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Paul Crook
Researcher at Public Health England
Publications - 35
Citations - 973
Paul Crook is an academic researcher from Public Health England. The author has contributed to research in topics: Men who have sex with men & Outbreak. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 35 publications receiving 777 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Crook include Health Protection Agency & Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
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Intercontinental dissemination of azithromycin-resistant shigellosis through sexual transmission: a cross-sectional study
Kate S. Baker,Timothy J. Dallman,Philip Ashton,Martin Day,Gwenda Hughes,Paul Crook,V L Gilbart,Sandra Zittermann,Vanessa Allen,Benjamin P Howden,Benjamin P Howden,Takehiro Tomita,Mary Valcanis,Simon R. Harris,Thomas R. Connor,Vitali Sintchenko,Vitali Sintchenko,Peter Howard,Jeremy D Brown,Nicola K. Petty,Malika Gouali,Duy Pham Thanh,Karen H. Keddy,Anthony M. Smith,Kaisar A. Talukder,Shah M. Faruque,Julian Parkhill,Stephen Baker,Stephen Baker,François-Xavier Weill,Claire Jenkins,Nicholas R. Thomson,Nicholas R. Thomson +32 more
TL;DR: The intercontinental spread of antimicrobial-resistant shigella through established transmission routes emphasises the need for new approaches to tackle the public health challenge of sexually transmitted infections in MSM.
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Outbreak of hepatitis A associated with men who have sex with men (MSM), England, July 2016 to January 2017.
Kazim Beebeejaun,Srilaxmi Degala,Koye Balogun,Ian Simms,Sarah C Woodhall,Ellen Heinsbroek,Paul Crook,Ishani Kar-Purkayastha,Juli Treacy,Kate Wedgwood,Kate Jordan,Sema Mandal,Siew Lin Ngui,Michael Edelstein +13 more
TL;DR: Investigations indicate that hepatitis A with two unique IA genotype strains primarily among men who have sex with men, may have been imported several times from Spain, with secondary sexual transmission in the United Kingdom.
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Intensified shigellosis epidemic associated with sexual transmission in men who have sex with men--Shigella flexneri and S. sonnei in England, 2004 to end of February 2015.
Ian Simms,Nigel Field,Nigel Field,Claire Jenkins,Tristan Childs,V L Gilbart,Timothy J. Dallman,Piers Mook,Paul Crook,Gwenda Hughes +9 more
TL;DR: Clinicians should sensitively ascertain sexual history for men with enteric infections to facilitate prompt diagnosis and appropriate management of shigellosis in men who have sex with men.
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A multi-country Salmonella Enteritidis phage type 14b outbreak associated with eggs from a German producer: 'near real-time' application of whole genome sequencing and food chain investigations, United Kingdom, May to September 2014.
Thomas Inns,C. Lane,Tansy Peters,Timothy J. Dallman,C Chatt,Nikolaus R. McFarland,Paul Crook,T Bishop,J Edge,Jeremy Hawker,Richard Elson,K Neal,Goutam K. Adak,Paul Cleary +13 more
TL;DR: Food traceback investigations in the UK and other affected European countries linked the outbreaks to chicken eggs from a German company and whole genome sequencing of isolates from UK and European cases, implicated UK premises, and German eggs confirmed that the UK outbreak was also linked to a German producer.
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Ongoing outbreak of Shigella flexneri serotype 3a in men who have sex with men in England and Wales, data from 2009-2011
M L Borg,M L Borg,Ashwin G. Modi,Alma Tostmann,Maya Gobin,J Cartwright,Catherine Quigley,Paul Crook,Naomi J. Boxall,J Paul,T Cheasty,N Gill,Gwenda Hughes,Ian Simms,Isabel Oliver,Isabel Oliver +15 more
TL;DR: Cases occurred mostly in men who have sex with men and were of serotype 3a, which is usually travel-related and was of serotypes 3a of S. flexneri.