Serratia marcescens colonization in a neonatal intensive care unit has multiple sources, with sink drains as a major reservoir

T Bourdin, MÈ Benoit, A Monnier… - Applied and …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Compelling evidence suggests a contribution of the sink environment to the transmission of
opportunistic pathogens from the hospital environment to patients in neonatal intensive care …

Methodological and reporting quality of noninferiority randomized controlled trials comparing antiretroviral therapies: a systematic review

…, O Mourad, XX Li, R Al Ohaly, MÈ Benoit… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background It is unclear whether the reporting quality of antiretroviral (ARV) noninferiority (NI)
randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has improved since the CONSORT guideline release …

Evaluation of Real-life Use of Point-of-care Rapid Antigen Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Schools (EPOCRATES): a cohort study

…, O Séguin, Z Laghdir, K Adams, MÈ Benoit… - … Open Access Journal, 2022 - cmajopen.ca
Background: SARS-CoV-2 transmission has an impact on education. In this study, we
assessed the performance of rapid antigen detection tests (RADTs) versus polymerase chain …

A high-throughput short sequence typing scheme for Serratia marcescens pure culture and environmental DNA

T Bourdin, A Monnier, MÈ Benoit… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Molecular typing methods are used to characterize the relatedness between bacterial
isolates involved in infections. These approaches rely mostly on discrete loci or whole-genome …

Infectious diseases: what you may have missed in 2022

R Al Ohaly, ME Benoit, MG Schuster - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2023 - acpjournals.org
In 2022, COVID-19 remained the infectious disease at the top of most internal medicine
physicians' minds. However, it was not the only infectious disease that was the topic of clinically …

[HTML][HTML] High-Throughput Short Sequence Typing Schemes for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Pure Culture and Environmental DNA

T Bourdin, MÈ Benoit, E Bédard, M Prévost, C Quach… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Molecular typing techniques are utilized to determine genetic similarities between bacterial
isolates. However, the use of environmental DNA profiling to assess epidemiologic links …

Evaluation of real-life use of Point-Of-Care Rapid Antigen TEsting for SARS-CoV-2 in schools for outbreak control (EPOCRATES)

…, K Zinszer, O Séguin, Z Laghdir, K Adams, MÈ Benoit… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
We evaluated the use of rapid antigen detection tests (RADT) for the diagnosis of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in school settings to …

Faucet aerator design influences aerosol size distribution and microbial contamination level

Benoit, M Prévost, A Succar, D Charron… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Faucet aerators have been linked to multiple opportunistic pathogen outbreaks in hospital,
especially Pseudomonas aeruginosa, their complex structure promoting biofilm development. …

Réingénierie de l'environnement évier afin de réduire la propagation des pathogènes opportunistes en milieu hospitalier

Benoit - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Les pathogènes opportunistes sont souvent isolés de l’environnement évier, soit au niveau
des drains et des aérateurs de robinet. Les bactéries retrouvées sur ces composantes d’…

[HTML][HTML] Innovation through wearable sensors to collect real-life data among pediatric patients with cardiometabolic risk factors

K Yan, B Tracie, M Marie-Ève, H Mélanie… - International journal of …, 2014 - hindawi.com
Background. While increasing evidence links environments to health behavior, clinicians lack
information about patients’ physical activity levels and lifestyle environments. We present …