Sheliza Halani, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

HSV, HIV, and Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Viral Interactions, Management, and Prevention.
Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2026 · first author
Ofatumumab and enteroviral encephalitis: a severe infectious complication as a class effect with anti-CD20 therapies.
Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) · 2026
Concordance of Anosmia Between Household Members Affected by COVID-19 Infection.
Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2025 · first author

All 16 publications

Latest funding

Planning HSV-2 PrEP and PEP Trials by Studying Seroprevalence and Acceptability
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$200,000

All 1 grants and awards

16 publications.

01

HSV, HIV, and Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Viral Interactions, Management, and Prevention.

Halani S, Yudin MH, Tan DHS

Current HIV/AIDS reports2026First author

DOI: 10.1007/s11904-026-00793-0 PMID: 42501232

02

Ofatumumab and enteroviral encephalitis: a severe infectious complication as a class effect with anti-CD20 therapies.

Rotstein DL, Halani S, Vadas P, Marriott JJ

Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)2026

DOI: 10.1177/13524585261444606 PMID: 42116738

03

Concordance of Anosmia Between Household Members Affected by COVID-19 Infection.

Halani S, Kiss A, Estrada-Codecido J, Ga'al A, Kapsack A, Zhabokritsky A, Chan AK, Lam PW, Simor A, Leis JA, Mubareka S, Daneman N, Andany N

Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.3138/jammi-2025-0002 PMID: 40673050

04

"In-the-moment" feedback: a novel app for clinical teaching evaluations.

Halani S, Kumar SS, Lim DY, Hefferon D, Prakash V, Kumagai AK, Bui E

Canadian medical education journal2025First author

DOI: 10.36834/cmej.80156 PMID: 41255910

05

Acute Febrile Illness Accompanied by 7th and 12th Cranial Nerve Palsy Due to Lyme Disease Following Travel to Rural Ecuador: A Case Report and Mini-Review.

Sandstrom TS, Kavanoor Sridhar K, Joshi J, Aunas A, Halani S, Boggild AK

Tropical medicine and infectious disease2025

DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed10010021 PMID: 39852672

06

A case of myiasis botfly infestation diagnosed through a virtual emergency department.

Halani S, Chan A, Kilbertus S

CJEM2024First author

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-023-00637-5 PMID: 38227171

07

A case of probable COVID-19 and mononucleosis reactivation complicating the presentation of travel-acquired measles.

Halani S, Hawley G, Boggild AK

New microbes and new infections2024First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101199 PMID: 38058761

08

Weight-related malaria treatment failure with artemether-lumefantrine

Sheliza Halani, Isaac I. Bogoch

Journal of Travel Medicine20235 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taad036 PMID: 36951994

09

Lachnoanaerobaculum orale bacteremia in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia and stomatitis: An emerging pathogen.

Sabrie NAS, Halani S, Maguire F, Aftanas P, Kozak R, Andany N

IDCases20235 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01837 PMID: 37645542

10

Dyspnoea in a patient with biopsy-proven pulmonary sarcoidosis: the challenges in diagnosing cardiac sarcoidosis.

Chen AY, Halani S, Shah R

BMJ case reports2023

DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2022-252737 PMID: 37217232

Planning HSV-2 PrEP and PEP Trials by Studying Seroprevalence and Acceptability

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Ca. Gr.: Biomedical Res. for HIV/AIDS/STBBI - Next-generation prev. technologies

Principal investigators: Tan, Darrell H; Burchell, Ann N; Cox, John J; Ndungu, Mary

Keywords: Acceptability; Cisgender Women; Gay, Bisexual And Other Men Who Have Sex With Men; Herpes Simplex Virus; Post-Exposure Prophylaxis; Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis; Seroprevalence; Serosurvey

$200,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

Frequent collaborators

Nick Daneman and Andrew Simor: 41 shared papers
Samira Mubareka and Robert Kozak: 41 shared papers
Samira Mubareka and Finlay Maguire: 22 shared papers
Adrienne Chan and Nick Daneman: 21 shared papers
Nick Daneman and Samira Mubareka: 21 shared papers
Nick Daneman and Nisha Andany: 20 shared papers
Samira Mubareka and Andrew Simor: 19 shared papers
Finlay Maguire and Robert Kozak: 19 shared papers
Nisha Andany and Andrew Simor: 15 shared papers
Nick Daneman and Beate Sander: 13 shared papers
Adrienne Chan and Nisha Andany: 12 shared papers
Adrienne Chan and Samira Mubareka: 11 shared papers
Beate Sander and Shaun Morris: 10 shared papers
Ryan O'Reilly and Beate Sander: 8 shared papers
Kellie Murphy and Beate Sander: 8 shared papers
Adrienne Chan and Robert Kozak: 7 shared papers
Isaac Bogoch and Beate Sander: 7 shared papers
Kellie Murphy and Shaun Morris: 7 shared papers
Nisha Andany and Alice Zhabokritsky: 6 shared papers
Kellie Murphy and Robert Kozak: 6 shared papers
Laura Erdman and Shaun Morris: 5 shared papers
Nick Daneman and Alice Zhabokritsky: 5 shared papers
Adrienne Chan and Robert Kozak: 5 shared papers
Shaun Morris and Carsten Krueger: 5 shared papers
Nick Daneman and Isaac Bogoch: 4 shared papers
Nick Daneman and Adrienne Chan: 4 shared papers
Samira Mubareka and Alice Zhabokritsky: 4 shared papers
Samira Mubareka and Isaac Bogoch: 3 shared papers
Adrienne Chan and Andrew Simor: 3 shared papers
Laura Erdman and Kellie Murphy: 2 shared papers
Laura Erdman and Beate Sander: 2 shared papers
Laura Erdman and Carsten Krueger: 2 shared papers
Ryan O'Reilly and Kellie Murphy: 2 shared papers
Ryan O'Reilly and Shaun Morris: 2 shared papers
Ryan O'Reilly and Justin Boyle: 2 shared papers
Nisha Andany and Sheliza Halani: 2 shared papers
Kellie Murphy and Carsten Krueger: 2 shared papers
Beate Sander and Justin Boyle: 2 shared papers
Esther Bui and Sheliza Halani: 2 shared papers
Laura Erdman and Justin Boyle: 1 shared paper
Laura Erdman and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Ryan O'Reilly and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Adrienne Chan and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Nick Daneman and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Samira Mubareka and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Isaac Bogoch and Alon Vaisman: 1 shared paper
Isaac Bogoch and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Adrienne Chan and Finlay Maguire: 1 shared paper
Adrienne Chan and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Adrienne Chan and Sarah Kilbertus: 1 shared paper
Kellie Murphy and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Beate Sander and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Shaun Morris and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Finlay Maguire and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Andrew Simor and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Robert Kozak and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Carsten Krueger and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Alice Zhabokritsky and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Justin Boyle and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Alon Vaisman and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Peter Vadas and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Brooke Fraser and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Brooke Fraser and Natasha Sabur: 1 shared paper
Rupal Shah and Sheliza Halani: 1 shared paper
Sheliza Halani and Natasha Sabur: 1 shared paper
Sheliza Halani and Sarah Kilbertus: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
Clinical Public Health Division
School of Social Work and Human Services
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Community Health & Epidemiology / Computer Science
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Brooke Fraser

Department of Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Laura Erdman

Department of Pediatrics

1 shared papers, latest 2021

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