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Julie Brassard

Virologie, zoonoses et salubrité alimentaire

Professeure associée

Faculté de médecine vétérinaire - Département de pathologie et microbiologie

julie.brassard@umontreal.ca

Secondary numbers: 450 768-7942 (Travail 1) 450 768-7851 (Télécopieur)
Secondary email: julie.brassard@agr.gc.ca (Travail)

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Research expertise

  • 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

Affiliations and responsabilities

Teaching and supervision

Student supervision

Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)

Projects

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

Nantel-Fortier N, Letellier A, Lachapelle V, Fravalo P, L'Homme Y, Brassard J. Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Hepatitis E Virus in a Canadian Swine Production Network. Food and environmental virology. 2016. Epub 2016/07/17.

Brassard, J., Gagné, M.-J., Leblanc, D., Poitras, E., Houde, A., Boras, V.F., and Inglis, G.D. (2015). "Association of age and gender with Torque teno virus detection in stools from diarrheic and non-diarrheic people.", Journal of Clinical Virology, 72, pp. 55-59. doi : 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.08.020

Delaquis, P.J., Brassard, J., and Gajadhar, A. (2015). "Pathogenic Viruses and Protozoa Transmitted by Soil.", in Yates, M., Nakatsu, C., Miller, R. and Pillai, S. (eds.) - Manual of Environmental Microbiology 4th edition, ASMscience Press, Washington, DC., Chapter 3.3.1, pp. 3.3.1.1-3.3.1.14.

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

Wilhelm, B., Leblanc, D., Houde, A., Brassard, J., Gagné, M.-J., Plante, D., Bellon-Gagnon, P., Jones, T.H., Muehlhauser, V., Janecko, N., Avery, B., Rajic, A., and McEwen, S.A. (2014). "Survey of Canadian retail pork chops and pork livers for detection of hepatitis E virus, norovirus, and rotavirus using real time RT-PCR.",International Journal of Food Microbiology, 185, pp. 33-40. doi : 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2014.05.006

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

Disciplines

  • Veterinary Sciences

Areas of expertise

  • Virology
  • Zoonoses
  • Food hygiene