Infection Control and Prevention

Dr Soualhine has extensive experience in reference diagnosis of TB and mycobacteria, He did post-doctoral fellowss in France on genome sequencing, in Quebec on genomic and proteomic of drug resistance and at UBC on development of new recombinant BCG vaccine. His research career has been devoted to antimicrobial resistance in M. tuberculosis. He is interested in mycobacterial pathogenicity, molecular methods for rapid characterization and genotyping with special interest in Crohn’s disease and cystic fibrosis.