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M. John Albert
Researcher at Kuwait University
Publications - 152
Citations - 6377
M. John Albert is an academic researcher from Kuwait University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vibrio cholerae & Campylobacter jejuni. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 145 publications receiving 6039 citations. Previous affiliations of M. John Albert include University of Melbourne & International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh.
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A study of typhoid fever in five asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls
R. Leon Ochiai,Camilo J. Acosta,M. Carolina Danovaro-Holliday,Dong Baiqing,Sujit K. Bhattacharya,Magdarina D. Agtini,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Do Gia Canh,Mohammad Ali,Seonghye Shin,John Wain,Anne-Laure Page,M. John Albert,Jeremy Farrar,Remon Abu-Elyazeed,Tikki Pang,Claudia M. Galindo,Lorenz von Seidlein,John D. Clemens +18 more
TL;DR: The incidence of typhoid varied substantially between sites, being high in India and Pakistan, intermediate in Indonesia, and low in China and Viet Nam, and underscore the importance of evidence on disease burden in making policy decisions about interventions to control this disease.
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Pandemic Spread of an O3:K6 Clone of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Emergence of Related Strains Evidenced by Arbitrarily Primed PCR and toxRS Sequence Analyses
Chiho Matsumoto,Jun Okuda,Masanori Ishibashi,Masaaki Iwanaga,Pallavi Garg,Thandavarayan Rammamurthy,Hin-Chung Wong,Angelo DePaola,Yung Bu Kim,M. John Albert,Mitsuaki Nishibuchi +10 more
TL;DR: This study presents strong evidence for the first pandemicity in the history of V. parahaemolyticus and reports a novel toxRS-targeted PCR method that will be useful in epidemiological investigation of the cases associated with the current pandemic spread.
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Large outbreak of clinical cholera due to Vibrio cholerae non-01 in Bangladesh
M. John Albert,A. K. Siddique,M. S. Islam,Abu Syed Golam Faruque,M. Ansaruzzaman,Shah M. Faruque,R. Bradley Sack +6 more
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Case-Control Study of Enteropathogens Associated with Childhood Diarrhea in Dhaka, Bangladesh
TL;DR: This study studied 814 children with diarrhea in Bangladesh and identified rotavirus, Campylobacter jejuni, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Shigella spp.
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Critical Factors Influencing the Occurrence of Vibrio cholerae in the Environment of Bangladesh
Anwar Huq,Anwar Huq,R. Bradley Sack,Azhar Nizam,Ira M. Longini,G. Balakrish Nair,Afsar Ali,J. Glenn Morris,M. N. Huda Khan,A. Kasem Siddique,Mohammed Yunus,M. John Albert,David A. Sack,Rita R. Colwell,Rita R. Colwell,Rita R. Colwell +15 more
TL;DR: The results of environmental sampling and analysis of the environmental and clinical data have revealed significant correlations of water temperature, water depth, rainfall, conductivity, and copepod counts with the occurrence of cholera toxin-producing bacteria (presumably V. cholerae).