Christopher Parry
Visiting Professor of Tropical Medicine
Christopher Parry is a visiting Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford and a Consultant in Clinical Microbiology and Infection at Liverpool University Hospitals and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. He has previously worked with the Oxford University South-East Asia Tropical Network, Nagasaki University, Japan, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Liverpool University and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
He has a research focus on the epidemiology and management of severe bacterial infections and is currently working with OUCRU Nepal on the management of enteric fever. This includes a randomized controlled trial of the combination of azithromycin and cefixime versus azithromycin alone in the treatment of uncomplicated enteric fever in sites across south Asia which is funded by a Joint Global Health Trials grant (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the MRC, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the Wellcome Trust). He is an elected Trustee of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Recent publications
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Global diversity and antimicrobial resistance of typhoid fever pathogens: Insights from a meta-analysis of 13,000 Salmonella Typhi genomes.
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Carey ME. et al, (2023), Elife, 12
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What Should We Be Recommending for the Treatment of Enteric Fever?
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Parry CM. et al, (2023), Open Forum Infect Dis, 10, S26 - S31
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Assessing Paracetamol Overdose in Children: Acceptability and Potential Market for a Non-Invasive Testing Device.
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Freitas D. et al, (2023), Biomed Eng Comput Biol, 14
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Risk factors for wasting among hospitalised children in Nepal
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Inoue A. et al, (2022), Tropical Medicine and Health, 50
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Treatment of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever) with cephalosporins.
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Kuehn R. et al, (2022), Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 11