Public Health Agency of Canada
Autism Ontario - Toronto Chapter FEAT- Ontario Research Directory

• Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria HIV Strain and Drug Resistance. Infectious diseases.
• Outcomes measures
• Hospital Acquired Infections
• Infectious Disease Epi Methods
• Autism
• HIV Strain and Drug Resistance
• Case-control methods
• Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• Vancomycin resistanct Enterococci
• Extended spectrum beta lactamases

• Public Health Sciences

• 1999 to date - Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases Project
• 1995 to date - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Project
• 1997 to date - Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci Project
• 1998 - Antimicriobial Resistant Organism Project
• 2002 - variant CJD
• 2004 to date - Community-acquired MRSA
• 2007 - Data Quality and Validation
• 2007 - HIV Strain and Drug resistance

• Marianna Ofner-Agostini, Monali Varia, Lynn Johnston, Karen Green, Andrew Simor, Barbara Amihod, Elizabeth Bryce, Elizabeth Henderson, Frederic Bergeron, the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, AND Denise Gravel. Infection control and antimicrobial restriction practices for antimicrobial resistant organisms (AROs) In Canadian tertiary care hospitals. AJIC 2007 Vol 35(9): pp 563-568.
• Marianna Ofner-Agostini, RN, PhD(c), Denise Gravel, BScN, MSc, CIC, L. Clifford McDonald, MD, Marcus Lem, MD, Shelley Sarwal, MD, Allison McGeer, MD, Karen Green, RN, MSc, Mary Vearncombe, MD, Virginia Roth, MD, Shirley Paton, RN, MN, Mark Loeb, MD, and Andrew Simor, MD.Cluster of Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Among Toronto Healthcare Workers After Implementation of Infection Control Precautions: A Case Series. ICHE: Volume 27(2006); p473-478.
• Ofner-Agostini M. Simor AE. Mulvey M. Bryce E. Loeb M. McGeer A. Kiss A. Paton S. The Canadian Nosocomial Surveillance Program. Methicillin-Resistant Stapylococcus aureus in Canadian Aboriginal People. ICHE, Feb 2006, Vol.27, No.2.
• Simor AE, Ofner-Agostini M, Paton S, McGeer A, Loeb M, Bryce E, Mulvey M, Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP). Clinical and Epidemiologic Features of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Elderly Hospitalized Patients. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2005; 26(10):838-841.
• Hyland M, Ofner-Agostini M, Miller M, Paton S, Gourdeau M, Ishak M, Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee, and the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, Health Canada. Nosocomial Clostridium difficile -associated diarrhea (N-CDAD) in Canada: The results of the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program 1997 N-CDAD prevalence surveillance project. Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol.12. No.2, March-April 2001.
• Conly JM, Ofner-Agostini M, Paton S, Johnston L, Mulvey M, Kureishi A, Nicolle L, Matlow A, Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee (CHEC), Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP). The Emerging Epidemiology of VRE in Canada: Results of the CNISP Passive Reporting Network 1994 to 1998. Can J Infect Dis 2001; 12(6):364-370.
• Ofner-Agostini M, Conly J, Paton S, Kureishi A, Nicolle L, Mulvey M, Johnson W, Johnston L, and the Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in Canada-Results of the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program 1996 VRE point prevalence surveillance project. Can J Infect Dis, Vol.8, No.2, March/April 1997.
• Archibald CP, Ofner M, Strathdee SA, Patrick DM, Sutherland D, Rekart ML, Schecter MT, O=Shaughnessy MV. Factors associated with frequent needle exchange program attendance among injection drug users in Vancouver, Canada. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Human Retrovirol 1998;17: 160-6.
• Denise Gravel, Anne Matlow, Marianna Ofner-Agostini, Mark Loeb, Lynn Johnston, Elizabeth Bryce, Mary Lu Sample, Virginia R. Roth, Carol Goldman, Geoff Taylor. A point prevalence survey of health care–Associated infections in pediatric populations in major Canadian acute care hospitals, Volume 35, issue 3, p. 157-162 (April 2007)
• Ofner, M., Naus, M., Martin,E., & Stolk,B. Community Surveillance for Wild Poliovirus in Ontario, 1993. Can Med Assoc J. June 15, 1995:152(12).