Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was introduced into Canada by a
visitor to Hong Kong who returned to Toronto on Feb. 23, 2003. Transmission to a family …

We determined correlations between SARS-CoV-2 load in untreated water and COVID-19
cases and patient hospitalizations before the Omicron variant (September 2020–November …

Background: Cutaneous atypical mycobacterial infections have been increasingly described
in association with cosmetic and alternative procedures. Objective: We report an outbreak …

Background Understanding transmission dynamics of the pandemic influenza A (H1N1)
virus in various exposure settings and determining whether transmissibility differed from …

In 2003, a survey examining infection control and antimicrobial restriction policies and practices
for preventing the emergence and transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus …

Background Despite the growing popularity of syndromic surveillance, little is known about
if or how these systems are accepted, utilized and valued by end users. This study seeks to …

Background In 2002, the City of Ottawa was interested in the public perception of West Nile
Virus (WNV) and mosquito control. Their objectives were to assess: awareness of WNV, …

Immigrant travelers who visit friends and relatives (VFR travelers) experience substantially
higher rates of travel-related infections than other travelers, in part due to low uptake of …

Immigrants traveling to their birth countries to visit friends or relatives are disproportionately
affected by travel-related infections, in part because most preventive travel health services …

… , laboratory, and epidemiologic variables for all TB cases into … interspersed repetitive
unit–variable number tandem repeat (… genotyping results with key variables from other data …