Pokam Thumamo Benjamin

Dr
Pokam
Thumamo Benjamin

Lecturer/researcher
University of Buea
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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 research main interest ranges from the Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis/multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and Non tuberculous Mycobacteria to 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 Mycobacterium bovis transmission to human. He has published over 50 papers in peer reviewed journals and is involved in community development in his country.
Research interests
Mycobacteriology (Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, Nontuberculous mycobacteria, and Mycobacterium bovis) Bacteria drug resistance and “One Health
Discipline
Bacteriology Epidemiology Ethics Molecular biology Quality assurance
Host species
Cattle Poultry Zoonoses
Pathogen
Bacteria BacteriaMycobacteria bovis