Predicting infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from diagnostic samples

…, Y Li, PG Van Caeseele, G Poliquin - Clinical infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has become the
primary method to diagnose viral diseases, including severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission in the North American deer mouse

…, LR Lindsay, CM Jardine, H Wood, G Poliquin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Widespread circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in humans raises the theoretical risk of reverse
zoonosis events with wildlife, reintroductions of SARS-CoV-2 into permissive nondomesticated …

Salivary detection of COVID-19

…, K Antonation, N Bastien, G Poliquin… - Annals of internal …, 2021 - acpjournals.org
Background: Standard testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
requires a nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swab but is limited by modest sensitivity, …

Infectivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in children compared with adults

…, D Alexander, P Van Caeseele, C Loeppky, G Poliquin - Cmaj, 2021 - Can Med Assoc
BACKGROUND: The role of children in the transmission and community spread of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is unclear. We aimed to quantify the …

Immunogenicity and safety of a tri-antigenic versus a mono-antigenic hepatitis B vaccine in adults (PROTECT): a randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial

…, N Segall, BJ Ward, C Cooper, G Poliquin… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The seroprotection rate (SPR) of hepatitis B vaccination in adults is suboptimal.
The aim of this study was to compare the SPR of a tri-antigenic hepatitis B vaccine (TAV), …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of RSV infant and maternal immunization programs: A case study of Nunavik, Canada

S Nourbakhsh, A Shoukat, K Zhang, G Poliquin… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Despite passive immunization with palivizumab to select high-risk children
under two years of age, the health and economic burden of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) …

[HTML][HTML] Persistence of live virus in critically ill patients infected with SARS-COV-2: a prospective observational study

…, L Garnett, K Doan, K Dust, A Kumar, G Poliquin… - Critical Care, 2022 - Springer
Background Research on the duration of infectivity of ICU patients with COVID-19 has been
sparse. Tests based on Reverse Transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detect …

[HTML][HTML] Simulated sunlight decreases the viability of SARS-CoV-2 in mucus

…, D Kobasa, DR Stein, D Safronetz, G Poliquin - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has spread into a pandemic since its emergence in
Wuhan, China in December of 2019. This has been facilitated by its high transmissibility within …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of a novel STAT 2 knock-out hamster model of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus pathogenesis

C Ranadheera, EJ Valcourt, BM Warner, G Poliquin… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a tick-borne pathogen causing a febrile
illness in humans, which can progress to hemorrhagic manifestations, multi-organ failure, …

North American deer mice are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2

…, LR Lindsay, CM Jardine, H Wood, G Poliquin… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The zoonotic spillover of the pandemic SARS-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from an animal
reservoir, currently presumed to be the Chinese horseshoe bat, into a naïve human …