Stephen Baker
Professor of Molecular Microbiology
- NDM Oak Foundation Scientific Leadership Fellow, Vietnam
Enteric Infections
Stephen Baker is a Wellcome/Royal Society funded molecular microbiologist based at the Wellcome Programme (WT-MOP) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has been at the WT-MOP since November 2007 and is the head of the enteric infections research group. He holds an Oxford University research lecturer’s position. His group studies the microbiology, genetics, epidemiology and treatment of enteric infections in developing countries. Focal pathogens include Norovirus, Shigella spp. and SalmonellaTyphi, the causative agents of diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid fever, respectively.
Recent publications
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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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A Bayesian approach for estimating typhoid fever incidence from large-scale facility-based passive surveillance data.
Phillips MT. et al, (2021), Statistics in medicine
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A tightly clustered hepatitis E virus genotype 1a is associated with endemic and outbreak infections in Bangladesh
Hoa TN. et al, (2021), PLOS ONE, 16, e0255054 - e0255054
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Bactericidal activities and post-antibiotic effects of ofloxacin and ceftriaxone against drug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi.
Wain J. et al, (2021), The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
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Risk factors for the development of neonatal sepsis in a neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital of Nepal.
Manandhar S. et al, (2021), BMC infectious diseases, 21