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Agatha Jassem

ResearcherUniversity of British Columbia

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Agatha Jassem

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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19 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2022.

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Research

Assay Development Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Serology

Latest papers

Management of critical illness in an adolescent caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection in British Columbia, Canada.
The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2026
Mobility between communities can reduce the impact of measles intervention during an outbreak: a mathematical modeling study.
Frontiers in public health · 2026
Seroprevalence of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the antenatal population in British Columbia: A cross-sectional study.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2026

All 32 publications

Latest funding

TRANSgender-affirming Framework for Optimizing Risk-reduction and Models for HPV-related anal cancer screening: The TRANSFORM-HPV Study
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$700,000
Subsequent to LEEP Evaluation of Disease Recurrence - Systemic and Comprehensive Pan-optic Exploration (SLEEPER-SCOPE 360) - A Comprehensive Exploration of post-LEEP HPV Infection and Cervical Dysplasia Recurrence and its Associated Factors
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
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

All 12 grants and awards

32 publications.

Management of critical illness in an adolescent caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection in British Columbia, Canada.

MacBain E, Znait A, Edwards L, Jassem A, Barakauskas VE, Harris KC, Lohrenz S, Zahedieh S, Bastien N, Ranadheera C, Mammen C, Azma R, Setiadi A, Rayment JH, Mourad N, El-Andari R, Uyeki TM, Li L, Roberts A, Muhieldin MA, Goldfarb DM

The Lancet. Infectious diseases2026

DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(25)00773-x PMID: 41576974

Mobility between communities can reduce the impact of measles intervention during an outbreak: a mathematical modeling study.

Irvine MA, Harder K, Patel P, Jassem A, Edwards MR, Chan E, Hu J, Vines J, Corneil T, Nguyen T, Sbihi H

Frontiers in public health2026

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1794929 PMID: 42221632

Seroprevalence of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the antenatal population in British Columbia: A cross-sectional study.

Beitari S, Márquez AC, Valadbeigy T, Luk D, Jassem A, McClymont E, Money D, Sekirov I

Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2026.105926 PMID: 41719840

The Mpox contextual data specification package: a data curation toolkit to support collaborative pathogen genomic surveillance

Griffiths EJ, Cameron R, Barclay C, John NS, Dooley D, Gill I, Iseminger M, Anwar MZ, Horsman ME, MacKenzie K

Microbial genomics2026

DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001614

COVID-19 serological survey utilizing antenatal serum samples in British Columbia.

Márquez AC, Beitari S, Valadbeigy T, Sbihi H, Zlosnik J, Forward L, Mansour S, Nesbitt Z, Tanunliong G, Krajden M, Jassem A, Sekirov I, Money D, Antenatal Serostudies Team

Vaccine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127310 PMID: 40472672

Recovery of Antibody Immunity After a Resurgence of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections.

Reicherz F, Viñeta Paramo M, Bone JN, Lavoie A, Li S, Golding L, Jassem A, Watts A, Abu-Raya B, Lavoie PM

The Journal of infectious diseases2025

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf101 PMID: 40099894

Detection of Atypical Bacteria, Including Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, British Columbia, Canada, 2013-2023.

Jassem A, MacIntyre T, Chang Y, Tsang F, Fung J, Krajden M, Grant J, Hoang L

Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada2025First author

DOI: 10.3138/jammi-2024-0018 PMID: 40671853

Validation of an Automated, End-to-End Metagenomic Sequencing Assay for Agnostic Detection of Respiratory Viruses.

Gauthier NPG, Chan W, Locher K, Smailus D, Coope R, Charles M, Jassem A, Kopetzky J, Chorlton SD, Manges AR

The Journal of infectious diseases2024

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiae226 PMID: 38696336

Evaluation of the QIAstat-Dx Respiratory SARS-CoV-2 Panel for detection of pathogens in nasopharyngeal and lower respiratory tract specimens.

Caza M, Hayman J, Jassem A, Wilmer A

Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2024.116368 PMID: 38906032

Descriptive Epidemiology and Phylodynamics of the "First Wave" of an Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b) in British Columbia and the Yukon, Canada, April to September 2022.

Andrew CL, Russell SL, Coombe M, Zlosnik JEA, Kuchinski KS, Caleta J, Fjell C, Berhane Y, Bowes V, Redford T, Thacker C, Wilson L, Henaff M, Harms NJ, Jassem A, Giacinti J, Soos C, Prystajecky N, Himsworth C

Transboundary and emerging diseases2024

DOI: 10.1155/2024/2327939 PMID: 40303032

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Agatha Jassem

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Management of critical illness in an adolescent caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection in British Columbia, Canada.

Mobility between communities can reduce the impact of measles intervention during an outbreak: a mathematical modeling study.

Seroprevalence of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in the antenatal population in British Columbia: A cross-sectional study.

The Mpox contextual data specification package: a data curation toolkit to support collaborative pathogen genomic surveillance

COVID-19 serological survey utilizing antenatal serum samples in British Columbia.

Recovery of Antibody Immunity After a Resurgence of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections.

Detection of Atypical Bacteria, Including Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, British Columbia, Canada, 2013-2023.

Validation of an Automated, End-to-End Metagenomic Sequencing Assay for Agnostic Detection of Respiratory Viruses.

Evaluation of the QIAstat-Dx Respiratory SARS-CoV-2 Panel for detection of pathogens in nasopharyngeal and lower respiratory tract specimens.

Descriptive Epidemiology and Phylodynamics of the "First Wave" of an Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b) in British Columbia and the Yukon, Canada, April to September 2022.

Frequent collaborators

Mel Krajden

Natalie Prystajecky

Gaston De Serres

Michelle Murti

Inna Sekirov

Hind Sbihi

Chelsea Himsworth

Jennifer Grant

William Hsiao

Deborah Money

Dahn Jeong

Tracy Kirkham

Jason Wong

Kanna Hayashi

Vilte Barakauskas

Christian Renaud

Jesse Papenburg

Trevor Corneil

Michael Payne

Brian Grunau

Caroline Colijn

Mawuena Binka

Elisabeth McClymont

Jesse Papenburg

Hudson Reddon

Ana Duggan