[HTML][HTML] A Predominantly Clonal Multi-Institutional Outbreak of Clostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea with High Morbidity and Mortality

…, MD Libman, S Michaud, AM Bourgault… - … England Journal of …, 2005 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In March 2003, several hospitals in Quebec, Canada, noted a marked increase
in the incidence of Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea. Methods In 2004 we conducted …

[HTML][HTML] Host and Pathogen Factors for Clostridium difficile Infection and Colonization

VG Loo, AM Bourgault, L Poirier… - … England Journal of …, 2011 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause of health care–associated
diarrhea, and the bacterium can also be carried asymptomatically. The objective of this study …

[HTML][HTML] Ceftiofur resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg from chicken meat and humans, Canada

…, LK Ng, B Avery, P Boerlin, AM Bourgault… - Emerging infectious …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance describes a
strong correlation (r= 0.9, p< 0.0001) between ceftiofur-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar …

A Portrait of the Geographic Dissemination of the Clostridium difficile North American Pulsed-Field Type 1 Strain and the Epidemiology of C. difficile-Associated …

B Hubert, VG Loo, AM Bourgault… - Clinical infectious …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background . An increase in the incidence and severity of Clostridium difficile-associated
disease in Québec and the United States has been associated with a hypervirulent strain …

[HTML][HTML] Predictive computational phenotyping and biomarker discovery using reference-free genome comparisons

…, M Marchand, M Tyers, VG Loo, AM Bourgault… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background The identification of genomic biomarkers is a key step towards improving diagnostic
tests and therapies. We present a reference-free method for this task that relies on a k-…

Thiamine deficiency and Wernicke's encephalopathy in AIDS

…, C Gaudreau, J Vincelette, AM Bourgault… - Metabolic brain …, 1991 - Springer
Several neuropathological reports in the last 5 years have described brain lesions characteristic
of Wernicke's Encephalopathy in patients with AIDS. Using the erythrocyte transketolase …

Clostridium difficile: Investigating Transmission Patterns Between Infected and Colonized Patients Using Whole Genome Sequencing

…, N Dendukuri, I Schiller, AM Bourgault… - Clinical Infectious …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Whole genome sequencing (WGS) studies can enhance our understanding of
the role of patients with asymptomatic Clostridium difficile colonization in transmission. …

In Vitro Susceptibility of Clostridium difficile Clinical Isolates from a Multi-Institutional Outbreak in Southern Québec, Canada

AM Bourgault, F Lamothe, VG Loo… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridium difficile isolates from a 2004 outbreak in Québec, Canada, were all found to be
susceptible to metronidazole, vancomycin, rifampin, and meropenem but resistant to …

Peptococcus magnus: A Significant Human Pathogen

AM BOURGAULT, JONE ROSENBLATT… - Annals of internal …, 1980 - acpjournals.org
Peptococcus magnus was recovered from 10% of anaerobic cultures collected from suspected
clinical infections over a 3.5-year period. It was the commonest species of anaerobic gram…

vanA-containing Enterococcus faecium susceptible to vancomycin and teicoplanin because of major nucleotide deletions in Tn1546

…, S Lévesque, B Lefebvre, AM Bourgault… - Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Objectives During the course of routine screening for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE),
we found six Enterococcus faecium isolates positive for vanA by PCR, but susceptible to …