Professor Paul Turner
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Improving data for infection management
The ACORN project gathers clinical, microbiology, and antibiotic use data from nine countries in Asia and Africa to understand the burden and impact of antibiotic resistance on patient treatment and outcomes. It aims to improve direct patient care, generate treatment guidelines, and inform interventions to combat antibiotic resistance globally, ensuring better antibiotics for all.
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
- Principal Investigator for the ACORN Clinical AMR Surveillance Network
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.
He co-leads the ACORN clinical AMR surveillance network with OUCRU-Hanoi's Rogier van Doorn.
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, with a focus on improving laboratory informatics.
Recent publications
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Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of invasive bacterial infections among children from low- and middle-income countries in the Western Pacific Region (WPRO) – a systematic review and meta-analysis
Moore N. et al, (2024), The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 51, 101177 - 101177
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Understanding hospital antimicrobial prescribing decisions and determinants of uptake of new local antimicrobial prescribing guidelines in Laos
Chansamouth V. et al, (2024), Wellcome Open Research, 9, 183 - 183
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Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050
Naghavi M. et al, (2024), The Lancet
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Frequency of antimicrobial-resistant bloodstream infections in 111 hospitals in Thailand, 2022
Tuamsuwan K. et al, (2024), Journal of Infection, 106249 - 106249
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WHO global research priorities for antimicrobial resistance in human health
Bertagnolio S. et al, (2024), The Lancet Microbe, 100902 - 100902