Annie-Claude Labbé

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• Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal

EDUCATION

• M.D.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Epidemiology of infections caused by the C. difficile bacteria; 
• Travel health;
• Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV in Africa;
• Fungal infections in stem cell transplant patients and in intensive care patients.

RESEARCH TEAM

Research Nurse:

• Sylvie Bélanger

Research Assistant:

• Stefania Chitu

Technical Assistant:

• Marie-Claude Locas

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selected papers

Sobéla F, Pépin J, Gbéléou S, Banla AK, Pitche VP, adom W, Sodji D, Frost E, Deslandes S, Labbé AC. A tale of two countries: HIV among core groups in Togo.  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (in press)
 
Sabry W, Le Blanc R, Labbé AC, Sauvageau G, Couban S, Kiss T, Busque L, Cohen S, Lachance S, Roy DC, Roy J. Graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis with tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil in HLA-matched nonmyeloablative transplant recipients is associated with very low incidence of acute GVHD and non relapse mortality.  Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (in press)
 
Pépin J, Vo TT, Boutros M, Marcotte E, Dial S, Dubé S, Vasilevsky CA, McFadden N, Patino C, Labbé AC. Risk factors for mortality following emergency colectomy for fulminant Clostridium difficile infection.  Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (in press)
 
Labbé AC, Pépin J, Patino C, Castonguay S*, Restieri C, Laverdière M. A Single-Centre Ten Year Experience with Candida Bloodstream Infections.  Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (in press)

Chandrasekaran P, Dallabetta G, Loo V, Mills S, Saidel T, Adhikary R, Alary M, Lowndes CM, Boily MC, Moore J;  Avahan Evaluation Partners. Collaborators: Vickerman P, Kumaranayake L, Watts C, Reza-Paul S, Labbé AC, George B, Jackson D, Kay K, Magnani R, Rahman M, Moses S, Blanchard J, Washington R, Ramesh BM, Isac S, Arora P, Jha P, Seshadri SR, McLaughlin C, Sgaier S, Kumar R, Jotkar R, Easton A, Sullivan A, Nagelkerke N.  Evaluation design for large-scale HIV prevention programmes: the case of Avahan, the India AIDS initiative. AIDS 2008;22 Suppl 5:S1-15.
 
Labbé AC, Poirier L, Maccannell D, Louie T, Savoie M, Béliveau C, Laverdière M, Pépin J. Clostridium difficile infections in a Canadian tertiary care hospital before and during a regional epidemic associated with the BI/NAP1/027 strain.  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2008;52: 3180-7.
 
Lajoie J, Poudrier J, Missinga Loembe M, Guédou F, Agossa Gbenafa C, Labbé AC, Alary M, Roger M.
Differences in immunoregulatory cytokine expression patterns in the systemic and genital tract compartments of HIV-1-infected commercial sex workers in Benin. Mucosal Immunology 2008 Jul;1(4):309-16.

Pépin J, Labbé AC.Noble goals, unforeseen consequences: control of tropical diseases in colonial
Central Africa and the iatrogenic transmission of blood-borne viruses.Trop Med Int Health, 2008 Jun;13(6):744-53.
 
Couture MC, Soto JC, Akom E, Labbé AC, Joseph G, Zunzunegui MV.  Clients of Female Sex Workers in Gonaives and St-Marc, Haiti Characteristics, Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevalence and Risk Factors.  Sex Transm Dis, 2008 Oct;35(10):849-55.
 
Labbé A.-C., Su S.H.*, Laverdière M., Pépin J., Patiño C., Cohen S., Kiss T., Lachance S., Sauvageau G., Busque L., Roy D.C., Roy J. High Incidence of Invasive Aspergillosis Associated with Intestinal Graft-versus-Host Disease Following Nonmyeloablative Transplantation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplant 2007; 13: 1192-200.

Complete list of Dr Labbé's publications (PubMed)

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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