Herbert L. DuPont

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Herbert Lancashire DuPont (born November 12, 1938 in Toledo (Ohio) ) is an American medical doctor who deals with infectious diseases.

DuPont studied at Ohio Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and from Emory University with an MD degree in 1965, completed his specialist training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the University of MinnesotaHospitals in Minneapolis (internship, residency) and was a 1969 fellow at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. There he also did his military service as Epidemic Intelligence Officer of the CDC. In 1970 he became an assistant professor there. In 1973 he went to the University of Texas at Houston as the first director of a newly established department of infectious diseases and medical microbiology. He is director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Houston School of Medicine (and professor there since 1973) and since 1977 professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and also at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center.

DuPont was particularly concerned with diarrheal diseases. In 1971 he was one of those who described the biological properties of Norwalk virus (later classified as one of the Human Noroviruses ), and in a much-cited 1971 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, he described the pathogenesis of Escherichia coli diarrhea . He also dealt with other diarrhea-causing agents such as bacterial dysentery , rotaviruses and typhus, and with Cryptococcus . He demonstrated the effectiveness of rifaximin against traveler's diarrhea (against which the pathogen did not develop any resistance). In field studies in Mexico, he showed that tap water was a major source of infection with viral diarrhea there.

In 2007 he received the Maxwell Finland Award and in 2010 the Alexander Fleming Award . He was president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Fonts

  • with Robert Steffen: Textbook of Travel Medicine and Health, BC Decker 2000
  • with Robert Steffen: Manual of Travel Medicine and Health, BC Decker, 2003
  • with Charles Ericsson, Robert Steffen: Travelers Diarrhea, BC Decker 2003
  • with Larry K. Pickering: Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Microbiology Pathophysiology and Clinical Features, Springer 1980

He is one of the editors of the new edition of William N. Kelley, Internal Medicine, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ R. Dolin, NR Blacklow, DuPont et al. a .: Biological properties of Norwalk agent of acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis. Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biological Medicine, Volume 140, 1972, pp. 578-583
  3. ↑ Pathogenesis of Escherichia coli diarrhea, New England J. Medicine, Volume 285, 1971, pp. 1-9
personal data
SURNAME DuPont, Herbert L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DuPont, Herbert Lancashire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo (Ohio)