Faculty profile

Melissa Richard-Greenblatt

Back to faculty

Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & PathobiologyUniversity of Toronto

Melissa Richard-Greenblatt

Assistant Professor

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Supervision signals

Professors usually supervise graduate students in their department's programs.
28 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

These signals come from public records, including federal and provincial funding decisions. Ask the professor or the graduate program whether they are taking new students.

Academic metrics

Publications

188

Citations

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

Counts cover the publications linked to this profile. Citations and the h-index appear when the source records them.

Profiles and links

University Profile

Search on Google Scholar

Search on ResearchGate

iDORCID OpenAlex

Find them onX · LinkedIn · Bluesky · YouTube

Signals and details

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Latest papers

Stewarding the hospital sink drain: a narrative review of practical approaches for controlling gram negative pathogens in low- and middle-income countries
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control · 2026
Host blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Clinical Microbiology and Infection · 2026 · senior author
Host Plasma Protein Biomarkers for Tuberculosis Disease Screening in Febrile Adults in Tanzania
The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2026 · senior author

All 29 publications

Latest funding

RNA transcriptomics for predicting disease severity and identifying etiology in febrile patients: signature discovery and validation for infectious and non-infectious diseases
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$250,000

All 1 grants and awards

29 publications.

Stewarding the hospital sink drain: a narrative review of practical approaches for controlling gram negative pathogens in low- and middle-income countries

Seabelo Mmolai, Teresia Gatonye, Boingotlo Gopolang, Chimwemwe Viola Tembo, Tapoloso Keatholetswe, Susan E. Coffin, Melissa Richard-Greenblatt, Medini K. Annavajhala, Catherine Hoar, Émilie Bédard, A. Moustafa, Paul Joseph Planet, Jonathan P. Strysko

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control20264 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s13756-026-01701-2 PMID: 41580835

Host blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Michael Prodanuk, James W. King, Jessie Cunningham, Ian Kitai, Pierre‐Philippe Piché‐Renaud, Melanie Ratnayake, Shaun K. Morris, Melissa Richard-Greenblatt

Clinical Microbiology and Infection2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2026.02.025 PMID: 41796962

Host Plasma Protein Biomarkers for Tuberculosis Disease Screening in Febrile Adults in Tanzania

Michael Prodanuk, Noémie Boillat‐Blanco, Valérie D’Acremont, Alastair Fung, Kevin C. Kain, Theckla Kazimoto, Ian Kitai, Tarsis Mlaganile, Josephine Samaka, Shaun K Morris, Melissa Richard-Greenblatt

The Journal of Infectious Diseases2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiag238 PMID: 42093087

Risk Factors for Community Colonization With Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporin-Resistant Enterobacterales Among People Living With HIV in Botswana.

Loabile B, Lautenbach E, Mannathoko N, Mosepele M, Styczynski A, Smith RM, Cressman L, Jaskowiak-Barr A, Bilker WB, Alby K, Glaser L, Richard-Greenblatt M, Cowden L, Sewawa K, Otukile D, Paganotti GM, Mokomane M, Gross R

Open forum infectious diseases2026

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf814 PMID: 41648079

Predicting referral need for febrile children in low-resource community settings in South and Southeast Asia.

Chandna A, Koshiaris C, Mahajan R, Ahmad RA, Thi Van Anh D, Choudhury KS, Keang S, Phung NTN, Rattanavong S, Vannachone S, Spot Sepsis Investigator Group, Painter C, Yosia M, Waithira N, Abdad MY, Thaipadungpanit J, Turner P, Phuc PH, Mondal D, Mayxay M, Liem BT, Ashley EA, Arguni E, Perera-Salazar R, Richard-Greenblatt M, Lubell Y, Burza S

Nature medicine2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04338-1 PMID: 42056495

Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis with bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, and moxifloxacin following near-total gastrectomy.

Weheba I, Brode SK, Richard-Greenblatt M, Sabur NF

ASM case reports2026

DOI: 10.1128/asmcr.00027-26 PMID: 42683344

Diverse genetic lineages spreading across healthcare and community boundaries underlie extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales (ESCrE) colonization burden in Botswana.

Wan T, Lautenbach E, Mannathoko N, Mosepele M, Styczynski A, Parra G, Smith RM, Gross R, Cressman L, Jaskowiak-Barr A, Alby K, Glaser L, Richard-Greenblatt M, Cowden L, Patel A, Otukile D, Paganotti GM, Mokomane M, Snitkin E

The Journal of infectious diseases2026

DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiag342 PMID: 42409369

Integrated epidemiologic investigation and genomic confirmation of a Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis outbreak in Botswana.

Strysko J, Hu W, Mochankana K, John-Thubuka J, Zankere T, Gopolang B, Theiller E, Jones SM, Tembo CV, Ntereke TD, Gatonye T, Lechiile K, Keatholetswe T, Bianco C, Coffin SE, McGann C, Bittinger K, Lautenbach E, Mannathoko N, Mokomane M, Mosepele M, Richard-Greenblatt M, Nakstad B, Goldfarb DM, Planet PJ, Moustafa AM

PLOS global public health2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0006468 PMID: 42296129

A 3-Year-Old Girl With a Chest Wall Mass.

Gashgarey D, Waters V, Traubici J, Chiu P, Lam R, Richard-Greenblatt M, Kitai I

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2026

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciag028 PMID: 42414859

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii at a hospital in Botswana: detecting a protracted outbreak using whole genome sequencing.

Strysko J, Thela T, Feder A, Thubuka J, Machiya T, Mkubwa J, Mochankana K, Tiroyakgosi C, Kgomanyane K, Ntereke TD, Zankere T, Lechiile K, Gatonye T, Tembo CV, Vurayai M, Mannathoko N, Mokomane M, Moustafa AM, Goldfarb DM, Richard-Greenblatt M, McGann C, Coffin SE, Nakstad B, Cancedda C, Lautenbach E, Bogoshi D, Smith AM, Planet PJ

Microbiology spectrum2026

DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01768-25 PMID: 41247047

Profile data last refreshed on September 29, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and public research funding records.

Something wrong or missing on this profile? Suggest a correction

Melissa Richard-Greenblatt

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Stewarding the hospital sink drain: a narrative review of practical approaches for controlling gram negative pathogens in low- and middle-income countries

Host blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Host Plasma Protein Biomarkers for Tuberculosis Disease Screening in Febrile Adults in Tanzania

Risk Factors for Community Colonization With Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporin-Resistant Enterobacterales Among People Living With HIV in Botswana.

Predicting referral need for febrile children in low-resource community settings in South and Southeast Asia.

Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis with bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, and moxifloxacin following near-total gastrectomy.

Diverse genetic lineages spreading across healthcare and community boundaries underlie extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales (ESCrE) colonization burden in Botswana.

Integrated epidemiologic investigation and genomic confirmation of a Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis outbreak in Botswana.

A 3-Year-Old Girl With a Chest Wall Mass.

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii at a hospital in Botswana: detecting a protracted outbreak using whole genome sequencing.

RNA transcriptomics for predicting disease severity and identifying etiology in febrile patients: signature discovery and validation for infectious and non-infectious diseases

Frequent collaborators

Kevin Kain

Ian Kitai

Aleksandra Leligdowicz

Michael Hawkes

Michael Hawkes

Priscilla Chiu

Jeffrey Traubici

Valerie Waters

Me-Linh Luong

Charles Poirier

Julie Wright

Émilie Bédard

Jonathan Gubbay

Aaron Campigotto

Julianne Kus

Gregory Tyrrell

Sarah Brode

Shahid Husain

Shelly Bolotin

Pierre-Philippe Piche-Renaud

Dima Kabbani

Céline Bergeron

Victor Leung

Hafid Soualhine

Alim Hirji

Jennifer Ma

Vanessa Tran

Allison McGeer