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Lori Burrows, a professor McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, is the recipient of the CACMID 2023 John G. FitzGerald Award. Congratulations Lori L. Burrows! #HamOnt ow.ly/bzL850Ntb4V

Great start to CACMID AMMI Canada meeting with a plenary on emerging pathogens and an informative and reflective land acknowledgement from Daniel Secord

Love this quote presented at the travel medicine plenary CACMID AMMI Canada “no one will ever be truly safe until everyone is safe”

Tackling lab stewardship CACMID AMMI Canada with Chris Doern

❤️ BC Centre for Disease Control lab folks CACMID AMMI Canada conference

Our preprint on factors associated with #Covid_19 in unvaccinated children/young adults in BC is up: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Another preprint! This on #COVID19 vaccine immune responses in older adults : researchsquare.com/article/rs-321…

Big Congratulations to Dr Nikiforuk!!! 🎉🍻🎉 Aidan Nikiforuk

Visit the BC Centre for Disease Control respiratory dashboard if you haven’t yet : bccdc.ca/health-profess… highlighted here: bccdc.ca/about/news-sto…

New #HPV self-screening program launched in BC : bccancer.bc.ca/about/news-sto… 🎉🎉🎉

A CITF-funded study by Manish Sadarangani and Agatha Jassem from University of British Columbia found SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity was highest in 2021/22 among infants under 5 and young adults, and that South Asians were overall disproportionately infected. ow.ly/oVBK50Qxt05

New research finds that the flu and COVID-19 vaccines each reduced the risk of illness requiring a medical visit by up to about two-thirds. The Canadian SPSN measured the effectiveness of this year's #influenza vaccine and updated #COVID19 vaccine: ow.ly/8OO350QEbIQ

Thank you everyone for a great start to our annual conference!

Highlighting the importance of rural and remote testing in Canada this morning AMMI Canada CACMID

Dried blood spot to improve accessibility to diagnostic testing in remote communities. Innovation to increase #health #equity Another inspiring talk from Dr John Kim from National Microbiology Laboratory at #ammicacmid2024

And it’s a wrap! Outgoing presidents Deb Yamamura and Agatha Jassem delivered the closing remarks. We say thank you to everyone who attended the 2024 AMMI Canada CACMID and made our meeting so successful this year. We can’t wait to see you again next year in Calgary, AB! Mark

📢Upcoming CACMID Virtual Seminar: Thurs Sept 26 @ 12-1 PM EDT Title: Enhancing Canada's High Consequence Pathogen Testing - Balancing Research, Centralization and Decentralization Speaker: Dr. Jim Strong - Head, Diagnostic and Therapeutics - Special Pathogens, PHAC AMMI Canada

Using cool new antibody detection methods to diagnose post infectious conditions starting with entero D68 link to GBS Fang Fang pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39215587/

📢Check out our upcoming seminar on Wed Oct 23 @ 1-2 PM EDT Title: Next Generation Sequencing Implementation in a Provincial Mycobacteriology Laboratory - Conceptualization to Accreditation Speaker: Dr. Inna Sekirov - Program Head of Mycobacteriology/TB at BCCDC AMMI Canada

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