• Détermination de l'origine des virus pathogènes présentant des risques pour l'humain dans la chaîne alimentaire et dans son environnement
• Évaluation des profils de survie ou de persistance des virus pathogènes présentant des risques pour l'humain dans la chaîne alimentaire et dans son environnement
• Élaboration de stratégies de contrôle de la ferme à la table des virus pathogènes présentant des risques pour l'humain
• Étudier des virus modèles ou substituts et des indicateurs viraux potentiels

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Gagné, M.-J., Barrette, J., Savard, T., and Brassard, J. (2015). "Evaluation of survival of murine norovirus-1 during sauerkraut fermentations and storage under standard and sodium reduction conditions.", Food Microbiology, 52, pp. 119-123. doi : 10.1016/j.fm.2015.07.009

Ward, P., Leblanc, D., Houde, A., and Brassard, J. (2015). "Analysis of complete genome sequences of swine hepatitis E virus and V239A substitution in helicase domain of genotype 3 hepatitis E virus strains isolated from human and swine in Canada.", Archives of Virology, 160(7), pp. 1767-1773. doi : 10.1007/s00705-015-2429-8

Béland, K., Doré-Nguyen, M., Gagné, M.-J., Patey, N., Brassard, J., Alvarez, F., and Halac, U. (2014). "Torque Teno Virus in children with orthotopic liver transplantation: new insights about a common pathogen.", The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 209(2), pp. 247-254. doi : 10.1093/infdis/jit423

Béland, K., Doré-Nguyen, M., Gagné, M.-J., Patey, N., Brassard, J., Alvarez, F., and Halac, U. (2014). "Torque teno virus load as a biomarker of immunosuppression? new hopes and insights.", The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 210(4), pp. 668-670. doi : 10.1093/infdis/jiu210

Lachapelle, V., Sohal, J.S., Lambert, M.-C., Brassard, J., Letellier, A., Fravalo, P., and L’Homme, Y. (2014). "Genetic diversity of group A rotavirus in swine from Canada.", Archives of Virology, 159(7), pp. 1771-1779. doi : 10.1007/s00705-013-1951-9

Leblanc, D., Houde, A., Gagné, M.-J., Plante, D., Bellon-Gagnon, P., Jones, T.H., Muehlhauser, V., Wilhelm, B.J., Avery, B., Janecko, N., and Brassard, J. (2014). "Presence, viral load and characterization of Torque teno sus viruses in liver and pork chop samples at retail.", International Journal of Food Microbiology, 178, pp. 60-64. doi : 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2014.03.005

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Wilkes, G.A., Brassard, J., Edge, T.A., Gannon, V.P.J., Gottschall, N., Jokinen, C.C., Jones, T.H., Khan, I.U.H., Marti, R., Sunohara, M., Topp, E., and Lapen, D.R. (2014). "Long-term monitoring of waterborne pathogens and microbial source tracking markers in paired-agricultural watersheds under controlled and conventional tile drainage management.", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80(12), pp. 3708-3720. doi : 10.1128/AEM.00254-14