Hugues Charest

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Top papers

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1 High rates of forward transmission events after acute/early HIV-1 infection. J Infect Dis 2007 7.70
2 Association between the 2008-09 seasonal influenza vaccine and pandemic H1N1 illness during Spring-Summer 2009: four observational studies from Canada. PLoS Med 2010 3.85
3 Component-specific effectiveness of trivalent influenza vaccine as monitored through a sentinel surveillance network in Canada, 2006-2007. J Infect Dis 2009 2.59
4 Effectiveness of AS03 adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 vaccine: case-control evaluation based on sentinel surveillance system in Canada, autumn 2009. BMJ 2011 2.50
5 Household transmission of the 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 influenza virus: elevated laboratory‐confirmed secondary attack rates and evidence of asymptomatic infections. Clin Infect Dis 2010 2.41
6 Transmission networks of drug resistance acquired in primary/early stage HIV infection. AIDS 2008 1.89
7 Transmission clustering drives the onward spread of the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men in Quebec. J Infect Dis 2011 1.70
8 Molecular mimicry of a CCR5 binding-domain in the microbial activation of dendritic cells. Nat Immunol 2003 1.60
9 A sentinel platform to evaluate influenza vaccine effectiveness and new variant circulation, Canada 2010-2011 season. Clin Infect Dis 2012 1.58
10 Contagious period for pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Emerg Infect Dis 2010 1.28
11 Influenza A/subtype and B/lineage effectiveness estimates for the 2011-2012 trivalent vaccine: cross-season and cross-lineage protection with unchanged vaccine. J Infect Dis 2014 1.23
12 Immune responses induced by the Leishmania (Leishmania) donovani A2 antigen, but not by the LACK antigen, are protective against experimental Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis infection. Infect Immun 2003 1.20
13 Estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness for 2007-2008 from Canada's sentinel surveillance system: cross-protection against major and minor variants. J Infect Dis 2012 1.14
14 Enhancement of Sm-p80 (large subunit of calpain) induced protective immunity against Schistosoma mansoni through co-delivery of interleukin-2 and interleukin-12 in a DNA vaccine formulation. Vaccine 2003 1.12
15 Induction of protective immunity against Schistosoma mansoni via DNA priming and boosting with the large subunit of calpain (Sm-p80): adjuvant effects of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and interleukin-4. Infect Immun 2003 1.09
16 Multicenter comparison of two norovirus ORF2-based genotyping protocols. J Clin Microbiol 2009 1.08
17 Diagnosis of American visceral leishmaniasis in humans and dogs using the recombinant Leishmania donovani A2 antigen. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2002 1.03
18 Epidemiological survey of human metapneumovirus infection in a large pediatric tertiary care center. J Clin Microbiol 2005 0.98
19 Field performance of a rapid diagnostic test for influenza in an ambulatory setting. J Clin Microbiol 2009 0.96
20 Subtype diversity associated with the development of HIV-1 resistance to integrase inhibitors. J Med Virol 2011 0.95
21 Novel influenza A (H1N1): clinical features of pediatric hospitalizations in two successive waves. Int J Infect Dis 2010 0.91
22 Predicting tipranavir and darunavir resistance using genotypic, phenotypic, and virtual phenotypic resistance patterns: an independent cohort analysis of clinical isolates highly resistant to all other protease inhibitors. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2010 0.90
23 Evidence of viremia in 2 cases of severe pandemic influenza A H1N1/09. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2011 0.90
24 HIV-1 genetic diversity in antenatal cohort, Canada. Emerg Infect Dis 2005 0.87
25 Detection of influenza H7N9 virus: all molecular tests are not equal. J Clin Microbiol 2013 0.86
26 Analytical performance of norovirus real-time RT-PCR detection protocols in Canadian laboratories. J Clin Virol 2010 0.84
27 Evaluation of a commercial direct fluorescent-antibody assay for human metapneumovirus in respiratory specimens. J Clin Microbiol 2008 0.83
28 Real-time molecular beacon NASBA for rapid and sensitive detection of norovirus GII in clinical samples. Can J Microbiol 2009 0.79
29 Temporal Changes in Pediatric Gastroenteritis after Rotavirus Vaccination in Quebec. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2016 0.77
30 Phylogenetic analysis of norovirus isolates involved in some Canadian gastroenteritis outbreaks in 2004 and 2005. Can J Microbiol 2007 0.77
31 Prevalence of West Nile virus in wild American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) of southern Quebec, Canada. J Wildl Dis 2010 0.76
32 Draft Genome Sequences of Two Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans Strains. Genome Announc 2015 0.75
33 Fatal zygomycosis caused by Mucor indicus in a child with an implantable left ventricular assist device. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2008 0.75