Professor Heiman Wertheim
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Heiman Wertheim
Associate Professor
OUCRU Ha Noi
Heiman Wertheim, MD PhD, is a clinical microbiologist at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi, Vietnam, which is based at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Currently, he is involved with several infectious disease research projects in Asia. His main research topics are central nervous system infections, paediatric tuberculosis, pneumonia, Klebsiella pneumoniae infections, Staphylococcus aureus infections, and antibiotic resistance. He supervises activities of the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) in Vietnam, which did a situation analysis on antibiotic use and resistance in Vietnam. He recently finished a large project that studied hospital acquired infections, antibiotic resistance and antibiotic use across 16 hospitals in Vietnam (Vinares study).
Key publications
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Holt KE. et al, (2015), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, E3574 - E3581
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Robinson TP. et al, (2016), The Lancet, 387, e1 - e3
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Mendelson M. et al, (2016), The Lancet, 387, 188 - 198
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Huong VTL. et al, (2014), Emerging Infectious Diseases, 20, 1895 - 1898
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Yacoub S. et al, (2014), Nature Reviews Cardiology, 11, 335 - 345
Recent publications
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Tran DN. et al, (2017), European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 36, 219 - 225
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Li R. et al, (2016), The Lancet Global Health, 4, e789 - e789
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Yacoub S. et al, (2016), Journal of Infectious Diseases, 214, 697 - 706
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Nguyen DNT. et al, (2016), Journal of Clinical Virology, 82, 126 - 132
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Do NTT. et al, (2016), The Lancet Global Health, 4, e633 - e641