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h-index: 52
Works: 252
Citations: 12K

Most-cited papers

Acute Myocardial Infarction after Laboratory‐Confirmed Influenza Infection
J. Kwong, K. Schwartz, M. Campitelli, H. Chung +12 more
2018New England Journal of Medicine1,013 citations
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Adjunctive vitamin D for treatment of active tuberculosis in India: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
P. Daley, V. Jagannathan, K. John, J. Sarojini +7 more
2015Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print)130 citations
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Real-time PCR-based SARS-CoV-2 detection in Canadian laboratories
J. LeBlanc, J. Gubbay, Yan Li, R. Needle +24 more
2020Journal of Clinical Virology122 citations Open access
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Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia: The SAFER Randomized Clinical Trial.
J. Pernica, Stuart Harman, April J. Kam, Redjana Carciumaru +10 more
2021JAMA pediatrics107 citations Open access
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Integrating programmable DNAzymes with electrical readout for rapid and culture-free bacterial detection using a handheld platform
Richa Pandey, Ding-Ran Chang, M. Smieja, T. Hoare +2 more
2021Nature Chemistry102 citations
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Effect of Vitamin D supplementation to reduce respiratory infections in children and adolescents in Vietnam: A randomized controlled trial
M. Loeb, A. Dang, T. Vu, Vitheya Thanabalan +8 more
2019Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses75 citations Open access
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Effectiveness of Monovalent Rotavirus Vaccine After Programmatic Implementation in Botswana: A Multisite Prospective Case-Control Study.
P. Gastañaduy, A. Steenhoff, M. Mokomane, M. Esona +8 more
2016Clinical Infectious Diseases75 citations
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Comparison of Copan ESwab and FLOQSwab for COVID-19 Diagnosis: Working around a Supply Shortage
C. Vermeiren, X. Marchand-Senécal, Elena Sheldrake, D. Bulir +4 more
2020Journal of Clinical Microbiology62 citations Open access
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Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Among Patients With Cancer: A Population-Based Study Using Health Administrative and Laboratory Testing Data From Ontario, Canada.
P. Blanchette, H. Chung, K. Pritchard, C. Earle +17 more
2019Journal of Clinical Oncology50 citations Open access
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The Nasopharyngeal Microbiota of Children with Respiratory Infections in Botswana
M. Kelly, M. Surette, M. Smieja, J. Pernica +15 more
2017The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal49 citations Open access
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Probiotics to Prevent Respiratory Infections in Nursing Homes: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Biao Wang, Tammy Hylwka, M. Smieja, M. Surrette +2 more
2018Journal of The American Geriatrics Society47 citations
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DNAzyme-Immobilizing Microgel Magnetic Beads Enable Rapid, Specific, Culture-Free, and Wash-Free Electrochemical Quantification of Bacteria in Untreated Urine.
Richa Pandey, Yang Lu, Enas A. Osman, Survanshu Saxena +7 more
2022ACS Sensors41 citations
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A predictive model to differentiate dengue from other febrile illness
E. Fernández, M. Smieja, S. Walter, M. Loeb
2016BMC Infectious Diseases39 citations Open access
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Correlation of Clinical Outcomes With Multiplex Molecular Testing of Stool From Children Admitted to Hospital With Gastroenteritis in Botswana.
J. Pernica, A. Steenhoff, H. Welch, M. Mokomane +7 more
2016Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society38 citations Open access
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Pandemic Planning in Homeless Shelters: A pilot study of a COVID-19 testing and support program to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in congregate settings
Timothy O’Shea, C. Bodkin, Vaibhav Mokashi, Kerry Beal +6 more
2020Clinical Infectious Diseases35 citations Open access
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Can routinely collected laboratory and health administrative data be used to assess influenza vaccine effectiveness? Assessing the validity of the Flu and Other Respiratory Viruses Research (FOREVER) Cohort.
J. Kwong, S. Buchan, H. Chung, M. Campitelli +15 more
2019Vaccine35 citations Open access
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Overview of systematic reviews on strategies to improve treatment initiation, adherence to antiretroviral therapy and retention in care for people living with HIV: part 1
L. Mbuagbaw, A. Hajizadeh, Annie Wang, D. Mertz +11 more
2020BMJ Open34 citations Open access
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Vaccine effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations among young children during the 2010-11 to 2013-14 influenza seasons in Ontario, Canada
S. Buchan, H. Chung, M. Campitelli, N. Crowcroft +13 more
2017PLoS ONE33 citations Open access
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Non-diphtheriae Corynebacterium species are associated with decreased risk of pneumococcal colonization during infancy
M. Kelly, C. Plunkett, Yahe Yu, J. Aquino +17 more
2021The ISME Journal29 citations Open access
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The impact of repeated vaccination using 10-year vaccination history on protection against influenza in older adults: a test-negative design study across the 2010/11 to 2015/16 influenza seasons in Ontario, Canada
J. Kwong, H. Chung, James K. H. Jung, S. Buchan +15 more
2020Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin29 citations Open access
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Estimating the Incidence of First RSV Hospitalization in Children Born in Ontario, Canada
S. Buchan, H. Chung, T. To, N. Daneman +17 more
2023Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society27 citations Open access
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Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing Hospitalizations in Older Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
A. Gershon, H. Chung, J. Porter, M. Campitelli +16 more
2019Journal of Infectious Diseases27 citations Open access
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COVID-19 international border surveillance at Toronto’s Pearson Airport: a cohort study
V. Goel, D. Bulir, E. De Prophetis, Munaza Jamil +4 more
2021BMJ Open26 citations Open access
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Mycoplasma genitalium Antibiotic Resistance-Mediating Mutations in Canadian Women With or Without Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection.
M. Chernesky, D. Jang, I. Martin, L. Hoang +8 more
2017Sexually Transmitted Diseases26 citations
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Trends and Correlates of Cigarette Smoking and Its Impacts on Health-Related Quality of Life Among People Living with HIV: Findings from the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study, 2008–2014
T. Bekele, S. Rueda, S. Gardner, J. Raboud +6 more
2017AIDS Patients Care and STDs26 citations
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Rapid enteric testing to permit targeted antimicrobial therapy, with and without Lactobacillus reuteri probiotics, for paediatric acute diarrhoeal disease in Botswana: A pilot, randomized, factorial, controlled trial
J. Pernica, A. Steenhoff, M. Mokomane, Banno Moorad +8 more
2017PLoS ONE23 citations Open access
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Prolonged oral vancomycin for secondary prophylaxis of relapsing Clostridium difficile infection
Kevin Zhang, Patricia Beckett, Salaheddin Abouanaser, Vida Stankus +2 more
2019BMC Infectious Diseases21 citations Open access
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Ease, Comfort, and Performance of the HerSwab Vaginal Self-Sampling Device for the Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Manuel Arias, D. Jang, J. Gilchrist, K. Luinstra +3 more
2016Sexually Transmitted Diseases21 citations
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Review—Point-of-Care Urinalysis with Emerging Sensing and Imaging Technologies
Eric Mahoney, Jessica Kun, M. Smieja, Q. Fang
2020Journal of the Electrochemical Society20 citations Open access
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HPV E6 oncoproteins and nucleic acids in neck lymph node fine needle aspirates and oral samples from patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
M. Chernesky, D. Jang, J. Schweizer, Manuel Arias +10 more
2018Papillomavirus Research20 citations Open access
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Infectious diseases, comorbidities and outcomes in hospitalized people who inject drugs (PWID)
Ja-Seong Lim, S. Pavalagantharajah, C. Verschoor, E. Lentz +14 more
2022PLoS ONE18 citations Open access
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Prevalence and predictors of low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in rural Canadian children.
Michelle Science, J. Maguire, M. Russell, M. Smieja +2 more
2017Paediatrics & child health18 citations Open access
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Development and validation of clinical prediction models to distinguish influenza from other viruses causing acute respiratory infections in children and adults
Danielle Vuichard-Gysin, D. Mertz, E. Pullenayegum, Pardeep Singh +2 more
2019PLoS ONE17 citations Open access
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Urinary Meatal Swabbing Detects More Men Infected With Mycoplasma genitalium and Four Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Than First Catch Urine.
M. Chernesky, D. Jang, M. Smieja, Manuel Arias +3 more
2017Sexually Transmitted Diseases17 citations
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Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against All-Cause Mortality Following Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza in Older Adults, 2010–2011 to 2015–2016 Seasons in Ontario, Canada
H. Chung, S. Buchan, Aaron Campigotto, M. Campitelli +15 more
2020Clinical Infectious Diseases16 citations Open access
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Strategies to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy and retention in care for people living with HIV in high-income countries: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews
L. Mbuagbaw, D. Mertz, Daeria O. Lawson, M. Smieja +8 more
2018BMJ Open16 citations Open access
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Evaluating the impact of an antimicrobial stewardship program on the length of stay of immune-competent adult patients admitted to a hospital ward with a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia: A quasi-experimental study.
G. DiDiodato, L. Mcarthur, J. Beyene, M. Smieja +1 more
2016American Journal of Infection Control16 citations
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Children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia complicated by effusion: a single-centre retrospective cohort study
Gelila Alemayheu, Claire S. Lee, Laura K. Erdman, J. Wong +4 more
2023BMC Pediatrics15 citations Open access
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Investigating the impact of quarantine on mental health: insights from the COVID-19 international border surveillance study in Canada
C. Regehr, V. Goel, E. De Prophetis, Munaza Jamil +4 more
2021BJPsych Open15 citations Open access
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Characteristics and Outcomes of Young Children Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza or Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Ontario, Canada, 2009-2014.
S. Buchan, H. Chung, T. Karnauchow, J. D. McNally +13 more
2019The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal15 citations
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Development and Evaluation of a Molecular Hepatitis A Virus Assay for Serum and Stool Specimens
R. Kozak, C. Rutherford, Melissa Richard-Greenblatt, N. Y. Elizabeth Chau +9 more
2022Viruses14 citations Open access
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Utility of asymptomatic inpatient testing for COVID-19 in a low-prevalence setting: A multicenter point-prevalence study
A. Bai, Xena X. Li, M. Alsalem, Sarah Khan +3 more
2020Infection control and hospital epidemiology14 citations Open access
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Mycoplasma genitalium, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Detected With Aptima Assays Performed on Self-Obtained Vaginal Swabs and Urine Collected at Home and in a Clinic.
M. Chernesky, D. Jang, I. Martin, Manuel Arias +5 more
2019Sexually Transmitted Diseases14 citations Open access
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A retrospective cohort study to predict severe dengue in Honduran patients
E. Fernández, M. Smieja, S. Walter, M. Loeb
2017BMC Infectious Diseases14 citations Open access
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The Use of Motion Analysis as Particle Biomarkers in Lensless Optofluidic Projection Imaging for Point of Care Urine Analysis
Jessica Kun, M. Smieja, Bo Xiong, L. Soleymani +1 more
2019Scientific Reports12 citations Open access
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Clinical spectrum and prevalence of congenital heart disease in children in Botswana.
Tiny Mazhani, A. Steenhoff, E. Tefera, Thuso David +4 more
2020Cardiovascular Journal of Africa11 citations Open access
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Comparison of Assays for the Diagnosis of Mycoplasma genitalium and Macrolide Resistance Mutations in Self-Collected Vaginal Swabs and Urine
M. Chernesky, D. Jang, I. Martin, D. Speicher +6 more
2020Sexually Transmitted Diseases11 citations Open access
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Treatment of first-void urine with Aptima Transfer Solution increases detection of high-risk HPV E6/E7 mRNA.
Manuel Arias, D. Jang, J. Dockter, S. Ratnam +7 more
2019Journal of Virological Methods11 citations
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Pneumococcal Colonization and the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota of Children in Botswana
M. Kelly, M. Surette, M. Smieja, L. Rossi +12 more
2018The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal11 citations Open access
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Optimising the management of childhood acute diarrhoeal disease using a rapid test-and- treat strategy and/or Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938: a multicentre, randomised, controlled, factorial trial in Botswana
J. Pernica, T. Arscott-Mills, A. Steenhoff, M. Mokomane +18 more
2022BMJ Global Health10 citations Open access
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