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Nathan Zelyas

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Limited-Term Clinical LecturerPost Grad Medical EducationUniversity of Alberta

Nathan Zelyas

Limited-Term Clinical Lecturer

Post Grad Medical Education

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Clinical faculty often co-supervise; many graduate programs need a core faculty member as the main supervisor.
13 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

Utilization of tetanus and diphtheria serology tests in Alberta, Canada: Patterns and implications
PLoS ONE · 2025
Early influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates using routinely collected data, Alberta, Canada, 2023/24 season
Eurosurveillance · 2024
Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy Against Laboratory-Confirmed Seasonal Influenza Among Infants Under 6 Months of Age in Ontario, Canada
Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2024

All 40 publications

Latest funding

The Canadian Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance Network (SPSN) for community-based respiratory virus and vaccine effectiveness (VE) monitoring: a multidisciplinary surveillance and science platform for preparedness, rapid research and response to emerging or re-emerging pathogens, seasonal epidemics and pandemics.
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$3,000,000
Rapid RNA sequencing of coronavirus for public health surveillance and transmission
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$630,432

All 2 grants and awards

40 publications.

Utilization of tetanus and diphtheria serology tests in Alberta, Canada: Patterns and implications

Jamil N. Kanji, Behzad Heibati, Nathan J. Zelyas, Hong Zhou, Gregory J. Tyrrell, Adil Adatia

PLoS ONE20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0336690 PMID: 41270011

Early influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates using routinely collected data, Alberta, Canada, 2023/24 season

Christa Smolarchuk, Carla Ickert, Nathan J. Zelyas, Jeffrey C. Kwong, Sarah A. Buchan

Eurosurveillance202434 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2024.29.2.2300709 PMID: 38214082

Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy Against Laboratory-Confirmed Seasonal Influenza Among Infants Under 6 Months of Age in Ontario, Canada

Fell DB, Russell M, Fung SG, Swayze S, Chung H, Buchan SA, Roda W, Smolarchuk C, Wilson K, Crowcroft NS

Journal of Infectious Diseases202416 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiad539

Early warning COVID-19 outbreak in long-term care facilities using wastewater surveillance: correlation, prediction, and interaction with clinical and serological statuses.

Pang X, Lee BE, Gao T, Rosychuk RJ, Immaraj L, Qiu JY, Wen J, Zelyas N, Howden K, Wallace J, Risling E, Little LA, Kim J, Wood H, Robinson A, Parkins M, Hubert CRJ, Frankowski K, Hrudey SE, Sikora C

The Lancet. Microbe202413 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/s2666-5247(24)00126-5 PMID: 39182502

Hepatitis B virus reactivation in hepatitis B core antibody positive lung transplant recipients.

Fernandez-Garcia OA, Zelyas N, Meier-Stephenson V, Halloran K, Doucette K

JHLT open20248 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jhlto.2023.100018 PMID: 40145108

Retrospective testing for the presence of monkeypox virus in a high-risk population from February-June 2022 in Alberta, Canada.

Kanji JN, Dieu P, Wong A, Pabbaraju K, Shokoples S, Smyczek P, Gratrix J, Singh AE, Charlton CL, Zhou HY, Zelyas N, Hinshaw D, Tipples G

Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada20233 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3138/jammi-2022-0024 PMID: 37008576

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages using real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assays and prospective comparison with genome sequencing

Nathan J. Zelyas, Kanti Pabbaraju, Matthew A. Croxen, Tarah Lynch, Emily M. McCullough, Stephanie A. Murphy, Sandy Shokoples, Anita A. Wong, Jamil N. Kanji, Graham A. Tipples

Scientific Reports20232 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44796-y PMID: 37838804

A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of rapid on-site influenza and respiratory syncytial virus PCR testing in paediatric and adult populations

Helen L. Bibby, Lawrence de Koning, Isolde Seiden‐Long, Nathan J. Zelyas, Deirdre L. Church, Byron Michael Berenger

BMC Infectious Diseases202218 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-022-07796-3 PMID: 36384484

Clinical evaluation of nasopharyngeal, midturbinate nasal and oropharyngeal swabs for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.

Berenger BM, Fonseca K, Schneider AR, Hu J, Zelyas N

Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease202215 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115618 PMID: 35007959

Evolving strategy for an evolving virus: Development of real-time PCR assays for detecting all SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Kanti Pabbaraju, Nathan J. Zelyas, Anita A. Wong, Matthew A. Croxen, Tarah Lynch, Emily Buss, Stephanie A. Murphy, Sandy Shokoples, Jamil N. Kanji, Graham A. Tipples

Journal of Virological Methods202213 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2022.114553 PMID: 35644262

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Nathan Zelyas

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Utilization of tetanus and diphtheria serology tests in Alberta, Canada: Patterns and implications

Early influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates using routinely collected data, Alberta, Canada, 2023/24 season

Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy Against Laboratory-Confirmed Seasonal Influenza Among Infants Under 6 Months of Age in Ontario, Canada

Early warning COVID-19 outbreak in long-term care facilities using wastewater surveillance: correlation, prediction, and interaction with clinical and serological statuses.

Hepatitis B virus reactivation in hepatitis B core antibody positive lung transplant recipients.

Retrospective testing for the presence of monkeypox virus in a high-risk population from February-June 2022 in Alberta, Canada.

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages using real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assays and prospective comparison with genome sequencing

A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of rapid on-site influenza and respiratory syncytial virus PCR testing in paediatric and adult populations

Clinical evaluation of nasopharyngeal, midturbinate nasal and oropharyngeal swabs for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.

Evolving strategy for an evolving virus: Development of real-time PCR assays for detecting all SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Rapid RNA sequencing of coronavirus for public health surveillance and transmission

Frequent collaborators

Graham Tipples

Nelson Lee

Jia Hu

Deena Hinshaw

Matthew Croxen

Bonita Lee

Christopher Sikora

Kieran Halloran

Michael Mengel

Jayan Nagendran

Ameeta Singh

Jeffrey Kwong

Steve Hrudey

Steven Drews

Sarah Buchan

Karen Doucette

Arto Ohinmaa

Kevin Katz

Kumanan Wilson

Jonathan Gubbay

Deirdre Church

Natasha Crowcroft

Xiaoli Pang

Casey Hubert