BC Centre for Disease Control

Recent papers from BC Centre for Disease Control

1. Risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease in immigrants referred for post-landing TB medical surveillance: A retrospective cohort study in British Columbia, CanadaCanada Communicable Disease Report · 2026
2. Antimicrobial resistance patterns among urinary isolates from long-term care residents in Canada: findings from an AMRNet pilot2026
3. Public attitudes toward speed safety camera enforcement and critical elements of support in British Columbia, CanadaTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives · 2026
4. Projected Global Mortality and Economic Burden from Wildfire Smoke under Climate ChangeEnvironmental Health Perspectives · 2026
5. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and control measures on type 2 diabetes care among South Asians: the perspective of healthcare providers in British Columbia, CanadaPLoS ONE · 2026
6. Creating a national registry of patients presenting to emergency departments with opioid poisoning to inform clinical practice: the CEDRN opioid registryAddiction Science & Clinical Practice · 2026
7. Near-Universal Resistance to Macrolides of Treponema pallidum in North AmericaNew England Journal of Medicine · 2024
8. Genomic diversity of human-associated Mycobacterium bovis in CanadaMicrobiology Spectrum · 2026
9. Toward improved Lyme disease testing in Canada, beyond standard two-tiered testing and Borrelia burgdorferi : A pilot projectJournal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada · 2026
10. Successful voriconazole therapy after itraconazole hypersensitivity in cutaneous blastomycosisJournal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada · 2026
11. Mammographic density as a potential mediator in the association between night shift work and breast cancer riskOccupational and Environmental Medicine · 2026
12. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health Measures on Hepatitis C Treatment Initiation in Ontario, CanadaViruses · 2026
13. “Attention to the Person Who Prepared This Questionnaire”: Queer Men’s Survey Marginalia in HIV Behavioral SurveillanceSocial Science & Medicine · 2026
14. WhatsApp-delivered versus in-person life skills education and mental health outcomes among internally displaced persons in Abuja, Nigeria: a two-site, nonrandomized comparative study2026
15. Doxycycline pre-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPrEP) versus doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) for preventing bacterial sexually transmitted infections in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) and transgender women: protocol for a randomized non-inferiority trialTrials · 2026
16. Identifying Pathways between Socioeconomic Factors and Overdose: A Systematic Realist SynthesisSubstance Use & Misuse · 2026
17. Perceived benefits, barriers, and health system consequences of introducing new models of online sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection testing in Ontario, CanadaBMC Health Services Research · 2026
18. Wildfire smoke and health: current evidence, mechanisms, and future challengesThe Lancet · 2026
19. HPV vaccine effectiveness against prevalent HPV by age, years sexually active before vaccination, and HIV status in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, 2019-2021.2026
20. Ten Years of Occupational Blood and Body Fluid Exposures in British Columbia Healthcare Workers: Epidemiology and Follow-upJournal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 2026