Across British Columbia, the primary care landscape continues to evolve as governments seek to establish effective models for the prevention of illness in pandemic and postpandemic environments.... Read More
Clinical Articles
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of recognizing and diagnosing travel-related infections. In 2018, 67 million passengers enplaned and deplaned in Canadian airports for... Read More
Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi. It is transmitted by Ixodes ticks, colloquially called deer ticks. In British Columbia, the disease is transmitted... Read More
Chronic hepatitis B is caused by a small DNA virus called hepatitis B virus (HBV), a prototype member of the Hepadnaviridae family and the Orthohepadnavirus genus that infects mammals.[1] Chronic... Read More
Without a concerted societal effort, antimicrobial resistance is predicted to kill more people than cancer by the year 2050.[1] The human cost is staggering, with one death occurring every 3 seconds... Read More