Agatha Jassem
Agatha Jassem is a Canadian clinical microbiologist and the program head of the Virology Lab at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory, and a clinical associate professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Jassem obtained her PhD at the University of British Columbia, followed by a fellowship in Clinical Microbiology at the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses the detection of healthcare-and community-associated infections, emerging pathogens, and drug resistance determinants.
During the COVID-19 pandemic response, Jassem led research efforts on COVID-19 breakthrough infections from vaccinated individuals, SARS-CoV-2 population level seroprevalence, antibody response as well as collaborating on research on securing reagents for COVID-19 during world-wide shortages, and the role of ACEII. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Cassandra L. Andrew, Shannon L. Russell, Michelle Coombe, James E. A. Zlosnik, Kevin S. Kuchinski, Jessica Caleta, Chris Fjell, Yohannes Berhane, Victoria Bowes, Tony Redford, Caeley Thacker, Laurie Wilson, Maud Henaff, N. Jane Harms, Agatha Jassem, Jolene Giacinti, Catherine Soos, Natalie Prystajecky, Chelsea HimsworthGet access
Published in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (2024)
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