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Andre Dascal
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Latest papers
Detection and Isolation of Clostridium difficile Asymptomatic Carriers During Clostridium difficile Infection Outbreaks: An Exploratory Study.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018
Predictors of asymptomatic Clostridium difficile colonization on hospital admission.
American journal of infection control · 2015
Assay for estimating total bacterial load: relative qPCR normalisation of bacterial load with associated clinical implications.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease · 2015 · senior author
Latest funding
- $131,513
A new qPCR method for the assessment of total/relative bacterial load from stool samples: C difficile show case
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $446,665
Immune buildings: Development of eWAR systems
NSERC · 2007 · Co-investigator
6 publications.
Detection and Isolation of Clostridium difficile Asymptomatic Carriers During Clostridium difficile Infection Outbreaks: An Exploratory Study.
Paquet-Bolduc B, Gervais P, Roussy JF, Trottier S, Oughton M, Brukner I, Longtin J, Loo VG, Dascal A, Longtin Y
Predictors of asymptomatic Clostridium difficile colonization on hospital admission.
Kong LY, Dendukuri N, Schiller I, Bourgault AM, Brassard P, Poirier L, Lamothe F, Béliveau C, Michaud S, Turgeon N, Toye B, Frost EH, Gilca R, Dascal A, Loo VG
Assay for estimating total bacterial load: relative qPCR normalisation of bacterial load with associated clinical implications.
Brukner I, Longtin Y, Oughton M, Forgetta V, Dascal A
Host and pathogen factors for Clostridium difficile infection and colonization.
Loo VG, Bourgault AM, Poirier L, Lamothe F, Michaud S, Turgeon N, Toye B, Beaudoin A, Frost EH, Gilca R, Brassard P, Dendukuri N, Béliveau C, Oughton M, Brukner I, Dascal A
Fourteen-genome comparison identifies DNA markers for severe-disease-associated strains of Clostridium difficile.
Forgetta V, Oughton MT, Marquis P, Brukner I, Blanchette R, Haub K, Magrini V, Mardis ER, Gerding DN, Loo VG, Miller MA, Mulvey MR, Rupnik M, Dascal A, Dewar K
Antimicrobial drugs and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, United Kingdom.
Schneider-Lindner V, Delaney JA, Dial S, Dascal A, Suissa S
A new qPCR method for the assessment of total/relative bacterial load from stool samples: C difficile show case
Principal investigators: Brukner, Ivan
Keywords: Drug Effect; Infection Deseases; Ivd; Molecular Diagnostics; Normalisation; Personal Medicine; Qpcr; Quantification; Specifisity
Immune buildings: Development of eWAR systems
Principal investigators: Kozinski, Janusz
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 and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Samy Suissa and Paul Brassard: 33 shared papers
- Jean Longtin and Yves Longtin: 16 shared papers
- Nandini Dendukuri and Paul Brassard: 4 shared papers
- Paul Brassard and Baldwin Toye: 4 shared papers
- Nandini Dendukuri and Yves Longtin: 3 shared papers
- Nandini Dendukuri and Baldwin Toye: 3 shared papers
- Yves Longtin and Matthew Oughton: 3 shared papers
- Andre Dascal and Matthew Oughton: 3 shared papers
- Nandini Dendukuri and Andre Dascal: 2 shared papers
- Nandini Dendukuri and Anne-Marie Bourgault: 2 shared papers
- Paul Brassard and Andre Dascal: 2 shared papers
- Paul Brassard and Matthew Oughton: 2 shared papers
- Paul Brassard and Anne-Marie Bourgault: 2 shared papers
- Paul Brassard and Louise Poirier: 2 shared papers
- Yves Longtin and Andre Dascal: 2 shared papers
- Baldwin Toye and Andre Dascal: 2 shared papers
- Matthew Oughton and Anne-Marie Bourgault: 2 shared papers
- Matthew Oughton and Louise Poirier: 2 shared papers
- Anne-Marie Bourgault and Louise Poirier: 2 shared papers
- Samy Suissa and Andre Dascal: 1 shared paper
- Paul Brassard and Ken Dewar: 1 shared paper
- Jean Longtin and Andre Dascal: 1 shared paper
- Jean Longtin and Matthew Oughton: 1 shared paper
- Ken Dewar and Andre Dascal: 1 shared paper
- Ken Dewar and Matthew Oughton: 1 shared paper
- Andre Dascal and Anne-Marie Bourgault: 1 shared paper
- Andre Dascal and Louise Poirier: 1 shared paper
- Department of Medicine
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Département de microbiologie médicale et infectiologie
- Centre de recherche en infectiologie
- Department of Human Genetics
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Ivan Brukner
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
4 shared papers, latest 2018
Vivian Loo
Department of Medicine
4 shared papers, latest 2018
Matthew Oughton
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2018
Nandini Dendukuri
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2015
Paul Brassard
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
2 shared papers, latest 2015
Yves Longtin
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2018
Baldwin Toye
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2015
Anne-Marie Bourgault
Département de microbiologie médicale et infectiologie
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Louise Poirier
Département de microbiologie et d’infectiologie
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Samy Suissa
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
1 shared papers, latest 2007
Ken Dewar
Department of Human Genetics
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Jean Longtin
Centre de recherche en infectiologie
1 shared papers, latest 2018
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