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ProfessorDépartement de microbiologie et d'infectiologieUniversité de Sherbrooke

Simon Lévesque

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Département de microbiologie et d'infectiologie

Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

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39 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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101

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2,076

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Research

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Latest papers

Unmasking the hidden catalyst: How infections trigger Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026
Unmasking the hidden catalyst: How infections trigger Alzheimer’s disease
BIRD (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics) · 2026
Diagnosis of chlamydial and gonococcal conjunctivitis: performance evaluation of a nucleic acid amplification test
Microbiology Spectrum · 2026

All 101 publications

Latest funding

National platform for robotized multi-viral RNA detection and strain identification
CFI · 2020 · Co-investigator
$330,932
Building an Interdisciplinary Research Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Conflicts (G2-ARC)
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 2 grants and awards

101 publications.

Unmasking the hidden catalyst: How infections trigger Alzheimer's disease.

Fulop T, Cohen AA, Frost EH, Lévesque S, Khalil A, Rodrigues S, Desroches M, Alami M, Berrougui H, Ramassamy C, Hirokawa K, Witkowski JM, Laurent B

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/13872877251415571 PMID: 41593034

Unmasking the hidden catalyst: How infections trigger Alzheimer’s disease

Tamàs Fülöp, Alan Cohen, Eric H. Frost, Simon Lévesque, Abdelouahed Khalil, Rodrigues, S., Mathieu Desroches, Mehdi Alami, Hicham Berrougui, Charles Ramassamy, Katsuiku Hirokawa, Jacek Maciej Witkowski, Benoit Laurent

BIRD (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics)2026Open Access

Diagnosis of chlamydial and gonococcal conjunctivitis: performance evaluation of a nucleic acid amplification test

Olivier Bédard, Émilie Vallières, Julie Vadboncoeur, Patrick Hamel, Christian Lavallée, Brigitte Lefebvre, Judith Fafard, Simon Lévesque, Mariam Ag Bazet, Claude Fortin, Annie‐Claude Labbé

Microbiology Spectrum2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00701-26 PMID: 42429409

Phenotyping the responses to systemic corticosteroids in the management of asthma attacks (PRISMA).

Celis-Preciado C, Leclerc S, Duval M, Cliche DO, Brazeau L, Vézina FA, Dussault M, Larivée P, Lemaire-Paquette S, Lévesque S, Lachapelle P, Couillard S

The European respiratory journal202532 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02391-2024 PMID: 39947666

Investigation of mobile genetic elements and their association with antibiotic resistance genes in clinical pathogens worldwide

Markus Hans Kristofer Johansson, Thomas Nordahl Petersen, Sidsel Nag, Timmie Mikkel Lagermann, Laura Elmlund Kohl Birkedahl, Silva Tafaj, Susan Bradbury, Peter Collignon, Denise A Daley, Victorien Tamègnon Dougnon, Kafayath Fabiyi, Boubacar Coulibaly, Réné Dembelé, Natama Magloire, Isidore Juste Ouindgueta, Zenat Zebin Hossain, Anowara Begoum, Deyan Donchev, Mathew A. Diggle, LeeAnn Turnbull, Simon Lévesque, Livia Berlinger, Kirstine K. Søgaard, Paula D. Guevara, Carolina de Albuquerque Lima Duarte, Panagiota Maikanti, Jana Amlerová, Pavel Dřevı́nek, Jan Tkadlec, Milica Dilas, et al. (74 authors)

PLoS ONE202517 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0330304 PMID: 40824964

Global emergence of Acinetobacter baumannii International Clone 12 predominantly found in the Middle East.

Karah N, Faille N, Allard N, Grenier F, Abou-Fayad A, Higgins PG, Al-Hassan L, Evans BA, Poirel L, Bonnin RA, Hammerum AM, Hansen F, Rafei R, Hamze M, Didelot X, Castillo-Ramírez S, Lévesque S, Rodrigue S, Uhlin BE, Haraoui LP

Microbial genomics20256 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001572 PMID: 41313692

Syphilitic bi-valvular endocarditis and myocarditis: modern tools applied to long-forgotten complications of a re-emerging disease.

LeBlanc L, Touati D, Lévesque S, Marouan S, Fortin C, Pépin J, Maya C, Bourque C

The Lancet. Infectious diseases20254 citations

DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(24)00650-9 PMID: 39832511

Revisiting VERTIGO and VERTIGO-CI: Identifying confidentiality breaches and introducing a statistically sound, efficient alternative

Marie‐Pier Domingue, Jean‐François Éthier, Jean-Philippe Morissette, Simon Lévesque, Anita Burgun, Félix Camirand Lemyre

Research Square20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6933988/v1

So the Bone Flap Hit the Floor, Now What? An In Vitro Comparison of Cadaveric Bone Flap Decontamination Procedures.

Marion A, Lévesque S, Touchette C, Villeneuve SA, Huppé-Gignac B, Martin P, Arsenault C, Iorio-Morin C

Neurosurgery20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000003289 PMID: 39570728

The response of Canada’s clinical health research ecosystem to the COVID-19 pandemic

Lamontagne F, Masse M-H, Yarnell C, Camirand-Lemyre F, Lévesque S, Domingue M-P, O’Hearn K, Watpool I, Hoogenes J, Sprague S

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL20245 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.230760

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Simon Lévesque

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Unmasking the hidden catalyst: How infections trigger Alzheimer's disease.

Unmasking the hidden catalyst: How infections trigger Alzheimer’s disease

Diagnosis of chlamydial and gonococcal conjunctivitis: performance evaluation of a nucleic acid amplification test

Phenotyping the responses to systemic corticosteroids in the management of asthma attacks (PRISMA).

Investigation of mobile genetic elements and their association with antibiotic resistance genes in clinical pathogens worldwide

Global emergence of Acinetobacter baumannii International Clone 12 predominantly found in the Middle East.

Syphilitic bi-valvular endocarditis and myocarditis: modern tools applied to long-forgotten complications of a re-emerging disease.

Revisiting VERTIGO and VERTIGO-CI: Identifying confidentiality breaches and introducing a statistically sound, efficient alternative

So the Bone Flap Hit the Floor, Now What? An In Vitro Comparison of Cadaveric Bone Flap Decontamination Procedures.

The response of Canada’s clinical health research ecosystem to the COVID-19 pandemic

National platform for robotized multi-viral RNA detection and strain identification

Building an Interdisciplinary Research Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Conflicts (G2-ARC)

Frequent collaborators

Philippe Martin

Louis-Patrick Haraoui

Caroline Quach

Sébastien Faucher

Alex Carignan

Cécile Tremblay

Jean Longtin

Yves Longtin

Louis Valiquette

Charles Ramassamy

Tamàs Fulop

Abdelouahed Khalil

Félix Lemyre

Claude Fortin

Isabelle Dionne

Matthew Cheng

Hugues Allard-Chamard

Alain Piché

Alexis Turgeon

Alfredo Menendez

Felix Camirand Lemyre

André Cantin

Sheela Ramanathan

Subburaj Ilangumaran

Simon Couillard

Émilie Bédard

Sadjia Bekal

François Coutlée

Amanda Lang