-2013)“…OBJECTIVES:Building on previous research noting variations in the operation and perceived utility of syndromic surveillance systems in Ontario, the timeliness…”
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Integrated Sentinel Surveillance Linking Genetic, Antigenic, and Epidemiologic Monitoring of Influenza Vaccine-Virus Relatedness and Effectiveness During the 2013-2014 Influenza Season
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (01-09-2015)“…Background. Canada's Sentinel Physician Surveillance Network links genetic, antigenic, and vaccine effectiveness (VE) measures in an integrated platform of…”
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SEVERE HUMAN RHINOVIRUS OUTBREAK ASSOCIATED WITH FATALITIES IN A LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY IN ONTARIO, CANADA
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The use of syndromic surveillance for decision-making during the H1N1 pandemic: a qualitative study
Published in BMC public health (30-10-2012)“…Although an increasing number of studies are documenting uses of syndromic surveillance by front line public health, few detail the value added from linking…”
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Community‐acquired respiratory viruses and co‐infection among patients of Ontario sentinel practices, April 2009 to February 2010
Published in Influenza and other respiratory viruses (01-07-2013)“…Please cite this paper as: Peci et al. (2012) Community‐acquired respiratory viruses and co‐infection among patients of Ontario Sentinel practices, April 2009…”
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Assessing secondary attack rates among household contacts at the beginning of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in Ontario, Canada, April-June 2009: a prospective, observational study
Published in BMC public health (14-04-2011)“…Understanding transmission dynamics of the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus in various exposure settings and determining whether transmissibility differed…”
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Parotitis in a Child Infected with Triple-Reassortant Influenza A Virus in Canada in 2007
Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology (01-06-2009)“…Swine H3N2 influenza virus designated A/Ontario/1252/2007 was isolated from a child with parotitis. Diagnosis was confirmed by viral isolation and serological…”
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