Sink-related outbreaks and mitigation strategies in healthcare facilities

LO Parkes, SS Hota - Current infectious disease reports, 2018 - Springer
Purpose of Review In this review, we summarize recent outbreaks attributed to hospital
sinks and examine design features and behaviors that contributed to these outbreaks. The …

[HTML][HTML] Visual hallucinations associated with high posaconazole concentrations in serum

LO Parkes, MP Cheng… - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Posaconazole is a triazole used for the prevention and treat-ment of fungal infections.
Unlike other mold-active azoles, posaconazole is generally well tolerated. Dose-dependent …

[HTML][HTML] River otter bite in a 52-year-old woman: managing animal bites

MP Cheng, LO Parkes, K Paquette, CP Yansouni… - CMAJ, 2016 - Can Med Assoc
… Contributors: Matthew Cheng, Leighanne Parkes and Katryn Paquette performed literature
searches and drafted the article. Todd Lee and Cedric Yansouni were responsible for clinical …

Prevalence of auto-antibodies in pulmonary tuberculosis

MP Cheng, G Butler-Laporte, LO Parkes… - Open Forum …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The relationship between pulmonary tuberculosis and auto-antibodies remains undefined.
In a study of 75 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 75 controls, the prevalence of auto-…

[HTML][HTML] A Cluster of Three Cases of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome among Canadian Military Personnel

LO Parkes, TT Nguyen, J Longtin… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - hindawi.com
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rare illness in eastern Canada. We present
three cases of HPS among military personnel in Quebec. The three cases shared a common …

Persistence of infectivity in elderly individuals diagnosed with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection 10 days after onset of symptoms: A …

Y Longtin, LO Parkes, H Charest… - Infection Control & …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We performed viral culture of nasopharyngeal specimens in individuals aged 79 and older,
infected with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), 10 days after …

Cross-reacting Ustilago maydis causing false-positive cryptococcal antigen test results

MP Cheng, TT Nguyen, LO Parkes… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cryptococcus neoformans is a yeast within the division Basidiomycota that may cause
pulmonary and central nervous system (CNS) disease. Latex agglutination (LA) and lateral flow …

[HTML][HTML] Infliximab and tofacitinib attenuate neutralizing antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2 ancestral and omicron variants in inflammatory bowel disease …

…, L Derikx, F Fiorentino, PM Irving, M Parkes… - …, 2023 - gastrojournal.org
Vaccination is an effective population strategy for preventing severe COVID-19 disease and
reducing infection transmission. 1 The emergence of new variants, particularly more …

SPLASH: the Southern Parkes Large-Area Survey in Hydroxyl–first science from the pilot region

…, H Imai, SJ Gibson, P Hennebelle, N Lo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… We do not provide positions in this work, since the Parkes beam does not allow precise
positional … We note that given the large Parkes beam and the relatively loose requirement for …

[HTML][HTML] Neutralising antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 4/5 and wild-type virus in patients with inflammatory bowel disease following three doses …

…, HRT Williams, AJ Kent, R Linger, M Parkes… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) receiving anti-TNF and JAK-inhibitor
therapy have attenuated responses to COVID-19 vaccination. We aimed to determine …