Agatha Jassem
@AgathaJassem
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Mom of dogs & humans, Microbiologist (clinical), Mountain lover - views my own
Vancouver, BC
Joined March 2012
I did a thing! Check it out!.
🎙️🧬🔬Episode 2 of the PASCV: Gone Viral Podcast is now out! 🔬🧬🎙️. This episode features @AgathaJassem and @KennyGPhD, where they discuss Enterovirus D68. Link 🔗 below:. #PASCV #Clinicalvirology #EVD68.
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RT @CACMID: 📢Check out our upcoming seminar on Wed Oct 23 @ 1-2 PM EDT.Title: Next Generation Sequencing Implementation in a Provincial Myc….
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Using cool new antibody detection methods to diagnose post infectious conditions starting with entero D68 link to GBS @fangfang__li
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Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute peripheral neuropathy often preceded by respiratory or gastrointestinal infections, though molecular testing of cerebrospinal fluid is often inconclusive. In...
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RT @CACMID: 📢Upcoming CACMID Virtual Seminar: Thurs Sept 26 @ 12-1 PM EDT.Title: Enhancing Canada's High Consequence Pathogen Testing - Bal….
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RT @AMMICanada: And it’s a wrap! Outgoing presidents @deb_yamamura and @AgathaJassem delivered the closing remarks. We say thank you to eve….
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RT @AMMICanada: Dried blood spot to improve accessibility to diagnostic testing in remote communities. Innovation to increase #health #equi….
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Highlighting the importance of rural and remote testing in Canada this morning @AMMICanada @CACMID
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Thank you everyone for a great start to our annual conference!.
Special lecture on science communication with Drs. Angela Rasmussen, Zain Chagla, and Lynora Saxinger, moderated by Ian Hanomansing. What a great way to close out a great first day at #AMMICACMID2024 !
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RT @CDCofBC: New research finds that the flu and COVID-19 vaccines each reduced the risk of illness requiring a medical visit by up to abou….
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RT @COVIDimmunityTF: A CITF-funded study by @manishs_ and @AgathaJassem from @UBC found SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity was highest in 2021/22 am….
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Another preprint! This on #COVID19 vaccine immune responses in older adults :
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To evaluate immune responses to COVID-19 vaccines in adults aged 50 years and older, spike protein (S)-specific antibody concentration, avidity, and function (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)...
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Our preprint on factors associated with #Covid_19 in unvaccinated children/young adults in BC is up:
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BACKGROUND Pediatric COVID-19 cases are often mild or asymptomatic, which has complicated estimations of disease burden using existing testing practices. We aimed to determine the age-specific...
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RT @machealthsci: Lori Burrows, a professor @BBS_McMasterU, is the recipient of the @CACMID 2023 John G. FitzGerald Award. Congratulations….
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The Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases has named Lori Burrows the recipient of its 2023 John G. FitzGerald Award.
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Love this quote presented at the travel medicine plenary @CACMID @AMMICanada “no one will ever be truly safe until everyone is safe”
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Great start to @CACMID @AMMICanada meeting with a plenary on emerging pathogens and an informative and reflective land acknowledgement from Daniel Secord
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