Professor Christopher Parry
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Christopher Parry
Visiting Professor of Tropical Medicine
Christopher Parry is a visiting Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford and a Consultant in Clinical Microbiology and Infection at Liverpool University Hospitals and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. He has previously worked with the Oxford University South-East Asia Tropical Network, Nagasaki University, Japan, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Liverpool University and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
He has a research focus on the epidemiology and management of severe bacterial infections and is currently working with OUCRU Nepal on the management of enteric fever. This includes a randomized controlled trial of the combination of azithromycin and cefixime versus azithromycin alone in the treatment of uncomplicated enteric fever in sites across south Asia which is funded by a Joint Global Health Trials grant (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the MRC, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the Wellcome Trust). He is an elected Trustee of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Recent publications
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A prospective observational study of community-acquired bacterial bloodstream infections in Metro Manila, the Philippines.
Saito N. et al, (2022), PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 16
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Quantitative bacterial counts in the bone marrow of Vietnamese patients with typhoid fever.
Van Be Bay P. et al, (2022), Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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British Infection Association Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Enteric Fever in England.
Nabarro LE. et al, (2022), The Journal of infection
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Assessment of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Typhoid Diagnosis and Assessment of Febrile Illness Outbreaks in Fiji.
Getahun Strobel A. et al, (2021), The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 106, 543 - 549
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Azithromycin and cefixime combination versus azithromycin alone for the out-patient treatment of clinically suspected or confirmed uncomplicated typhoid fever in South Asia: a randomised controlled trial protocol
Giri A. et al, (2021)