Professor Paul Turner
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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.
Key publications
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Chewapreecha C. et al, (2014), Nature Genetics, 46, 305 - 309
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Turner P. et al, (2011), Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 49, 1784 - 1789
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Lehtinen S. et al, (2017), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 1075 - 1080
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Fox-Lewis A. et al, (2018), Emerging Infectious Diseases, 24, 841 - 851
Recent publications
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Lim C. et al, (2020), The Journal of infection
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Wyres KL. et al, (2020), Genome Medicine, 12
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Okeke IN. et al, (2020), BMJ global health, 5
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Kann S. et al, (2020), BMC microbiology, 20
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Vihta K-D. et al, (2020)