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Marc Ouellette

Marc Ouellette

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Genetics

D-Index
87
Citations
20040
World Ranking
1225
National Ranking
41

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Marc Ouellette is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and specializes primarily in Medicine, with a focus on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, and Molecular Medicine. Their research spans several interconnected domains involving infectious diseases, drug resistance, and genetic mechanisms.

Their scientific work extensively explores topics such as:

  • Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
  • Trypanosoma species research and implications
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Parasites and Host Interactions

Marc Ouellette's notable recent publications include:

  • "Mutations in an Aquaglyceroporin as a Proven Marker of Antimony Clinical Resistance in the Parasite Leishmania donovani," 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "MRPA-independent mechanisms of antimony resistance in Leishmania infantum," 2020, International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance
  • "CRISPR-Cas9 high-throughput screening to study drug resistance in Leishmania infantum," 2024, mBio
  • "Well-Tolerated Amphotericin B Derivatives That Effectively Treat Visceral Leishmaniasis," 2021, ACS Infectious Diseases
  • "Combined gene deletion of dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase and pteridine reductase in Leishmania infantum," 2021, PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Philippe Leprohon (21 collaborations)
  • Fereshteh Fani (8 collaborations)
  • Hélène Gingras (8 collaborations)
  • Cyrus Talebpour (7 collaborations)
  • Hossein Salimnia (7 collaborations)

Marc Ouellette has published multiple works in venues frequently attracting their research, such as:

  • International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance (4 publications)
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases (3 publications)
  • Microbial Genomics (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • mBio (2 publications)

In terms of scholarly recognition, Marc Ouellette was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012 under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • New Real-Time PCR Assay for Rapid Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Directly from Specimens Containing a Mixture of Staphylococci

    A. Huletsky;R. Giroux;V. Rossbach;M. Gagnon

  • Species-Specific and Ubiquitous-DNA-Based Assays for Rapid Identification of Staphylococcus aureus

    Francis Martineau;François J. Picard;Paul H. Roy;Marc Ouellette

  • Development of a PCR Assay for Rapid Detection of Enterococci

    Danbing Ke;François J. Picard;Francis Martineau;Christian Ménard

  • Leishmaniasis: drugs in the clinic, resistance and new developments

    Marc Ouellette;Jolyne Drummelsmith;Barbara Papadopoulou

  • Development of a PCR assay for identification of staphylococci at genus and species levels.

    Francis Martineau;François J. Picard;Danbing Ke;Sonia Paradis

  • Disruption of the trypanothione reductase gene of Leishmania decreases its ability to survive oxidative stress in macrophages.

    Carole Dumas;Marc Ouellette;Jorge Tovar;Mark L. Cunningham

  • The initial state of the human gut microbiome determines its reshaping by antibiotics

    Frédéric Raymond;Amin A Ouameur;Maxime Déraspe;Naeem Iqbal

  • RAPID DETECTION OF GROUP B STREPTOCOCCI IN PREGNANT WOMEN AT DELIVERY

    M. G. Bergeron;Danbing Ke;C. Menard;F. J. Picard

  • Precise insertion of antibiotic resistance determinants into Tn21-like transposons: nucleotide sequence of the OXA-1 beta-lactamase gene.

    Marc Ouellette;Luc Bissonnette;Paul H. Roy

  • Development of Conventional and Real-Time PCR Assays for the Rapid Detection of Group B Streptococci

    Danbing Ke;Christian Ménard;François J. Picard;Maurice Boissinot

  • The Leishmania ATP-binding cassette protein PGPA is an intracellular metal-thiol transporter ATPase.

    Danielle Légaré;Dave Richard;Rita Mukhopadhyay;York-Dieter Stierhof

  • Co‐amplification of the γ‐glutamylcysteine synthetase gene gsh1 and of the ABC transporter gene pgpA in arsenite‐resistant Leishmania tarentolae

    Katherine Grondin;Anass Haimeur;Rita Mukhopadhyay;Barry P. Rosen

  • A novel antifolate resistance gene on the amplified H circle of Leishmania.

    B. Papadopoulou;G. Roy;M. Ouellette

  • Targeted insertion of the neomycin phosphotransferase gene into the tubulin gene cluster of Trypanosoma brucei

    A. L. M. A. Ten Asbroek;M. Ouellette;P. Borst

  • A combined proteomic and transcriptomic approach to the study of stage differentiation in Leishmania infantum

    François McNicoll;Jolyne Drummelsmith;Michaela Müller;Éric Madore

  • A Proteomics Screen Implicates HSP83 and a Small Kinetoplastid Calpain-related Protein in Drug Resistance in Leishmania donovani Clinical Field Isolates by Modulating Drug-induced Programmed Cell Death

    Baptiste Vergnes;Benjamin Gourbal;Isabelle Girard;Shyam Sundar

  • Multiplex PCR assays for the detection of clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes in staphylococci isolated from patients infected after cardiac surgery

    Francis Martineau;François J. Picard;Louis Grenier;Paul H. Roy

  • Modulation of gene expression in drug resistant Leishmania is associated with gene amplification, gene deletion and chromosome aneuploidy

    Jean-Michel Ubeda;Danielle Légaré;Frédéric Raymond;Amin Ahmed Ouameur

  • Episomal and stable expression of the luciferase reporter gene for quantifying Leishmania spp. infections in macrophages and in animal models.

    Gaétan Roy;Carole Dumas;Denis Sereno;Ying Wu

  • Leishmania major LmACR2 is a pentavalent antimony reductase that confers sensitivity to the drug pentostam.

    Yao Zhou;Nadine Messier;Marc Ouellette;Barry P. Rosen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel G. Bergeron
Michel G. Bergeron Université Laval
Barbara Papadopoulou
Barbara Papadopoulou Université Laval
Paul H. Roy
Paul H. Roy Université Laval
Martin Olivier
Martin Olivier McGill University
Jacques Corbeil
Jacques Corbeil Université Laval
Michel J. Tremblay
Michel J. Tremblay Université Laval
Barry P. Rosen
Barry P. Rosen Florida International University
Guy G. Poirier
Guy G. Poirier Université Laval
Nancy G. Saravia
Nancy G. Saravia Tulane University
Patrick S. G. Chain
Patrick S. G. Chain Los Alamos National Laboratory

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