A5082863784- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Quality and Management Systems
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Travel-related health issues
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Technology Assessment and Management
- Engineering and Material Science Research
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
- Disaster Response and Management
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Parasites and Host Interactions
Public Health Ontario
2024
Public Health Agency of Canada
2023
University of Guelph
2020-2022
Ontario Veterinary College
2020
The aim of this study was to describe the impact COVID-19 pandemic on reported cases and clusters select enteric diseases in Canada, for period March 2020 December 2020. Weekly counts laboratory confirmed Salmonella, Shigella, Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC), Listeria monocytogenes were obtained from surveillance data. These data supplemented with epidemiological information suspected source illness, collected identified within whole genome sequencing clusters. Incidence rate...
In February 2022, the United Kingdom (UK) detected a cluster of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium based on whole genome sequencing (WGS). Subsequently, several countries reported cases belonging to this cluster. Epidemiological, microbiological and traceability investigations pointed toward chocolate food business operator (FBO) in Belgium. We describe magnitude outbreak, performed control measures taken. Cases were ascertained internationally agreed case definitions interviewed about...
Disasters and disease outbreaks have long been a catalyst for innovative applications of emerging technologies. The urgent need to respond an emergency leads resourceful uses the technologies at hand. However, best most cost-effective use new is prevent improve resilience. In this paper, authors present range approaches through which both opportunities can be grasped. Global connectedness enables more data collected processed in emergencies, especially with rise open-source data, including...
Abstract We identified 2 cases of Salmonella enterica serovar Vitkin infection linked by whole-genome sequencing in infants Ontario, Canada, during 2022. Both households the reported having bearded dragons as pets. The outbreak strain was also isolated from an environmental sample collected a patient’s dragon enclosure. Twelve were detected United States, and onset dates occurred March 2021–September 2022 (isolates related to isolates Canada within 0–9 allele differences core-genome...
Event Abstract Back to Reporting items in disease mapping: A knowledge synthesis evaluating zoonotic infectious diseases Inthuja Selvaratnam1*, Olaf Berke1, Abhinand Thaivalappil1, Jamie Imada1, Monica Vythilingam1, Andrew Beardsall1, Gillian Hachborn1, Mohamed Ugas1, Russell Forrest1 and Jan M. Sargeant1 1 Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University Guelph, Canada Background: The increasing availability spatial data mapping software makes widely practiced...
<sec> <title>UNSTRUCTURED</title> The emergence of COVID-19 spurred the formation myriad teams to tackle every conceivable aspect virus and thwart its spread. Enabled by global digital connectedness, collaboration has become a constant theme throughout pandemic, resulting in expedition scientific process (including vaccine development), rapid consolidation outbreak data statistics, experimentation with novel partnerships. To document evolution these collaborative efforts, authors collected...