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Overview

Andrew E. Simor is affiliated with the Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Canada. Their research predominantly covers medicine, with an emphasis on epidemiology and infectious diseases, alongside contributions to neurology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and endocrinology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Selected recent publications by Andrew E. Simor include:

  • A virtual care program for outpatients diagnosed with COVID-19: a feasibility study, 2020, CMAJ Open
  • The impact of repeated vaccination using 10-year vaccination history on protection against influenza in older adults: a test-negative design study across the 2010/11 to 2015/16 influenza seasons in Ontario, Canada, 2020, Eurosurveillance
  • Dissemination of Verona Integron-encoded Metallo-β-lactamase among clinical and environmental Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Ontario, Canada, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Emergence of pstS-Null Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Clone ST1478, Canada, 2013-2018, 2020, Emerging infectious diseases
  • Antimicrobial use among adult inpatients at hospital sites within the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program: 2009 to 2016, 2020, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Philip W. Lam
  • Nisha Andany
  • Adrienne K. Chan
  • Allison McGeer
  • Jerome A. Leis

Andrew E. Simor has published extensively in the Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada, with six publications. Other common publication venues are Eurosurveillance and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, where they have two publications each, as well as CMAJ Open and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Identification of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Canada

    Susan M. Poutanen;Susan M. Poutanen;Donald E. Low;Bonnie Henry;Sandy Finkelstein

  • Acute Myocardial Infarction after Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Infection.

    Jeffrey C Kwong;Kevin L Schwartz;Michael A Campitelli;Hannah Chung

  • Invasive group A streptococcal infections in Ontario, Canada

    H D Davies;A McGeer;B Schwartz;K Green

  • Population-Based Surveillance for Group A Streptococcal Necrotizing Fasciitis: Clinical Features, Prognostic Indicators, and Microbiologic Analysis of Seventy-Seven Cases

    Rupert Kaul;Allison McGeer;Donald E Low;Karen Green

  • Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in adults

    Susan M. Poutanen;Andrew E. Simor

  • Definitions of infection for surveillance in long-term care facilities

    Allison McGeer;Beverly Campbell;T.Grace Emori;Walter J. Hierholzer

  • Detection of Airborne Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus and Environmental Contamination in SARS Outbreak Units

    Timothy F. Booth;Bill Kournikakis;Nathalie Bastien;Jim Ho

  • Development of Minimum Criteria for the Initiation of Antibiotics in Residents of Long-Term–Care Facilities: Results of a Consensus Conference

    Mark Loeb;David W. Bentley;Suzanne Bradley;Kent Crossley

  • Impact of antimicrobial stewardship in critical care: a systematic review

    Reham Kaki;Marion Elligsen;Sandra Walker;Sandra Walker;Andrew Simor;Andrew Simor

  • Risk factors for pneumonia and other lower respiratory tract infections in elderly residents of long-term care facilities.

    Mark Loeb;Allison McGeer;Margaret McArthur;Stephen Walter

  • Surveillance Definitions of Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities: Revisiting the McGeer Criteria

    Nimalie D. Stone;Muhammad S. Ashraf;Jennifer Calder;Christopher J. Crnich

  • Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome during Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation

    Robert A. Fowler;Cameron B. Guest;Stephen E. Lapinsky;William J. Sibbald

  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Chlorhexidine Gluconate for Washing, Intranasal Mupirocin, and Rifampin and Doxycycline Versus No Treatment for the Eradication of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization

    Andrew E. Simor;Andrew E. Simor;Elizabeth Phillips;Allison McGeer;Allison McGeer;Ana Konvalinka

  • Effect of a multifaceted intervention on number of antimicrobial prescriptions for suspected urinary tract infections in residents of nursing homes: cluster randomised controlled trial

    Mark Loeb;Kevin Brazil;Lynne Lohfeld;Allison McGeer

  • Risk factors for SARS transmission from patients requiring intubation: a multicentre investigation in Toronto, Canada.

    Janet Raboud;Janet Raboud;Altynay Shigayeva;Allison McGeer;Allison McGeer;Erika Bontovics

  • Health Care-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults Admitted to Acute Care Hospitals in Canada: A Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program Study

    Denise Gravel;Mark Miller;Andrew Simor;Geoffrey Taylor

  • Health Care-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection in Canada: Patient Age and Infecting Strain Type Are Highly Predictive of Severe Outcome and Mortality

    Mark Miller;Denise Gravel;Michael Mulvey;Geoffrey Taylor

  • Effect of a clinical pathway to reduce hospitalizations in nursing home residents with pneumonia: A randomized controlled trial

    Mark Loeb;Soo Chan Carusone;Ron Goeree;Stephen D. Walter

  • Severe Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections In Ontario, Canada: 1987–1991

    B. Demers;A. E. Simor;H. Vellend;P. M. Schlievert

  • An outbreak due to multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a burn unit: risk factors for acquisition and management.

    Andrew E Simor;Mark Lee;Mary Vearncombe;Linda Jones-Paul

  • Increasing hospital admission rates for urological complications after transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Allison McGeer
Allison McGeer University of Toronto
Mark Loeb
Mark Loeb McMaster University
Donald E. Low
Donald E. Low University of Toronto
Michael R. Mulvey
Michael R. Mulvey University of Manitoba
Susan E. Richardson
Susan E. Richardson University of Toronto
Barbara M. Willey
Barbara M. Willey University Health Network
Tony Mazzulli
Tony Mazzulli University Health Network
Elizabeth J. Phillips
Elizabeth J. Phillips Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jonathan B. Gubbay
Jonathan B. Gubbay BC Children's Hospital Foundation
Stephen D. Walter
Stephen D. Walter McMaster University

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