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Julianne Kus

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Julianne Kus

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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10 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Research

Antifungal Resistance Epidemiology Fungal Infections

Latest papers

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance in Canada, 2023.
Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2026
Laboratory diagnosis of pertussis: A survey on provincial public health laboratory methods.
Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2026
Preparedness for Candida auris in Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) hospitals, 2024
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2026

All 12 publications

Latest funding

Understanding the epidemiology and burden of invasive Candidal infections and antifungal resistance in Canadian hospitals (Can-EPI-R)
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$1,522,350

All 1 grants and awards

12 publications.

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance in Canada, 2023.

Golden A, Griffith A, Lefebvre B, McGeer A, Tyrrell G, Kus J, Grant J, Minion J, Van Caeseele P, Desnoyers G, Haldane D, Yu Y, Ding X, Steven L, McFadzen J, Zhanel G, Primeau C, Martin I

Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2026

DOI: 10.14745/ccdr.v52i0102a05 PMID: 41924395

Laboratory diagnosis of pertussis: A survey on provincial public health laboratory methods.

Meilleur C, Grant J, Tyrrell G, Minion J, Van Caeseele P, Kus J, Lefebvre B, Hatchette T, Desnoyers G, Jiao L, Paulin H, Tsang R

Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2026

DOI: 10.14745/ccdr.v52i05a03 PMID: 42368399

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

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology20264 citations

DOI: 10.1017/ice.2025.10228

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease in Persons Experiencing Postpandemic Homelessness in Canada

Kassee C, Dabaja-Younis H, Richard L, Golden AR, Zhong Z, Allen V, Almohri H, Armstrong I, Baqi M, Barker KR

JAMA Network Open2026

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.57932

Geographical and temporal variations of serogroups and clonal types of Neisseria meningitidis involved in culture-confirmed invasive meningococcal disease in Canada, 2015-2023.

Meilleur C, Zhou J, Hoang L, Tyrrell G, Minion J, Van Caeseele P, Kus J, Lefebvre B, Haldane D, Garceau R, Zahariadis G, Ding X, Kandola K, Ranade S, Tsang RSW

Journal of medical microbiology2025

DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.001979 PMID: 40071600

Genetically distinct Hajj and South American-related strains of serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis causing invasive meningococcal disease in Ontario, Canada, January 1, 2015 to June 30, 2024.

Meilleur C, Kus J, Navarro C, Dubey V, Lucidarme J, Borrow R, Tsang RSW

Journal of infection and public health2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2025.102728 PMID: 40056891

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

JAMA Network Open202526 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.2861

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance in Canada, 2020.

Golden A, Griffith A, Demczuk W, Lefebvre B, McGeer A, Tyrrell G, Zhanel G, Kus J, Hoang L, Minion J, Van Caeseele P, Smadi H, Haldane D, Zahariadis G, Mead K, Steven L, Strudwick L, Li A, Mulvey M, Martin I

Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2022

DOI: 10.3390/vaccines9050420 PMID: 38124782

Invasive group A streptococcal disease surveillance in Canada, 2020.

Golden A, Griffith A, Demczuk W, Tyrrell G, Kus J, McGeer A, Domingo MC, Hoang L, Minion J, Van Caeseele P, Smadi H, Haldane D, Zahariadis G, Mead K, Steven L, Strudwick L, Li A, Mulvey M, Martin I

Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2022

DOI: 10.1128/cmr.00101-13 PMID: 38106647

Molecular identification of Aspergillus fumigatus complex from lung transplant recipients using multilocus sequencing analysis (MLSA).

Dhabaan G, Kus J, Kumar D, Humar A, Husain S, Mazzulli T

Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada2022

DOI: 10.3138/jammi-2021-0004 PMID: 36340850

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Julianne Kus

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance in Canada, 2023.

Laboratory diagnosis of pertussis: A survey on provincial public health laboratory methods.

Preparedness for Candida auris in Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP) hospitals, 2024

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease in Persons Experiencing Postpandemic Homelessness in Canada

Geographical and temporal variations of serogroups and clonal types of Neisseria meningitidis involved in culture-confirmed invasive meningococcal disease in Canada, 2015-2023.

Genetically distinct Hajj and South American-related strains of serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis causing invasive meningococcal disease in Ontario, Canada, January 1, 2015 to June 30, 2024.

Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection in Children, 1992-2023

Invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance in Canada, 2020.

Invasive group A streptococcal disease surveillance in Canada, 2020.

Molecular identification of Aspergillus fumigatus complex from lung transplant recipients using multilocus sequencing analysis (MLSA).

Understanding the epidemiology and burden of invasive Candidal infections and antifungal resistance in Canadian hospitals (Can-EPI-R)

Frequent collaborators

Gregory Tyrrell

Allison McGeer

Irene Armstrong

Liane Macdonald

Jennifer Grant

Deborah Yamamura

Aaron Campigotto

Sergio Borgia

Amrita Bharat

Inna Sekirov

Christine Navarro

Michael Silverman

Jennie Johnstone

Shahid Husain

Lucie Richard

Tony Mazzulli

Susy Hota

Atul Humar

Deepali Kumar

Vinita Dubey

Dominik Mertz

Derek Stein

Lori Burrows

Todd Hatchette

Jonathan Gubbay