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Vanessa Tran

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & PathobiologyUniversity of Toronto

Vanessa Tran

Assistant Professor

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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21 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection among people with and without HIV in Ontario, Canada
AIDS · 2026
COVID-19 vaccine uptake in a retrospective population-based cohort of people living with and without HIV in Ontario, Canada
Vaccine · 2025
Soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor 1 predicts hospitalization in children and young adults with dengue virus infection in the Philippines
Cytokine · 2025

All 43 publications

43 publications.

SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection among people with and without HIV in Ontario, Canada

Freitas C, Cooper CL, Kroch AE, Buchan SA, Moineddin R, Arbess G, Benoit AC, Chambers C, Habanyama M, Kendall CE

AIDS2026

DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000004351

COVID-19 vaccine uptake in a retrospective population-based cohort of people living with and without HIV in Ontario, Canada

Freitas C, Cooper CL, Kroch AE, Moineddin R, Arbess G, Benoit AC, Buchan SA, Chambers C, Habanyama M, Kendall CE

Vaccine20255 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127422

Soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor 1 predicts hospitalization in children and young adults with dengue virus infection in the Philippines

Vanesse Li, Hridesh Kumar Mishra, Michelle Ngai, Valerie M. Crowley, Vanessa Tran, Maria Salome Siose Painaga, James Yared Gaite, Patrick Hamilton, Andrea L. Conroy, Kevin C. Kain, Michael Hawkes

Cytokine20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2025.156911 PMID: 40080919

Evaluating the MedMira Multiplo® Complete Syphilis (TP/nTP) antibody test in a sexually transmitted infection clinic in Ottawa, Canada: increased rapid diagnosis and improved antibiotic stewardship.

O'Byrne P, Dillabough R, Whyte K, Orser L, Tran V, Duvvuri VR, Tsang R

BMC infectious diseases20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-025-12263-w PMID: 41361278

Detection of non-travel-associated, ceftriaxone non-susceptible Neisseria gonorrhoeae FC428-like harbouring the mosaic penA60 allele in Ontario, Canada

Komorowski AS, Eshaghi A, Burbidge J, Johnson K, Saunders A, Zygmunt A, Hasso M, Almohri H, Martin I, Patel SN

Canada Communicable Disease Report20251 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.14745/ccdr.v51i101112a06

Comparison of six COVID-19 serology assays for detection of antibodies from patients infected with ancestral and a spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Lau R, Senthilkumaran C, Chong J, Qi F, Pulikkottil RS, Ma J, Ogbulafor K, Gabe L, Manguiat K, Robinson A, Wood H, Li AX, Mozafarihashjin M, Campigotto A, McGeer AJ, Mubareka S, Gubbay JB, Kus JV, Bolotin S, Richard-Greenblatt M, Tran V

Access microbiology2025Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1099/acmi.0.000974.v3 PMID: 40697976

How often did syphilis tests have corresponding HIV tests in Ontario, Canada? A retrospective analysis of comprehensive laboratory data

Sean P. Colyer, Ellen G. Avery, Abigail E. Kroch, Juan Liu, Austin Zygmunt, Maya A. Kesler, Ashleigh Sullivan, Vanessa Tran

BMJ Open2025Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097142 PMID: 40930550

Syphilis Point of Care Rapid Test and Immediate Treatment Evaluation (SPRITE) study: a mixed-methods implementation science research protocol of eight public health units in Ontario, Canada.

Mackrell L, Carter M, Hoover M, O'Byrne P, Larkin N, Magpantay FMG, Zhao S, Stoner B, Richard-Greenblatt M, Mandryk K, Belanger K, Burbidge J, Charette G, Deschenes G, Dinh DA, Featherstone A, Khandakar F, Martinez-Cajas J, Tran V, Szumlanski N, Vance S, Saeed S, SPRITE Study

BMJ open20247 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-089021 PMID: 39806722

Testing for extragenital Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis: At-home pharyngeal and rectal self-swabs are non-inferior to those completed in healthcare settings.

Orser L, Tran V, O'Byrne P, Kroch A, Bonnetsmueller M, Hasso M, Musten A

PloS one20246 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302785 PMID: 38768150

The Angiopoietin–Tie-2 Axis in Children and Young Adults with Dengue Virus Infection in the Philippines

Hridesh Kumar Mishra, Michelle Ngai, Valerie M. Crowley, Vanessa Tran, Maria Salome Siose Painaga, James Yared Gaite, Patrick Hamilton, Kevin C. Kain, Michael Hawkes

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene20245 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.24-0115 PMID: 39137755

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Vanessa Tran

Research

Latest papers

SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection among people with and without HIV in Ontario, Canada

COVID-19 vaccine uptake in a retrospective population-based cohort of people living with and without HIV in Ontario, Canada

Soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor 1 predicts hospitalization in children and young adults with dengue virus infection in the Philippines

Evaluating the MedMira Multiplo&#xae; Complete Syphilis (TP/nTP) antibody test in a sexually transmitted infection clinic in Ottawa, Canada: increased rapid diagnosis and improved antibiotic stewardship.

Detection of non-travel-associated, ceftriaxone non-susceptible Neisseria gonorrhoeae FC428-like harbouring the mosaic penA60 allele in Ontario, Canada

Comparison of six COVID-19 serology assays for detection of antibodies from patients infected with ancestral and a spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 variants.

How often did syphilis tests have corresponding HIV tests in Ontario, Canada? A retrospective analysis of comprehensive laboratory data

Syphilis Point of Care Rapid Test and Immediate Treatment Evaluation (SPRITE) study: a mixed-methods implementation science research protocol of eight public health units in Ontario, Canada.

Testing for extragenital Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis: At-home pharyngeal and rectal self-swabs are non-inferior to those completed in healthcare settings.

The Angiopoietin–Tie-2 Axis in Children and Young Adults with Dengue Virus Infection in the Philippines

Frequent collaborators

Kevin Kain

Jonathan Gubbay

Sarah Buchan

Jun Liu

Michael Hawkes

Julianne Kus

Michael Hawkes

Shelly Bolotin

Samir Patel

Steven Drews

Ana Cabrera

Abigail Kroch

Gordon Arbess

Catharine Chambers

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

Anna Majury

Patrick O'Byrne

Sharon Walmsley

Tony Mazzulli

Sergio Rueda

Matthew Oliver

Amanda Lang

Kevin Katz

Melissa Richard-Greenblatt

Lee Goneau

Simon Lévesque

Philippe Martin

Claude Fortin

Andrea Leung

Maan Hasso

Evaluating the MedMira Multiplo® Complete Syphilis (TP/nTP) antibody test in a sexually transmitted infection clinic in Ottawa, Canada: increased rapid diagnosis and improved antibiotic stewardship.