Low Prevalence of VRE Gastrointestinal Colonization of Hospitalized Patients in Manitoba Tertiary Care and Community Hospitals by George G Zhanel, Godfrey KM Harding, Stuart Rosser, Daryl J Hoban, James A Karlowsky, Michelle Alfa, Amin Kabani, John Embil, Alfred Gin, Trevor Williams, Lindsay E Nicolle

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Urinary Tract Infection Diagnosis and Response to Therapy in Long-Term Care: A Prospective Observational Study by Peter Daley, Carla Penney, Susan Wakeham, Glenda Compton, Aaron McKim, Judy O’Keefe, Brendan Barrett, Lindsay Nicolle

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Use of Fecal Occult Blood Test in Hospitalized Patients: Survey of Physicians Practicing in a Large Central Canadian Health Region and Canadian Gastroenterologists by Stephen Ip, AbdulRazaq AH Sokoro, Al Buchel, Debrah Wirtzfeld, Gerald Konrad, Tunji Fatoye, Harminder Singh

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Early Changes in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA Levels Predict Response to Interferon Treatment in Non-Cirrhotic HCV Patients by Glen Fallows, Kelly Kaita, Gerald Minuk, Faye Penner, Gerry Smart, Magdy Dawood, Barry Rosser

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Patient Satisfaction with the Endoscopy Experience and Willingness to Return in a Central Canadian Health Region by Russell Loftus, Zoann Nugent, Lesley A Graff, Frederick Schumacher, Charles N Bernstein, Harminder Singh

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Ciprofloxacin or Imipenem Use Correlates with Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by George G Zhanel, Lindsay E Nicolle, Alfred S Gin, James Karlowsky, Amin Kabani, Daryl J Hoban

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Development of an Assay for Antibodies to Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Easy, Cheap and Specific for Crohn's Disease by Charles N Bernstein, Ken Orr, James F Blanchard, Michael Sargent, Donna Workman

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Gastrointestinal Manifestations and Management of Anisakiasis by Lubna Madi, Massud Ali, Philippe Legace-Wiens, Donald R Duerksen

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Mental health in public safety personnel with workplace injuries requiring surgery: a longitudinal population-wide administrative data study in Manitoba, Canada by Tracie O Afifi, Jitender Sareen, Dan Chateau, Alyson Mahar, Jordan Nantais, James Bolton, Allen Kraut, Sarvesh Logsetty, Thomas Turgeon, Brenda Comaskey, Justin Gawaziuk, Rae Spiwak, Lauren Burton, Anthony Wightman, Jai Sareen, Natalie Mota

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus as a Sexually Transmitted Disease: Manitoba’s HIV Unlinked Seroprevalence Study by Laila Sekla, Gregory Hammond, Robert Tate, Walter Stackiw, Gudrun Eibisch, Sherlyn Shewchook

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Spectroscopic Approach to Capillary-Alveolar Membrane Damage Induced Acute Lung Injury by Jing Wang, Luis Oppenheimer, Paola Fata, Julio Pintin, Ross Stimpson, Henry H Mantsch

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An Assessment of Endoscopic and Concomitant Management of Acute Variceal Bleeding at a Tertiary Care Centre by H Singh, LE Targownik, G Ward, GY Minuk, CN Bernstein

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The First case of Locally Acquired Tick-Borne Babesia Microti Infection in Canada by Jared MP Bullard, Arshad N Ahsanuddin, Anamarija M Perry, L Robbin Lindsay, Mahmood Iranpour, Antonia Dibernardo, Paul G Van Caeseele

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Resident Trainees Do Not Affect Patient Satisfaction in an Outpatient Gastroenterology Clinic: A Prospective Study Conducted in a Canadian Gastroenterology Clinic by Mayur Brahmania, Madison Young, Chetty Muthiah, Alexandra Ilnyckyj, Donald Duerksen, Dana C Moffatt

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Effect of Maintenance Azithromycin on Established Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Patients by Nancy R Porhownik, Wael Batobara, Wayne Kepron, Helmut W Unruh, Zoheir Bshouty

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Enhanced Surveillance of non-O157 Verotoxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Human Stool Samples from Manitoba by Laura H Thompson, Sandra Giercke, Carole Beaudoin, David Woodward, John L Wylie

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Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Viral Infections in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia by Gerald Y Minuk, Betty Lerner, Spencer B Gibson, James B Johnston, Julia Uhanova, Anton Andonov, Jun Wu

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Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? by Joanne E Embree, Michelle Alfa, Joy Lertzman, Gloria Gray, Carlos Fajardo, Annalee Yassi

“…To determine whether prolonged contact with very low birth weight infants resulted in higher rates of upper respiratory tract colonization with this organism for caregivers, throat swabs for U urealyticum culture were obtained from medical, nursing and other support staff working in the neonatal intensive care and level II nurseries at the Health Sciences Centre and the St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Throat colonization by U urealyticum was demonstrated in 7.3% (95% ci 0 to 15.6%) of 41 nurses working in the intensive care nurseries but in none of the 48 nurses working in other locations or the 66 other individuals tested (P=0.02). …”
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Neonatal and Maternal Postpartum Bacteroides Bacteremia by Nahid Zaker, Joy Lertzman, Joanne Embree

“…OBJECTIVE: A unique case of Bacteroides fragilis bacteremia in a mother and her infant prompted a review of these infections in neonates and postpartum mothers during a five-year period at two institutions in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The purpose was to determine the frequency of these infections and ascertain commonly associated factors.…”
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Serological Evidence of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in an Indigenous North American Population by GY Minuk, A Sun, DF Sun, J Uhanova, LE Nicolle, B Larke, A Giulivi

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