Research Interests:
High resolution, high through put pathogen diagnostics and typing, genomic epidemiology.

For a list of Dr. Gilmour's PubMed articles, please click here

Select Recent Publications:

(2013) Gilmour MW, Graham M, Reimer A and Van Domselaar D. Public Health Genomics and the New Molecular Epidemiology of Bacterial Pathogens. Public Health Genomics. 16:25-30.

(2013) Mather AE, Reid SW, Maskell DJ, Parkhill J, Fookes MC, Harris SR, Brown DJ, Coia JE, Mulvey MR, Gilmour MW, Petrovska L, de Pinna E, Kuroda M, Akiba M, Izumiya H, Connor TR, Suchard MA, Lemey P, Mellor DJ, Haydon DT and Thomson NR. Distinguishable Epidemics of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 in Different Hosts. Science. 341(6153):1514-7.

(2013) Wylie JL, Van Caeseele P, Gilmour MW, Sitter D, Guttek C and Giercke S. Evaluation of a new Chromogenic Agar Medium for Detection of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and relative prevalence of O157 and non-O157 STEC, Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 51(2):466-71.

(2012) Aarestrup FM, Brown EW, Detter C, Gerner-Smidt P, Gilmour MW, Harmsen D, Hendriksen RS, Hewson R, Heymann DL, Johansson K, Ijaz K, Kiem PS, Koopmans M, Kroneman A, Lo Fo Wong D, Lund O, Palm D, Sawanpanyalert P, Sobel J and Schlundt J. Integrating Genome-Based Infectious Disease Informatics to revolutionize infectious disease detection and response from point of care to the global village. Emerging Infectious Diseases. November. 18:11.

(2011) Reimer AR, Van Domselaar G, Stroika S, Walker M, Kent H, Tarr C, Talkington D, Rowe L, Olsen-Rasmussen M, Frace M, Sammons S, Dahourou GA, Boncy J, Smith AM, Mabon P, Petkau A, Graham M, Gilmour MW, Gerner-Smidt P, and the V. cholerae outbreak genomics task force. Comparative genomics of Vibrio choleraefrom Haiti, Asia, and Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 17: 2113-21.

(2010) Gilmour MW, Graham M, Van Domselaar G, Tyler S, Kent H, Trout-Yakel K, Larios O, Allen V, Lee B, Nadon C. High-Throughput Genome Sequencing of Two Listeria monocytogenes Clinical Isolates During a Large Foodborne Outbreak. BMC Genomics. 11:120 (granted permanent status as a 'Highly Accessed Article').