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John Conly

ResearcherMedicineUniversity of Calgary

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John Conly

Researcher

Medicine

Health Sciences

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Supervision signals

Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
42 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 11 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Publications

509

Citations

h-index

149

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Infection Control Wastewater Antibiotic Resistance Metagenomics Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms Qpcr Covid-19 Sars-Cov-2

Latest papers

Serial cycle threshold to assess the infectious potential of SARS-CoV-2: A systematic review.
Epidemiology and infection · 2026
MRSA transmission in hospitals across Alberta, Canada: a comparative study combining unidentified colonized cases upon admission.
BMC infectious diseases · 2026
Procalcitonin to Guide 7 vs 14 Days of Antibiotics in Bloodstream Infections
JAMA Network Open · 2026

All 95 publications

Latest funding

Population-based Assessment of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections in Canada: The PACED Study
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$409,276
Canadian One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Health Research Training Network (CAN-AMR-Net)
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$2,700,000
Improving patient safety and hospital hygiene through the efficient and accurate identification of patients with antimicrobial resistant organisms (AROs) using clinical support tools in electronic medical records
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$296,150

All 17 grants and awards

95 publications.

Serial cycle threshold to assess the infectious potential of SARS-CoV-2: A systematic review.

Rosca EC, Oke J, Jefferson T, Brassey J, Onakpoya I, Plüddemann A, Gandini S, Maltoni S, Evans D, Conly J, Heneghan C

Epidemiology and infection2026

DOI: 10.1017/s0950268826101484 PMID: 42087798

MRSA transmission in hospitals across Alberta, Canada: a comparative study combining unidentified colonized cases upon admission.

Li R, Deardon R, Li N, Conly J, Leal J

BMC infectious diseases2026

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13839-w PMID: 42350988

Procalcitonin to Guide 7 vs 14 Days of Antibiotics in Bloodstream Infections

Ramendra R, Wright JK, Kain KC, Kim B, Mishra H, Zhong K, Aslanian P, Carignan A, Conly J, Detsky M

JAMA Network Open20262 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.20973

Hospital characteristics associated with healthcare-associated viral respiratory infection rates in a Canadian acute care network.

McGill E, Lee D, Quach C, Leis JA, Downing M, Conly J, Ellison J, Embil JM, Lee BE, Longtin Y

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1017/ice.2026.10490

Expression of Concern: Medical Masks Versus N95 Respirators for Preventing COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers.

Conly J

Annals of internal medicine2025First author

DOI: 10.7326/annals-25-03203 PMID: 40759021

Aiding Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure Ultrasound-Guided Management Through Enhanced Point-of-Care Ultrasound (ACCUMEN-POCUS): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Grinman MN, Nakhla P, Reid S, Moon D, Dehghan Noudeh N, Olaosebikan O, Ip ACY, Saunders S, Kozicky R, Conly J, Kirkpatrick AW, Round J, Ma IWY, Pascoe S, Altabbaa G

JMIR research protocols2025

DOI: 10.2196/76186 PMID: 40987446

Oxacillin-susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus septic bursitis identified following clinical failure with β-lactam therapy: A case report.

Kipp A, McClure JA, Pitout JDD, Zhang K, Powell JN, Conly J

Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada2025Senior author

DOI: 10.3138/jammi-2025-0001 PMID: 41311618

Metagenomic analysis after selective culture enrichment of hospital and community wastewater enhances antimicrobial resistance gene detection.

Acosta N, Lee J, Bautista MA, Bhatnagar S, Li C, Waddell BJ, Au E, Pradhan P, Clark RG, Meddings J, Achari G, Pitout JD, Conly J, Frankowski K, Hubert CRJ, Parkins MD

mBio2025

DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01672-25 PMID: 40741762

Impact of a smartphone application for appropriate antibiotic prescribing at three tertiary hospitals: an international, multicentre stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial.

Helou RI, Catho G, Faxén L, Hulscher M, Teerenstra S, Conly J, Huttner BD, Tängdén T, Verbon A

Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2025.02.026 PMID: 40032084

Consistent trends from different methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in urban wastewater during a 29-month longitudinal study.

McCalder J, Lee J, Qiu J, Li Q, Immaraj L, Acosta N, Bautista MA, Wilson M, Waddell B, Du K, Ueno A, Clark R, Krusina A, Southern DA, Williamson T, Papparis C, Montesclaros P, Non L, Stefani S, Visser G, Pradhan P, Ruecker N, Conly J, Hrudey S, Frankowski K, Lee B, Parkins MD, Pang X, Hubert CRJ

Frontiers in microbiology2025

DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1547831 PMID: 40620491

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John Conly

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Serial cycle threshold to assess the infectious potential of SARS-CoV-2: A systematic review.

MRSA transmission in hospitals across Alberta, Canada: a comparative study combining unidentified colonized cases upon admission.

Procalcitonin to Guide 7 vs 14 Days of Antibiotics in Bloodstream Infections

Hospital characteristics associated with healthcare-associated viral respiratory infection rates in a Canadian acute care network.

Expression of Concern: Medical Masks Versus N95 Respirators for Preventing COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers.

Aiding Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure Ultrasound-Guided Management Through Enhanced Point-of-Care Ultrasound (ACCUMEN-POCUS): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Oxacillin-susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus septic bursitis identified following clinical failure with &#x3b2;-lactam therapy: A case report.

Metagenomic analysis after selective culture enrichment of hospital and community wastewater enhances antimicrobial resistance gene detection.

Impact of a smartphone application for appropriate antibiotic prescribing at three tertiary hospitals: an international, multicentre stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial.

Consistent trends from different methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in urban wastewater during a 29-month longitudinal study.

Frequent collaborators

Ranjani Somayaji

Dominik Mertz

Kunyan Zhang

Jenine Leal

Elissa Rennert-May

Allison McGeer

Braden Manns

Oscar Larios

Kathryn Bush

Shannon Puloski

Andrew Simor

Chester Ho

Myles Leslie

Ruxandra Pinto

Nisha Thampi

Nick Daneman

David Evans

Jennifer Tsang

Mark Loeb

Francois Lamontagne

Erick Duan

Michelle Science

Zain Chagla

Paul Kubes

Michael Detsky

John Muscedere

Jennifer Grant

Karen Hope

Peter Daley

Cora Constantinescu

Ghazwan Altabbaa

Xiaoli Pang

Jennie Johnstone

Michael Fralick

Andrew Morris

Ryan Zarychanski

Alexis Turgeon

Paul Ronksley

Karim Ali

Andrew Morris

Oxacillin-susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus septic bursitis identified following clinical failure with β-lactam therapy: A case report.