Assessing Health Research and Innovation Impact: Evolution of a Framework and Tools in Alberta, Canada

Autor: Kathryn E. R. Graham, Deanne Langlois-Klassen, Sagal A. M. Adam, Liza Chan, Heidi L. Chorzempa

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, Vol 3 (2018)

Publicly funded research and innovation (R&I) organizations around the world are facing increasing demands to demonstrate the impacts of their investments. In most cases, these demands are shifting from academically based outputs to impacts that bene

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Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Strains, Alberta, Canada, 1991–2007

Autor: Deanne Langlois-Klassen, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, Linda Chui, Dennis Kunimoto, L. Duncan Saunders, Dick Menzies, Richard Long

Publikováno v: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 19, Iss 5, Pp 701-711 (2013)

Beijing strains are speculated to have a selective advantage over other Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains because of increased transmissibility and virulence. In Alberta, a province of Canada that receives a large number of immigrants, we conducted

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A population-based cohort study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains: an emerging public health threat in an immigrant-receiving country?

Autor: Deanne Langlois-Klassen, Dennis Kunimoto, L Duncan Saunders, Linda Chui, Jody Boffa, Dick Menzies, Richard Long

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 6, p e38431 (2012)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains are frequently associated with tuberculosis outbreaks and drug resistance. However, contradictory evidence and limited study generalizability make it difficult to foresee if the emergence of Beijing strains

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Towards the elimination of paediatric tuberculosis in high-income, immigrant-receiving countries: a 25-year conventional and molecular epidemiological case study

Autor: Linda Chui, Angela Lau, Richard Long, Ravi Bhargava, Dennis Kunimoto, Vivek Dhawan, Deanne Langlois-Klassen, Simon M Collin, Jennifer Bown

Publikováno v: ERJ Open Research, Vol 4, Iss 2 (2018)
Dhawan, V, Bown, J, Lau, A, Langlois-Klassen, D, Kunimoto, D, Bhargava, R, Chui, L, Collin, S & Long, R 2018, ' Towards the elimination of paediatric tuberculosis in high-income, immigrant-receiving countries: a 25-year conventional and molecular epidemiological case study ', ERJ Open Research . https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00131-2017
ERJ Open Research

The epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in high-income countries is increasingly dictated by immigration. The influence of this trend on paediatric TB and TB elimination are not well defined. We undertook a 25-year conventional and molecular epidemiolo

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http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/4/2/00131-2017.full

The Tuberculin Skin Test Is Unreliable in School Children BCG-vaccinated in Infancy and at Low Risk of Tuberculosis Infection

Autor: Andrea Warman, Dennis Kunimoto, Sandy Jacobs, Jure Manfreda, Sandy Cockburn, Jody Boffa, Gregory J. Tyrrell, Richard Long, Denise Whittaker, Angela Lau, Deanne Langlois-Klassen, Geetu Verma, Wadieh Yacoub, Ruth Richardson

Publikováno v: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 30:754-758

BACKGROUND The tuberculin skin test (TST) is often used to screen for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in school children, many of whom were bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-vaccinated in infancy. The reliability of the TST in such children is unkno

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https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0b013e31821b8f54