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Matthew Oughton
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Latest papers
Sample Adequacy Control (SAC) Lowers False Negatives and Increases the Quality of Screening: Introduction of "Non-Competitive" SAC for qPCR Assays.
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021 · senior author
Importance of Adequate qPCR Controls in Infection Control.
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021 · first author
Maximizing confidence in a negative result: Quantitative sample adequacy control.
Journal of infection and public health · 2020 · 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
10 publications.
Sample Adequacy Control (SAC) Lowers False Negatives and Increases the Quality of Screening: Introduction of "Non-Competitive" SAC for qPCR Assays.
Brukner I, Resendes A, Eintracht S, Papadakis AI, Oughton M
Importance of Adequate qPCR Controls in Infection Control.
Oughton M, Brukner I, Eintracht S, Papadakis AI, Spatz A, Resendes A
Maximizing confidence in a negative result: Quantitative sample adequacy control.
Brukner I, Eintracht S, Papadakis AI, Faucher D, Lamontagne B, Spatz A, Oughton M
A Fundamental Change in Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Would Better Prevent Therapeutic Failure: From Individual to Population-Based Analysis.
Brukner I, Oughton M
Laboratory-developed test for detection of acute Clostridium difficile infections with the capacity for quantitative sample normalization.
Brukner I, Eintracht S, Forgetta V, Papadakis AI, Spatz A, Oughton M
Rectal swab screening assays of public health importance in molecular diagnostics: Sample adequacy control.
Glisovic S, Eintracht S, Longtin Y, Oughton M, Brukner I
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
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
A predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortality.
Loo VG, Poirier L, Miller MA, Oughton M, Libman MD, Michaud S, Bourgault AM, Nguyen T, Frenette C, Kelly M, Vibien A, Brassard P, Fenn S, Dewar K, Hudson TJ, Horn R, René P, Monczak Y, Dascal A
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
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
- 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
- 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
- Nandini Dendukuri and Matthew Oughton: 1 shared paper
- Paul Brassard and Ken Dewar: 1 shared paper
- Paul Brassard and Tuyen Nguyen: 1 shared paper
- Paul Brassard and Yury Monczak: 1 shared paper
- Jean Longtin and Andre Dascal: 1 shared paper
- Jean Longtin and Matthew Oughton: 1 shared paper
- Baldwin Toye and Matthew Oughton: 1 shared paper
- Ken Dewar and Andre Dascal: 1 shared paper
- Ken Dewar and Matthew Oughton: 1 shared paper
- Ken Dewar and Tuyen Nguyen: 1 shared paper
- Ken Dewar and Yury Monczak: 1 shared paper
- Matthew Oughton and Tuyen Nguyen: 1 shared paper
- Matthew Oughton and Yury Monczak: 1 shared paper
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Infectious Disease Research Centre
- 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
9 shared papers, latest 2021
Yves Longtin
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2018
Vivian Loo
Department of Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2018
Andre Dascal
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
3 shared papers, latest 2018
Anne-Marie Bourgault
Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
2 shared papers, latest 2011
Louise Poirier
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
2 shared papers, latest 2011
Paul Brassard
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
2 shared papers, latest 2011
Tuyen Nguyen
Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2005
Yury Monczak
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2005
Jean Longtin
Infectious Disease Research Centre
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Nandini Dendukuri
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Baldwin Toye
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Ken Dewar
Department of Human Genetics
1 shared papers, latest 2005
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