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Deborah Yamamura
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Latest papers
Preparedness for Candida auris in Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) hospitals, 2024
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2026
Incidence of colonization and infection with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Toronto and Peel Region, Ontario, 2007-2024.
JAMMI · 2026
Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection in Children, 1992-2023
JAMA Network Open · 2025
Latest funding
- $240,976
Systematic Reviews & Network Meta-Analyses to Support Optimal Management of Bacterial Infections
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $498,456
Development of a saliva and aptamer based antigen test for variants of concerns of SARS-CoV-2
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $1,314,083
A rapid at-home test for SARS-CoV-2
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
Researchers with similar interests
Bruno J Salena
Department of Medicine
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Leyla Soleymani
Department of Engineering Physics
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Yingfu Li
Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Carlos Filipe
Department of Chemical Engineering
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
John D Brennan
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Katherine Bujold
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
59 publications.
Preparedness for Candida auris in Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) hospitals, 2024
Tan C, Bharat A, McGill E, Mitchell R, Varsaneux O, Cannon K, Charles MK, Comeau JL, Davis I, Delport J
Incidence of colonization and infection with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Toronto and Peel Region, Ontario, 2007-2024.
Li AX, Lefebvre M, Zhong Z, Almohri H, Armstrong I, Baqi M, Barker KR, Borgia S, Coleman BL, Downing M
Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection in Children, 1992-2023
Dabaja-Younis H, Kandel C, Green K, Johnstone J, Zhong Z, Kassee C, Allen V, Armstrong I, Baqi M, Barker K
Fighting Mutations with Mutations: Evolutionarily Adapting a DNA Aptamer for High‐Affinity Recognition of Mutated Spike Proteins of SARS‐CoV‐2
Wang Q, Li J, Zhang Z, Amini R, Derdall A, Gu J, Xia J, Salena BJ, Yamamura D, Soleymani L
A Real-Time Enzyme-Linked Aptamer Assay (RT-eELAA) for Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Viral Antigens in Saliva Using Electrochemical Readout
Adhikari BR, Wang Q, Li J, Sen P, Zhang Z, Gu J, Salena BJ, Yamamura D, Li Y, Soleymani L
High Genetic Diversity Among Bacillus cereus Isolates Contaminating Donated Milk at a Canadian Human Milk Bank
Gene M, Guthrie JL, Li K, Teatero S, Paterson A, Li A, Doyen A, Yamamura D, Khan S, Srigley JA
Multicentre experience on the diagnostic yield of PCR testing for bacterial pathogens in sterile site infections
Hasan MR, Tang P, Sharma A, Jayaratne P, Rutherford C, Sundararaju S, Suleiman M, Leto D, Yamamura D, Perez-Lopez A
Use of oral antibiotic therapy for prosthetic joint infections: Considerations for implementation of interdisciplinary practice changes
Lam PW, Lagacé-Wiens P, Gold WL, Peermohamed S, Matukas LM, Poutanen SM, Granger M-F, Yamamura D, Leis JA
High‐Precision Viral Detection Using Electrochemical Kinetic Profiling of Aptamer‐Antigen Recognition in Clinical Samples and Machine Learning
Sen P, Zhang Z, Sakib S, Gu J, Li W, Adhikari BR, Motsenyat A, L'Heureux‐Hache J, Ang JC, Panesar G
Cerebrospinal fluid galactomannan detection for the diagnosis of central nervous system aspergillosis: a diagnostic test accuracy systematic review and meta-analysis
Komorowski AS, Hall CW, Atwal S, Johnstone R, Walker R, Mertz D, Piessens EA, Yamamura D, Kasper EM
Systematic Reviews & Network Meta-Analyses to Support Optimal Management of Bacterial Infections
Principal investigators: Zeraatkar, Dena; Langford, Bradley J; Loeb, Mark B; Yamamura, Deborah L
Keywords: Antibiotics; Copd; Network Meta-Analysis; Pharyngitis; Pneumonia; Sinusitis; Systematic Review
Development of a saliva and aptamer based antigen test for variants of concerns of SARS-CoV-2
Principal investigators: Li, Yingfu; Brennan, John D
Keywords: Aptamer; At-Home Test; Covid-19; Diagnostics; Electrochemical Sensor; Lateral Flow Device; Plate-Reader Assay; Point Of Need; Spike Protein; Variants Of Concerns
A rapid at-home test for SARS-CoV-2
Principal investigators: Li, Yingfu; Brennan, John D
Keywords: Aptamer; At-Home Test; Covid-19; Diagnostics; Dnazyme; Lateral Flow Device; Point Of Care; Rolling Circle Amplification; Viral Protein; Viral Rna
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
- Yingfu Li and John D Brennan: 101 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Dominik Mertz: 59 shared papers
- Yingfu Li and Bruno J Salena: 55 shared papers
- Carlos Filipe and Yingfu Li: 54 shared papers
- Leyla Soleymani and Yingfu Li: 51 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Allison McGeer: 39 shared papers
- Carlos Filipe and John D Brennan: 39 shared papers
- Matthew S Miller and Karen Mossman: 24 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Jennie Johnstone: 21 shared papers
- John D Brennan and Alfredo Capretta: 20 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Fiona Smaill: 17 shared papers
- Carson Lo and Adam Komorowski: 16 shared papers
- Leyla Soleymani and Bruno J Salena: 13 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Carson Lo: 12 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Matthew S Miller: 11 shared papers
- Dominik Mertz and Adam Komorowski: 11 shared papers
- Leyla Soleymani and John D Brennan: 11 shared papers
- Yingfu Li and Matthew S Miller: 11 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Allison McGeer: 11 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Adam Komorowski: 10 shared papers
- Dominik Mertz and Carson Lo: 10 shared papers
- Carlos Filipe and Matthew S Miller: 10 shared papers
- Yingfu Li and Deborah Yamamura: 10 shared papers
- John D Brennan and Bruno J Salena: 10 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Jennie Johnstone: 9 shared papers
- Leyla Soleymani and Deborah Yamamura: 9 shared papers
- Yingfu Li and Alfredo Capretta: 9 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Bruno J Salena: 9 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Deborah Yamamura: 8 shared papers
- Dominik Mertz and Jennie Johnstone: 8 shared papers
- Leyla Soleymani and Karen Mossman: 8 shared papers
- Carlos Filipe and Karen Mossman: 8 shared papers
- Dominik Mertz and Cheryl Lea Main: 7 shared papers
- Dominik Mertz and Deborah Yamamura: 7 shared papers
- Dominik Mertz and Anna Cvetkovic: 7 shared papers
- Dominik Mertz and Aidan Findlater: 7 shared papers
- Carlos Filipe and Alfredo Capretta: 7 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Fiona Smaill: 7 shared papers
- Anna Cvetkovic and Aidan Findlater: 7 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Irene Armstrong: 7 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Cheryl Lea Main: 6 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Aidan Findlater: 6 shared papers
- Cynthia Balion and Deborah Yamamura: 6 shared papers
- Carlos Filipe and Deborah Yamamura: 6 shared papers
- John D Brennan and Deborah Yamamura: 6 shared papers
- Carson Lo and Anna Cvetkovic: 6 shared papers
- Fiona Smaill and Allison McGeer: 6 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Gregory Tyrrell: 6 shared papers
- Cynthia Balion and Carlos Filipe: 5 shared papers
- Cynthia Balion and Yingfu Li: 5 shared papers
- Jianping Xu and Deborah Yamamura: 5 shared papers
- Alfredo Capretta and Deborah Yamamura: 5 shared papers
- Matthew S Miller and Deborah Yamamura: 5 shared papers
- Karen Mossman and Deborah Yamamura: 5 shared papers
- Jennie Johnstone and Irene Armstrong: 5 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Irene Armstrong: 4 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and John Kenneth Marshall: 3 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Adam Komorowski: 3 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Gregory Tyrrell: 3 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Jennie Johnstone: 3 shared papers
- John Kenneth Marshall and Bruno J Salena: 3 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Amrita Bharat: 3 shared papers
- Mark Loeb and Gregory Tyrrell: 2 shared papers
- Dominik Mertz and Amrita Bharat: 2 shared papers
- Cynthia Balion and John Kenneth Marshall: 2 shared papers
- Cheryl Lea Main and Deborah Yamamura: 2 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Carson Lo: 2 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Anna Cvetkovic: 2 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Aidan Findlater: 2 shared papers
- Deborah Yamamura and Amrita Bharat: 2 shared papers
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
- Department of Engineering Physics
- Other
Co-authors at McMaster University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Allison McGeer
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
11 shared papers, latest 2026
Yingfu Li
Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
10 shared papers, latest 2025
Bruno J Salena
Department of Medicine
9 shared papers, latest 2025
Leyla Soleymani
Department of Engineering Physics
9 shared papers, latest 2025
Mark Loeb
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
8 shared papers, latest 2020
Fiona Smaill
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
7 shared papers, latest 2018
Dominik Mertz
Department of Medicine
7 shared papers, latest 2026
John D Brennan
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
6 shared papers, latest 2023
Cynthia Balion
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
6 shared papers, latest 2023
Carlos Filipe
Department of Chemical Engineering
6 shared papers, latest 2023
Karen Mossman
Department of Medicine
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Jianping Xu
Department of Biology
5 shared papers, latest 2021
Alfredo Capretta
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Matthew S Miller
Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
5 shared papers, latest 2024
Irene Armstrong
Clinical Public Health Division
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Adam Komorowski
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Jennie Johnstone
Clinical Public Health Division
3 shared papers, latest 2026
John Kenneth Marshall
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2010
Gregory Tyrrell
Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Tony Mazzulli
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Samira Mubareka
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Omar Mourad
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Carson Lo
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Sergio Borgia
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Julianne Kus
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Aidan Findlater
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Jonathan Gubbay
Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Amrita Bharat
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Anna Cvetkovic
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Cheryl Lea Main
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Marek Smieja
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Anjali Shroff
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Melanie Kjarsgaard
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Bram Rochwerg
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Igor Zhitomirsky
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Parameswaran Krishna Nair
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Tohid Didar
Department of Mechanical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Shariq Haider
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Thomas Edge
Department of Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Peter Kavsak
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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