Paul Southern Jr, M.D.

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My fields of interest include clinical microbiology-related epidemiology, the evaluation of new diagnostic methods in clinical microbiology, the evaluation of new antimicrobial agents in vitro, general and tropical infectious diseases, especially Chagas’ disease, neurocysticercosis, as well as traveler’s health.

Undergraduate

Abilene Christian University (1953), Accounting

Medical School

Univ of Tx Southwestern Med Ct (1959), Law

Medical School

London School of Hygiene & Tro (1993), Medicine

• Antimicrobial resistance
• Diagnostic methods in clinical microbiology
• Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in Belize
• Neurocysticercosis in North America

Featured Publications

First case reports of Ignatzschineria (Schineria) indica associated with myiasis.

Barker HS, Snyder JW, Hicks AB, Yanoviak SP, Southern P, Dhakal BK, Ghimire GR, Couturier MR J. Clin. Microbiol. 2014 Dec 52 12 4432-4

Detection of Intracellular Parasites Utilizing the CellaVision DM96 on Routine Screening of Peripheral Blood Smears.

Racsa LD, Gander RM, Southern PM, McElvania TeKippe E, Doern C, Luu HS J. Clin. Microbiol. 2014 Nov

Clinical features of West Nile virus epidemic in Dallas, Texas, 2012.

Racsa L, Gander R, Chung W, Southern P, Le J, Beal S, Lee F, Cavuoti D, Reisch J, Alatoom A Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2014 Feb 78 2 132-6

Cost Avoidance and Outcome Improvement by Implementing a Test Utilization Strategy for Molecular Microbiology Tests

Ricaldi J, Racsa L, Gander R, Southern P, Cavuoti D, Alatoom A. Clinical Microbiology Newsletter 2014 23 36 185-193

Interpretation of positive molecular tests of common viruses in the cerebrospinal fluid.

Bhaskaran A, Racsa L, Gander R, Southern P, Cavuoti D, Alatoom A Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2013 Nov 77 3 236-40

Prevalence of Antibody to Trypanosoma cruzi in Women Delivering Infants at Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas, Texas, USA

Paul M. Southern 2013 Vol.: 3 Issue.: 2 Page 169-174

Prevalence of antibody to Trypanosoma cruzi in Hispanic-surnamed patients seen at Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas, Texas.

Arena R, Mathews CE, Kim AY, Lenz TE, Southern PM BMC Res Notes 2011 4 132

Renal cortex ion composition and Na-K-ATPase activity in gentamicin nephrotoxicity.

Cronin RE, Nix KL, Ferguson ER, Southern PM, Henrich WL Am. J. Physiol. 1982 May 242 5 F477-83

The in vitro activity of mecillinam alone and in combination with other beta lactam antibiotics

Many, W.J., Ruderman, A.E., Southern, P.M., and Luby, J.P Current Therapeutic Research 1982 31 475-484

Epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a large metropolitan general hospital

Southern, P.M., Southern, S.S., Williams, S.K., and Phillips, I Current chemotherapy and immunotherapy : proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Chemotherapy, Florence, Italy, 19-24 July 1981 1982 115-116

• Secretary-Treasurer, ACCTMTH (Clinical section of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
  National tropical diseases professional organization (2011)
• Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology
  Visiting Professor (2009-2009)
• Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology
  Visiting Professor (1982)
• President and charter member
  Southwestern Association of Clinical Microbiology (1982)
• Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology
  Visiting Professor (1981-1981)
• President and charter member
  Texas Infectious Diseases Society (1980)
• Visiting Professor
  St. Thomas’s Hospital and Medical School, London (1980)
• President and cofounder
  Texas Society for Clinical Microbiology (1973)
• Alpha Omega Alpha
  Honor Medical Society (1959)

• American Society for Clinical Pathology (1977)
• American Society for Microbiology (1967)
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1995)
• Anaerobe Society of the Americas (2005)
• College of American Pathologists (1980)
• Infectious Diseases Society of America (1974)
• International Society of Travel Medicine (2005)
• Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1993)
• Southwestern Association of Clinical Microbiology (1975)
• Texas Infectious Diseases Society (1980)