Carmen Charlton, PhD, FCCM, D(ABMM)

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Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Dept

Email: cgiltner@ualberta.ca
Address: 2B3.12 Mackenzie Health Science Centre
8440 - 112 St

Edmonton AB

T6G 2B7

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Dr. Carmen Charlton is currently appointed as Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.

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Donor management implications for high‐sensitivity detection of low‐level malaria parasitemia in blood donor screening

Carmen L. Charlton, Valerie Conrod, Dilini Kumaran, Craig Jenkins, Sandy Shokoples, LeeAnn Turnbull, Ruwandi Kariyawasam, Chantale Pambrun, Steven J. Drews

Transfusion. 2026 June; 10.1111/trf.70295

An international study on emerging arboviral infections and blood safety

Piya Rajendra, Helen M. Faddy, Daniel Candotti, Carolina B. Bub, Jose M. Kutner, Steven J. Drews, Carmen L. Charlton, Sheila F. O'Brien, Wai‐Chiu Tsoi, Michel‐Andres Garcia‐Otalora, Claire Reynolds, Tuulia Palukka, Riikka Lehtisalo, Ruth Offergeld, Axel Seltsam, Marijke Weber‐Schehl, Nahid Chenarsabz, Naoko Goto, Sung‐Chan Park, So‐Yong Kwon, Ryanne Lieshout‐Krikke, Aneta Kopacz, Ewa Sulkowska, Oana‐Alexandra Șerban, Simona Ruta, Eugene Zhiburt, Maha Badawi, Josephine Mitchel, Ute Jentsch, Ángel Luis Pajares Herraiz, Ana Lafuente Guijosa, Gülşen Özkaya Şahin, Christoph Niederhauser, Marion C. Lanteri, Brian Custer, Galen Conti, Anthea Cheng, Shannah Secret, Peter Simmonds, Heli Harvala

Transfusion. 2026 June; 10.1111/trf.70306

An in‐house nucleic acid test for detection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in whole blood donor samples

Dilini Kumaran, Carmen Charlton, Chantale Pambrun, Steven J. Drews, Sandra Ramirez‐Arcos

Transfusion. 2026 June; 10.1111/trf.70194

Using blood donor surveillance and clinical case data to shape our understanding of Babesia epidemiology in Manitoba, Canada

Steven J. Drews, Carmen L. Charlton, Sandra Ramirez‐Arcos, Craig Jenkins, Valerie Conrod, Laura Todd, Evan M. Bloch, Paul Van Caeseele, Derek Stein, Lori Osmond, Mindy Goldman, Sheila F. O'Brien, Chantale Pambrun

Transfusion. 2026 May; 10.1111/trf.70179

How do I interpret transfusion transmissible infectious disease testing in a low‐risk donor population?

Carmen L. Charlton, Mark Bigham, Sheila F. O'Brien, Steven J. Drews

Transfusion. 2025 December; 10.1111/trf.18441

Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Alberta from 2016–2022

Taylor M. Walsh, Sabrina S. Plitt, Tanis C. Dingle, Carmen L. Charlton

Antibiotics. 2025 November; 10.3390/antibiotics14111119

West Nile Virus positivity amongst Canadian blood donors and effectiveness of off‐season screening

Carmen L. Charlton, Steven J. Drews, Kai Makowski, Gordon Hawes, Cynthia Cranney, Alyssia Robinson, Heidi Wood, Mark Bigham, Sheila F. O'Brien

Transfusion. 2025 August; 10.1111/trf.18326

Sociodemographic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 serosurveillance studies with diverse recruitment strategies, Canada, 2020 to 2023

Matthew J. Knight, Yuan Yu, Jiacheng Chen, Sheila F. O’Brien, David L. Buckeridge, Carmen Charlton, W. Alton Russell

2024 December; 10.1101/2024.12.30.24319767

Higher rates of laboratory‐confirmed cases of syphilis in Western Canadian blood donors compared with Eastern Canadian blood donors following a period of societal re‐opening

Steven J. Drews, Carmen Charlton, Vanessa Tran, Hong Yuan Zhou, Gordon Hawes, Ilona Resz, Sheila F. O'Brien

Vox Sanguinis. 2024 October; 10.1111/vox.13715

Decreasing parvovirus B19 and hepatitis A nucleic acid test positivity rates in Canadian plasma donors following the initiation of COVID‐19 restriction in March 2020

Steven J. Drews, Carmen Charlton, Sheila F. O'Brien, Samantha Burugu, Gregory A. Denomme

Vox Sanguinis. 2024 June; 10.1111/vox.13616

Reply to: “Population-based screening works: Effect of integrating screening for hepatitis B and C into the general health check-up in Germany”

L. Alexa Thompson, Carmen L. Charlton

Journal of Hepatology. 2024 April; 10.1016/j.jhep.2023.12.025

Retrospective Review of Prenatal Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Screening in Alberta: 2018-2022.

McCullough E, Gratrix J, Smyzcek P, Charlton C, Plitt SS

Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology Canada : JOGC = Journal d'obstetrique et gynecologie du Canada : JOGC. 2023 September; 10.1016/j.jogc.2023.102229

Molecular epidemiology of rotavirus among children in Western Canada: Dynamic changes in genotype prevalence in four consecutive seasons.

Zhuo R, Freedman SB, Xie J, Charlton C, Plitt S, Croxen MA, Li V, Tarr GAM, Lee B, Ali S, Chui L, Luong J, Pang X

Journal of medical virology. 2023 August; 10.1002/jmv.29028

What’s in a number? The value of titers as routine proof of immunity for medical students

Carmen L. Charlton, Ashley-Nicole M. Bailey, L. Alexa Thompson, Jamil N. Kanji, Natalie C. Marshall

Vaccine. 2023 April; 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.03.009

Prevalence of syphilis coinfection in hepatitis C virus positive prenatal patients from Alberta during a pilot routine screening program.

Thompson LA, Plitt SS, Gratrix J, Charlton CL

Canadian liver journal. 2023 February; 10.3138/canlivj-2022-0017

HCV reflex testing: A single-sample, low-contamination method that improves the diagnostic efficiency of HCV testing among patients in Alberta, Canada.

Thompson LA, Fenton J, Charlton CL

Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada. 2022 June; 10.3138/jammi-2021-0028

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