Professor Paul Turner
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Podcast interview
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
Associate Professor
- 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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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
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Impact of delays to incubation and storage temperature on blood culture results: a multi-centre study
Ling CL. et al, (2021), BMC Infectious Diseases, 21
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The role of interspecies recombinations in the evolution of antibiotic resistant pneumococci.
D'Aeth JC. et al, (2021), eLife, 10
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Surveillance strategies using routine microbiology for antimicrobial resistance in low and middle-income countries.
Lim C. et al, (2021), Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases