Evelyne Kokoskin

MSc, ART, FCSMLS(D)

Manager, Ottawa Public Health Laboratory, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

Emplacement

Ottawa, Ontario

Mots clés

Recherche d'intérêts

Setting up the laboratory operation for the McGill University Centre for Tropical Diseases including blood and tissue parasites, and intestinal parasites.

Developing innovative staining techniques.

Co-ordinating the blood and tissue parasite QA program in Quebec.

Customizing and teaching numerous courses in malaria and general parasitology at all levels, nationally and internationally.

My current interests include environmental parasitology, and techniques to isolate parasites form various samples.

Publications pertinentes

Detection/Diagnostics

Epidemiology

Public Health

Surveillance

Publications pertinentes

Kokoskin, E. 2005. Dépistage du Paludisme, Manuel Pour le Laboratoire D’aujourdhui, ISBN 0-7717-0626-X

Kokoskin, E. 2001. The Malaria Manual for Today’s Laboratory, ISBN 0-7717-0559

Libman, M.D., Gyorkos, T.W., Kokoskin, E., MacLean J.D., Detection of Pathogenic Protozoa in the Diagnostic Laboratory: Result Reproducibility, Specimen Pooling, and Competency Assessment. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 47 (7), 2008: 2200-2205, July.

Ndao, M., Bandyayera, E., Kokoskin, E., Diemart, D., Gyorkos, T., MacLean, J.D., St John, R., Ward, B. Malaria “epidemic” in Quebec: diagnosis and response to imported malaria. CMAJ 172(1):46-50, 2005 Jan 4.

Ndao, M., Kokoskin, E., Bandyayera, E., Gyorkos, T., MacLean, J.D., Aubin, S., Ward, B. Malaria outbreak in Quebec, Canada in 2000: Comparison of blood smear, antigen detection and nested PCR for screening refugees from malaria endemic regions. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42(6):2694-2700 2004, Jun.

MacLean, J.D., Demers A.-M., Ndao, M., Kokoskin, E., Ward, B., Gyorkos, T. Malaria Epidemics and Surveillance Systems in Canada, Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 10, No 7, July 2004

Ndao, M., Kelly, N., Normandin, D., MacLean, J.D., Whiteman, A., Kokoskin, E., Arevalo, I., and Ward, B. Trypanosoma cruzi Infection of Squirrel Monkeys: Comparison of Blood Smear Examination, Commercial Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay, and polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis as Screening Tests for Evaluation-Related Injuries. Comparative Medicine December 2000; (4): 658-665.

Contacter

2380 St. Laurent Blvd

Ottawa, ON K1G 6C4

ekokoskin@rogers.com