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null Marcel Behr, MD, M.Sc.

Senior Scientist, RI-MUHC, Glen site

Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program

Centre for Translational Biology

Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, MUHC

 

Keywords

tuberculosis • molecular epidemiology • bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine • innate immunity • Crohn's disease

Research Focus

My research focuses on mycobacteria, which are the cause of tuberculosis (TB) and TB-like diseases. Our lab uses genomic methods to study the epidemiology of TB (its spread between people) and the pathogenesis of TB (how it causes infection, and how infection progresses to disease).

Research initiative
McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (MI4)

Selected Publications

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  • Behr MA, Edelstein P, Ramakrishnan L. Revisiting timetable of tuberculosis. BMJ. 2018 Aug 23;362:k2738. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2738. PMID: 30139910.

  • Duffy SC, Srinivasan S, Schilling MA, Stuber T, Danchuk SN, Michael JS, Venkatesan M, Bansal N, Maan S, Jindal N, Chaudhary D, Dandapat P, Katani R, Chothe S, Veerasami M, Robbe-Austerman S, Juleff N, Kapur V, Behr MA. Reconsidering Mycobacterium bovis as a proxy for zoonotic tuberculosis: a molecular epidemiological surveillance study. Lancet Microbe. 2020 Jun;1(2):e66-e73. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30038-0. PMID: 32642742.

  • Dowdy D, Behr MA. Are we underestimating the annual risk of infection with M. tuberculosis in high-burden settings? Lancet Infect Dis. 2022 Sep;22(9):e271-e278. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00153-0.

  • Harrison LB, Kapur V, Behr MA. An imputed ancestral reference genome for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex better captures structural genomic diversity for reference-based alignment workflows. Microb Genom. 2024 Jan;10(1).

  • Garcia-Basteiro AL, Ehrlich J, Bonnet M, Calnan M, Graham SM, Hermans S, Jarrett A, Lewa R, Mandalakas A, Martinez L, Migliori GB, Ong CWM, Otero L, Rangaka MX, Raviglione MCB, Seaworth B, Ssengooba W, Theron G, Trajman A, Behr MA. A Global Tuberculosis Dictionary: unified terms and definitions for the field of tuberculosis. Lancet Glob Health. 2024 Mar 22:S2214-109X(24)00083-4. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00083-4.