Batol Al-Adhami

PhD

CFIA Saskatoon Laboratory, Centre for Foodborne and Animal Parasitology, Saskatoon Laboratory

Location

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Keywords

Toxoplasma, Cyclospora, Cryptosporidium

Research interests

My research focuses on the development of methods for detecting and isolating coccidian parasites (Toxoplasma, Cyclospora and Cryptosporidium) in food, water and environmental samples.

Expertise in

Cryptosporidiosis

Cyclosporiasis

Detection/Diagnostics

Food

Public Health

Toxoplasmosis

Relevant publications

Al-Adhami, B., Huby-Chilton, F., Chilton, N., Martinez-Perez, A., Blais, B. and Gajadhar, A. 2008. Non-isotopic single strand conformation polymorphism analysis for the rapid discrimination of Salmonella strains. J. Food. Prot. 71, 1960-1966.

Sato, H., Al-Adhami, B.H., Une, Y. and Kamiya, H. 2007. Trypanosoma (Herpetosoma) kuseli sp. n. (Protozoa: Kinetoplastida) in Siberian flying squirrels (Pteromys volans). Parasitol. Res. 101, 453-461.

Smith, H.V., Al-Adhami, B.H., Nichols, R.A.B., Kusel, J.R. and O’Grady, J. 2007. Towards methods for detecting UV-induced damage in individual Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis oocysts by immunofluorescence microscopy (Review). In Giardia and Cryptosporidium: Molecules, Genes and Disease. Published by CABI International.

Kusel, J.R., Al-Adhami, B.H. & Doenhoff, M.J. 2007. The schistosome in the mammalian host: Understanding the mechanisms of adaptation (Review). Parasitology 134, 1477-1562.

Al-Adhami, B.H., Nichols, R.A.B, Kusel, J. R. O’Grady, J. & Smith, H.V. 2007. Detection of UV-induced thymine dimers in individual Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis oocysts by immunofluorescence microscopy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73, 947-955.

Contact

Centre for Foodborne and Animal Parasitology

Saskatoon Laboratory

116 Veterinary Road

Saskatoon, SK S7N 2R3

Batol.Al-Adhami@inspection.gc.ca