Paul Crook

Paul Crook is a Consultant Epidemiologist, Field Epidemiology Service at Public Health England

Disease Detectives: Linking the spread of Pseudomonas infection

Paul Crook and Richard Puleston, 25 July 2018 - Disease Detectives

This blog is part of Disease Detectives, a series which showcases PHE science. How body piercings and unsafe aftercare led to a national outbreak of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa. Everyday people in the UK choose to have body piercings and hopefully most …

Tackling Shigella in gay and bisexual men

Paul Crook, 23 August 2016 - Sexual health

It’s worrying to see new figures showing a sustained increase in cases likely to have been sexually-acquired between men who have sex with men (MSM). Historically Shigella infections in adults in the UK were mainly due to overseas travel. However, …

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