Okhuysen Laboratory
Pablo Okhuysen, M.D.
Professor, Infectious Diseases
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- Microbiome
The laboratory focuses on better understanding the interaction between the intestinal microbiome (including bacterial commensals and enteropathogens) and the human intestinal epithelium using novel, advanced models of human intestinal cell culture methods.
Okhuysen Lab research interests include the identification, epidemiology, pathogenesis, host immune response, treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal infections including diarrheagenic E. coli and C. difficile in immunocompromised and cancer patients.
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