Dr. Richard Bradbury
Adjunct Associate Professor
Campus
Biography
Dr Richard Bradbury is a clinical microbiologist with expertise in diagnostic microbiology and epidemiology. Dr Bradbury developed his expertise in clinical microbiology over seventeen years working as a medical scientist in clinical diagnostic laboratories, including over three years as the team lead of the Parasitic Diseases Reference Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US.
Richard maintains a research program on parasitic diseases, zoonoses and new diagnostics in both the Australian and global health context. He has worked on several continents and presented at numerous national and international conferences, maintaining engagement with academia, industry and the wider community.
Richard has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 26 invited peer-reviewed book chapters. He has obtained over $1 million dollars in research grant funding from various sources. Richard has supervised four post-doctoral fellows, one PhD student, and several first-class Honours students to completion.
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- Publications
Surveillance of soil-transmitted helminths and other intestinal parasites in shelter dogs, Mississippi, USA
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2024.100956
Intestinal parasite infection in non-human primates from The Gambia, West Africa, and their relationship to human activity
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1017/S0031182025000514
Strongyloides questions-a research agenda for the future
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0004
Is strongyloidiasis a zoonosis from dogs?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0445
Lophomonas as a respiratory pathogen-jumping the gun
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/jcm.00845-23
Medical Parasitology Taxonomy Update, June 2020-June 2022
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/jcm.00286-22
Cross-Sectional Study of Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases in Black Belt Region of Alabama, USA
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2912.230751
Surveillance for Soil-Transmitted Helminths in High-Risk County, Mississippi, USA
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2912.230709
Parasitic infections of the central nervous system
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1016/B978-0-12-818619-0.00021-6
Application of a universal parasite diagnostic test to biological specimens collected from animals
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.12.003
A Pilot Comparison of Fixatives for Hookworm Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0406
Human strongyloidiasis: complexities and pathways forward
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/cmr.00033-23
Evaluation of the Performance of Ortho T. cruzi ELISA Test System for the Detection of Antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/jcm.00134-22
The diagnosis of human and companion animal Strongyloides stercoralis infection: Challenges and solutions. A scoping review
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1016/bs.apar.2022.07.001
A Case of Autochthonous Hepatic Capillariasis in a Refugee Child in Belgium
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003661
Tapeworm Enigma
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2806.ac2806
Hospitalizations Associated With Strongyloidiasis in the United States, 2003-2018
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/cid/ciac220
Imported Haycocknema perplexum Infection, United States
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2811.220286
Where Have All the Diagnostic Morphological Parasitologists Gone?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/jcm.00986-22
Neglected tropical diseases in Australia: a narrative review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.5694/mja2.51533
Genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance among non-typhoidal Salmonella associated with human disease in The Gambia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1099/mgen.0.000785
Strongyloides fuelleborni kellyi in New Guinea: Neglected, ignored and unexplored
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1071/MA21048
Inactivating Effects of Common Laboratory Disinfectants, Fixatives, and Temperatures on the Eggs of Soil Transmitted Helminths
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/SPECTRUM.01828-21
Interactions between fecal gut microbiome, enteric pathogens, and energy regulating hormones among acutely malnourished rural Gambian children
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103644
Parasitic disease surveillance, Mississippi, USA
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2708.204318
Strongyloides genotyping: a review of methods and application in public health and population genetics
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2021.10.001
Strongyloidiasis does not discriminate: nor should the screening and treatment
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/imj.15579
Sensitive universal detection of blood parasites by selective pathogen-DNA enrichment and deep amplicon sequencing
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s40168-020-00939-1
HTLV-I and Strongyloides in Australia: The worm lurking beneath
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/bs.apar.2020.11.002
Medical parasitology taxonomy update, January 2018 to May 2020
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/JCM.01308-20
Taxonomy revision of leishmania spp. in Thailand
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/JCM.00357-21
Mosquito surveillance of West Nile and Usutu viruses in four territorial units of Slovakia and description of a confirmed autochthonous human case of West Nile fever, 2018 to 2019
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.19.2000063
Ancylostoma ceylanicum
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.04.013
Infection of Western Gray Kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus) with Australian Arboviruses Associated with Human Infection
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1089/vbz.2019.2467
A Second Case of Human Conjunctival Infestation With Thelazia gulosa and a Review of T. gulosa in North America
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/cid/ciz469
First international external quality assessment scheme of nucleic acid amplification tests for the detection of schistosoma and soil-transmitted helminths, including strongyloides: A pilot study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008231
Toxocara seroprevalence in the USA and its impact for individuals and society
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/bs.apar.2020.01.035
The forgotten exotic tapeworms: A review of uncommon zoonotic Cyclophyllidea
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1017/S003118202000013X
Evaluation of an ensemble-based distance statistic for clustering MLST datasets using epidemiologically defined clusters of cyclosporiasis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1017/S0950268820001697
Duplex real-time PCR assay for clinical differentiation of onchocerca lupi and onchocerca volvulus
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0113
An atypical case of autochthonous cutaneous leishmaniasis associated with naturally infected phlebotomine sand flies in Texas, United States
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0107
Hookworm: (Ancylostomiasis, Uncinariasis, Necatoriasis)
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDMC.3087.069
Ascariasis: (roundworm infection, ascaridiasis).
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDMC.3087.018
Trichuriasis: (trichocephaliasis, whipworm disease).
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDMC.3087.133
Larva Migrans
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDMC.3087.075
Will helminth co-infection modulate COVID-19 severity in endemic regions?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1038/s41577-020-0330-5
Toxocara seroprevalence in Canada—Climate, environment and culture
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/bs.apar.2020.03.003
Parasites, Zoonoses and War: A Themed Issue in Honor of Emeritus Professor John M. Goldsmid
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020103
Parasitic Infection Surveillance in Mississippi Delta Children
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0026
Leishmania infantum in US-Born Dog
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2608.200149
Case report: Ocular toxocariasis: A report of three cases from the Mississippi Delta
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0766
Case report: Cervicovaginal co-colonization with entamoeba gingivalis and entamoeba polecki in association with an intrauterine device
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0522
Identification of the source of blood meals in mosquitoes collected from north-eastern Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s13071-019-3455-2
Genotyping genetically heterogeneous Cyclospora cayetanensis infections to complement epidemiological case linkage
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1017/S0031182019000581
Prevalence of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Community-Acquired Clinical Staphylococcus aureus in an Urban Gambian Hospital: A 11-year period retrospective pilot study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00170
Neglected Australian Arboviruses Associated With Undifferentiated Febrile Illnesses
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02818
Pathogen genomics in public health
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1056/NEJMsr1813907
Ternidens deminutus Revisited: A review of human infections with the false hookworm
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3390/tropicalmed4030106
Percutaneous emergence of gnathostoma spinigerum following praziquantel treatment
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3390/tropicalmed4040145
Comparison of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification and Real-Time PCR Assays for Detection of Strongyloides Larvae in Different Specimen Matrices
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/JCM.01173-18
Community-acquired Invasive Bacterial Disease in Urban Gambia, 2005-2015: A Hospital-based Surveillance
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/cid/ciz463
Detection of classic and cryptic Strongyloides genotypes by deep amplicon sequencing: A preliminary survey of dog and human specimens collected from remote Australian communities
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007241
A global genotyping survey of Strongyloides stercoralis and Strongyloides fuelleborni using deep amplicon sequencing
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007609
Dracunculiasis
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.048
Echinococcosis
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.050
Hookworm
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.071
Larva Migrans
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.077
Leishmaniasis
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.079
Paragonimiasis
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.102
Strongyloidiasis
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.127
Toxoplasmosis
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.131
Trichinellosis
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.133
Malaria
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.089
Intervention of National Economies to Health and Social Security: Antibiotic Policy as an Example of EU Solidarity with Migration Crisis or Social Pathology?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.22359/cswhi_10_4_06
Ocular Trematodiasis Caused by the Avian Eye Fluke Philophthalmus in Southern Texas
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/ofid/ofz265
Regarding: A common source outbreak of anisakidosis in the United States and postexposure prophylaxis of family collaterals
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-1019
Case report: Conjunctival infestation with thelazia gulosa: A novel agent of human thelaziasis in the United States
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0870
Restriction enzyme digestion of host DNA enhances universal detection of parasitic pathogens in blood via targeted amplicon deep sequencing
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s40168-018-0540-2
Abnormal helminth egg development, strange morphology, and the identification of intestinal helminth infections
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2408.180560
Enterocytozoon bieneusi genotypes in people with gastrointestinal disorders in Queensland and Western Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.meegid.2018.08.006
A Molecular Survey of Tick-Borne Pathogens from Ticks Collected in Central Queensland, Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1089/vbz.2017.2182
The Unique Life Cycle of Strongyloides stercoralis and Implications for Public Health Action
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3390/tropicalmed3020053
Multiplex TaqMan qPCR assay for specific identification of encapsulated Trichinella species prevalent in North America
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1590/0074-02760180305
Trichomonas vaginalis brain abscess in a neonate
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/cid/cix908
Hormonal correlates and predictors of nutritional recovery in Malnourished African Children
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/tropej/fmx075
High prevalence of ascariasis on two coral atolls in the Solomon Islands
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/trstmh/try041
The prevalence of lymphatic filariasis infection and disease following six rounds of mass drug administration in Mandalay Region, Myanmar
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006944
Rat lungworm infection associated with central nervous system disease — Eight U.S. States, January 2011–January 2017
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6730a4
Trypanosomiasis
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.2105/CCDML.2868.134
NO EVIDENCE OF PARASITIC INFECTION IN A SURVEY OF SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA
NO EVIDENCE OF SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTION IN A SURVEY OF STOOL SAMPLES FROM THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
EUKARYOTYPING: A NOVEL METHOD FOR AIDING OUTBREAK INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING THE SEXUAL EUKARYOTIC PATHOGEN <it>CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS</it>
A worm’s eye view
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2408.AC2408
Identification and control of an isolated, but intense focus of lymphatic filariasis on Satawal Island, Federated States of Micronesia, in 2003
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s41182-017-0050-0
Ancylostoma ceylanicum hookworm in the Solomon Islands
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3201/eid2302.160822
Neglected Australian arboviruses and undifferentiated febrile illness: Addressing public health challenges arising from the 'Developing Northern Australia' government policy
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02150
Application of PCR-based tools to explore strongyloides infection in people in parts of northern Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3390/tropicalmed2040062
A survey of intestinal parasites of domestic dogs in central Queensland
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3390/tropicalmed2040060
AUSTRALIAN ARBOVIRUSES ASSOCIATED WITH UNDIAGNOSED UNDIFFERENTIATED FEBRILE ILLNESS
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF IMPORTED MALARIA PARASITES DIAGNOSED IN THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN 2014 AND 2016
Neglected Australian arboviruses: quam gravis?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.micinf.2017.05.002
The National Strongyloides Working Group in Australia 10 workshops on: commendations and recommendations
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/1753-6405.12611
The laboratory diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1071/MA16003
Parasitic infections: overlooked, under-diagnosed and under-researched
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1071/MA16002
Passage of meloidogyne eggs in human stool: Forgotten, but not gone
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/JCM.03384-14
Free-living amoebae recovered from human stool samples in Strongyloides agar culture
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/JCM.02738-13
An evaluation of the VIDAS CDAB assay for the detection of Clostridium difficile infection in a clinical laboratory
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1097/PAT.0b013e328353be1a
Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths in remote villages in East Kwaio, Solomon Islands
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.5365/WPSAR.2015.6.1.016
Deployable molecular detection of arboviruses in the Australian outback
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0878
More parasitic myositis cases in humans in Australia, and the definition of genetic markers for the causative agents as a basis for molecular diagnosis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.06.026
Is there a Lyme-like disease in Australia? Summary of the findings to date
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2016.03.003
Presumptive Gnathostoma binucleatum-infection in a Belgian traveler returning from South America
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.02.003
Knowledge, attitude and recommendations for practice regarding dengue among the resident population of Queensland, Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.apjtb.2016.01.002
A case of ancylostoma ceylanicum infection occurring in an Australian soldier returned from Solomon Islands
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3347/kjp.2016.54.4.533
The epidemiology of dengue infection: Harnessing past experience and current knowledge to support implementation of future control strategies
Macracanthorhynchus ingens Infection in an 18-Month-Old Child in Florida: A Case Report and Review of Acanthocephaliasis in Humans
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/cid/ciw543
StrongNet: An International Network to Improve Diagnostics and Access to Treatment for Strongyloidiasis Control
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004898
Preliminary feasibility and modelling of a liquid matrix Dictyostelium discoideum virulence assay for Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/09674845.2016.1157249
Host response to transmissible Pseudomonas aeruginosa (multiple letters) [2]
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1183/09031936.04.00121704
Poor clinical outcomes associated with a multi-drug resistant clonal strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Tasmanian cystic fibrosis population
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2008.01383.x
Epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a tertiary referral teaching hospital
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.05.021
blaROB-1 presence on pB1000 in Haemophilus influenzae is widespread, and variable cefaclor resistance is associated with altered penicillin-binding proteins
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/AAC.00263-10
Virulence gene distribution in clinical, nosocomial and environmental isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1099/jmm.0.018283-0
Maternal and neonatal sepsis caused by Haemophilus influenzae type d
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1099/jmm.0.016543-0
Emergence of multi-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Western Australian hospital
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jhin.2010.01.026
Deployable laboratory response to influenza pandemic; PCR assay field trials and comparison with reference methods
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025526
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A comparison of three methods
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/09674845.2011.11732833
Propionibacterium avidum causing native breast abscess
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2011.09.002
Decreased virulence of cystic fibrosis Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Dictyostelium discoideum
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2011.00314.x
A practical strategy for responding to a case of lymphatic filariasis post-elimination in Pacific Islands
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-218
Genetic characterization of selected parasites from people with histories of gastrointestinal disorders using a mutation scanning-coupled approach
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1002/elps.201300100
Melioidosis: A review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.22605/RRH2763
Missing malaria? Potential obstacles to diagnosis and hypnozoite eradication
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.5694/mja14.00313
Urease production as a marker of virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/09674845.2014.11978060
Prevalence of Acanthamoeba spp. in Tasmanian intensive care clinical specimens
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jhin.2013.12.009
First human case of fatal halicephalobus gingivalis meningoencephalitis in Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1128/JCM.00032-15
A disease from the devil? Could Baylisascaris tasmaniensis cause disease in humans?
Genetic analysis of Giardia and Cryptosporidium from people in Northern Australia using PCR-based tools
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.08.034
Oral iron acutely elevates bacterial growth in human serum
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1038/srep16670
Salmonella infections in The Gambia, 2005-2015
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/cid/civ781
Enteric pathogens of food sellers in rural Gambia with incidental finding of Myxobolus species (Protozoa: Myxozoa)
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/trstmh/trv020
SERUM FROM INDIVIDUALS GIVEN A SINGLE ORAL DOSE OF IRON SUPPLEMENTATION SUPPORTS INCREASED BACTERIAL GROWTH
The global spread of Zika virus: Is public and media concern justified in regions currently unaffected?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s40249-016-0132-y
Current WHO protocols for mass drug administration in helminth control
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1071/MA16004
Hookworm Infection in Oceania
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-319-43148-2_2
Do neglected Australian arboviruses pose a global epidemic threat?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/1753-6405.12582
