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2026

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Citations
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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Alexander Fleming Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • 2007 - Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Herbert L. DuPont is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research spans over 100 publications primarily in the field of Medicine, with notable subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Gastroenterology, and Oncology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, microscopic colitis, gut microbiota and health, gastrointestinal motility and disorders, neutropenia and cancer infections, travel-related health issues, and viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Recent publications include:

  • Fecal microbiota transplantation in Parkinson's disease-A randomized repeat-dose, placebo-controlled clinical pilot study (2023), Frontiers in Neurology
  • Microbiome alteration via fecal microbiota transplantation is effective for refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced colitis (2023), Science Translational Medicine
  • Durable reduction of Clostridioides difficile infection recurrence and microbiome restoration after treatment with RBX2660: results from an open-label phase 2 clinical trial (2022), BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Safety and Tolerability of SER-109 as an Investigational Microbiome Therapeutic in Adults With Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection (2023), JAMA Network Open
  • Mechanism of action and therapeutic benefit of rifaximin in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: a narrative review (2020), Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

Frequent co-authors in their work include Zhi-Dong Jiang, Yinghong Wang, Anusha Shirwaikar Thomas, Krishnavathana Varatharajalu, and Malek Shatila.

Their research has been published most often in the following venues:

  • The American Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Journal of Travel Medicine
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Gastroenterology

Herbert L. DuPont has received several awards including the Alexander Fleming Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2010, the Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases in 2007, and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Practice Guidelines for the Management of Infectious Diarrhea

    Richard L. Guerrant;Thomas Van Gilder;Ted S. Steiner;Nathan M. Thielman

  • The Infectivity of Cryptosporidium parvum in Healthy Volunteers

    Herbert L. DuPont;Herbert L. DuPont;Cynthia L. Chappell;Charles R. Sterling;Pablo C. Okhuysen

  • Pathogenesis of Escherichia coli diarrhea.

    Herbert L. DuPont;Samuel B. Formal;Richard B. Hornick;Merrill J. Snyder

  • Typhoid Fever: Pathogenesis and Immunologic Control

    R. B. Hornick;S. E. Greisman;T. E. Woodward;Herbert L Dupont

  • Inoculum Size in Shigellosis and Implications For Expected Mode of Transmission

    Herbert L. DuPont;Myron M. Levine;Richard B. Hornick;Samuel B. Formal

  • Systematic review: the use of proton pump inhibitors and increased susceptibility to enteric infection.

    C. Bavishi;Herbert L Dupont

  • Virulence of three distinct Cryptosporidium parvum isolates for healthy adults.

    Pablo C. Okhuysen;Cynthia L. Chappell;Joseph H. Crabb;Charles R. Sterling

  • Infections due to gram-negative organisms: an analysis of 860 patients with bacteremia at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, 1958-1966.

    Herbert L. DuPONT;Wesley W. Spink

  • ACG Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Acute Diarrheal Infections in Adults.

    Mark S Riddle;Herbert L DuPont;Bradley A Connor

  • Prevention and Treatment of Traveler's Diarrhea

    Herbert L. DuPont;Charles D. Ericsson

  • Meta-analysis to assess risk factors for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection

    K. W. Garey;K. W. Garey;S. Sethi;Y. Yadav;Y. Yadav;Herbert L Dupont;Herbert L Dupont;Herbert L Dupont

  • Adverse effect of lomotil therapy in shigellosis.

    Herbert L. DuPont;Richard B. Hornick

  • Comparison of Three Agents of Acute Infectious Nonbacterial Gastroenteritis by Cross-Challenge in Volunteers

    Richard G. Wyatt;Raphael Dolin;Neil R. Blacklow;Herbert L. DuPont

  • The intestinal microbiota and chronic disorders of the gut

    Andrew W. DuPont;Herbert L. DuPont;Herbert L. DuPont

  • Global etiology of travelers' diarrhea: systematic review from 1973 to the present.

    Nipam Shah;Herbert L. DuPont;David J. Ramsey

  • Traveler's diarrhea: a clinical review.

    Robert Steffen;Robert Steffen;David R. Hill;Herbert L. DuPont;Herbert L. DuPont;Herbert L. DuPont

  • Fecal Leukocytes in Diarrheal Illness

    John C. Harris;Herbert L. Dupont;Richard B. Hornick

  • Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome: an emerging global infectious disease

    Luis A. Marcos;Luis A. Marcos;Angelica Terashima;Herbert L. DuPont;Eduardo Gotuzzo

  • Textbook of internal medicine

    William N Kelley;Vincent T DeVita;Herbert L. Dupont

  • Prevalence of enteric pathogens among international travelers with diarrhea acquired in Kenya (Mombasa), India (Goa), or Jamaica (Montego Bay).

    Zhi-Dong Jiang;Brett Lowe;M. P. Verenkar;David Ashley

  • Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract

    Herbert L. DuPont;Larry K. Pickering

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhi-Dong Jiang
Zhi-Dong Jiang The University of Texas at Austin
Kevin W. Garey
Kevin W. Garey University of Houston
Pablo C. Okhuysen
Pablo C. Okhuysen The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Robert Steffen
Robert Steffen University of Zurich
Nadim J. Ajami
Nadim J. Ajami The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dolores G. Evans
Dolores G. Evans Baylor College of Medicine
Daniel M. Musher
Daniel M. Musher Baylor College of Medicine
Alimuddin Zumla
Alimuddin Zumla University College London
Robert L. Atmar
Robert L. Atmar Baylor College of Medicine
David N. Taylor
David N. Taylor Johns Hopkins University

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