Resident Research
Medical Microbiology specialty training objectives emphasize resident research as an essential competency. The University of Alberta Medical Microbiology residency program ensures each resident has means and opportunity to learn and conduct research activities/projects to fulfill specialty requirements and equip the learners with necessary tools for their future professional career.
Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. The TCPS 2: CORE Online course consists of eight modules focusing on the guidance in TCPS 2 that is applicable to all research regardless of discipline or methodology. The purpose of TCPS 2: CORE is to provide an introduction to TCPS 2, primarily for researchers and, secondarily, for REB members.
Sign up for the course here: TCPS 2 Online Course on Research Ethics
Published Research:
Heather Glassman, Christina Ferrato, Linda Chui. (2022). Epidemiology of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in the Province of Alberta, Canada, from 2018 to 2021. Microorganisms 2022, 10(4), 814. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10040814 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Know Your Enemy: Improved Understanding, Detection, Control, and Therapy for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infection)
Kanji JN, Bailey A, Fenton J, Ling SH, Rivera R, Plitt S, Sligl WI, Taylor S, Turnbull L, Tipples G, Charlton CL. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies formed in response to the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1237 mRNA vaccine by commercial antibody tests. Vaccine. 2021 Sep 15;39(39):5563-5570. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.08.022. Epub 2021 Aug 11. PMID: 34454782; PMCID: PMC8354789.
Zhuo, R., Ding, X., Freedman, S.B., Lee, B.E., Ali, S., Luong, J., Xie, J., Chui, L., Wu, Y., Pang, X., On behalf of the Alberta Provincial Pediatric EnTeric Infection TEam (APPETITE). (2021). Molecular epidemiology of human sapovirus among children with acute gastroenteritis in western Canada. J Clin Microbiol 59:e00986-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00986-21
Ifueko J. Adeghe, Kabbani, D., Dingle, T.C., Chen, (2021). J. Abstract. Impact of Infectious Diseases Consultation and Theoretical Management Bundle in patients with Candidemia. Abstract. ID Week Sep 29 – Oct 3, 2021. Session: Blood Stream infections and Sepsis. IDWeek Link to Presentation ID Week Trainee Award
Sara Belga, Clayton MacDonald, Diana Chiang, Dima Kabbani, Soroush Shojai, Juan G Abraldes, Carlos Cervera. (2021). Donor Graft Cytomegalovirus Serostatus and the Risk of Arterial and Venous Thrombotic Events in Seronegative Recipients After Non-Thoracic Solid Organ Transplantation, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 72(5), March 2021, Pages 845–852. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa125
Ifueko J Adeghe, Maureen Buchanan-Chell, Geoff Taylor, Stephanie W Smith. (2020). Does Screening for Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) Prevent Infection: A Single Centre Retrospective Cohort Study in Alberta . PI Dr.Smith. Abstract published in JAMMI VOL 5 October 2020 (Abstract 057, page 30). https://jammi.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jammi.5.issue-s1
Charlton CL, Kanji JN, Johal K, Bailey A, Plitt SS, MacDonald C, Kunst A, Buss E, Burnes LE, Fonseca K, Berenger BM, Schnabl K, Hu J, Stokes W, Zelyas N, Tipples G. (2020). Evaluation of six commercial mid to high volume antibody and six point of care lateral flow assays for detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Published online July 14, 2020 in Journal of Clinical Microbiology. https://jcm.asm.org/content/58/10/e01361-20
Bohdan Savaryn, Martha Decker, Carrie Ye, Julinor Bacani, Stan Houston. (2019). An atypical case of Whipple’s disease presenting as fever of unknown origin: A brief review. https://doi.org/10.3138/jammi.2018-0038. Published Online July 30, 2019. https://jammi.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/jammi.2018-0038
Luiz F. Lisboa, Jonas Szelewicki , Alex Lin , Sarah Latonas , Vincent Li , Shuai Zhi, Brendon D. Parsons , Byron Berenger ,Sumana Fathima, Linda Chui. (2019). Epidemiology of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157 in the Province of Alberta, Canada, 2009–2016.Toxins. 2019 Oct; 11(10): 613 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6832344/
Carmen L. Charlton, Jamil N. Kanji, Kam Johal, Ashley Bailey, Sabrina S. Plitt, Clayton MacDonald, Andrea Kunst, Emily Buss, Laura E. Burnes, Kevin Fonseca, Byron M. Berenger, Kareena Schnabl, Jia Hu, William Stokes, Nathan Zelyas, and Graham Tipples. (2020). Evaluation of six commercial mid to high volume antibody and six point of care 2 lateral flow assays for detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. CM Accepted Manuscript Posted Online 14 July 2020. J. Clin. Microbiol. https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/jcm.01361-20
Angela Ma, Heather Glassman, Linda Chui. (2019). Characterization of Escherichia coli possessing the locus of heat resistance isolated from human cases of acute gastroenteritis. Received 23 May 2019, Revised 26 November 2019, Accepted 7 December 2019, Available online 11 December 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2019.103400