[HTML][HTML] Low 2012–13 influenza vaccine effectiveness associated with mutation in the egg-adapted H3N2 vaccine strain not antigenic drift in circulating viruses

…, S Sabaiduc, A Eshaghi, JA Dickinson, K Fonseca… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) is generally interpreted in the context of
vaccine match/mismatch to circulating strains with evolutionary drift in the latter invoked to …

Effect of influenza vaccination of children on infection rates in Hutterite communities: a randomized trial

M Loeb, ML Russell, L Moss, K Fonseca, J Fox… - Jama, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Context Children and adolescents appear to play an important role in the transmission of
influenza. Selectively vaccinating youngsters against influenza may interrupt virus transmission …

[HTML][HTML] Association between the 2008–09 seasonal influenza vaccine and pandemic H1N1 illness during spring–summer 2009: four observational studies from …

…, DJ Willison, I Rouleau, M Petric, K Fonseca… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background In late spring 2009, concern was raised in Canada that prior vaccination with the
2008–09 trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) was associated with increased risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Case report: first case of Zika virus infection in a returning Canadian traveler

K Fonseca, B Meatherall, D Zarra… - The American journal …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A woman who recently traveled to Thailand came to a local emergency department with a
fever and papular rash. She was tested for measles, malaria, and dengue. Positive finding for …

Effects of school closure on incidence of pandemic influenza in Alberta, Canada

DJD Earn, D He, MB Loeb, K Fonseca… - Annals of internal …, 2012 - acpjournals.org
Background: Control of pandemic influenza by social-distancing measures, such as school
closures, is a controversial aspect of pandemic planning. However, investigations of the …

Serial vaccination and the antigenic distance hypothesis: effects on influenza vaccine effectiveness during A (H3N2) epidemics in Canada, 2010–2011 to 2014–2015

…, JA Dickinson, JB Gubbay, K Fonseca… - The Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background. The antigenic distance hypothesis (ADH) predicts that negative interference from
prior season’s influenza vaccine (v1) on the current season’s vaccine (v2) protection may …

Evaluation of six commercial mid-to high-volume antibody and six point-of-care lateral flow assays for detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

…, A Kunst, E Buss, LE Burnes, K Fonseca… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Coronavirus disease (COVID) serological tests are essential to determine the overall
seroprevalence of a population and to facilitate exposure estimates within that population. We …

Influenza A/subtype and B/lineage effectiveness estimates for the 2011–2012 trivalent vaccine: cross-season and cross-lineage protection with unchanged vaccine

…, JB Gubbay, JA Dickinson, K Fonseca… - The Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background. We estimate vaccine effectiveness (VE) against both influenza A/subtypes and
B/lineages in Canada for the 2011–2012 trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) with …

REO-001: A phase I trial of percutaneous intralesional administration of reovirus type 3 dearing (Reolysin®) in patients with advanced solid tumors

DG Morris, X Feng, LM DiFrancesco, K Fonseca… - Investigational new …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose This open-labeled, phase I clinical trial was designed to determine the safety and
tolerability of percutaneous intralesional administration of wild-type oncolytic revovirus type 3 …

A sentinel platform to evaluate influenza vaccine effectiveness and new variant circulation, Canada 2010–2011 season

…, JL Gardy, J Gubbay, K Fonseca… - Clinical infectious …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background. During the 2010–2011 winter, a large number of outbreaks due to influenza A/H3N2
at long-term care facilities, including higher-than-expected attack rates among …