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Johann Pitout
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Latest papers
Longitudinal wastewater-based surveillance of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in tertiary-care hospitals.
The Science of the total environment · 2026
Rectal Carriage of Sequence Type 307 Klebsiella pneumoniae High-Risk Clone Harboring Multiple Carbapenemase Genes in Community Hospitals Gauteng, South Africa.
MicrobiologyOpen · 2025
The emerging concern of IMP variants being resistant to the only IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase inhibitor, xeruborbactam.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025
Latest funding
- $100,000
Dynamic surveillance for antimicrobial resistance in tertiary care hospitals through real-time wastewater monitoring
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $100,000
Real-time Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Through Wastewater-Based Surveillance
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $599,814
ST131_transmission - Escherichia coli ST131: a model for high-risk transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
18 publications.
Longitudinal wastewater-based surveillance of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in tertiary-care hospitals.
Au E, Acosta N, Waddell BJ, Lee J, Du K, Weyant RB, Bautista M, McCalder J, Van Doorn J, Low K, Stefani S, Visser G, Clark R, Pitout J, Kim J, Missaghi B, Larios O, Kanji J, Vayalumkal J, Leal J, Westlund P, Quinn RR, James MT, Lee B, Pang XL, Dalton B, Frankowski K, O'Grady C, Conly JM, Hubert CRJ, Parkins MD
Rectal Carriage of Sequence Type 307 Klebsiella pneumoniae High-Risk Clone Harboring Multiple Carbapenemase Genes in Community Hospitals Gauteng, South Africa.
Salvador-Oke KT, Pitout J, Peirano G, Strydom KA, Kingsburgh C, Ehlers M, Kock M
The emerging concern of IMP variants being resistant to the only IMP-type metallo-β-lactamase inhibitor, xeruborbactam.
Le Terrier C, Drusin SI, Nordmann P, Pitout J, Peirano G, Vila AJ, Moreno DM, Poirel L
The Ins and Outs of Susceptibility Testing for New β-Lactam/β-Lactamase Inhibitor Combinations for Gram-Negative Organisms.
Dingle TC, Pitout J
Population-based epidemiology of Escherichia coli ST1193 causing blood stream infections in a centralized Canadian region.
Peirano G, Matsumara Y, Nobrega D, DeVinney R, Pitout J
Rapid detection of carbapenemase-producing organisms directly from blood cultures positive for Gram-negative bacilli.
Stokes W, Pitout J, Campbell L, Church D, Gregson D
Comparison of Accelerate PhenoTest BC Kit and MALDI-TOF MS/VITEK 2 System for the rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of gram-negative bacilli causing bloodstream infections.
Stokes W, Campbell L, Pitout J, Conly J, Church D, Gregson D
Genomic and Functional Analysis of Emerging Virulent and Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli Lineage Sequence Type 648.
Schaufler K, Semmler T, Wieler LH, Trott DJ, Pitout J, Peirano G, Bonnedahl J, Dolejska M, Literak I, Fuchs S, Ahmed N, Grobbel M, Torres C, McNally A, Pickard D, Ewers C, Croucher NJ, Corander J, Guenther S
Comparison of Predictors and Mortality Between Bloodstream Infections Caused by ESBL-Producing Escherichia coli and ESBL-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Scheuerman O, Schechner V, Carmeli Y, Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez B, Calbo E, Almirante B, Viale PL, Oliver A, Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Gasch O, Gozalo M, Pitout J, Akova M, Peña C, Molina J, Hernández-Torres A, Venditti M, Prim N, Origüen J, Bou G, Tacconelli E, Tumbarello M, Hamprecht A, Karaiskos I, de la Calle C, Pérez F, Schwaber MJ, Bermejo J, Lowman W, Hsueh PR, Navarro-San Francisco C, Bonomo RA, Paterson DL, Pascual A, Rodríguez-Baño J, REIPI/ESGBIS/INCREMENT investigators
Geographical variation in therapy for bloodstream infections due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a post-hoc analysis of the INCREMENT study.
Harris PNA, Pezzani MD, Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez B, Viale P, Hsueh PR, Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Venditti M, Tumbarello M, Navarro-Francisco C, Calbo E, Akova M, Giamarellou H, Oliver A, Almirante B, Gasch O, Martínez-Martínez L, Schwaber MJ, Daikos G, Pitout J, Peña C, Hernández-Torres A, Doi Y, Pérez F, Tuon FF, Tacconelli E, Carmeli Y, Bonomo RA, Pascual Á, Paterson DL, Rodríguez-Baño J, ESGBIS/REIPI/INCREMENT Group
Dynamic surveillance for antimicrobial resistance in tertiary care hospitals through real-time wastewater monitoring
Principal investigators: Parkins, Michael D; Conly, John M; Hubert, Casey
Keywords: Antibiotic Resistance; Antimicrobial Stewardship; C. Difficile; Carbapenemases; Infection Control; Metagenomics; Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms; Qpcr; Vre; Wastewater
Real-time Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Through Wastewater-Based Surveillance
Principal investigators: Parkins, Michael D; Conly, John M; Hubert, Casey
Keywords: Antibiotic Resistance; Covid-19; Metagenomics; Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms; Population Health; Qpcr; Respiratory Viral Infections; Respiratory Viruses; Sars-Cov-2; Wastewater-Based Epidemiology
ST131_transmission - Escherichia coli ST131: a model for high-risk transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance
Principal investigators: Pitout, Johann D
Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance; E. Coli St131; Whole Genome Sequencing
The importance of international travel in the spread of carbapenem-hydrolyzing beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae
Principal investigators: Pitout, Johann D; Gregson, Daniel B
Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance; Carbapenemases; Enterobacteria; International Travel
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Medicine
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Community Health Sciences
- Medical Microbiology
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