Benjamin Thumamo
Lecturer/Researcher University of Buea, Cameroon Email: thumamo@yahoo.fr
VALIDATE Role: Network Associate
Research Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, HIV, NTM, One Health
Biography: Ass. Prof. Pokam Benjamin is a Public Health Microbiologist who obtained his PhD in Medical Microbiology in 2010 at the University of Calabar – Nigeria. He is equally a Medical Laboratory Scientist (A Fellow of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria since the year 2000). He has worked for several years in diagnostic laboratories, and he is currently a lecturer and researcher (Infectious Diseases) at the Department of Medical Laboratory Science of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Buea in Cameroon, and equally serves as Head of service for admissions and records at the same Faculty. The main competency of Ass Prof. Pokam is bacteriology. He has been involved in teaching and research for over 15 years. His main interest is the Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis/multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and Non tuberculous Mycobacteria, as well as their coinfection with HIV in resource-limited countries, such as Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon located in the Gulf of Guinea - Africa. He is equally interested in « One Health » and environmental Mycobacterium bovis transmission to human. He has published over 50 papers in peer reviewed journals and is involved in community development in his country.
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