Anna Urbanek

Infections des tissus mous à Mycobacterium abscessus associées à l’injection sous-cutanée d’agents lipolytiques : un rapport d’éclosion et une nouvelle approche d’analyse en épidémiologie moléculaire

Xavier Quan-Nguyen, Nicholas Waglechner, Maxime Veillette, Pier-Alexandre Vasil et autres

Contexte : La gestion des éclosions d'infections de la peau et des tissus mous attribuables à Mycobacterium abscessus (M.abscessus) nécessite une collaboration entre les cliniciens, les autorités de santé publique et les laboratoires de référence fournissant l'identification moléculaire et le génotypage des …

Mycobacterium abscessus soft tissue infections associated with subcutaneous injection of lipolytic agents: An outbreak report and novel molecular epidemiology analysis approach

Xavier Quan-Nguyen, Nicholas Waglechner, Maxime Veillette, Pier-Alexandre Vasil et autres

Background: Management of Mycobacterium abscessus (M.abscessus) skin and soft tissue infections outbreaks require collaboration between clinicians, public health authorities and reference laboratories providing bacterial molecular identification and genotyping.Objective: This study reports on a M. abscessus skin and soft tissue outbreak linked to …

ca, us, Côte d’Ivoire (code pays fourni par la source)

P-1418. The Use of Whole Genome Sequencing and a Novel Bioinformatic Pipeline for Mycobacterium abscessus Molecular Epidemiology

Xavier Quan-Nguyen, Maxime Veillette, Nicholas Waglechner, Pier-Alexandre Vasil et autres

Abstract Background Bacterial genotyping can support outbreak investigations including skin and soft tissue infections point source outbreaks caused by Mycobacterium abscessus. This study presents an innovative approach that combines Nanopore long-read and Illumina short-read whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data using a novel bioinformatic …

ca, Côte d’Ivoire (code pays fourni par la source)

Invasive group A streptococcal infection outbreaks of type emm118 in a long-term care facility, and of type emm74 in the homeless population, Montréal, Quebec

PA Pilon, Nathalie Savard, Joséphine Aho, Jean Caron et autres

Background: Two invasive group A streptococcus (iGAS) infection outbreaks occurred in Montréal in 2016 and 2017; one in a long-term care facility (type emm118) and one in the community, primarily involving homeless people (type emm74).Objective: To describe two recent iGAS outbreaks in …

fr, ca (code pays fourni par la source)

Salmonella Thompson outbreak associated with consumption of chicken shawarma and the usefulness of genome sequencing in the investigation

Colette Gaulin, Marc Fiset, C Duchesne, Danielle Ramsay et autres

BACKGROUND: . Thompson) cases distributed throughout three border regions in the province of Quebec in November 2016 triggered a provincial investigation to identify a common source of contamination and to put the appropriate control measures into place. OBJECTIVE: To report on the …

ca, Côte d’Ivoire, fr (code pays fourni par la source)