Lab Information

Vivian Loo (MD/MSc)

Investigator
Clinical Research Unit
Department of Medicine (McGill)

Research Profile

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Keywords

Clostridium difficile • healthcare-associated infections • infection control

Research 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.


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Latest Publications

  1. Kociolek, L. K., Gerding, D. N., Carrico, R., Carling, P., Donskey, C. J., Dumyati, G., Kuhar, D. T., Loo, V. G., Maragakis, L. L., Pogorzelska-Maziarz, M., Sandora, T. J., Weber, D. J., Yokoe, D. & Dubberke, E. R. (2023). Strategies to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, vol. 44, p. 527-549.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
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