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Presenting Author |
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| Activity of Lefamulin versus Streptococcus pneumoniae Respiratory and Blood Isolates: CANWARD Surveillance Study 2015-2018 |
Heather Adam |
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| Usage Patterns of Intravenous Ceftolozane-tazobactam in Canada; Preliminary Results of the CLEAR (Canadian LEadership on Antimicrobial Real-life Usage) Registry |
Heather Adam |
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| Does Screening for Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) Prevent Infection: A Single Centre Retrospective Cohort Study in Alberta |
Ifueko Adeghe |
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| Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection Linked to the Contaminated Heater Cooler Device Outbreak Strain Post Recommendations for Risk Mitigation Measures |
Céline Allen |
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| Use of Atypical Coverage for the Treatment of Community-acquired Pneumonia in the Emergency Department at a Major Teaching Hospital |
Katherin Badke |
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| Procalcitonin Measurement in West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease: First Case Series |
Cheyanne Boehm |
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| Detection of Toxoplasma Gondii by an In-House Duplex Real Time PCR Assay for Aqueous/Vitreous Fluid Samples |
Samuel Bourassa-Blanchette |
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| Screening and use of Contact Precautions for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Long-Term Care Facilities: Assessing health outcomes, costs and cost-effectiveness |
Justin Boyle & Dalton Budhram |
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| How to prevent surgical site infection after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair? Patients must be submitted to surgery as soon as possible! |
Luiza Buchemi Cardosa |
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| β-Lactam Exposure Outcome in Patients with a Documented Allergy to Penicillins Post-Implementation of a New Electronic Medical Record System and Alerting Rules at a Canadian Hospital |
Brittany Buffone |
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| Near-patient Diagnostic Laboratory Testing – Adoption of Respiratory Multiplex Panel PCR in a Canadian Remote Hospital Improves Patient Flow |
Georgia Carr |
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| The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good: A New Pragmatic Audit Method (Rotating Opportunistic Prevalence Audit) is Effective at Delineating Rampant Misuse of Ciprofloxacin in a Canadian Teaching Hospital |
Justin Chen |
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| Development of a Corynebacterium diphtheriae Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing (cgMLST) Scheme |
Samuel Chorlton |
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| Application of Quality Indicators for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in a Tertiary Care Centre |
Matthew Clifford-Rashotte |
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| Determination of the OptimalC. auris Screening Culture Procedure |
Antoine Corbeil |
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| An Atypical Presentation of Right-sided Native Valve Endocarditis |
Daniel Doyle |
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| Characterization of Non-PCV-13 Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPN) Serotypes 22F and 33F Causing Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) in Canada: SAVE Study 2011-2018 |
Thomas Fear |
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| The Evolving Geographic Distribution and Minimum Infection Rate of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and Borrelia miyamotoi in Manitoba, Canada from 1995 to 2017 |
Cheryl Foo |
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| Systematic review of studies comparing management strategies for cerebrospinal shunt infection |
Dolores Freire Jijon |
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| Comparison of hospital acquired and community acquired blood stream infections in pediatric oncology patients with central lines |
Dolores Freire Jijon |
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| Blood culture collection volumes and pathogen yield at a tertiary care children’s hospital before and after implementation of a weight-based blood culture guide |
David Goldfarb |
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| Multi-centre study on risk factors for surgical site infection after clean surgery in developing countries |
Barbara Gomez |
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| Evaluation of Vitek II™ (VT2), Penicillin Disk Susceptibility Testing (DST), and Nitrocephin testing for detecting the presence of blaZ-Postivity in Bacteraemic Isolates of Methicillin-Susceptible S.aureus (MSSA). |
Daniel Gregson |
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| Verification of SeeGene’s Allplex Entero-DR Assay |
Bryn Hazlett |
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| Verification of a Lyophilized Custom Sensititre Broth Microdilution (BMD) Panel for Resistant Gram-negative Organisms (R-GN) |
Bryn Hazlett |
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Verification of Gradient Strip Susceptibility Testing Methods for Resistant Gram-negative Organisms
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Bryn Hazlett |
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| Candida auris Misidentified as Candia lusitaniae using the VitekMS MALDI-TOF (IVD Knowledge Base 3.0) |
Bryn Hazlett |
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| Verification of Fosfomycin Susceptibilty Testing Methods for Gram-negative Organisms |
Bryn Hazlett |
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| Universal Masking To Prevent Nosocomial Respiratory Viral Infections In Malignant Hematology Inpatient Units |
Susy Hota |
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| Clinical Outcomes of Patients with RecurrentClostridioides difficile Infection (rCDI) Treated with Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) through the Microbiota Therapeutics Outcomes |
Susy Hota |
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| Development of a tick-borne pathogen real-time PCR panel for the detection of Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and Borrelia spp. |
Ji-in Hum |
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| Diagnostic Challenges in Flavivirus Encephalitis |
Arif Ismail |
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| The effect of varicella vaccination on the incidence of herpes zoster |
Bhreagh Phipps |
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| A Case of Chronic Q fever Presenting as Multiple Subcutaneous Abscesses and Possible Transmission of Q Fever from Kissing |
Nadine Khalil |
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| Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Sapovirus Infection In Patients With Acute Gastroenteritis In Hamilton, Canada |
Patrick Kim |
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| How to recover a lost vaccine acceptance? An interim analysis of a multi-center questionnaire survey for HPV vaccine in Japan. |
Taito Kitano |
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| Usage patterns of intravenous ceftobiprole in Canada: Preliminary results of the CLEAR (Canadian LEadership on Antimicrobial Real-life Usage) registry |
Philippe Lagacé-Wiens |
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| Salmonella Typhimurium Carotid Artery Mycotic Aneurysm |
Xena Li |
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| Impact of MALDI Mass Spectroscopy on Antibiotic Treatment of Gram-Negative Organisms |
Calvin Lo |
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| Carnobacterium inhibens Isolated in Blood Culture of an Immunosuppressed, Metastatic Cancer Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review |
Carson Lo |
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| Evaluation of Multiple Genomic Tools for Predicting Relatedness of Serratia marcescens in a BC Outbreak |
Kim Macdonald |
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| Integrated Genomic wgMLST Surveillance of Salmonella Enteritidis in Humans and Agriculture in BC in 2016 – A Pilot Study |
Kim Macdonald |
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| Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infections Following Open Heart Surgery in Children |
Matthew Magyar |
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| Bad Gut Feelings: An Unusual and Challenging Case of Disseminated Mycobacterium aviumComplex in a Renal Transplant Recipient |
Ryan Marinovich |
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| Physician Experiences on Implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship Rounds in Pediatric Hospital Medicine: An Exploratory, Qualitative Analysis |
Megan McCreary |
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| Derivation of Monthly Testing Windows to Optimize Use of Molecular Testing for Diagnosis of Viral Respiratory Infections in Adults: An 8-year Retrospective Study |
Glenn Patriquin |
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| Cystic Neutrophilic Granulomatous Mastitis: A Review of 12 Consecutive Cases from a Canadian Centre |
Glenn Patriquin |
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| Epidemiologic and Molecular Analysis of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Puerperal Sepsis: Clinical Consequences and Policy Implications |
Amro Qaddoura |
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| Follow-up Survey to the Impact of New Electronic Medical Record System and Implementation of Hard Stop on Duration of Antimicrobials |
Nicky Rai |
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| Performance of HB&L Uroquattro analyzer for the detection of uropathogens in pediatric population |
Hatem Al Rawahi |
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| Group A Streptococcus Rectovaginal Colonization in Pregnancy |
Margot Rosentha |
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| Old Is New: Resuscitating Shared Clinical Experience Around Antepartum Management Options For Congenital Syphilis |
Margot Rosentha |
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| Mycotic Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Caused by Streptococcus equi |
Danielle Schwartz |
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| Interference of Psychotropic Medications (Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, and Benzodiazepines) on the Response to Penicillin Skin Test Histamine Positive Control |
Jonathan Schwarz |
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| Multifocal Tuberculous Osteomyelitis in an 11-year-old Indigenous Male from Northwestern Ontario: Clinical Vignette and Literature Review |
Milena Semproni |
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| The Unreliability of Caspofungin Testing in Predicting Echinocandin Susceptibility Among Clinical Isolates of Candida glabrata |
Yahya Shabi |
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| Antibiogram of Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms in British Columbia |
Kieran Shah |
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| Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms and Enteric Pathogens in Stool Donors |
Kathleen Simms |
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| Macrolide Resistance in Pharyngeal Isolates of Group A Streptococcus (GAS) from Nova Scotia, Canada |
Carolyn Smith |
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| Lab-generated warnings of invasive Staphylococcus aureus disease, when S. aureus bacteriuria is detected, is associated with improved management |
William Stokes |
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| Comparison of the Allplex Respiratory Virus Essential Assay to Luminex NxTAG Respiratory Pathogen Panel for detection of respiratory viruses |
Claire Swanston |
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| Comparison of the Allplex Respiratory Panels RP1a, RP2, RP3 and Pneumobacter to Luminex NxTAG Respiratory Pathogen Panel for detection of respiratory pathogens |
Claire Swanston |
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| Comparison of Cost and Performance of Seegene Entero-DR, GeneXpert Carba-R and NG-Test Carba-5 Lateral Flow Assays in detecting Carbapenemase Producing Organisms |
Claire Swanston |
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| Comparison of CHROMagar SuperCarba agar to a Locally Developed Test from detection of Carbapenemase Producing Organisms from Screening Specimens |
Claire Swanston |
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| Assessment of MALDI-TOF MS Identification of Filamentous Fungi in Clinical Microbiology Laboratory |
Claire Swanston |
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| The Use of Neuraminidase Inhibitors in Healthcare Workers – A Systematic Review |
Fazia Tadount |
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| Impact of Infant 13-valent Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccination Program on Acute Otitis Media in young children in British Columbia, Canada |
Nirma Vadlamudi |
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| Acute Laryngitis and Acute Pharyngitis in the era of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines |
Nirma Vadlamudi |
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| Has Provincial Infant Vaccination Program with 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Changed Acute Sinusitis Epidemiology in British Columbia, Canada? |
Nirma Vadlamudi |
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| A Novel Intervention to Increase Stethoscope Hygiene: Stethoscope Cleaning Stations |
Alon Vaisman |
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| VRE Screening and Isolation: One Size Does Not Fit All |
Alon Vaisman |
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| Transient Mucor circinelloides Fungemia in a Patient with Known Intravenous Drug Use: A Case Report |
Nicole Veltri |
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| Assessment of Antimicrobial Prescribing Practice and Culture in a Quaternary Care Teaching Hospital |
Camille Pelletier Vernooy |
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| Implementation and Year 3 Outcomes of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in a Community Hospital |
Evan Wilson |
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