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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Cannabidiol Vaping–Associated Multifocal NSCLC in a 24-Year-Old Female: A Case Report by Mansi Barthwal, MD, Nataliya Moldovan, MD, Shantanu Banerji, MD, Julian O. Kim, MD

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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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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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GuideLiner Balloon Assisted Tracking (GBAT): A New Addition to the Interventional Toolbox by Basem Elbarouni, Motaz Moussa, Malek Kass, Olga Toleva, Minh Vo, Amir Ravandi

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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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Addison’s Disease and Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Viktoriya Mozolevska, Anna Schwartz, David Cheung, Bilal Shaikh, Kapil M. Bhagirath, Davinder S. Jassal

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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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Characterization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Elderly Patients: A Review of Epidemiology, Current Practices and Outcomes of Current Management Strategies by Peter Stepaniuk, Charles N Bernstein, Laura E Targownik, Harminder Singh

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Diagnosing Asthma: The Fit between Survey and Administrative Database by Lisa Huzel, Leslie L Roos, Nick R Anthonisen, Jure Manfreda

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Acanthamoeba Species Keratitis in a Soft Contact Lens Wearer Molecularly Linked to Well Water by Samira Mubareka, Michelle Alfa, Godfrey K Harding, Gregory Booton, Marilyn Ekins, Paul Van Caeseele

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A final size relation for epidemic models by Julien Arino, Fred Brauer, P. van den Driessche, James Watmough, Jianhong Wu

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The Epidemiology of Hepatitis C in a Canadian Indigenous Population by Julia Uhanova, Robert B Tate, Douglas J Tataryn, Gerald Y Minuk

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The Role of Rapid Endoscopy for High-Risk Patients with Acute Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding by Laura E Targownik, Sanjay Murthy, Leila Keyvani, Shauna Leeson

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Risk Factors for and Outcomes Associated with Clinical Isolates of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella Species Resistant to Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporins among Patients Admitted to... by Marianna Ofner-Agostini, Andrew Simor, Michael Mulvey, Alison McGeer, Zahir Hirji, Melissa McCracken, Denise Gravel, David Boyd, Elizabeth Bryce

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Antibody Response in Seropositive Multiple Sclerosis Patients Vaccinated with Attenuated Live Varicella Zoster Virus by RT Ross, MR Dawood, Mary Cheang, Lindsay E Nicolle

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Intraductal Oncocytic Papillary Neoplasm: A Rare Pancreatic Mass by Mayur Brahmania, Darshan Khangura, Michael Cantor

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Partial PFO Closure for Persistent Hypoxemia in a Patient with Ebstein Anomaly by S. A. Zuberi, S. Liu, J. W. Tam, F. Hussain, D. Maguire, M. Kass

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In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Effective Transition from an ICU- to CCU-Led Resuscitation Team by Rajat Sharma, Hilary Bews, Hardeep Mahal, Chantal Y. Asselin, Megan O’Brien, Lillian Koley, Brett Hiebert, John Ducas, Davinder S. Jassal

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