Lab Information
Vivian Loo (MD/MSc)
InvestigatorClinical Research Unit
Department of Medicine (McGill)
Research Profile
Keywords
Clostridium difficile • healthcare-associated infections • infection controlResearch Interests
My research focuses on healthcare-associated infections and I have a particular interest in Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) . My research examines the epidemiology of CDI, looking at risk factors for infection and colonization as well as different strategies for prevention of transmssion. I am also involved in the evaluation of rapid diagnostic tests for CDI.Team Members
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Latest Publications
- Li, J., Frenette, C. & Loo, V. G. (2022). Diagnostic yield of serial SARS-CoV-2 testing in hospitalized patients. Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada, vol. 7, p. 181-185.
- Loo, V. G., Roussel, L., Bernier, S., Perez, A. & Vinh, D. C. (2022). Late-Onset Combined Immunodeficiency with Refractory CMV Disease due to ICOSL Deficiency. Journal of clinical immunology, vol. 42, p. 206-209.
- Schweitzer, L., Gervais, P., Paquet-Bolduc, B., Loo, V. G. & Longtin, Y. (2021). Detection of Free Toxin B in the Stool of Asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile Carriers by the Cell Cytotoxicity Neutralization Assay. Open forum infectious diseases, vol. 8, p. ofab209.
- Gilbert, L., Miller, K., Medeiros, D., Tsatoumas, M., Ciarallo, A., Isabwe, G., Malek, J., Loo, V. G. & Kumar, P. N. (2020). A disease disregards anatomical planes: actinomycosis and an intrauterine device. Lancet (London, England), vol. 396, p. 1766.
- Golizeh, M., Winter, K., Roussel, L., Landekic, M., Langelier, M., Loo, V. G., Ndao, M. & Vinh, D. C. (2021). Fecal host biomarkers predicting severity of Clostridioides difficile infection. JCI insight, vol. 6.
- Mashock, M. J., Faron, M. L., Carroll, K. C., Dang, C., Lewis, S., Salimnia, H., Lephart, P., Loo, V. G., Schmitt, B. H., Young, S., Buchan, B. W. & Ledeboer, N. A. (2020). A Multicenter Study of the Revogene C. difficile System for Detection of the Toxin B Gene from Unformed Stool Specimens. Journal of clinical microbiology, vol. 58.
- Mascarella, M. A., Schweitzer, L., Alreefi, M., Silver, J., Caglar, D., Loo, V. G., Richardson, K., Dufresne, P., Lee, T. C. & Sadeghi, N. (2019). The infectious thyroid nodule: a case report of mucormycosis associated with ibrutinib therapy. Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale, vol. 48, p. 49.
- Poirier, D., Gervais, P., Fuchs, M., Roussy, J.-F., Paquet-Bolduc, B., Trottier, S., Longtin, J., Loo, V. G. & Longtin, Y. (2020). Predictors of Clostridioides difficile Infection Among Asymptomatic, Colonized Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol. 70, p. 2103-2210.
- Kong, L. Y., Eyre, D. W., Corbeil, J., Raymond, F., Walker, A. S., Wilcox, M. H., Crook, D. W., Michaud, S., Toye, B., Frost, E., Dendukuri, N., Schiller, I., Bourgault, A.-M., Dascal, A., Oughton, M., Longtin, Y., Poirier, L., Brassard, P., Turgeon, N., Gilca, R. & Loo, V. G. (2019). Clostridium difficile: Investigating Transmission Patterns Between Infected and Colonized Patients Using Whole Genome Sequencing. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol. 68, p. 204-209.
- Paquet-Bolduc, B., Gervais, P., Roussy, J.-F., Trottier, S., Oughton, M., Brukner, I., Longtin, J., Loo, V. G., Dascal, A. & Longtin, Y. (2018). Detection and Isolation of Clostridium difficile Asymptomatic Carriers During Clostridium difficile Infection Outbreaks: An Exploratory Study. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol. 67, p. 1781-1783.
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