The publication list is updated every day via PubMed and includes only the most recent articles. A list including only review articles is also available. IDIGH principal investigators are in bold.

CTB

  1. Alsaffar, Z., Khalaf, R., Alrafiaah, A., Mohamed, S. D., Netchiporouk, E., Fein, M., Sampalis, J. & Ben-Shoshan, M. (2025). Anti-Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody (Anti-TPO antibodies) is Higher in Children with Chronic urticaria Who Require Omalizumab. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice.
  2. Westfall, S., Gentile, M. E., Olsen, T. M., Karo-Atar, D., Bogza, A., Röstel, F., Pardy, R. D., Mandato, G., Fontes, G., Herbert, D., Melichar, H. J., Abadie, V., Richer, M. J., Vinh, D. C., Koenig, J. F. E., Harrison, O. J., Divangahi, M., Weis, S., Gregorieff, A. & King, I. L. (2025). A type 1 immune-stromal cell network mediates disease tolerance against intestinal infection. Cell.
  3. Hardy, L., Jacobs, J., Yansouni, C. & Affolabi, D. (2025). Revisiting bacteriology diagnostics: how to make them globally available and accessible. Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
  4. Vinh, D. C. (2025). Human immunity to fungal infections. The Journal of experimental medicine, vol. 222.
  5. Ramani, H., Cleret-Buhot, A., Sylla, M., Bunet, R., Bertrand, F., Peet, M.-M., Chartrand-Lefebvre, C., Trottier, B., Thomas, R., Routy, J.-P., Fortin, C., Martel-Laferrière, V., Sadouni, M., Cloutier, G., Allard, L., Kizer, J. R., Chomont, N., Ancuta, P., Hanna, D. B., Kaplan, R. C., Jenabian, M.-A., Landay, A. L., Durand, M., El-Far, M. & Tremblay, C. L. (2025). Opposite Roles of IL-32α Versus IL-32β/γ Isoforms in Promoting Monocyte-Derived Osteoblast/Osteoclast Differentiation and Vascular Calcification in People with HIV. Cells, vol. 14.
  6. Berberi, G., Maazi, M., Prosty, C., McMullen, E. P., Fein, M., Lima, H., Martinez-Jaramillo, E., Ben-Shoshan, M., Pourpanah, F. & Netchiporouk, E. (2025). Health-Related Quality of Life in Chronic Urticaria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice.
  7. Ghazal, S., Muntyanu, A., Aw, K., Kaouache, M., Khoury, L., Piram, M., McCuaig, C., Chédeville, G., Rahme, E., Osman, M., Schachter, J., Bertrand, J. & Netchiporouk, E. (2025). Incidence, prevalence, and mortality of localized scleroderma in Quebec, Canada: a population-based study. Lancet regional health. Americas, vol. 44, p. 101044.
  8. Ensina, L. F., Brandão, L., Netchiporouk, E. & Bem-Shoshan, M. (2025). Managing Chronic Urticaria in Children: An Update. Current allergy and asthma reports, vol. 25, p. 21.
  9. Vulesevic, B., Lu, J., Lauscher, D., Shelton, B., Dubé, K., Routy, J.-P., Berini, C. & Costiniuk, C. T. (2025). Awareness and willingness regarding organ donation among people with HIV in Canada. AIDS care, p. 1-11.
  10. Klimova, N., Ngov, C., Devaux, F. & Turcotte, B. (2025). Regulation of meiotic gene expression is functional in the human fungal pathogen Candida glabrata. FEMS yeast research, vol. 25.
  11. Sohani, Z. N., Lieu, A., Semret, M., Cheng, M. P., Simic, N., Bamba, R., Patel, M., Lawandi, A. & Lee, T. C. (2025). Comparison of ciprofloxacin and aminoglycoside susceptibility testing for ceftriaxone non-susceptible Enterobacterales by disk diffusion and VITEK 2 vs. broth microdilution using updated Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute breakpoints. BMC microbiology, vol. 25, p. 175.
  12. Roussel, L., Bernier, S., Evaristo, G., Perez, A., Zaabat, S., Pace, R., Sun, Y., Angers, I., Storring, J. & Vinh, D. C. (2025). Leaky Artemis Deficiency and EBV-Related Lymphoproliferative Disease: A Novel Case and Review of the Literature. EJHaem, vol. 6, p. e270026.
  13. Van Loon, J. C., Le Mauff, F., Vargas, M. A., Gilbert, S., Pfoh, R., Morrison, Z. A., Razvi, E., Nitz, M., Sheppard, D. C. & Howell, P. L. (2025). Structural and functional analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PelA provides insight into the modification of the Pel exopolysaccharide. The Journal of biological chemistry, p. 108432.
  14. Reszetnik, G., Hammond, K., Mahshid, S., AbdElFatah, T., Nguyen, D., Corsini, R., Caya, C., Papenburg, J., Cheng, M. P. & Yansouni, C. P. (2025). Publisher Correction: Next-generation rapid phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Nature communications, vol. 16, p. 2805.
  15. Vigano, M., Wang, L., As'sadiq, A., Samarani, S., Ahmad, A. & Costiniuk, C. T. (2025). Impact of cannabinoids on cancer outcomes in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy. Frontiers in immunology, vol. 16, p. 1497829.
  16. Rubin, T., Bernier, S., Hoon Lim, L. S., Salman, M. S., Leung, E., Mhanni, A., Marles, S., Greenberg, C., Perez, A., Sun, Y., Angers, I., Vinh, D. C. & Roussel, L. (2025). Two rare mutations in homozygosity synergize to silence TREX1 in Aicardi-Goutières syndrome. Frontiers in immunology, vol. 16, p. 1557632.
  17. Jeremian, R., Li, K., Galati, M., Gooderham, M., Sibbald, C., Asai, Y., Piguet, V. & Jack, C. S. (2025). DNA methylation-based analysis of leukocyte landscape in children with atopic dermatitis. Archives of dermatological research, vol. 317, p. 533.
  18. Trajman, A., Campbell, J. R., Kunor, T., Ruslami, R., Amanullah, F., Behr, M. A. & Menzies, D. (2025). Tuberculosis. Lancet (London, England), vol. 405, p. 850-866.
  19. Cruz-Santiago, D., Meng, X., Canac-Marquis, M., Sengupta, A., Brassard, J.-P., Pavey, E., Girouard, H., Vinh, D. C. & Gouin, J.-P. (2025). Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Psychotropic Medication Use Following SARS-Cov-2 Infection Among Elderly Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities. Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ, vol. 28, p. 67-72.
  20. Dumut, D. C., Hajduch, M., Zacharias, A. M., Duan, Q., Frydrych, I., Rozankova, Z., Popper, M., Garic, D., Paun, R. A., Centorame, A., Shah, J., Mistrik, M., Dzubak, P., De Sanctis, J. B. & Radzioch, D. (2025). Diethyldithiocarbamate-copper complex ignites the tumor microenvironment through NKG2D-NKG2DL axis. Frontiers in immunology, vol. 16, p. 1491450.
  21. Tan, J., Bernatsky, S., Lee, J. L. F., Fortin, P. R., Dayam, R. M., Gingras, A.-C., Colmegna, I., Bowdish, D. M. E., Berger, C., Chan, D., Larché, M. J., Richards, D. P., Gonzalez Arreola, L., Hitchon, C. A., Lalonde, N. & Aviña-Zubieta, J. A. (2025). COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections in Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases: Data from the SUCCEED (Safety and Immunogenicity of COVID-19 Vaccines in Systemic Autoimmune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases) Study. Vaccines, vol. 13.
  22. Tamarozzi, F., Mazzi, C., Antinori, S., Arsuaga, M., Becker, S. L., Bocanegra, C., Bottieau, E., Buonfrate, D., Bustinduy, A. L., Camprubí-Ferrer, D., Caumes, E., Duvignaud, A., Grobusch, M. P., Huits, R., Jaureguiberry, S., Jordan, S., Mueller, A., Ndao, M., Neumayr, A., Perez-Molina, J. A., Pettersen, F. O., Rothe, C., Salas-Coronas, J., Salvador, F., Stothard, J. R., Tomasoni, L. R., van Hellemond, J. J., van Lieshout, L., Vaughan, S. D., Wammes, L. J., Yansouni, C. P., Zammarchi, L. & Gobbi, F. G. (2025). Landscape of guidance documents used at TropNet and GeoSentinel centres for the clinical management of schistosomiasis outside endemic areas: a systematic appraisal. Travel medicine and infectious disease, p. 102822.
  23. Ouchene, L., Udupa, M., Mija, L. A., Moussa, S., Chergui, M., Watters, K. A., Cruz-Marino, T., Tanguay, S., Brimo, F., Fu, L., Rahme, E., Kaouache, M., Foulkes, W. D. & Netchiporouk, E. (2025). Assessing the Diagnostic Metrics of Cutaneous Leiomyomas in Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (HLRCC) Syndrome: an Observational Study. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
  24. Nayyerabadi, M., Fourcade, L., Joshi, S. A., Chandrasekaran, P., Chakravarti, A., Massé, C., Paul, M.-L., Houle, J., Boubekeur, A. M., DuSablon, C., Boudreau, V., Bovan, D., Darbinian, E., Coleman, E. A., Vinci, S., Routy, J.-P., Hétu, P.-O., Poudrier, J. & Falcone, E. L. (2025). Corrigendum to "Vaccination after developing long COVID: Impact on clinical presentation, viral persistence and immune responses" [International Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 136 (2023), 136-145, doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2023.09.006]. International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, vol. 153, p. 107842.
  25. de Oliveira Mackert, C. C., Lázaro, F. P., Olandowski, M., D'Espindula, H. R. S., Dos Santos, A. M., Sartori, P. V. U., de Andrade Rodrigues, R. S., Cambri, G., Xavier, M. B., Schurr, E., Alcaïs, A. & Mira, M. T. (2025). Insights into leprosy epidemiology from an isolated population located in the Brazilian Amazon. Scientific reports, vol. 15, p. 6103.

 

CORE

  1. Alsaffar, Z., Khalaf, R., Alrafiaah, A., Mohamed, S. D., Netchiporouk, E., Fein, M., Sampalis, J. & Ben-Shoshan, M. (2025). Anti-Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody (Anti-TPO antibodies) is Higher in Children with Chronic urticaria Who Require Omalizumab. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice.
  2. Giménez-Arnau, A., Ferrucci, S., Ben-Shoshan, M., Mikol, V., Lucats, L., Sun, I., Mannent, L. & Gereige, J. (2025). Rilzabrutinib in Antihistamine-Refractory Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: The RILECSU Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA dermatology.
  3. Ong, S. W. X., Pinto, R., Rishu, A., Tong, S. Y. C., Commons, R. J., Conly, J. M., Evans, G. A., Fralick, M., Kandel, C., Lagacé-Wiens, P. R. S., Lee, T. C., Lother, S. A., MacFadden, D. R., Marshall, J. C., Martel-Laferrière, V., Mayette, M., McDonald, E. G., Neary, J. D., Prazak, J., Raby, E., Regli, A., Rogers, B. A., Smith, S., Taggart, L. R., Wang, H. T., Wuerz, T., Yahav, D., Young, P. J., Fowler, R. A., Daneman, N. & BALANCE trial consortium (2025). Identifying heterogeneity of treatment effect for antibiotic duration in bloodstream infection: an exploratory post-hoc analysis of the BALANCE randomised clinical trial. EClinicalMedicine, vol. 83, p. 103195.
  4. Tam, J., Modler, J., Bettinger, J. A., Burton, C., Halperin, S. A., Jadavji, T., Kazmi, K., Sadarangani, M., Schober, T., Tran, D., Morris, S. K., Papenburg, J. & Canadian Immunization Monitoring Program Active (IMPACT) Investigators (2025). Influenza-Associated Mortality among Children in Canada from 2004 to 2022. The Journal of pediatrics, p. 114594.
  5. Khalaf, R., Prosty, C., Davalan, W., Abrams, E., Kaouache, M. & Ben-Shoshan, M. (2025). Diagnostic Utility of Biomarkers in Anaphylaxis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice.
  6. Admassu, Z., Logie, C. H., Vahedi, L., Underhill, A., Kennedy, L., Webster, K., Gagnier, B., Kaida, A., de Pokomandy, A. & Loutfy, M. R. (2025). Longitudinal associations between social determinants of health and well-being among women living with HIV in Canada: A latent class analysis. HIV medicine.
  7. Berberi, G., Maazi, M., Prosty, C., McMullen, E. P., Fein, M., Lima, H., Martinez-Jaramillo, E., Ben-Shoshan, M., Pourpanah, F. & Netchiporouk, E. (2025). Health-Related Quality of Life in Chronic Urticaria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice.
  8. Venkatesan, N., Faust, L., Lobo, R., Enkh-Amgalan, H., Kunor, T., Sifumba, Z., Rane, S., O'Brien, K., Kumar, B., Maimbolwa, C. N., Mayta, M., Patel, H., Huong, L. M., Heitkamp, P., Huddart, S., Romanowski, K., Hiebert, M., Zimmer, A. J., MacLean, E. L., Caceres-Cardenas, G., Villa Castillo, L., Black, J., Batchu, M., Tschampl, C. A., Rea, E., Campbell, T., Heffernan, C., Long, R., Raithby, L., Daftary, A., Chorna, Y., Zheng, A., Martinez, L., Kulkarni, S., Denkinger, C. M., Castro, M. D. M., Sulis, G., Furin, J., McKenna, L., Frick, M., Nathavitharana, R. R., Oga-Omenka, C., Ananthakrishnan, R., Malar, J., Ugarte-Gil, C., Vandevelde, W., Kerkhoff, A. D., Winarni, P., Fox, G., Nguyen, T. A., Teo, A. K. J., Yapa, H. M., Pham, N. Y., Ratnasingham, A., Bernays, S., Trinh, H. D., Khan, U., Alvarez, G. G., Deluca, A., Nash, M., Rucsineanu, O., Vasiliu, A., Stillo, J., Nahid, P., Pai, M., Johnston, J., Harries, A. D. & Golub, J. E. (2025). Fighting tuberculosis hand in hand: A call to engage communities affected by TB as essential partners in research. PLOS global public health, vol. 5, p. e0004437.
  9. Beecroft, A., Esmail, A., Vaikla, O., Duchaine, T., Engel, N., Liang, C., Zhang, Q., Dheda, K. & Pai, N. P. (2025). Exploring the diagnostic accuracy of an HIV self-test optimized by a digital app-based solution: Results from a secondary data analysis of a field trial in South Africa. PLOS digital health, vol. 4, p. e0000791.
  10. Zhao, N., Al-Aly, Z., van Donkelaar, A., Martin, R. V., Assayag, D., Pineau, C. A. & Bernatsky, S. (2025). Fine particulate matter and interstitial lung disease in systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. The European respiratory journal, vol. 65.
  11. Davy-Mendez, T., Napravnik, S., Hogan, B. C., Eron, J. J., Gebo, K. A., Althoff, K. N., Moore, R. D., Silverberg, M. J., Horberg, M. A., Gill, M. J., Colasanti, J. A., Nijhawan, A., Karris, M. Y., Klein, M. B., Lang, R., Lesko, C. R., Yendewa, G. A., Kirk, G. D., McGinnis, K. A., Berry, S. A. & North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) (2025). Changes in the prevalence of non-AIDS conditions among hospitalized persons with HIV in the United States and Canada, 2008-2018. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
  12. Woo Kinshella, M.-L., Allen, J., Pawa, J., Papenburg, J., Jetty, R., Dwilow, R., Embree, J., Robinson, J., Arbour, L., Sadarangani, M., Shen, Y., Bone, J. N., Walker, C., Kayda, I., Sheffield, H., Scott, D., Miners, A. & Goldfarb, D. M. (2025). Hospital admissions for acute respiratory tract infections among infants from Nunavut and the burden of respiratory syncytial virus: a 10-year retrospective cohort study. Lancet regional health. Americas, vol. 43, p. 101021.
  13. Mayo, N. E., Brouillette, M.-J., Falcone, E. L. & Fellows, L. K. (2025). A patient-centered view of symptoms, functional impact, and priorities in post-COVID-19 syndrome: cross-sectional results from the Québec Action Post-COVID cohort. BMC infectious diseases, vol. 25, p. 456.
  14. Lestari, B. W., Saptiningrum, E., Huria, L., Fikri, A. R., Daniels, B., Vasquez, N. A., Sassi, A., Das, J., Oga-Omenka, C., McAllister, S. M., Pai, M. & Alisjahbana, B. (2025). Pre-treatment direct costs for people with tuberculosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in different healthcare settings in Bandung, Indonesia. PloS one, vol. 20, p. e0320401.
  15. Kutcher, S. A., Dendukuri, N., Dandona, S., Nadeau, L. & Brophy, J. M. (2025). Ticagrelor Compared to Clopidogrel in Acute Coronary Syndromes trial (TC4): a Bayesian pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, vol. 197, p. E309-E318.
  16. Li, J., Dendukuri, N., Longtin, Y., Banz, A., Frenette, C., Gervais, P., Miller, M. A., Bourgault, A.--. M., Dawang, N. L. & Loo, V. G. (2025). Determination of the performance of a novel diagnostic test for Clostridioides difficile toxins A and B using latent class analysis. Journal of clinical microbiology, p. e0180724.
  17. Gagnon, D., Gubany, C., Ouakki, M., Malo, B., Paquette, M., Brousseau, N., Papenburg, J. & Dubé, E. (2025). Factors influencing acceptance of RSV immunization for newborns among pregnant individuals: A mixed-methods study. Vaccine, vol. 55, p. 127062.
  18. Lee, J. J., Bortolussi-Courval, É., Filosa, E., Rej, S., Godard-Sebillote, C., Tamblyn, R., Lee, T. C. & McDonald, E. G. (2025). Criteria to Report Adverse Drug Withdrawal Events in Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
  19. Houdroge, F., Colledge-Frisby, S., Kronfli, N., Winter, R. J., Carson, J., Stoove, M. & Scott, N. (2025). The costs and benefits of a prison needle and syringe program in Australia, 2025-30: a modelling study. The Medical journal of Australia.
  20. Desormeau, B., Huang, A., Downar, J., Wu, P. E., Bortolussi-Courval, E., Ross, S. B., Battu, K., Papillon-Ferland, L., McAlister, F. A., Elsayed, S., Wilson, M. G., Cavalcanti, R. B., McDonald, E. G. & Lee, T. C. (2025). Prescribing Patterns and Impact of Sedatives in Hospitalized Older Adults: A Secondary Analysis of the MedSafer Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
  21. Reszetnik, G., Hammond, K., Mahshid, S., AbdElFatah, T., Nguyen, D., Corsini, R., Caya, C., Papenburg, J., Cheng, M. P. & Yansouni, C. P. (2025). Publisher Correction: Next-generation rapid phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Nature communications, vol. 16, p. 2805.
  22. Lee, T. C., Prosty, C. J., Fralick, M., Huttner, A., McDonald, E. G., Molina, J., Paul, M., Pinto, R., Rishu, A., von Dach, E., Yahav, D., Fowler, R. & Daneman, N. (2025). Seven vs Fourteen Days of Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infection: A Systematic Review and Noninferiority Meta-Analysis. JAMA network open, vol. 8, p. e251421.
  23. Zanframundo, G., Dourado, E., Bauer-Ventura, I., Faghihi-Kashani, S., Yoshida, A., Loganathan, A., Rivero-Gallegos, D., Lim, D., Bozán, F., Sambataro, G., Bae, S. S., Yamano, Y., Bonella, F., Corte, T. J., Doyle, T. J., Fiorentino, D., Gonzalez-Gay, M. A., Hudson, M., Kuwana, M., Lundberg, I. E., Mammen, A., McHugh, N., Miller, F. W., Montecucco, C., Oddis, C. V., Rojas-Serrano, J., Schmidt, J., Selva-O'Callaghan, A., Werth, V. P., Hansen, P., Rozza, D., Scirè, C. A., Sakellariou, G., Kaneko, Y., Triantafyllias, K., Castañeda, S., Alberti, M. L., Merino, M. G. G., Fiehn, C., Molad, Y., Govoni, M., Nakashima, R., Alpsoy, E., Giannini, M., Chinoy, H., Gallay, L., Ebstein, E., Campagne, J., Saraiva, A. P., Conticini, E., Sebastiani, G. D., Nuño-Nuño, L., Scarpato, S., Schiopu, E., Parker, M., Limonta, M., CLASS project participating investigators, Cavagna, L. & Aggarwal, R. (2025). The role of multicriteria decision analysis in the development of candidate classification criteria for antisynthetase syndrome: analysis from the CLASS project. Annals of the rheumatic diseases.
  24. Hari, V., Mayo, N. E., Brouillette, M.-J., Noonan, M. & Fellows, L. K. (2025). The relationship between social network size and brain structure in older adults living with HIV. Brain imaging and behavior.
  25. Feng, G., Yilmaz, Y., Valenti, L., Seto, W.-K., Pan, C. Q., Méndez-Sánchez, N., Ye, F., Sookoian, S., Targher, G., Byrne, C. D., Chan, W.-K., Treeprasertsuk, S., Yu, H. H., Kim, S. U., George, J., Xu, W.-J., Sebastiani, G., Ocama, P., Ryan, J. D., Lupșor-Platon, M., Ghazinyan, H., Hamid, S., Perera, N., Alswat, K., Isakov, V., Pan, Q., Sarin, S. K., Schattenberg, J. M., Sotoudeheian, M., Wong, Y. J., Sharara, A. I., Al-Busafi, S. A., Opio, C. K., Chai, J., Fouad, Y., Shi, Y., Al-Mahtab, M., Zhang, S., Pirola, C. J., Wong, V.-W. & Zheng, M.-H. (2025). Global Burden of Major Chronic Liver Diseases in 2021. Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver, vol. 45, p. e70058.

 

 

 

Clinical

  1. McCurdy, J. D., Macdonald, B., Rosenfeld, G., Bessissow, T., Jairath, V., Bruining, D. H. & Singh, S. (2025). Letter: Re-Examining Seton Efficacy in Perianal Crohn's Disease-Critical Considerations for Outcome Measurement and Clinical Interpretation. Authors' Reply. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics.
  2. Ong, S. W. X., Pinto, R., Rishu, A., Tong, S. Y. C., Commons, R. J., Conly, J. M., Evans, G. A., Fralick, M., Kandel, C., Lagacé-Wiens, P. R. S., Lee, T. C., Lother, S. A., MacFadden, D. R., Marshall, J. C., Martel-Laferrière, V., Mayette, M., McDonald, E. G., Neary, J. D., Prazak, J., Raby, E., Regli, A., Rogers, B. A., Smith, S., Taggart, L. R., Wang, H. T., Wuerz, T., Yahav, D., Young, P. J., Fowler, R. A., Daneman, N. & BALANCE trial consortium (2025). Identifying heterogeneity of treatment effect for antibiotic duration in bloodstream infection: an exploratory post-hoc analysis of the BALANCE randomised clinical trial. EClinicalMedicine, vol. 83, p. 103195.
  3. Beck, M., Koll, C., Dumpis, U., Giske, C. G., Göpel, S., Jørgensen, S. B., Kessel, J., Kleppe, L. K., Oma, D. H., Raz, N. E., Semret, M., Simonsen, G. S., Vehreschild, M. J. G. T., Albus, K., Biehl, L. M., Vehreschild, J. J., Classen, A. Y. & PILGRIM study group (2025). Identifying patients at high risk for antibiotic treatment following hospital admission: a predictive score to improve antimicrobial stewardship measures. Infection.
  4. Alenezi, A. F., Jahrami, H., Kanber, Y. & Bessissow, T. (2025). Gastrointestinal Tract Perineuriomas and Benign Fibroblastic Polyps: Case Report and Comprehensive Systematic Review. Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine, vol. 2025, p. 1636142.
  5. Angyal, D., Balogh, F., Bessissow, T., Wetwittayakhlang, P., Ilias, A., Gonczi, L. & Lakatos, P. L. (2025). The Role of Histology Alongside Clinical and Endoscopic Evaluation in the Management of IBD-A Narrative Review. Journal of clinical medicine, vol. 14.
  6. Fresilli, S., Labanca, R., Turi, S., Casuale, V., Vietri, S., Lombardi, G., Covello, R. D., Lee, T. C., Landoni, G., Greco, M. & RIPC group (2025). Remote ischaemic preconditioning and survival in noncardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of randomised trials. British journal of anaesthesia, vol. 134, p. 1373-1384.
  7. Zhabokritsky, A. & Falutz, J. (2025). Frailty in people with HIV: a geriatric syndrome approach to aging with HIV. Current opinion in HIV and AIDS.
  8. Zhao, N., Al-Aly, Z., van Donkelaar, A., Martin, R. V., Assayag, D., Pineau, C. A. & Bernatsky, S. (2025). Fine particulate matter and interstitial lung disease in systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. The European respiratory journal, vol. 65.
  9. Sohani, Z. N., Lieu, A., Semret, M., Cheng, M. P., Simic, N., Bamba, R., Patel, M., Lawandi, A. & Lee, T. C. (2025). Comparison of ciprofloxacin and aminoglycoside susceptibility testing for ceftriaxone non-susceptible Enterobacterales by disk diffusion and VITEK 2 vs. broth microdilution using updated Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute breakpoints. BMC microbiology, vol. 25, p. 175.
  10. Singh, S., Nguyen, J. D., Fudman, D. I., Gerich, M. E., Shah, S. A., Hudesman, D., McConnell, R. A., Lukin, D. J., Flynn, A. D., Hwang, C., Sprung, B., Gaidos, J. K. J., Mattar, M. C., Rubin, D. T., Hashash, J. G., Metwally, M., Ali, T., Ma, C., Hoentjen, F., Narula, N., Bessissow, T., Rosenfeld, G., McCurdy, J. D., Ananthakrishnan, A. N., Cross, R. K., Rodriguez Gaytan, J. R., Gurrola, E.-S., Patel, S., Siegel, C. A., Melmed, G. Y., Weaver, S. A., Power, S., Zou, G., Jairath, V. & Hou, J. K. (2025). Treat-to-target of endoscopic remission in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in symptomatic remission on advanced therapies (QUOTIENT): rationale, design and protocol for an open-label, multicentre, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial. BMJ open gastroenterology, vol. 12.
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