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Michael Drebot

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Associate ProfessorUniversity of Manitoba

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Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases

Latest papers

Deep sequencing of serially passaged Sudan virus in guinea pigs uncovers adaptive mutations.
Heliyon · 2025
Correction for Valcourt et al., "Evaluating Humoral Immunity against SARS-CoV-2: Validation of a Plaque-Reduction Neutralization Test and a Multilaboratory Comparison of Conventional and Surrogate Neutralization Assays".
Microbiology spectrum · 2022
SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in the North American deer mouse
Nature Communications · 2021

All 12 publications

12 publications.

Deep sequencing of serially passaged Sudan virus in guinea pigs uncovers adaptive mutations.

Emeterio K, Audet J, Zhu W, Leung A, Schulz H, He S, Drebot M, Banadyga L

Heliyon2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e42322 PMID: 39968149

Correction for Valcourt et al., "Evaluating Humoral Immunity against SARS-CoV-2: Validation of a Plaque-Reduction Neutralization Test and a Multilaboratory Comparison of Conventional and Surrogate Neutralization Assays".

Valcourt EJ, Manguiat K, Robinson A, Lin YC, Abe KT, Mubarek S, Shigayev A, Zhong Z, Girardin RC, DuPuis A, Payne A, McDonough K, Wang Z, Gasser R, Laumaea A, Benlarbi M, Richard J, Prévost J, Anand SP, Dimitrova K, Phillipson C, Evans DH, McGeer A, Gingras AC, Liang C, Petric M, Sekirov I, Morshed M, Finzi A, Drebot M, Wood H

Microbiology spectrum2022Open Access

DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00553-22 PMID: 35730975

SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in the North American deer mouse

Griffin BD, Chan M, Tailor N, Mendoza EJ, Leung A, Warner BM, Duggan AT, Moffat E, He S, Garnett L

Nature Communications2021128 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23848-9

Evaluation of commercial SARS-CoV-2 serological assays in Canadian public health laboratories.

Stein DR, Osiowy C, Gretchen A, Thorlacius L, Fudge D, Lang A, Sekirov I, Morshed M, Levett PN, Tran V, Kus JV, Gubbay J, Mohan V, Charlton C, Kanji JN, Tipples G, Serhir B, Therrien C, Roger M, Jiao L, Zahariadis G, Needle R, Gilbert L, Desnoyers G, Garceau R, Bouhtiauy I, Longtin J, El-Gabalawy N, Dibernardo A, Lindsay LR, Drebot M, Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network (CPHLN) Serology Task Force

Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease202117 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115412 PMID: 34425450

A trend of dropping anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 plaque reduction neutralization test titers over time in Canadian convalescent plasma donors

Steven J. Drews, Dana V. Devine, Janet McManus, Emelissa J. Mendoza, Kathy Manguiat, Heidi Wood, Roxie C. Girardin, Alan P. Dupuis, Kathleen A. McDonough, MICHAEL A. DREBOT

Transfusion202114 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1111/trf.16364 PMID: 33734448

Evaluating Humoral Immunity against SARS-CoV-2: Validation of a Plaque-Reduction Neutralization Test and a Multilaboratory Comparison of Conventional and Surrogate Neutralization Assays.

Valcourt EJ, Manguiat K, Robinson A, Lin YC, Abe KT, Mubareka S, Shigayeva A, Zhong Z, Girardin RC, DuPuis A, Payne A, McDonough K, Wang Z, Gasser R, Laumaea A, Benlarbi M, Richard J, Prévost J, Anand SP, Dimitrova K, Phillipson C, McGeer A, Gingras AC, Liang C, Petric M, Sekirov I, Morshed M, Finzi A, Drebot M, Wood H

Microbiology spectrum2021

DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00886-21 PMID: 34787495

Two Detailed Plaque Assay Protocols for the Quantification of Infectious SARS-CoV-2.

Mendoza EJ, Manguiat K, Wood H, Drebot M

Current protocols in microbiology2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/cpmc.105 PMID: 32475066

Whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of strains of the agent of Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi from Canadian emergence zones

Shaun D. Tyler, Shari Tyson, Antonia Dibernardo, MICHAEL A. DREBOT, Edward J. Feil, Morag Graham, Natalie Knox, L. Robbin Lindsay, Gabriele Margos, Samir Mechai, Gary Van Domselaar, Harry A. Thorpe, Nicholas H. Ogden

Scientific Reports201859 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28908-7 PMID: 30002414

Multi-laboratory comparison of three commercially available Zika IgM enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.

Basile AJ, Goodman C, Horiuchi K, Sloan A, Johnson BW, Kosoy O, Laven J, Panella AJ, Sheets I, Medina F, Mendoza EJ, Epperson M, Maniatis P, Semenova V, Steward-Clark E, Wong E, Biggerstaff BJ, Lanciotti R, Drebot M, Safronetz D, Schiffer J

Journal of virological methods201824 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2018.06.018 PMID: 29964076

Powassan virus - an emerging public health concern.

Bogaty C, Drebot M

CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.171305 PMID: 29661817

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Michael Drebot

Research

Latest papers

Deep sequencing of serially passaged Sudan virus in guinea pigs uncovers adaptive mutations.

Correction for Valcourt et al., "Evaluating Humoral Immunity against SARS-CoV-2: Validation of a Plaque-Reduction Neutralization Test and a Multilaboratory Comparison of Conventional and Surrogate Neutralization Assays".

SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in the North American deer mouse

Evaluation of commercial SARS-CoV-2 serological assays in Canadian public health laboratories.

A trend of dropping anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 plaque reduction neutralization test titers over time in Canadian convalescent plasma donors

Evaluating Humoral Immunity against SARS-CoV-2: Validation of a Plaque-Reduction Neutralization Test and a Multilaboratory Comparison of Conventional and Surrogate Neutralization Assays.

Two Detailed Plaque Assay Protocols for the Quantification of Infectious SARS-CoV-2.

Whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of strains of the agent of Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi from Canadian emergence zones

Multi-laboratory comparison of three commercially available Zika IgM enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.

Powassan virus - an emerging public health concern.

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