Jordan Mah
- Professeur adjoint de clinique
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Faculté de médecine - Département de microbiologie, infectiologie et immunologie
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Lieu A, Mah JK, Vinh DC, Qureshi ST. Pulmonary fungal infections in the immunocompetent host. Chest. 2026 Jan 14:S0012-3692(26)00016-4. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.12.041. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41544957.
Mah JK, Hogan JI, Kothadia S, Keenan JE, Berger J, Carugati M. Application of plasma cell-free metagenomic next-generation sequencing for the identification of Aspergillus fumigatus donor-derived infections among solid organ transplant recipients. Med Mycol Case Rep. 2025 Nov 12;50:100751.
Mah JK, Lieu A, Banaei N. Non-invasive diagnosis of invasive fungal disease with cell-free DNA PCR. J Clin Microbiol0:e01236-24.
Mah J, Lieu A, Nicholas V, Moreno A, Murugesan K, Budvytiene I, Banaei N. 2025. Accuracy of plasma cell-free DNA PCR for non-invasive diagnosis of mucormycosis. J Clin Microbiol 63:e00796-25..
Sim BZ, Mah JK, Heldman MR, Stanly KL, Hanson KE, Caliendo AM, Andes D, Ostroskly-Zeichner L, Wingard JR, Alexander BD. Plasma microbial cell-free DNA Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Diseases Among High Risk Outpatient and Inpatient Immunocompromised Hosts. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Apr 3:ciaf170. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaf170. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40176261.
Mah JK, Tam PCK, Chang YC, Saullo JH, Baker AW, Maziarz EK, Messina JA, Sim B, Abusalem L, Hanna S, Pipeling MR, Snyder LD, Reynolds JM, Wolfe CR, Lee MJ, Alexander BD, Heldman MR. Limited utility of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) surveillance for predicting post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders in adult EBV seropositive lung transplant recipients. J Clin Virol. 2025 Feb;176:105758. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2024.105758. Epub 2024 Dec 13. PMID: 39700902.
Nicholas VV, Miller I, Mah J, Rieger KE, Budvytiene I, Banaei N. Photo Quiz: PAS- and GMS-positive filamentous branching organisms in an immunocompromised patient. J Clin Microbiol. 2024 Dec 11;62(12):e0038724. doi: 10.1128/jcm.00387-24. Epub 2024 Dec 11. PMID: 39660860.
Kariyawasam R, Gascon B, Challa P, Mah J, Lau R, Valencia BM, Llanos-Cuentas A, Boggild AK. Spectrum of bacterial pathogens in inflammatory and noninflammatory cutaneous ulcers of American tegumentary leishmaniasis. Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2024 Sep 10;11:20499361241274200. doi: 10.1177/20499361241274200. PMID: 39296379.
Spellberg B, Nielsen TB, Phillips MC, Ghanem B, Boyles T, Jegorović B, Footer B, Mah JK, Lieu A, Scott J, Wald-Dickler N, Lee TC, McDonald EG. Revisiting diagnostics: erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein: it is time to stop the zombie tests. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2025 Jan;31(1):1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.08.017. Epub 2024 Aug 28. PMID: 39209263
Liang B, Mah J, Sahoo MK, Pinsky BA. Epstein-Barr virus qPCR testing on bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from immunocompromised patients. J Clin Virol. 2024 Oct;174:105705. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2024.105705. Epub 2024 Jul 13. PMID: 39002309.
Moreno A, Mah J, Budvytiene I, Ho DY, Schwenk HT, Banaei N. Dynamics and prognostic value of plasma cell-free DNA PCR in patients with invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis. J Clin Microbiol. 2024 May 8;62(5):e0039424. doi: 10.1128/jcm.00394-24. Epub 2024 Apr 11. PMID: 38602412; PMCID: PMC11237630.
Bryan Tordon, Steven J. Drews, Francine Flahr, Kathleen Bennett, Teresa Gaziano, Danielle Anderson, Susan Nahirniak, Hanan Gerges, Gregory J. Tyrrell, Jordan Mah, Momar Ndao, Mark Bigham, Matthew Seftel. Canadian Blood Services Traceback Investigation of a Suspected Case of Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria. Transfusion. 2023 Sep 16. doi: 10.1111/trf.17549. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37715564.
Zachary Renfro, Caitlin A Contag, Jacky Lu, Daniel Solis, ChunHong Huang, Malaya K Sahoo, Fumiko Yamamoto, Jordan Mah, Morris S. Jones, Jennifer Lin, Vivian Levy, Benjamin A Pinsky. Two cases of MPXV infection during pregnancy in heterosexual cisgender women without classic cutaneous lesions, Northern California, 2022. IDCases. 2023 Aug 21;33:e01881. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01881. PMID: 37680215.
Jordan Mah, Malaya Sahoo, ChunHong Huang, and Benjamin Pinsky. Evaluation of an Automated System for the Quantitation of Human Herpesvirus-6 DNA from Clinical Specimens. Practical Laboratory Medicine. 2023 Aug 5;36:e00329. doi: 10.1016/j.plabm.2023.e00329. PMID: 37649537.
Jordan Mah, Veronica Nicholas, Ralph Tayyar, Angel Moreno, Kanagavel Murugesan, Indre Budvytiene, Niaz Banaei. Superior accuracy of Aspergillus plasma cell-free DNA PCR over serum galactomannan for the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Jul 14:ciad420. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad420. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37450614.
Jordan K. Mah, MeiLe Keck, Daniel Y. Chu, Harini Sooryanarain, Malaya K. Sahoo, Patrick Lau, ChunHong Huang, Jenna Weber, Geoffrey A. Belanger, Zhen-yong Keck, Hua Shan, Xiang-Jin Meng, Steven K.H. Foung, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Tho D. Pham. Hepatitis E virus seropositivity in an ethnically diverse community blood donor population. Vox Sang. 2023 Aug;118(8):674-680. doi: 10.1111/vox.13487. Epub 2023 Jun 27. PMID: 37366233.
Jordan Mah, Kyle Walding, Brooke Liang, Laurence Rinsky, Roshni Mathew, Indre Budvytiene, Niaz Banaei. Mycobacterium marinum Infection after Iguana Bite in Costa Rica. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 29(6):1278-1280. doi: 10.3201/eid2906.230062. PMID: 37209698.
Mark Gillrie, Nicole L. Rosin, Sarthak Sinha, Hellen Kang, Raquel Farias, Angela Nguyen, Kelsie Volek, Jordan Mah, Etienne Mahe, Marvin Fritzler, Bryan Yipp, Jeff Biernaskie. Case Report: Deep Immune Profiling Links Neutrophil and Plasmablast Dysregulation to Microvascular Damage in post-COVID-19 Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome of Adults (MIS-A). Frontiers of Immunology. 2023 Feb 23;14:1125960. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1125960. PMID: 36911724.
Jordan Mah, Malaya Sahoo, ChunHong Huang, and Benjamin Pinsky. Evaluation of a Semi-Automated System for the Quantitation of Human Adenovirus DNA from Clinical Samples. Microbiology Spectrum. Feb 27, 2023:e0501022. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.05010-22. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36847504.
Alex Zimmet, Jordan Mah, Indre Budvytiene, Niaz Banaei, Jorge Salinas. Photo Quiz: A 50-Year Old Man with Fever and Headache. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2023 Jun 20;61(6):e0172522. doi: 10.1128/jcm.01725-22. Epub 2023 Jun 20. PMID: 37338227.
Jordan Mah, Ruzan Orkusyan, Torsten Joerger, Niaz Banaei. Fusarium and Lomentospora co-infection in a pediatric patient with acute myelogenous leukemia: when Occam’s razor may not always apply. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2023 Jan;126:28-30. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.11.019. Epub 2022 Nov 21. PMID: 36410692.
Jordan Mah, Anthony Lieu, Emma Heck, Danica Quickfall, Alejandra Ugarte-Torres. Primary varicella in two foreign-borne migrants – a disease in adults associated with high morbidity and mortality. CMAJ. 2023 Feb 27;195(8):E300-E303. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220951. PMID: 36849176.
Anthony Lieu*, Jordan Mah*, Gisele Peirano, Ranjani Somayaji, Deirdre Church. Microbiological characterization of Actinotignum schaalii causing invasive infections during a multi-year period in a large Canadian healthcare region. Microbiology Spectrum. Nov 21:e0344222. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.03442-22. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36409090.
Jordan Mah*, Anthony Lieu*, Ranjani Somayaji, Deirdre Church. Characterizing Actinotignum schaalii infections in a large Canadian healthcare region. Future Microbiology. Future Microbiol. 2022 Nov;17:1353-1362. doi: 10.2217/fmb-2022-0049. Epub 2022 Sep 28. PMID: 36169260.
Jordan Kit Mah, Angela Lee, James N. Scott, Deirdre Church. Pneumococcal otogenic meningitis complicated by pneumocephalus, seizures, right-sided hemiplegia and cortical venous thrombosis. IDCases. Volume 29, 2022, e01601, doi: org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01601
Jordan Mah, Anthony Lieu, Dina Fisher, Rachel Lim. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the epidemiology of tuberculosis in a large urban centralized care setting in Canada: a retrospective population-based cohort study. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. Volume 27, Number 1, January 2023, pp. 69-71(3), https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.22.0378
Jordan Mah, Anthony Lieu, Helen Bibby, Stephen Vaughan. A case of disseminated histoplasmosis mimicking miliary tuberculosis in a VFR with recent travel to Vietnam. J Travel Med. 2022 Jul 7:taac080. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taac080.
Anthony Lieu, Jordan Mah, Noémie Desgagnés, Dylan Pillai. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in returning travelers in Canada: a retrospective population-based cohort study. Journal of Travel Medicine. 2022 May 14:taac061. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taac061.
Jordan Mah, Andrea Bakker, Calvin Tseng, Lucie Lafay-Cousin, Susan Kuhn, Marie-Anne Brundler, Luiz F Lisboa, Isolated Pulmonary Emergomycosis in an Immunocompetent Patient in Alberta, Canada, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac021
Jordan Mah, Anthony Lieu, Emma Holmes, Stephen Vaughan. A case of disseminated strongyloidiasis after multiple courses of immunosuppression. CMAJ. 2022 Jan 24;194(3):E89-E92. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.211056. PMID: 35074835.
Anthony Lieu, Jordan Mah, Deirdre Church. A Case of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults Following Natural Infection and Subsequent Immunization, International Journal of Infectious Diseases (2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.12.339
Dylan Kain, Dale A. Jechel, Rochelle G. Melvin, Farah Jazuli, Michael Klowak, Jordan Mah, Arghavan Omidi, Ruwandi Kariyawasam, Stefanie Klowak, Andrea K. Boggild. Hematologic Parameters of Acute Dengue Fever Versus Other Febrile Illnesses in Ambulatory Returned Travelers. Curr Infect Dis Rep 23, 25 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11908-021-00768-9
Jordan Mah, Daniel Negreanu, Suhaib Radi, Stavroula Christopoulos.Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-induced refractory hypoglycaemia successfully treated with octreotide. BMJ case reports, 14(5), e240232. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-240232
Jordan Mah, Anthony Lieu, Ling Yuan Kong, Pouria Alipour, Andràs Tikàsz, Sunny Song, Arash Akaberi, Adam Palayew, Berson Augustin, Stephen Su Yang, Jed Lipes, Mark Palayew, Laurent Azoulay, Christina Greenaway. Comparison of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 who did and did not live in residential care facilities in Montréal: a retrospective case series. CMAJ Open, 9(3), E718–E727. https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200244
Anthony Lieu, Jordan Mah, Veronica Zanichelli, Rose Carmel Exantus, Yves Longtin. Impact of Extended Use and Decontamination with Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide on N95 Respirator Fit. American Journal Infection Control. Dec;48(12):1457-1461. https://doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.08.010..
Farah Jazuli, Terence Lynd, Jordan Mah, Michael Klowak, Dale Jechel, Stefanie Klowak, Howard Ovens, Sam Sabbah, Andrea K. Boggild. Rapid Assessment of Febrile Travelers" (RAFT): A Clinic-based Quality Improvement Initiative. BMJ Open. 6(7), 2016. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010302