Finite size scaling of domain chaos (2001)
Cross, M. C., Louie, M., Meiron, D.
Numerical studies of the domain chaos state in a model of rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection suggest that finite size effects may account for the discrepancy between experimentally measured values...
Finite Size Scaling of Domain Chaos (2000)
this paper we present results that further the comparison between theory and experiment for the state known as domain chaos [1] in rotating Rayleigh-Bnard convection.
Finite Size Scaling of Domain Chaos (2000)
Cross, M. C., Louie, M., Meiron, D.
Numerical studies of the domain chaos state in a model of rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection suggest that finite size effects may account for the discrepancy between experimentally measured values...
Evaluation of Three Rapid Methods for Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
Louie, L., Matsumura, S. O., Choi, E., Louie, M., Simor, A. E.
The probe-based Velogene Rapid MRSA Identification Assay (ID Biomedical Corp., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) and the latex agglutination MRSA-Screen (Denka Seiken Co., Tokyo, Japan) were...
Holland, J. L., Louie, L., Simor, A. E., Louie, M.
Rapid identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 is important for patient management and for prompt epidemiological investigations. We evaluated one in-house method and three commercially available...
Louie, L., Majury, A., Goodfellow, J., Louie, M., Simor, A. E.
The MRSA-Screen (Denka-Seiken, Tokyo, Japan) latex agglutination test was evaluated for its ability to detect PBP 2a from 200 clinical isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS; 84...
Matsumura, S. O., Louie, L., Louie, M., Simor, A. E.
Using checkerboard and time-kill assays, we evaluated the in vitro activity of quinupristin-dalfopristin (RP 59500) alone and in combination with five other antimicrobial agents against 12 clinical...
Louie, M., Read, S., Simor, A. E., Holland, J., Louie, L., Ziebell, K., ...
Primers were designed to amplify sequences of verocytotoxin genes and eaeA genes of Escherichia coli O26:H11, O111:H8, and O157:H7 in a multiplex PCR assay. This assay successfully detected E. coli...
Louie, L., Goodfellow, J., Mathieu, P., Glatt, A., Louie, M., Simor, A. E.
Rapid detection and accurate identification of methicillin-resistant staphylococci are critical for the effective management of infections caused by these organisms. We describe a multiplex PCR-based...
Simor, A E, Louie, M, Low, D E
The antimicrobial susceptibilities of 1,089 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae obtained from 39 laboratories across Canada between October 1994 and August 1995 were determined. A total of...
Impairment of monocytic function after influenza virus infection.
Louie, M, Yoo, J, Moran, T, Mayer, L, Sperber, K
In order to analyze the immunosuppression associated with influenza virus infection, we investigated monocytic function in macrophage hybridoma cell lines 5 weeks after infection with two strains of...
Yao, J D, Louie, M, Louie, L, Goodfellow, J, Simor, A E
Currently recommended dilution test methods for the determination of antimicrobial susceptibility of Stenotrophomonas (Xanthomonas) maltophilia are labor-intensive and often impractical in many...
Louie, M, Jayaratne, P, Luchsinger, I, Devenish, J, Yao, J, Schlech, W, ...
Fifty-one clinical isolates of Listeria monocytogenes (15 isolates from two outbreaks and 36 epidemiologically unrelated isolates) were typed by conventional serotyping, ribotyping (RT), pulsed-field...
Evaluation of enzyme immunoassay for detection of salivary antibody to Helicobacter pylori.
Simor, A E, Lin, E, Saibil, F, Cohen, L, Louie, M, Pearen, S, ...
The Helisal test is a quantitative enzyme immunoassay for the measurement of Helicobacter pylori-specific immunoglobulin G antibodies in saliva. This test was evaluated in comparison with culture and...
Evaluation of nutritive capacities of 10 broth media.
Scythes, K D, Louie, M, Simor, A E
Ten broth media were evaluated for their ability to support the growth of low inocula of selected fastidious aerobic, microaerophilic, and anaerobic bacteria. Thioglycolate medium USP (Oxoid,...
Louie, L, Louie, M, Simor, A E
Molecular strain typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis was used to investigate a cluster of four Nocardia asteroides isolates associated with...
Susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis.
Louie, M, Simor, A E, Szeto, S, Patel, M, Kreiswirth, B, Low, D E
We collected 103 clinical Enterococcus faecium isolates from across Canada, performed standard broth microdilution susceptibility testing, and compared these results with results from the MicroScan...
Szeto, S, Louie, M, Low, D E, Patel, M, Simor, A E
We compared the MicroScan Pos MIC Type 6 panel and AMS-Vitek Gram Positive Susceptibility Card (GPS-TA) to agar dilution screen plates for the detection of high-level aminoglycoside resistance in 182...
Multiple determinants of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 attachment-effacement.
Dytoc, M, Soni, R, Cockerill, F, De Azavedo, J, Louie, M, Brunton, J, ...
Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli strains of the serotype O157:H7 belong to a class of gastrointestinal pathogens that adhere to epithelial cells in a characteristic pattern known as attaching and...
Expression and characterization of the eaeA gene product of Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7.
Louie, M, De Azavedo, J C, Handelsman, M Y, Clark, C G, Ally, B, Dytoc, M, ...
In enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, the eaeA gene produces a 94-kDa outer membrane protein called intimin which has been shown to be necessary but not sufficient to produce the...
Dytoc, M, Gold, B, Louie, M, Huesca, M, Fedorko, L, Crowe, S, ...
Adhesion of Helicobacter pylori was reported previously to be morphologically identical to "attaching and effacing" Escherichia coli. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to define the...
Prevalence of bloodborne infective agents among people admitted to a Canadian hospital.
Louie, M, Low, D E, Feinman, S V, McLaughlin, B, Simor, A E
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence rates of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (anti-HIV) and the hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) among people...
Petrich, A., Mahony, J., Chong, S., Broukhanski, G., Gharabaghi, F., Johnson, G., ...
The emergence of a novel coronavirus (CoV) as the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) catalyzed the development of rapid diagnostic tests. Stool samples have been shown to be...
Evaluation of Three Rapid Methods for Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
Louie, L., Matsumura, S. O., Choi, E., Louie, M., Simor, A. E.
The probe-based Velogene Rapid MRSA Identification Assay (ID Biomedical Corp., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) and the latex agglutination MRSA-Screen (Denka Seiken Co., Tokyo, Japan) were...
Holland, J. L., Louie, L., Simor, A. E., Louie, M.
Rapid identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 is important for patient management and for prompt epidemiological investigations. We evaluated one in-house method and three commercially available...
Louie, L., Majury, A., Goodfellow, J., Louie, M., Simor, A. E.
The MRSA-Screen (Denka-Seiken, Tokyo, Japan) latex agglutination test was evaluated for its ability to detect PBP 2a from 200 clinical isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS; 84...
Matsumura, S. O., Louie, L., Louie, M., Simor, A. E.
Using checkerboard and time-kill assays, we evaluated the in vitro activity of quinupristin-dalfopristin (RP 59500) alone and in combination with five other antimicrobial agents against 12 clinical...
Louie, M., Read, S., Simor, A. E., Holland, J., Louie, L., Ziebell, K., ...
Primers were designed to amplify sequences of verocytotoxin genes and eaeA genes of Escherichia coli O26:H11, O111:H8, and O157:H7 in a multiplex PCR assay. This assay successfully detected E. coli...
Louie, L., Goodfellow, J., Mathieu, P., Glatt, A., Louie, M., Simor, A. E.
Rapid detection and accurate identification of methicillin-resistant staphylococci are critical for the effective management of infections caused by these organisms. We describe a multiplex PCR-based...
Simor, A E, Louie, M, Low, D E
The antimicrobial susceptibilities of 1,089 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae obtained from 39 laboratories across Canada between October 1994 and August 1995 were determined. A total of...
Impairment of monocytic function after influenza virus infection.
Louie, M, Yoo, J, Moran, T, Mayer, L, Sperber, K
In order to analyze the immunosuppression associated with influenza virus infection, we investigated monocytic function in macrophage hybridoma cell lines 5 weeks after infection with two strains of...
Yao, J D, Louie, M, Louie, L, Goodfellow, J, Simor, A E
Currently recommended dilution test methods for the determination of antimicrobial susceptibility of Stenotrophomonas (Xanthomonas) maltophilia are labor-intensive and often impractical in many...
Louie, M, Jayaratne, P, Luchsinger, I, Devenish, J, Yao, J, Schlech, W, ...
Fifty-one clinical isolates of Listeria monocytogenes (15 isolates from two outbreaks and 36 epidemiologically unrelated isolates) were typed by conventional serotyping, ribotyping (RT), pulsed-field...
Evaluation of enzyme immunoassay for detection of salivary antibody to Helicobacter pylori.
Simor, A E, Lin, E, Saibil, F, Cohen, L, Louie, M, Pearen, S, ...
The Helisal test is a quantitative enzyme immunoassay for the measurement of Helicobacter pylori-specific immunoglobulin G antibodies in saliva. This test was evaluated in comparison with culture and...
Evaluation of nutritive capacities of 10 broth media.
Scythes, K D, Louie, M, Simor, A E
Ten broth media were evaluated for their ability to support the growth of low inocula of selected fastidious aerobic, microaerophilic, and anaerobic bacteria. Thioglycolate medium USP (Oxoid,...
Louie, L, Louie, M, Simor, A E
Molecular strain typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis was used to investigate a cluster of four Nocardia asteroides isolates associated with...
Susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis.
Louie, M, Simor, A E, Szeto, S, Patel, M, Kreiswirth, B, Low, D E
We collected 103 clinical Enterococcus faecium isolates from across Canada, performed standard broth microdilution susceptibility testing, and compared these results with results from the MicroScan...
Szeto, S, Louie, M, Low, D E, Patel, M, Simor, A E
We compared the MicroScan Pos MIC Type 6 panel and AMS-Vitek Gram Positive Susceptibility Card (GPS-TA) to agar dilution screen plates for the detection of high-level aminoglycoside resistance in 182...
Multiple determinants of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 attachment-effacement.
Dytoc, M, Soni, R, Cockerill, F, De Azavedo, J, Louie, M, Brunton, J, ...
Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli strains of the serotype O157:H7 belong to a class of gastrointestinal pathogens that adhere to epithelial cells in a characteristic pattern known as attaching and...
Expression and characterization of the eaeA gene product of Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7.
Louie, M, De Azavedo, J C, Handelsman, M Y, Clark, C G, Ally, B, Dytoc, M, ...
In enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, the eaeA gene produces a 94-kDa outer membrane protein called intimin which has been shown to be necessary but not sufficient to produce the...
Dytoc, M, Gold, B, Louie, M, Huesca, M, Fedorko, L, Crowe, S, ...
Adhesion of Helicobacter pylori was reported previously to be morphologically identical to "attaching and effacing" Escherichia coli. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to define the...
Prevalence of bloodborne infective agents among people admitted to a Canadian hospital.
Louie, M, Low, D E, Feinman, S V, McLaughlin, B, Simor, A E
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence rates of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (anti-HIV) and the hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) among people...
Petrich, A., Mahony, J., Chong, S., Broukhanski, G., Gharabaghi, F., Johnson, G., ...
The emergence of a novel coronavirus (CoV) as the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) catalyzed the development of rapid diagnostic tests. Stool samples have been shown to be...
Louie, L., Simor, A. E., Chong, S., Luinstra, K., Petrich, A., Mahony, J., ...
Three commercially available real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assays (the Artus RealArt HPA coronavirus LightCycler, the Artus RealArt HPA coronavirus Rotor-Gene, and the EraGen severe acute...
Running in the real world: adjusting leg stiffness for different surfaces.
Ferris, D P, Louie, M, Farley, C T
A running animal coordinates the actions of many muscles, tendons, and ligaments in its leg so that the overall leg behaves like a single mechanical spring during ground contact. Experimental...