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Agatha Jassem
Canadian clinical microbiologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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,[1] and a clinical associate professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[2]
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Jassem obtained her PhD at the University of British Columbia, followed by a fellowship in Clinical Microbiology at the National Institutes of Health.[3] 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,[4][5] SARS-CoV-2 population level seroprevalence,[6] antibody response [7] as well as collaborating on research on securing reagents for COVID-19 during world-wide shortages,[8] and the role of ACEII. [9]
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