Professor Paul Turner
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Microbiology in the tropics
Infectious diseases are prevalent in Cambodia, a country that is struggling with poor infrastructure. Streptococcus pneumoniae causes the most severe form of pneumonia and is now targeted by the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Dr Paul Turner is studying the effect of this vaccine in field conditions in SE Asia, as well as other direct applications such as the evaluation of a new diagnostic test for Typhoid and interventions to reduce the burden of infections acquired within hospitals.
Paul Turner
MB BS, PhD, FRCPCH, FRCPath
Professor of Paediatric Microbiology
- Senior Clinical Research Fellow
- Consultant in Microbiology
- Director of the Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit
Clinical microbiologist with a focus on paediatric infections
Paul Turner is based at the Cambodia-Oxford Medical Research Unit (COMRU), Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
His research interests include:
- Antimicrobial resistance surveillance and control;
- Paediatric healthcare associated infections;
- Pneumococcal colonisation and disease and the impact of pneumococcal vaccines;
- Utilisation of bacterial colonisation data.
His non-research work focuses on development of human and laboratory capacity for diagnostic microbiology in low-resource settings.
Recent publications
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International links between Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine serotype 4 sequence type (ST) 801 in Northern European shipyard outbreaks of invasive pneumococcal disease
Gladstone RA. et al, (2022), Vaccine
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The evolutionary history of Shigella flexneri serotype 6 in Asia
Mai S-NT. et al, (2021), Microbial Genomics, 7
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Antimicrobial resistance in commensal opportunistic pathogens isolated from non-sterile sites can be an effective proxy for surveillance in bloodstream infections.
Vihta K-D. et al, (2021), Sci Rep, 11
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Boosting heritability: estimating the genetic component of phenotypic variation with multiple sample splitting
Mai TT. et al, (2021), BMC Bioinformatics, 22
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Evolutionary histories and antimicrobial resistance in Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei in Southeast Asia
Chung The H. et al, (2021), Communications Biology, 4