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Samir Patel

ResearcherUniversity of Toronto

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Samir Patel

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2021.

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Publications

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Research

Adult Covid-19 Healthcare Workers Incidence Propective Cohort Risk Factors For Infection

Latest papers

Transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective genomic analysis
Emerging Microbes and Infections · 2026
Incidence of colonization and infection with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Toronto and Peel Region, Ontario, 2007-2024.
JAMMI · 2026
One Health study of mobile colistin resistance (mcr) in Salmonella enterica in Canada, 2017-2022.
Microbiology spectrum · 2025

All 14 publications

Latest funding

CAMP 2.0 An Ongoing Community-based Interdisciplinary Model for Mpox pandemic Preparedness
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$350,000
Canada-Africa Monkeypox Partnership (CAMP): Characterizing transmission dynamics and evaluating medical countermeasures to inform the clinical and public health response to Mpox
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$2,000,000
COVID-19 Variant Network - Are healthcare workers at higher risk of COVID-19 than other working adults?
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$100,000

All 8 grants and awards

14 publications.

Transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective genomic analysis

Izydorczyk C, Lee R, Mataseje L, Golding GR, Edge TA, Boyd R, Braukmann T, Carroll A, Katz K, Kozak R

Emerging Microbes and Infections20262 citations

DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2025.2595794

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

JAMMI2026

DOI: 10.3138/jammi-2025-0027

One Health study of mobile colistin resistance (mcr) in Salmonella enterica in Canada, 2017-2022.

Mistry K, Thumbi D, Li XR, Charlebois A, Avery BP, Deckert AE, Cormier AC, Murphy C, Kearney A, Campbell J, Christianson S, Alexander DC, El Bailey S, Bekal S, Chui L, Ding X, Dingle T, Haldane D, Hoang L, Minion J, Patel S, Zahariadis G, Nadon C, Mulvey MR, Carson CA, Reid-Smith RJ, Bharat A

Microbiology spectrum2025

DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02156-24 PMID: 40387317

Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Canada, 2022.

Sawatzky P, Thorington R, Barairo N, Lefebvre B, Diggle M, Hoang L, Patel S, Van Caessele P, Minion J, Desnoyers G, Haldane D, Ding X, Lourenco L, Gravel G, Martin I

Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2025

DOI: 10.14745/ccdr.v51i04a03 PMID: 40241714

Molecular epidemiology and in silico prediction of ciprofloxacin resistance in Salmonella enterica in Canada, 2017-2022.

Wilke M, Mistry K, Thumbi D, Li X, Charlebois A, Cormier A, Mickanuck K, Avery B, Murphy C, Deckert A, Kearney A, Campbell J, Christianson S, Alexander D, El Bailey S, Bekal S, Chui L, Ding X, Dingle T, Haldane D, Hoang L, Minion J, Patel S, Zahariadis G, Nadon C, Mulvey M, Carson C, Reid-Smith R, Bharat A

Canadian journal of microbiology2025

DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2024-0118 PMID: 40030142

Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Canada, 2021.

Sawatzky P, Lefebvre B, Diggle M, Hoang L, Wong J, Patel S, Van Caessele P, Minion J, Garceau R, Jeffrey S, Haldane D, Lourenco L, Gravel G, Mulvey M, Martin I

Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2023

DOI: 10.14745/ccdr.v49i09a05 PMID: 38463902

Environmental Surface Contamination With Monkeypox Virus in the Ambulatory Setting in Toronto, Canada.

Sukhdeo S, Muller M, McGeer A, Leis JA, Chan A, Gubbay JB, Patel S, Khan S, Perusini S, Li XA, Kozak R, Mishra S, Tan DHS, Kandel C

Open forum infectious diseases2023

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac648 PMID: 36756631

Environmental Testing of Surfaces in the Room of a Patient With Mpox.

Muller MP, Mishra S, McGeer A, Patel S, Gubbay J, Hasso M, Chan AK, Kozak R, Leis JA, Tan DS

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2023

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac654 PMID: 35982540

Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Canada, 2020.

Thorington R, Sawatzky P, Lefebvre B, Diggle M, Hoang L, Patel S, Van Caessele P, Minion J, Garceau R, Matheson M, Haldane D, Gravel G, Mulvey MR, Martin I

Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2022

DOI: 10.14745/ccdr.v48i1112a10 PMID: 38298531

S-Gene Target Failure as a Marker of Variant B.1.1.7 Among SARS-CoV-2 Isolates in the Greater Toronto Area, December 2020 to March 2021

Brown KA, Gubbay J, Hopkins J, Patel S, Buchan SA, Daneman N, Goneau LW

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)2021123 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.5607

CAMP 2.0 An Ongoing Community-based Interdisciplinary Model for Mpox pandemic Preparedness

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Team Grant: Monkeypox Rapid Research Response - Extension

Principal investigators: Tan, Darrell H; Adebajo, Sylvia; Audu, Rosemary; Chan, Adrienne; DAODU, OLUWAFEMI B; Klein, Marina B; Kozak, Robert A; Kwong, Jeffrey C; McGeer, Allison J; Mishra, Sharmistha; Okpokoro, Evaezi; Olufadewa, Isaac I; Walmsley, Sharon L

Keywords: Clinical Trial; Epidemiology; Mathematical Modeling; Prospective Cohort; Vaccine Effectiveness; Veterinary Medecine; Virology

$350,000

Canada-Africa Monkeypox Partnership (CAMP): Characterizing transmission dynamics and evaluating medical countermeasures to inform the clinical and public health response to Mpox

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Team Grant: Monkeypox Rapid Research Response

Keywords: Clinical Trial; Epidemiology; Mathematical Modeling; Prospective Cohort; Vaccine Effectiveness; Veterinary Medicine; Virology

$2,000,000

COVID-19 Variant Network - Are healthcare workers at higher risk of COVID-19 than other working adults?

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Operating Grant: SARS-CoV-2 variants supplement stream 2

Principal investigators: McGeer, Allison J; Brown, Kevin A; Buchan, Sarah; Coleman, Brenda L; Manuel, Douglas G; Mishra, Sharmistha; Patel, Samir; Sander, Beate H

Keywords: Adult; Covid-19; Healthcare Workers; Incidence; Propective Cohort; Risk Factors For Infection

$100,000

PReventing the Emergence of CPE In hospitalS: understanding key Epidemiologic parameters (PRECISE)

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: McGeer, Allison J

Keywords: Antibiotic Resistance; Infectious Disease; Patient Safety

$879,750

Water As a Reservoir for Carbapenemase-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infections (WAR-CRI)

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: McGeer, Allison J

Keywords: Antibiotic Resistance; Epidemiology; Water

$100,000

The epidemiology of the emergence of carbapenemase resistance in Enterobacteriaceae in southern Ontario

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Operating Grant

Principal investigators: McGeer, Allison J

Keywords: Antibiotic Resistance; Carbapenem; Enterobacteriaceae; Epidemiology

$1,067,761

Predicting, preventing, and mitigating late effects in medulloblastoma.

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Team Grant: Childhood Cancer - Late Effects of Treatment -LOI

Principal investigators: Mabbott, Donald J; Bouffet, Eric; Freeman, Carolyn R; Taylor, Michael D

Keywords: Cognitive Morbidity; Cranial Radiation; Genomic; Late Effects; Neuro-Protection; Neuro-Recovery; Neuro-Toxicity; Paediatric Brain Tumors; Radiotherapy

$5,000

Establishing a seroepidemiology network: Immunity of Canadians and Risk of Epidemics (iCARE)

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: Infection and Immunity

Principal investigators: Crowcroft, Natasha S

Keywords: Epidemiology; Health Policy; Immunity; Infection; Vaccine Preventable Diseases

$24,993

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Samir Patel

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective genomic analysis

Incidence of colonization and infection with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Toronto and Peel Region, Ontario, 2007-2024.

One Health study of mobile colistin resistance (mcr) in Salmonella enterica in Canada, 2017-2022.

Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Canada, 2022.

Molecular epidemiology and in silico prediction of ciprofloxacin resistance in Salmonella enterica in Canada, 2017-2022.

Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Canada, 2021.

Environmental Surface Contamination With Monkeypox Virus in the Ambulatory Setting in Toronto, Canada.

Environmental Testing of Surfaces in the Room of a Patient With Mpox.

Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Canada, 2020.

S-Gene Target Failure as a Marker of Variant B.1.1.7 Among SARS-CoV-2 Isolates in the Greater Toronto Area, December 2020 to March 2021

Frequent collaborators

Allison McGeer

Robert Kozak

Jonathan Gubbay

Amrita Bharat

Tony Mazzulli

Sharmistha Mishra

Samira Mubareka

Jennie Johnstone

Baldwin Toye

Irene Armstrong

Jessica Hopkins

Deborah Yamamura

Thomas Edge

Nick Daneman

Jessica Hopkins

Dat Tran

Jason Wong

Sergio Borgia

Curtis Cooper